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The Hidden Treasure

James 5, Mark 14.3a-6

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You’ve heard the story told, that the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy, he goes and he sells all that he has and he buys that field. That treasure, when hidden, goes unrecognized and unused. There are treasures that we encounter every day, that we just don’t recognize or utilize.

And perhaps that’s how it is with anointing. It is a hidden treasure…one of great value, but it often goes unrecognized fully and underutilized in many ways.

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School of Love

Selected Scriptures from
Ephesians
John
Psalm 133

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Love Matters

Love matters. Maybe it matters more than ever these days, when so much around us seems so unloving. There are deep divides in our towns, across our society and even in the church. Crude language, lack of respect and dignity for the other can seem the prevailing norm of the day.

And then…along comes Valentine’s Day. Skipping toward us from just around the corner, like a school girl with pigtails, with sweet, albeit naïve, gestures of flowers and chocolates, cards of friendship, expressions of love, and even pink teddy bears. (Did I mention chocolates?) When it seems that love these days gets the short end of the stick, here comes Valentine’s Day.

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God love(s) the underdog

Isaiah 40.28-31

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Intro, Game Intro

Isaiah 40.28–31

Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
      the Creator of the ends of the earth.
God does not faint or grow weary;
      God’s understanding is unsearchable. God gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,
      and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
      they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
      they shall walk and not faint.