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September 17, 2023 "Stewardship-Gratitude" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScripturePhilippians 4:4-9  Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.  Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.&n...

September 10, 2023 "Stewardship: Grace"- Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureEphesians 2: 4-10 but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us  even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places&nb...

September 3, 2023 "Overcome with Good" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureRomans 12:9-21 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;  love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.  Do not lag in zeal; be ardent in spirit; serve the Lord.  Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; persevere i...

August 27, 2023 "Transformed" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureRomans 12:1-8 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.  Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you ...

August 20, 2023 "Redemption" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 45:1-15 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.  And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh hear...

August 13, 20223 "Family Drama-Again!" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan.  These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and ...

August 6, 2023 "Hold On" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 32:22-31 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.  Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.&nbsp...

July 30, 2023 "Loving Leah" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 29:15-28 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”  Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel ...

July 23, 2023 "I am with you" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 28:10-19a  Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.  He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.  And he dreamed that there was a stairway set...

July 16, 2023 "Family Drama" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 25:19-34 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac,  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.  Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because s...