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	Title	Date	Speaker
	Mile Four: Scripture	Jan 31, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:36-49 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 31, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road Jesus unfolds the Scriptures and shows the two disciples how all of it was about Him. The Scriptures transform their hearts and ours as well. We want to read, study, preach, pray, believe, and live the Bible. As we do, we want to see Jesus and His Gospel through it all.
	Mile Three: Jesus	Jan 24, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: John 1:19-28 & 3:22-30 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 24, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road You can’t read the seven mile road story and not see Jesus everywhere. He appears on the road, teaches the Scriptures, encounters their unbelief, and opens their eyes. The whole thing is centered on Him. We want our church to be the same way where it’s all about Jesus.
	Mile Two: Need	Jan 17, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 17, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road Confused. Sad. Disappointed. Blind. Unbelieving. Those words not only accurately describe the men in the story, they describe us as well. We are broken people in a broken world. We long to be a people that recognize our need and encounter Jesus in the midst of it.
	Mile One: Road	Jan 10, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: January 10, 2010 Series: The Seven Mile Road The idea of a journey is an important one in the Scriptures. Spiritual life is rightly seen as a walk with God. None of us have arrived, but lets consider what it looks like to walk together.
	A Hymn of Praise	Jan 3, 2010	Seven Mile Road Church
Audio Download Scripture: Psalm 145 Speaker: Seven Mile Road Church Date: January 3, 2010 Series: Specials In Psalm 145, David writes an acrostic poem as a hymn of praise to God. The invitation of the psalm is to join in praising our Great God. As we begin a new year, various people from Seven Mile Road reflected on God's goodness over the past year and corporately, we added our voice to this chorus of praise.
	Participating in the Missio Dei	Dec 27, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: December 27, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus So here’s how Matthew’s Gospel and our sermon series ends. The Resurrected, triumphant, sin-defeating, Satan-conquering, death-overcoming, sinner-saving, victorious Lord Jesus stands with his disciples on a mountain in Galilee. He’s standing right in front of them and yet some can hardly believe it’s really him and that he’s really alive. He gathers the eleven for one last conversation. “Go therefore and make disciples.” Jesus sends his disciples on mission to the world even as the Father had sent him. They are to continue his work so that people from every culture and country on earth might come to know salvation in him. They are to baptize in the name of the Triune God. They are to teach them to walk in obedience to the Lord. And they are to do all this with the assurance that Jesus will be with them till the end. Today, Seven Mile Road Church has been swept up into this same mission. We get to participate in making disciples by making Jesus known here and to the ends of the earth.
	Your Gospel Story Comforts Others	Dec 20, 2009	Matthew Kruse
Audio Download Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Speaker: Matthew Kruse Date: December 20, 2009 Series: Specials The grace that God had poured out in Thessalonica was not an anonymous grace. Everyone had heard about it. Their story of repentance from sin, faith in Christ and endurance in affliction had exploded out from their little community like a thunderclap. Paul, Silas and Timothy… Macedonia and Achaia… ‘everyone everywhere’ received comfort and joy and strength because of what God had done in their city. This thing was bigger than their little church. And so Paul reminds them to hope in the gospel because its work can never be contained in the walls of a single congregation, but necessarily overflows from one life to another and one community to another, so that all can be comforted.
	The King On Trial	Dec 13, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: John 18:28-19:16 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: December 13, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus As Jesus emerges from the garden, he’s no longer trembling and troubled, but composed and calm. He is unjustly arrested and brought to trial trumped up on false charges. His accusers move quickly, acting under the cover of night. They have concocted a case filled with lies and empty accusations. Yet Jesus does not resist. He does not protest. He does not defend himself, for it for this hour that he has born. His case is finally brought before Pilate, the Roman Governor. On the surface, it appears that Pilate stands in power and Jesus powerless. Yet the conversation reveals Jesus’ true identity; that of a king. Ultimately it is Jesus who displays courage and Pilate who plays the coward. The outcome of the trial is sealed even before it begins. The King is to be crucified.
	The Garden & The Cup	Dec 6, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Matthew 26:36-46 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: December 6, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus Fearless. Authoritative. Composed. Those are probably some of the words you would used to describe Jesus as you scan his life across the pages of the Gospels. He went toe to toe with the tempter and didn’t flinch. He challenged the establishment and stared down religious leaders exposing their hypocrisy. He defended the defenseless. No wonder then we are so startled by what we see as Jesus enters the Garden of Gethsemane. He appears distressed and troubled. Anguish and sorrow have gripped his heart. He appears crushed, sweating drops of blood. Within hours, Peter would deny him. Judas would betray him. The disciples would abandon him. The crowds would mock him. The Jews would try him. The Romans would crucify him. And the Father would abandon Him. This is the cup that Jesus would have to drink. It’s a potent drink filled with humanity’s sin and God’s wrath. Jesus stares into this cup in the Garden and says, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
	Bread & Wine	Nov 29, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 22:14-20 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: November 29, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus For centuries, Jewish families gathered to celebrate the Passover. On a special night of the year, they shared a meal remembering how the Lord had delivered them from bondage and captivity in Egypt. God freed them from slavery. God’s judgment passed over them. God graciously saved them. Centuries later, Jesus sat down with his disciples to eat one last meal before his death. The disciples could have never imagined that the supper they would share would become the most important one of their lives. Jesus gives bread and wine even as He would give His body and blood to establish a New Covenant. Today, Christians gather to celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection. We share a meal remembering how Jesus has delivered us from bondage and captivity in sin. Jesus freed us from our slavery. God’s judgment has fallen on Jesus and passed over us. God has graciously saved us.
	Why Jesus Hates Religion	Nov 22, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Matthew 23 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: November 22, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus “Don’t go there. Don’t touch this. Don’t do that.” The Pharisees were first century kings of following the rules and calling others to do the same. Actually, they didn’t just follow the rules; they invented them. Their whole lives revolved around religion, commandments, and obedience. You would think that Jesus and the Pharisees would be best of friends. They weren’t. In fact, they looked more like enemies than friends. As you read through the Gospels, you can’t help but notice that Jesus and these religious leaders were always at each other’s throats. Jesus saw these men for who they were – men who knew the law but failed to love God. He was wise to their charade, their pious pretenses, and exposed it whenever he could. Hypocrites, blind guides, fools, serpents, whitewashed tombs – these were just some of the terms Jesus used to address the Pharisees. His tone is fierce. Jesus cuts into these moral leaders longing for them to abandon their self-righteousness and come to him in repentance and faith.
	Sell It All and Follow Me	Nov 15, 2009	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Luke 18:18-30 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: November 15, 2009 Series: Talks With Jesus He's rich. He's young. He's a ruler. He’s perfect. You could hardly imagine a better recruit to join Jesus’ ministry team. To top it all off, he’s even religious. He has spent his whole life obeying God’s commandments. The disciples drool at the prospect of adding this powerful, wealthy, young man to their team. Then why does the conversation end with sadness? The man walks away sad for in calling him to follow, Jesus demanded that he give up everything. Everything. Jesus calls the rich man to sell it all for the sake of the poor and follow him – a cost he is unwilling to bear. Likewise, Jesus is saddened too. The young man had traded life in Christ and treasure in heaven for trinkets on earth. The call to follow Jesus is no less costly today. If only we could see the treasure that is Christ and follow him.

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