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Samuel Weems Blogging: A Sermon: Roll Away Your Stone - Matthew 28:1-10
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Thursday, May 1, 2014. A Sermon: Roll Away Your Stone - Matthew 28:1-10. You can listen to an audio version of this sermon here. Stones aren’t a common experience here in Florida. Sure you can find some here and. There but for the most part we all know that we live on a giant sandbar. Israel on the other. Hand, the place where Jesus was born, lived, died and was resurrected is a place where stones. Do with the fact that I can’t, for the life of me, get this Mumford and ...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: February 2013
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Thursday, February 28, 2013. It was so exciting to welcome Ezra Jin Weems into our family yesterday here at Winnie Palmer Hospital in Orlando. Our previous daughter, Sophia. Was born with a heart defect that eventually necessitated a heart transplant, so she was born via C-Section. With Sophia it took Benita quiet some time to recover from that procedure so she was hoping to deliver vaginally with Ezra. The doctors were ok with that, as long as Ezra came on time! Sophia still...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: April 2013
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Monday, April 22, 2013. Yield to the Highest Power - Exodus 32: A Sermon. You can listen to an audio version of this sermon here. You can watch an abbreviated, informal version of this sermon here. First, in the words of the great musician Bob Dylan: “You gotta serve somebody.” Deeply ingrained into each of us, as part of our design, is that we are made to worship. Jeremiah 2:25, speaking in the voice of Israel says: “But you said ‘It’s no use! 8221; You can open your eyes...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: August 2012
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Saturday, August 25, 2012. Simple Steps to be "Missional". One of the values of the Fellowship of Presbyterians. And ECO: A Covenant Order of Presbyterians. Is to have "Missional congregations." This focus is so important that it is one of the legs of the "three-legged stool" (I personally prefer triangles over stools. Here's an example. Let's say that your church is connected with a local feed the homeless program. That's wonderful! 2 Gospel Demonstration done by the Church.
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Samuel Weems Blogging: October 2012
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Love Never Fails - A Sermon. Audio version of this sermon is available here. And now I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. For we know in part and we prophesy in part,. So letR...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: A Sermon: Eating the Bread of Life - John 6:51-58
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Thursday, May 1, 2014. A Sermon: Eating the Bread of Life - John 6:51-58. Click here for the audio version of this sermon. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread,. He will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the. World Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this. Man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you. Think of bread as one of your ...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: April 2015
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. A Sermon: The Dark Night of the Soul - Psalm 46:10. For an audio version of this sermon click here. St John of the Cross, a 16. 8230; Surely he is a god! How is it that the day before you are standing in front of a multitude of people, God shows up in a miraculous way, people rally to him, you stare down 450 prophets who want to kill you, and the next day, you are in the dessert, dry, thirsty, and asking for death because you’ve had enough? Mother Ter...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: February 2014
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Sermon: Seeing Caterpillars as Butterflies - Matthew 4:17-19. You can listen to an audio version of this sermon here. Please open your bibles to our text for today which can be found in the gospel of Matthew 4:17-19. From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.". Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men.". Before continuing down this path about specifically investing in a small numbe...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: August 2013
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Be A Letter of Joy to Others: A Sermon - Philippians 2:19-30. You can listen to an audio version of this sermon here. Did everyone get that? Three Sundays ago I spoke about the joy that Paul exhibits in the face of certain death and the suffering he went through. We read from Romans 5:3-4 “[W]e rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.”. As I read about Timothy and Ep...
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Samuel Weems Blogging: September 2012
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My Pastor's Blog at Trinity. Thursday, September 20, 2012. Rather than sending individuals out on their own to try and accomplish this kingdom growth, we believe that we are called as a body, as Missional Communities. To work together each with their own gift, to reach a particular group of people that God has placed on our hearts. The basic structure of a Missional Community. Should look similar to how the church functions, because these groups are the church, the body of Christ, in the world. To their ...
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