Jeffrey C. Long

Towards the end of my time of ministry at Filer Mennonite Church I did a series of sermons on Elijah the prophet. I really felt like it was some of my best work but decided that I wanted to edit them some more before I posted them online. Today I had the privilege of preaching [...]

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Open: Donald Drusky took God to court. The one-time employee of USX Corporation blamed God for failing to rectify the wrong done to him when he was fired in 1968. Drusky waged a 30-year battle with the steelmaker, before deciding to take legal action against God. The suit reads: The defendant, God, is the sovereign [...]

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The following sermon was preached on August 6th, 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church in Filer Idaho. These are the notes that I preached from. Illustration: Age. Youth. Wisdom. I am not the same person I was in my 20′s. I can remember who I was, but I don’t recognize him. Some good things have been [...]

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The following sermon was preached on Sunday July 23rd 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church. The following are the unedited notes that the sermon was preached from. Do you know people that are poor? Have you ever been poor yourself? Probably the closest some of us have come was when we were in college or first [...]

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The following sermon was preached on Sunday July 2nd, 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church. These are the unedited notes that I preached from. Read Psalm 130 1 Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD; 2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications. 3 [...]

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Hannah was spending the night with her grandparents. At bath-time Hannah asked her grandmother if they were going to church the next morning. When Grandma said yes, Hannah turned up her nose and said, “I don’t like Sunday school.” “But Hannah,” Grandma replied, “we should learn all we can about God.” “I learned all about [...]

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The following sermon was preached on February 26th, 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church. Unless otherwise indicated, all sermons online are taken from the original notes and have not been edited for publication C.S. Lewis said in his book Mere Christianity “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be [...]

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The following sermon was preached on Sunday January 15th 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church. It made very liberal use of a sermon resource provided by Mennonite Mutual Aid. At one of our elder meetings a month or two ago, we were looking at an assessment question from a MCUSA booklet that relates to our vision [...]

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This sermon will be preached on January 8th, 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church Philippians 2:9 says 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under [...]

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This is the third and final part of a sermon that was preached on September 25th, 2005 at Filer Mennonite Church. Part one is available here. What does it mean to be repeatedly filled with the Holy Spirit? “You will only revive the burning power and passion of Christ in your life by opening yourself [...]

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