Sunday Morning Service, 1/17/10

Songs

• Giving It All To You
• Offering
• Jesus Messiah
• That's Why We Praise Him
• This Is How We Overcome
• All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises

Message: The Doing of the Word Made Easy

Pastor Ulysse

The Lord is faithful in his praises. In Acts it says that God added daily to the church, and today God continues to add to the church. Brother Will did his part; he and his family added one to the church.

Prophecies and Fulfillments of Christ

Todd Morgan

Lineage

We'll see clearly that only God could set things up so perfectly from Old Testament to New Testament. We've got to let the word of God be powerful -- we've got to take it personally and be thankful for the blessings and miracles that God has for us. It's awsome. Nothing happens behind God's back; whatever happens, God can handle it.

Location

You see in verse three that there was instantly a moment of conflict.

Celebrating Christmas

Jonathan Santiago

As Christians, we celebrate Christmas by celebrating Jesus Christ and the gift of salvation. We can understand that December 25th probably isn't the date when Jesus was born, and the nativity scene is probably not accurate. Jesus may not be the reason for December 25th, but is Jesus the reason for your season? Are you using the season as a way to minister to people?

In your handout, what would you use to fill in the first two blanks? We chose the words "freedom" and "liberty".

Jesus was the "only-begotten" of the father.

Christmas Traditions: Helpful or Harmful

Pat Mahoney

Some don't give a lot of thought about Christmas celebration, and there are those who are vehemently against any type of celebration on Christmas. Does anybody have a particular family tradition that you observed, growing up, that was unique to you and your family?

• We always had a Christmas tree and stockings, every Christmas.
• We would celebrate from Winter Soltice until the 26th.

Attitude of Ministry, Part 3: Focus

God gives us plans, but he doesn't always give the whole plan to everybody. ... We need to be focused on something. ... God calls us to specific aspects of ministry.

Last week, we learned that attitude allows us to:

1. Influence The three Hebrew children influenced the king.
2. Endure
   David endured in Ziglag; he encouraged himself.
3. Make the right choices
   Caleb and the scouts

Perspective is a sub-topic of attitude. We can have a worldly perspective or a Godly perspective.

perspective

A particular attitude or way or regarding something; a point of view.

I need a volunteer. Jay, would you come up here?

Attitude of Ministry, part 1 of 3

What God gives us to deal with, his ways and how he works things through his pastor and his truth is not always what we see as most beneficial to us. Attitude is a way in which we choose to interpret what God has for us.

Getting this right will affect every aspect of our personal ministries.

Friday Night Men's Fellowship

Study: Gird Thyself Up Like A Man

God told Job twice, "Gird thyself up like a man". There were a lot of things that Job didn't understand. A lot of bad things were happening, and he didn't know whether it was God or something else. God helped him get over a little of his self-righteousness. So God helped him get an understand both the battle and his adversary.

Wednesday Evening Study, 10/28/09

Pastorship, Part 3/3

1. Services Expected of a God-called Pastor
2. How we should repond to their leardership and authority.

There are many different kinds of love, ranging from simple preference, as in Jacob's love of Esau's savoury meat, to the love between David and Jonathan that the Bible called "greater than the love between a man and a woman." Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages, wrote:

Love is the most important word in the English language -- and the most confusing. ... We use it a thousand ways. We speak of loving activities, objects, animals, nature, people. ... We also use the word love to explain behavior. "I did it because I love her." That explanation is given for all kinds of actions. ... What is loving behavior?

Robert Heinlein, in Stranger in a Strange Land, wrote:

I'll give you an exact definition. "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

In this study, we'll be talking about the particular type of love that results from a conscious decision to place someone else's needs and wants above your own.