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Made For A Miracle - Easter: The Unexpected John 20:1-16 How do we celebrate Easter? Does it reflect the experience of the first Easter? Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber has said of Easter, “Really it’s a story about flesh and dirt and bodies and confusion, and it’s the way God never seems to adhere to our expectations of what a proper God would do.” What do we expect of Easter? SugarRiverUMC.org

Made for a Miracle: Activate Health & Healing The author, Mike Slaughter writes that more than 700 verses of the 3,779 total across the four Gospels deal with some type of physical or mental healing, including resurrection of the dead. What does healing mean for us, in the twenty-first century?

Made For A Miracle: Activate the Power of Prayer Luke 6:12 What role does prayer play in our lives? What happens when we pray? How often do we pray? I pray we can get this right. sugarriverumc.org

Made for a Miracle: Activate the Power of Faith The challenge for faith is knowing it more as a verb than a noun, and that it is more than doctrine. It is so common for us to have intellectual struggles with faith, especially when it comes to miracles. Yet, true faith is not the absence of doubt, nor is it dependent on empirical scientific truth. So we will explore the meaning and power of faith for our lives.

Made for a Miracle: The Miracle of Love How would life be different if we could just work on doing what Jesus said was the most important commandment for life...love God, others and self? This is the gift that comes with a relationship with Jesus. Many of life’s struggles come when we don’t get this right...God help us...and so God does. You gotta love it. Scripture: John 15: 12-13

Made For A Miracle: Miracles Come with a Cost (Resource: Made For A Miracle, by Mike Slaughter) It sure seems that Jesus could use some help with the logistics of this movement. “Take nothing for the journey?” This seems irresponsible, and lacks planning...yet...in this final trip to Jerusalem, Jesus set new priorities to call, and he understood that giving life would mean a great deal of sacrifice. And for Jesus it was overcoming death. For us, we give our life to find it...there is a cost...but not greater reward. SugarRiverUMC.org

Lenten Series: Made For A Miracle, based on book by Mike Slaughter Did you know that when we hope for the impossible, it involves more than praying for God’s transcendent power? There are two components to every miracle: divine action and human responsibility. Each of us has been given specific talents and abilities. For a real miracle to take place, God expects us to apply these talents and abilities—acting with God to perform divine work. By examining biblical examples of how to use your God-given gifts for God’s glory, author and pastor Mike Slaughter helps you discover that you, too, were Made for a Miracle. In times of crisis we tend to seek the guidance of a greater power, and we hope not to go it alone. Jesus called his followers “together.” As we journey together in the support of the community, we can find in Jesus the power and authority to drive out the personal demons and heal our diseases. “What?” we say. It’s a miracle.

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