by Debbie Schwab | Nov 18, 2014 | Sermon Prep
MATTHEW 16.1-12 | Being Christians in the world is not an easy task. The Christian life forces us to be discerning; we have to not just be reactionary, but wise. Too often Christians are known for being gullible: connect the name of Jesus to it, put a cross on it and...
by Debbie Schwab | Nov 12, 2014 | Weekly Words
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected...
by Debbie Schwab | Nov 11, 2014 | Sermon Prep
MATTHEW 15.21-31 | When we think of Jesus healing, our minds go to the lame walking, the mute talking and the sick being made well. For good reason, this is what Jesus did. But, there is much more to healing then taking away infirmaries. Jesus is revealing in...
by Debbie Schwab | Nov 5, 2014 | Weekly Words
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but...
by Debbie Schwab | Nov 4, 2014 | Sermon Prep
MATTHEW 15.1-20 | The law of God is not the measure of our holiness. As Jesus has made clear before in His confrontations with the Pharisees, the law is necessary to guide us because we are blind to the goodness of God. If we put God’s goodness into the dos and do...
