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Todd D Martin
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Feast on God's Word with me and be filled! Also, hear interviews with people at the table who will grow your faith in Jesus. This is a global outreach ministry of Smithville Mennonite Church. Go to smc585.org to learn more!

  1. Graveyard Reunion John 20:1-31 041722

    22/04/2022

    Graveyard Reunion John 20:1-31 041722

    Recently I heard someone say-“the only time our family gets together is weddings and…” can you guess? Funerals. There’s nothing wrong with this and in fact I believe it’s wonderfully healthy to gather together when a loved one dies. It’s not surprising that funerals happen in the first or middle part of the day. I’ve never been to a night funeral, I’ve never done a grave side service after dark-or before dawn-I wonder if anyone would come? People tend to get creeped out to be in a dark grave yard. But Mary Magdalene wasn’t creeped out. This devoted follower of Jesus went to a grave in the dark b/c her love for Jesus compelled her to go. I wonder if she inspired the verse John later wrote in 1 John 4:18 when he said “there is no fear in love but perfect love casts out” Mary was rather fearless that dark morning and her bravery paid off in a powerful way, as we will see today… This is your point to ponder:  Mary was adopted into her forever family on Easter morning and you can too! BONUS MINI POINT: God’s love is stronger than death-B/C HE IS RISEN… Now open your Bibles to the Gospel of John 20:1-10…

    27 min
  2. They were right John 12:12-19 Palm Sunday 041022

    15/04/2022

    They were right John 12:12-19 Palm Sunday 041022

    The first Holy week came as a surprise. Jesus had been hiding out- at this point in his ministry he was a wanted man -the religious establishment hated him and the plots to take his life were swirling and everyone knew it-but now something had changed-on this day Jesus was not hiding from anyone-on this day he was letting the world know the time had come-we call this day Palm Sunday.  (Palm pix) Why Palm Sunday? You saw our kids waving palm branches just like it tells us in the Bible-but what did those branches mean? They were a symbol of the Jewish nation of Israel-we might equate them to flags today-this was a celebration of the hero who had come to liberate God’s people-but they had no idea from what or how he would do it! We know the rest of the story-we have 2000 years of perspective and maybe decades of Holy weeks we can remember-but once again as we come to this week, I would encourage you to hear the story with fresh ears. See it un-fold in your mind’s eye and know that this Jesus we worship is worthy of praise-and today we’ll know why! He got praise then and we should give him praise now-b/c we know our hero has come too, this is your sermon in a sentence: Let’s celebrate Jesus for all the right reasons. We’ll explore 3 for today…

    24 min
  3. The Great GoMission Part 4 040322

    15/04/2022

    The Great GoMission Part 4 040322

    Acts 9:1-22 + 13:1-5,  Romans 15:20-21,  2 Corinth. 11:23-29, Phillipi. 1:19-21 What series on missions couldn’t include the Apostle Paul? He is considered by many to be the greatest missionary of all time. He traveled around 10,000 miles over land and sea, planted around 20 churches and wrote 1/3 of the New Testament. Here is a man who was completely mission minded! Today I’d like us to consider 3 things that made him this way. If we want to be mission minded we must have these 3 things too and I’ve put them in your sermon in a sentence: The mind of a missionary must be saved, sent and steadfast. First we want to focus on being saved and to do that I’d like to do a little oral bible story telling like our missionary Sam Smucker does among the illiterate of PNG so they can hear the Word and understand it-now I’d like to tell you the story of a man named Saul… oh my there he is…

    29 min
  4. The Great GoMission Part 3 Acts 8:26-40 032722

    01/04/2022

    The Great GoMission Part 3 Acts 8:26-40 032722

    The last 2 weeks I gave you mostly background as to how, what I call the Great GoMission, was developed with the words of Jesus and then, the giving of the Holy Spirit to the first followers of Jesus-now we will see it put into practice. The people with the power were ready to go. (truck pix) Again, if all Jesus ever did was talk a good game we wouldn’t know Him-moreover if all his disciples ever did was listen attentively to His words, get filled with His Spirit and then DO NOTHING, the church would have died in one generation-BUT THEY DIDN’T AND WE WON’T EITHER -if you seriously embrace your point to ponder: God has a divine appointment for you. Will you go for it? Open your Bibles to Acts 8: v.26-40

