Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church
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The Tent: The God Who Camps with His People
Exodus 25, 40 What kind of God goes camping with his people? That’s the question we’ll start with in our Advent series, “God with us.” The incarnation (usually defined as God becoming flesh in Jesus) is not just for Christmas; for God, it’s an ...
Matthew’s Christmas Story: Magi and Kings
Matthew 2 In Matthew 2:1 we are introduced to three characters: “Jesus … Herod … Magi.” Now we sometimes sing “We Three Kings” referring to this last set of characters (Magi), but Matthew sings it referring to the three “kings” he introdu...
Temple: The God Who Resides with His People
When Solomon became king, one of the first things he did was to build God the King a palace. God will now reside, not just camp, with his people. God comes down more permanently, residing with them in the promised land. From leaving Adam & ...
Luke’s Christmas Story: Angels and Shepherds
Luke intentionally sets the birth of Jesus in the context of world and local history. Caesar Augustus heads a Roman Empire known for peace and prosperity and a glorious culture. Herod, as clientking over Judea, is known for his power and ...
The Word Made Flesh: The God Who Lives with His People
Throughout Advent, we’ve looked at the concept of “God with us”, noting that the history of the Bible is one of God coming down: to Eden, but then leaving after the Fall; with Moses to live in the tabernacle (in his shekinah glory); to a perman...
Immanuel: The God Who Is With Us
Throughout Advent, we’ve noted that the Bible is the history of God seeking to dwell with his people, but also the people frustrating his plans. Then there is a long period of silence, with no shekinah glory/presence of God. For almost 400 year...
Checking Our Vital Signs
As we get older, it is increasingly important to keep in tune with our health. When we visit our doctor, one of the things he/she does is checks our vital signs (pulse, breathing, reflexes, etc.) to see if each area is healthy. If we have no vi...
The Beginnings of Jesus’ Ministry
As we move into a series focused on an overview of the New Testament, we will start by looking at some key elements in Jesus’ ministry that are found throughout the gospels: teacher, parable-teller, disciple-maker, etc., as well as his relation...
Checking Our Vital Signs
As we get older, it is increasingly important to keep in tune with our health. When we visit our doctor, one of the things he/she does is checks our vital signs (pulse, breathing, reflexes, etc.) to see if each area is healthy. If we have no vi...
Jesus the Jewish Rabbi
We continue our look at how Jesus might have been seen in his culture, looking at a title some gave him: Rabbi (Teacher). In Matthew 21- 22, we see Jesus at the Temple, overthrowing the moneychangers’ tables, and his authority is questioned. Th...
The Greatest of These Is Love – 1 Corinthians 13 Love
The word is so important that it permeates the Bible. It is listed at the head of the fruit of the Spirit. It is the key component of Jesus’ summary of the Torah and, in fact, all of Scripture. Love is the character trait that defines all Chris...
The Greatest of These Is Love – 1 Corinthians 13 Love
Polls comparing the behaviors of those who claim they are “born again” Christians with those who say they are not Christians invariably come out roughly the same: the behaviors of the two groups are remarkably similar! Why do a high perce...
The Lord Will Do Amazing Things
On Cadet Sunday, we will look at their theme verse: “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.” We will look at the specific “amazing things” Joshua was talking about here. Scripture: Joshua 3:5&nbs...
Jesus the Disciplemaker
We’ve looked at Jesus through the eyes of the culture of his day as a Rabbi and a parable teller. In that capacity, his goal would have been to make many disciples, who would not only learn his teaching but be prepared to carry on his mission. ...
The Spirit in Worship
Paul has written about spiritual gifts, and the spiritual graces of faith, hope and love. All of these flow from the Holy Spirit in our lives. But now he General Fund Offerings and Percent of Budget 1/29 1/22 1/15 1/8 Last 4 Wks. $17,182 279% $...
Jesus and the Pharisees
If you looked in a dictionary, you might find the following definition of pharisaical: “observing the form but neglecting the spirit of religion.” A Pharisee is often defined as a self-righteous, hypocritical person. These are probably the defi...
Jesus of Nazareth – Luke 4:16-30
We will look at Jesus’ visit to his hometown and his message in the synagogue, where he commented that no prophet was accepted in his hometown. But what did he mean by that? There is more going on here than simply bad memories of a hometo...
A Word of Forgiveness
During Lent we will be listening to Jesus from the cross, asking what these “cross-words” meant and what they tell us about Jesus’ suffering. We begin to talk about an atrocity worse than the senseless slaughter of innocent children, worse than...
Jesus and His Own Town
While Nazareth (last week) was Jesus’ original hometown, he actually moved to a new hometown of Capernaum. Jesus, why move? Why change your hometown? Especially at a time when that wasn’t the norm? Any time you move, it is a conscious decision ...
A Word of Life
In the musical and book Les Miserables, Victor Hugo tells the story of Jean Valjean, who had been sent to prison. He tried to escape several times, which caused his sentence to be extended to 19 years. Once out, he steals a bishop's...