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"The Mite is Mighty" -- Matthew 13:31-32
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Though the Church is Hidden, It Still Shall Grow
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A Different Kind of Good News
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Ten Great Realities of Christmas
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A Terrible God
37:49
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Hidden in Plain Sight
37:32
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God Shall Explain His Stories to His Children
36:53
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Our God is Holy and Happy
44:35
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Worth Everything
46:57
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All Fish Do Not Make it to Market
33:22
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In With the New, In With the Old
30:25
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A Storm-Proof Faith
35:22
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All Shall Bow
35:19
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Jesus, Please Leave
36:15
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Jesus, May I Follow?
35:14
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Understanding the Old Testament Law
32:46
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There is No Place Like Home
27:47
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Resurrection State of Mind
52:27
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Heaven: The Ultimate Extreme Home Makeover
53:34
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Heaven: "God Will Be Our Neighbor"
43:42
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The Kingdom Forever
48:32
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Our Tomorrowland
56:18
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"Know Thyself"
49:47
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We Will Not Be Assimilated
50:12
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"Christ Has Compassion for the Crestfallen" -- Luke 7:11-17
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"The Waiting is Worth It!" -- Luke 2:25-32
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"It Was Never Us" -- Luke 1:35-38
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If God Said It, He Will Do It!
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"What Did You Go to See?" -- Matthew 11:7-9a
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"The Voice is Here" -- Matthew 11:9-10
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The Kingdom is Better!
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"Break Through the Opposition" -- Matthew 11:12
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Worse Than Those From Capernaum
49:37
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The Resurrection and Vindication of Jesus
1:12:35
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Knowledge With No Understanding
44:33
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We Were Wrong, but Still Correct
33:23
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Jesus is Master of All
32:14
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Knows Me Like Myself
30:48
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There are No Tryouts on Team Jesus
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When Your Burden Becomes Your Joy
37:26
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"Know Our Sin, to Show Our Love" -- Luke 7:36 - 47
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Jesus Knows that Hell is Real, Do You?
57:21
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"More than a Prophet" -- Luke 7:47-50
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Jesus Knows that Demons are Real, Too
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Ready for Battle! -- The Demons are Here
1:04:41
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"They Refuse to Believe" -- Matthew 12:22 - 28
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This is NEVER a Competition -- Luke 11:21 - 22
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There are NO 'Switzerlands' in Christianity -- Luke 11:23
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You Better Check the Fruit -- Matthew 12:33 - 37
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"Do We Demand a Miracle?" -- Matthew 12:38 - 42
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"HIS Blood is Thicker Than Everything" -- Mark 3:31 - 35
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The Intersection of Faith and the Law
35:15
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The Gift of Understanding
43:09
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Hard as Pavement
44:30
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Do We Really Want to be a Christian?
46:51
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Recognize and Remove Our Thorns
56:17
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The Good Soil -- Matthew 13:1-23
52:23
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The Purpose of the Light
32:54
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The Love of Listening to the Lord
36:50
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Just Share the Information
22:37
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Opposition Produces Growth
36:31
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We Need to be in Our Chair While the Music is Playing
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Looks can be Deceiving
47:01
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Can We Touch Heaven?
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"The Mite is Mighty" -- Matthew 13:31-32

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31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” -- Matthew 13:31-32
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There is an inspirational American movie called “Rudy.” It is about a young boy who has wanted to play American college football for the most renowned college football program in the world, the University of Notre Dame, for his entire life.

However, there is a challenge. Rudy is slow. Rudy is small. Rudy has dyslexia. Notre Dame recruits only the fastest, biggest, and strongest athletes, and they do require that their athletes come to school and go to class and not just play football. Rudy would definitely be considered the runt of the litter and someone who could never make it into Notre Dame as a student, let alone be able to play on the field for the “Fighting Irish” as they are known.

So, spoiler alert: Rudy, through all of the challenges and tribulations he has to go through—and I recommend that you watch the movie—ends up playing on the field for Notre Dame and records a sack in the last game of the season. Not only that, but he goes on to become a motivational speaker, where he has made hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

In our following of Jesus this week, Jesus gives us a parable that tells a similar story, but this time about the kingdom of God. He gives us a picture showing that “The Mite is Mighty.”

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