    27 min
  5. The Great GoMission Part 2 Acts 2:1-11 032022

    25/03/2022

    The Great GoMission Part 2 Acts 2:1-11 032022

    Last week I introduced the Great GoMission as a combination of 5 different quotes from Jesus where he tells us to go into the world, all the world and share the good news. We are to go and make disciples. We are to go and know He is with us. Jesus made it clear to his first followers that going into our world is part of being faithful. I shared how there are around how many billion people on earth (7) and how many billion never heard of Jesus (3) and are we ok with that? The answer should be NO b/c the answer was no for Jesus’ first followers. But they started slow and scared just like we might. But then something wild happened! When Jesus ascended back to heaven, his followers went into hiding. They knew they needed to get going but how? They lacked power. Many times that is how we feel too. We know we need to witness, share Jesus, but how? This is where our point to ponder will hopefully help: The Holy Spirit can give us the power to witness effectively to the whole world. Now open your Bibles to Acts 2:1…

    25 min
  6. The Great GoMission Part 1 032022

    25/03/2022

    The Great GoMission Part 1 032022

    We have been in a series of messages that I hope will make us more mission minded. What is the mission? It’s found in Matt 28:18-20 and we have been reciting it as our benediction, but today I’d like us to consider 4 other scriptures where Jesus gives us similar commissions. In fact, I would say these texts taken all together help us see why his disciples, were then and are now, deployed all over the world to save people . (earth pix) This is where we can see, what I would call the Great GoMission! Jesus on 5 separate occasions explicitly told his disciples GO INTO THE WORLD, THE WHOLE WORLD and do what I’ve done, and shown you to do. By the end of this sermon I hope you have no doubt Jesus sent everyone who believes in him into the world to save people! This is your point to ponder: (let’s say it together) Jesus told his first disciples to go into the whole world with the good news -they did-and we should too! Now open your Bibles to the first text Matt. 28:19-20 unless you have it memorized…

    30 min
  7. Look Lord Luke 19:1-10 030622

    11/03/2022

    Look Lord Luke 19:1-10 030622

    One of the things I truly love about Jesus is he never asked us to do anything he wouldn’t do. We have just studied parables about lost and found stuff: sheep, coins and even sons. These are powerful and timeless stories that should make us stop and think about the lost people around us. But to stop and think is not enough. If Jesus was just a good story teller you wouldn’t know him today. If he could just talk a good game he would have faded into history and obscurity. But he didn’t fade b/c Jesus practiced what he preached. It’s one thing to talk about the lost it’s another to seek and save them. This is what we’ll see today, so here is your point: Jesus came to seek and save-that’s what he did-and we should too. When we think about how the lost get found we need to look no further than Jesus to see how it gets done, open your Bibles to Luke 19… v.1…

    27 min
  8. Look who’s home Luke 15:11-31 022422

    04/03/2022

    Look who’s home Luke 15:11-31 022422

    As we continue with our mission minded series where we have been looking at the mission Jesus called us to, we know that He is calling us to do essentially 2 things-make disciples and teach them what he commanded. The first 4 sermons were about who and how he made disciples. Now we are looking at what Jesus commanded specifically about saving the lost. Jesus taught and sought the lost. And so, we have focused on 2 parables he told about the lost-remember what the first one was about? Lost what? SHEEP  then last week Justin preached about lost what? COIN  now this week we’ll encounter a third parable, one of the most beloved stories in the Bible about a lost son. -remember these were told to lost people-pharisees and sinners…. The prodigal son is a story that transcends the ages-it’s characters and action are universal and as fresh today as 2,000 years ago. This parable has many layers of application and could in itself be a series-but not today. Here is your sermon in a sentence that will focus our time: God wants no one to stay lost. Now let’s open or Bibles to Luke 15:11-31....

    27 min
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Feast on God's Word with me and be filled! Also, hear interviews with people at the table who will grow your faith in Jesus. This is a global outreach ministry of Smithville Mennonite Church. Go to smc585.org to learn more!

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  • Creator
    Todd D Martin
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    106
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    © Todd D Martin