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October 16, 2022 "Don't Lose Heart" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureLuke 18:1-8 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.  He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.  In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice agai...

October 9, 2022 "Unchained" - Rev. Bri Desotell Scripture2 Timothy 2:8-15 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David—that is my gospel,  for which I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.  Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they m...

October 2, 2022 A Spirit of Love - Rev. Bri Desotell Scripture2 Timothy 1:1-14 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.  I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as ...

September 25, 2022 "A Great Chasm" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureLuke 16:19-31 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.  And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,  who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come an...

September 18, 2022 "Hear This" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureAmos 8:4-7 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,saying, “When will the new moon be over    so that we may sell grain,and the Sabbath,    so that we may offer wheat for sale?We will make the ephah smaller ...

September 11, 2022 "Restore Joy" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScripturePsalm 51:1-14 Have mercy on me, O God,  according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you alone, have I si...

September 4, 2022 "The Potter's Hands" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureJeremiah 18:1-11 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:  “Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”  So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.  The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled ...

"With All Boldness" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 28:23-31  After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.  Some were convin...

August 21, 2022 "American Idols" -Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 17:16-34 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols.  So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons and also in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.  Also some Epicurean and...

August 14, 2022 "Possessed" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 16:16--34  One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.  While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you...