Salvogesis

  Our next mother today is from the Gospels. She is probably the most well known and most often represented mother in artwork in the history of the world. The next mother we have today is Mary.       MARY Mary Did You Know That your son would save us all Everlasting life   Mary was chosen by God to give birth to the Son of God and raise Him and care for Him. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for her to see Him grow and do the things He does. I can’t imagine what it would be like for her to realize and respect her son as the Lord. I can’t imagine what it would have been like for her to see him upon the cross. He loved her so much: He entrusted her care to his friend even while He was upon the cross. I can’t imagine then what it would be like for her to know of His resurrection and eternal life. I can’t imagine how humbling it would be to see what God has and is doing through her little boy.   Moms, dads, and families are often proud of their childr...

  Our 4 th   of 5 specific mothers on this Mother’s Day comes from 2 nd   John in the New Testament.   KYRIA ELECTA Mother of children Physical, spiritual Early church pastor   2 nd  John says it is addressed to a specific mother and her children. Her name ‘Kyria’ translated to English from Greek literally means ‘Lady’ and her other name ‘Electa’ literally means ‘chosen’. Thus, the NIV reads this letter as written to the chosen lady. Kyria Electa was chosen as one of the first Christian pastors. She encouraged her children - those who have come to faith through her and presumably her natural born children as well. John sent her this letter of encouragement and it is neat because he concluded this short letter by sending greetings from the children of another woman pastor/teacher in the church.   God has used and is using many mothers and others in many roles in His church. Mothers especially are great teachers of their children. In times gone past befo...

  MRS ZEBEDEE James and John’s mother Thought her sons like none other Made others wonder   Mrs. Zebedee was quite a lady. There was no holding her back. She marched her two adult sons right up to Jesus, bowed down in front of the Lord and asked that they both be held as more important than the others. When the other disciples heard about this, they were quite upset that James and John would let their mother do this but Jesus calmed everybody down, using this moment to teach about serving others rather than looking out for yourselves.   Moms continue to look out for their kids even after they have grown up and left home. Moms try their best. Like with all of us, sometimes it works out and sometimes maybe it doesn’t; sometimes, maybe like with Mrs. Zebedee, it causes a few extra little problems that would not have happened if mom didn’t try to help out. But moms love us and they try to help however they can. Thank you, mom, for loving us. Thank you everyone here for the lo...

  The next mom we have is also from the Old Testament; She is from the book of 1 Samuel.   HANNAH Sam, my first-born child Of the two books named for him Only one he’s in   Fun fact: Samuel isn’t even in the book of 2 nd  Samuel.   Hannah first shows up in the Bible as a wife who desperately wants to be a mother. She wants just to be a mother so much that she promises God that when He gives her a child, she will give him right back to God. God gives her a child and when the child is old enough, she brings her son – the boy who will later become the prophet Samuel - to be raised serving in the tabernacle of God by the High Priest. God blessed her son and raised him up to be the last ruler of Israel before the time of the kings. God blessed Hannah, this mom, by giving her many more children to love and to rear. This mom was blessed by God not only by having her child but also in seeing how God blessed her whole nation through her son.   Mom, like Hannah, you ...

  Today is Mother’s Day. Now, I actually I looked up whether it is Mother apostrophe ‘S’ Day (the day of one particular mother) or Mother ‘S’ apostrophe Day (a day belonging to more than one mother) or whether it is Mother no apostrophe ‘S’ Day (a day to celebrate mothers in general). Apparently, it is the former - Mother apostrophe ‘S’ Day (the day of one particular mother) – so, I encourage everyone who is able to today, to honour your particular mother and make her feel special.   We love you mom!   In the Bible there are many amazing women. A few of them who are mentioned specifically for their role as mother. For our time today, we have haikus about some of these particular mothers from the Bible. One from the New Testament, one from the Gospels, one from the Old Testament outside the Pentateuch and one from the Pentateuch and as a bonus we will also have a haiku about Mary the mother of Jesus too. Our first Mother Haiku is from Genesis in the Pentateuch:   EVE ...

This week was Chinese New Year. At Chinese New Year events they often give each person a loonie. What we will do for that is donate a loonie to Partners In Mission for each person here today. The other thing I associate with Chinese New Year is what most of us associate with Chinese food. Fortune Cookies. I often think it would be neat to have a Christian Chinese Food Restaurant where instead of fortunes in the cookies there would be scriptures or proverbs. So today I have proverb cookies – well proverb plastic eggs for us. Heather will hand them out. You can open yours up and look at it. Don’t lose it. I am going to ask people to read them out. And then we will share in a blessing from each one. Who has Proverbs 3:5? Read it out please. Trust in the Lord with all your heart     and lean not on your own understanding God confounds the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27); the sin of the book of judges shows just how much trouble can come when we ‘do what is right our own eyes’. The truth...

Israel is in a bit of trouble here. Ezekiel has just put on this big show so that the exiles at the time and the rest of us now might learn from it. Remember that Ezekiel is not in Jerusalem, Judah, or even Israel as he is acting out this prophesy. Ezekiel is a  thirty-year-old  man who would like nothing more than to be a priest in Jerusalem instead he is sitting by the probably very dirty water near his refugee camp and then spending much of his time lying on his side eating food cooked on animal dung and doing everything else mentioned in this book.   The message Ezekiel seems to be giving the people in the refugee camp  with him  is this: It seems that the people were comforting themselves in their exile by  saying  that God would never let anything happen to Jerusalem and that He would never let anything happen to the temple  in Jerusalem ; some people even believed that  God   actually lived  just there  – even though...

Matthew 18: …the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”    2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.    The scene is like this: Jesus’ followers, his congregation, his friends, like you guys here; like us; they ask Jesus which one of them is doing the best? Who is the star? Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?    Jesus then looks for a child in the congregation and has her stand with the disciples who are asking the question (the word is gender neutral but there is an argument to be made that the child is a girl)[i] and Jesus tells his disciples – she is the greatest…or one like her....

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The Plague on the Firstborn And finally this will bring us to our last Plague Pop: The Plague Pop of Death. Reading from Exodus: 11:1-8: Now the   Lord   had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go   from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. 4  So Moses said, “This is what the   Lord   says: ‘About midnight   I will go throughout Egypt.   5  Every firstborn   son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill,   and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.   6  There will be loud wailing   throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.   7  But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the   Lord   makes a distinction   between Egypt...

This series makes up a sermon written and presented by Sarah-Grace Ramsay when she 12 years of age.  This leads us to the Plague Pop of Darkness. Reading from Exodus: 10:21-23, 27-29: 21  Then the   Lord   said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness   spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”   22  So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness   covered all Egypt for three days.   23  No one  could  see  anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived. 27  But the   Lord   hardened Pharaoh’s heart,   and he was not willing to let them go.   28  Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my  sight!  Make sure you  do not  appear  before me again! The day you see my face you will die.” 29  “Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never  app...

This will bring us to our next cake pop of Salvation: The Plague Pop of the Locusts. Reading from Exodus: 10:1-6: 10  Then the   Lord   said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart   and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs   of mine among them   2  that you may tell your children   and grandchildren how I dealt harshly   with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the   Lord .” 3  So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the   Lord , the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble   yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.   4  If you refuse   to let them go, I will bring locusts   into your country tomorrow.   5  They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left ...