Advent 2025: Go | Joseph & Mary Go To The Temple (Andrew Allison)
St. Paul's Leaskdale Weekly Sermons
Release Date: 12/29/2025
Roots: How Salvation Works | Burning The Bridge With God (Andrew Allison)
St. Paul's Leaskdale Weekly Sermons
Exodus 3:1-14 - The Rescue begins! And as God always does, he goes looking for a person to lead the charge, a fallible, often unwilling person. God chose Moses and picked up on a relationship that God started years ago, when Moses may not have been paying attention. He started paying attention the day that he came across a burning bush that talked!
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Roots | How Salvation Works - Why Is Life So Hard? (Andrew Allison)
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Exodus 1:6-14 - This Sunday we begin a new teaching series called “Roots” based on the book of Exodus. You can’t fully understand the life, death and resurrection of Jesus without studying Exodus. Chapter 1 lays the foundation of a people in desperate need of rescue.
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Generous: Living Open-Handed | How Much Can You Take With You? (Andrew Allison)
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Exodus 36:1-7 -God gave Moses a huge project. Moses already had a huge assignment in guiding the Israelites through the wilderness, but now God wanted an ornate Tabernacle built. It would require great skill and a pile of gold, silver and precious gems. Providentially, these very recently freed slaves had been showered with gold, silver and precious gems as they left Egypt. The question was whether they would cling to their wealth or give it away to what God was doing.
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Generous: Living Open-Handed | The Grip of Greed (Lynnita Weber)
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Luke 12:13-21 - Jesus tells us to watch out for all kinds of greed. The challenge is, greed is sneaky—it hides in our hearts. So Jesus tells a story illustrating three attitudes towards money that are symptoms of greed: I deserve it. It’s all for me. I’m better off with more.
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Generous: Living Open-Handed | What Does Jesus Say About Money? (Andrew Allison)
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Advent 2025: Go | Joseph & Mary Go To The Temple (Andrew Allison)
St. Paul's Leaskdale Weekly Sermons
Luke 2:22-40 - This week, we continue our Advent series, Go, by reflecting on the quiet faithfulness of Joseph and Mary as they bring Jesus to the temple. In this moment of ordinary obedience, God meets them with extraordinary hope through Simeon and Anna.
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Advent 2025: Go | Joseph Goes With The Plan to Marry (Andrew Allison)
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Matthew 1:18-25 - This week’s story is God’s call to Joseph. Joseph would have hoped to lead an ordinary life, work a job, have a family, and contribute in some small way to the community. God had bigger plans.
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Advent 2025: Go | Mary Goes To Elizabeth (Lynnita Weber)
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Luke 1:39-45: Unexpectedly pregnant before she was married, Mary’s life was in upheaval. God sent her to Elizabeth, who would encourage her with a blessing.
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Advent 2025: Go | Gabriel Goes To Mary (Andrew Allison)
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Luke 1:26-38 - It's Christmas, and everyone is GOING! For starters, it's Gabriel who goes first to Zechariah (last week) and now to Mary in Nazareth. Christmas has God on the move, and God chose to include humans as key players in the best story ever. Mary’s involvement in this story will prove very costly. Such is the Christian life.
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Advent 2025: Go | John Goes Before Jesus (Andrew Allison)
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Luke 1:5-17 - The first Christmas was hopping! God was fulfilling promises made centuries earlier and now he needed the right people to be in place and ready to go. His first stop was Jerusalem to talk to an old priest about he and his wife having a baby. There was excitement in the air! And so it begins.
info_outlineLuke 2:22-40 - This week, we continue our Advent series, Go, by reflecting on the quiet faithfulness of Joseph and Mary as they bring Jesus to the temple. In this moment of ordinary obedience, God meets them with extraordinary hope through Simeon and Anna.