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Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceLuke 1:34-38; John 2:1-5; Matthew 12:46-50; John 19:25Luke 1:34-3834 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” 35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing will be impossible. 38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceJohn 1:11; Revelation 3:20John 1:1111 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.Revelation 3:2020 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceGenesis 15:5-65 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” 6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Dan TaylorScripture referenceJeremiah 2:1-13Israel Forsakes God2 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:“This is what the Lord says:“‘I remember the devotion of your youth,    how as a bride you loved meand followed me through the wilderness,    through a land not sown.3 Israel was holy to the Lord,    the firstfruits of his harvest;all who devoured her were held guilty,    and disaster overtook them,’”declares the Lord.4 Hear the word of the Lord, you descendants of Jacob,    all you clans of Israel.5 This is what the Lord says:“What fault did your ancestors find in me,    that they strayed so far from me?They followed worthless idols    and became worthless themselves.6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord,    who brought us up out of Egyptand led us through the barren wilderness,    through a land of deserts and ravines,a land of drought and utter darkness,    a land where no one travels and no one lives?’7 I brought you into a fertile land    to eat its fruit and rich produce.But you came and defiled my land    and made my inheritance detestable.8 The priests did not ask,    ‘Where is the Lord?’Those who deal with the law did not know me;    the leaders rebelled against me.The prophets prophesied by Baal,    following worthless idols.9 “Therefore I bring charges against you again,”declares the Lord.    “And I will bring charges against your children’s children.10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look,    send to Kedar[a] and observe closely;    see if there has ever been anything like this:11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?    (Yet they are not gods at all.)But my people have exchanged their glorious God    for worthless idols.12 Be appalled at this, you heavens,    and shudder with great horror,”declares the Lord.13 “My people have committed two sins:They have forsaken me,    the spring of living water,and have dug their own cisterns,    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceMatthew 25:35-37, 4035 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?’”40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referencePhilippians 2:5-11The Humbled and Exalted Christ5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.