The timing of this message was purely coincidental. For many people, this time of year is dreaded: tax time. One of the ways the religious leaders tried to trap Jesus was to get Him to make a stand either for or against paying taxes. It appeared to be one of those no-win situations.
Instead, Jesus’ answer was remarkable: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Do religion and politics meld together or should they be completely separate? Pastor Greg tackles these and other issues in this week’s message: “Religion and Politics.”
From the Life Application New Testament Commentary: “Because the crowd was expecting the Kingdom of God, Jesus told them a parable that corrected their misunderstanding about the nature of hte Kingdom. Here, Jesus tied responsbile stewardship of resources to the coming Kingdom of God. . . This parable encourages listeners to wisely use their resources for the master’s benefit. The implication is clear: Christians are accountable to Jesus for the way they use their time, money, and abilities.”
How are you using your time money and abilities? Do you build yourself up or do you build up the Kingdom of God?
Check out the sermon outline and audio for today’s message.
For right now, you can listen to or download the Easter Message.
For those of you with iPods or users of iTunes, you can now get the Sunday messages easily. Open iTunes on your computer, and click the podcasts link on the left-hand side under Library. Up at the top of iTunes, click on ‘Advanced’ and choose ‘Subscribe to Podcast’. A box will pop up asking for the URL, type in http://www.graceforme.com/feed/ and that should do it. Once you see Grace Bible Church, Holden Maine in iTunes, you can click the little white arrow to the left of the word Grace and that will show you all the podcasts you can download. I hope this helps whoever uses iTunes with their iPod. I, personally, don’t have one, but felt we needed to make this available.
For now, I have not been burning CDs of the service since the messages are available online. I am, however, saving all the services and have them available should anyone like a copy of a particular service. There has been little/no demand for CDs recently. So, if you would like a CD from any service, just ask me for it or drop me an email (srock@graceforme.com) and I would be happy to make them.
Greetings everyone. Now that we are back from vacation, I have been able to get the past three March sermons up on the site. I have done some other minor tweaks as well plus added the Easter slideshow as well.
As always, if there are any problems with files or something not correct with the site, please let me know.
Steve Rock