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Genesis 6:11-22

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Steve Swanson

Water is the very stuff of life. When God created the heavens and the earth, he put water right at the very heart of his system. More than seventy percent of our amazing world is covered with water and that water is teeming with life. It's true that beef, pork, and poultry are important to our diets as well as to our economy, but whenever some farmer gets a"big" head and begins to think that these...

2. Saved By Water: The Well

John 4:1-26

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Steve Swanson

The legend of Noah and the flood, and Jesus' miraculous stilling of the storm, are both stories of fear of water and fear of drowning. We are indeed afraid of drowning; most of us would admit it. Too much water scares us. But go to the opposite extreme, too little water, and hardly anyone is afraid. Who ever thinks of dying of thirst? I guess you'd have to live on the desert or maybe back in the o...

3. Saved From Water: The Storm

Luke 8:22-25

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Steve Swanson

Jesus performed many miracles during his ministry. These miracles didn't really prove that he was the Son of God, but they certainly did draw crowds. The disciples who have relayed these stories to us through the Gospels were part of those crowds, sometimes as reporters, sometimes as witnesses. The disciples, for instance, didn't really see the water become wine. That happened in an outer hallway....

4. Serving With Water: The Washing

John 13:1-17

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Steve Swanson

You have heard it said, "Clothes make the man." Or perhaps it was put this way: "You are what you wear." We may laugh off these old truisms but you and I are more deeply influenced by clothing than we think. Flashy, expensive clothes impress us. So do uniforms. So do specialized occupational and professional clothes. Why do we quickly reduce our driving speed when we see a uniformed patrolman or i...

5. Washed By Water: The Jordan

Matthew 3:13-17

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Steve Swanson

When a priest in the medieval Christian church stood before the altar of God and raised the bread of holy communion above his head, he said in Latin, hoc est corpus, "This is the body." That was the supreme moment of mystery; that was the moment of miracle; that was the moment of change. At that moment the medieval Christian believed that ordinary bread became the body of Christ. Hoc est corpus, "...

6. Wine from Water: The Wedding

John 2:1-11

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Steve Swanson

Wouldn't you think that when early man and woman learned to make wine they thought it a miracle - or at least a mystery? Picture some prehistoric person putting a bunch of grapes in a stone jar, then getting so busy hunting pterodactyls for a week or so that they forgot all about those grapes. Imagine their surprise when they finally came back to find the whole business bubbling and gurgling away ...

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