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“GIFT OF LOVE”

28 Jan 2022

GIFT OF LOVE Faith In Real Life Blog Rev. Vernon Gramling Decatur Presbyterian Church January 28, 2022 1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and...

“UNITED BY THE SPIRIT”

21 Jan 2022

UNITED BY THE SPIRIT Rev. Vernon Gramling Decatur Presbyterian Church January 22, 2022 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we...

“OUR INVITATION TO EVERLASTING LIFE”

13 Jan 2022

Our Invitation into Everlasting Life Faith In Real Life Blog Rev. Vernon Gramling Decatur Presbyterian Church January 13, 2022 Romans 6: 3-11 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been...

“CHOSEN BY GOD”

06 Jan 2022

Faith In Real Life Blog Rev. Vernon Gramling Decatur Presbyterian Church Jan 6, 2022 Exodus 14:10–31 10 As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the...

“CLAIMING AND PROCLAIMING”

16 Dec 2021

Luke 4:16-24 16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:...

“SHARE HOPE”

09 Dec 2021

MARK 2:1-12 When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door; and he was speaking the word to them. 3 Then some people came, bringing to him a...

“SEE HOPE”

03 Dec 2021

Isaiah 9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined. Psalm 139:11–12 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,” 12 even the darkness is...

“HEAR HOPE”

27 Nov 2021

Isaiah 9:2, 6–7 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined. 6 For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named...

SEEN AS A SINNER

18 Nov 2021

Faith In Real Life: SEEN AS A SINNER LUKE 19:1-10 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he...

GOD’S CARE IS BIGGER THAN HUMAN ‘DESERVING’

11 Nov 2021

GOD’S CARE IS BIGGER THAN HUMAN ‘DESERVING’ Isaiah 58 3 “Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day,and oppress all your workers. 4 Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight...

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