Sermons About Pregnant
Neighborhoods in the Network / CompassCare (Rochester, NY)
Join Martha Manikas-Foster for this Neighborhoods in the Network look at a non-profit pregnancy resource center that has been making a difference in Rochester, NY since 1980. The medical personnel at CompassCare provides pregnancy testing, ultrasound exams, and counseling.
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Congratulations, You're Expecting: Love, Mercy, Justice Part 4
Now, many of you may know this, but in case you don’t, Amy and I have 3 children: 3 wonderful girls Meredith, Landry, and Emma. Now I can tell you what my initial reaction was when we found out that Amy was pregnant with each of them. I can tell you what it is like to be in the delivery, and I can even tell you what it is like to cut the cord. What I cannot tell you though is what it is like to find out that there is baby growing in my tummy. I can’t tell you the emotions that occur when that baby begins to grow and move, and I definitively cannot tell you what happens emotionally when you give birth. But scripture sure does speak about the concept of being pregnant or being in labor a whole lot. It is a metaphor that immediately strikes an image in your heart and mind whether or not you have ever been pregnant. Either way, towards that end, for anyone who has difficulty relating to scripture, I’ve enlisted the help of those who do know what scripture is talking about.. Here are a few examples from ladies in our church who shared with me via email what it was like to find out that they were pregnant. Great joy, followed by sadness as the child was miscarried after a only a few weeks into the pregnancy My response was joy, disbelief, amazement, panic, awe, and worry...all mixed together. Then I threw up. You don't want to use those words I'm your sermon! At first I couldn’t believe it when the nurse called & told me that I was pregnant & then I was very emotional & gave thanks to God for blessing me with a child. We even had one mom say that doctor got her due date horribly wrong and it made it look like she had been cheating on her husband. They soon got a new doctor. I must admit reading those responses was entertaining and hopefully they helped all of you to get a picture of what it means to be pregnant. Clearly, finding out you are pregnant and being pregnant are life changing and life altering occurrences. Not everyone person has the opportunity to experience pregnancy and in those situations, we trust that God has some other incredibly amazing experience reserved for us. Well, this week at Sovereign King in the book of Micah, we are going to see the prophet use this pregnancy and labor image to set the minds of God’s people to a sense of expectation. So, whether we have been pregnant, never been pregnant, or even pregnant right now, lets do our best to get in the mindset of waiting for something with expectation. With that, we will ask, what is it that God is asking us to look forward to with similar expectancy as a pregnancy?
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Luke 1:26-38 - God Breaks In
This passage Marry receives the message that she will give birth to the Creator of the world - Jesus. One can ask 2 basic questions in this passage: 1) How did God break into this world because he exists seperate from this world, and 2) Who is this God who breaks into this world? The reader realizes from the start that God inpregnates marry by the Holy Spirit to provide a sinless human nature for Christ as well as the right linage to the throne of David. The God who breaks in is Christ Jesus and is the savior of all mankind. The amazing thing about this miracle is that God breaks in to save sinners who are in rebellion from Him. This even call the incarnation is truely an intersection of grace and mercy in God's plan of remption.
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