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Archive for September, 2008


What the Servant Offers

September 24th, 2008

A preview of This week’s message:

Mark 2.

I. Forgiveness

II. Fulfillment

III. Freedom

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God’s Servant is Here!

September 18th, 2008

We’re Starting our “Be Diligent” series on the Gospel of Mark.

This Sunday is on Mark 1.

I. The Servant’s Identity.

II. The Servant’s Authority.

II. The Servant’s Sympathy.

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The Joy of the Lord.

September 10th, 2008

This Sunday’s message will be on the spiritual discipline of celebration: the joy of the Lord.

 

We’ll be looking at Joy through:

I. Fellowship

II. Through prayer

III. Through preaching.

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Our Guide

September 4th, 2008

Sermon Series

This Sunday we are looking at the discipline of Guidance. The Work and person of the Holy Spirit.

Scripture is:

John 14:15-31.

The premise is we can learn much from the Holy Spirit and rely on Him to be our God. How?

I. The Holy Spirit is God.

II. The Holy Spirit - is for Believers. (when do we get the Holy Spirit?).

III. The Holy Spirit has a work to do.

So as a result of God working in our lives - we need to let Him take control.

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The Worship Wars

September 4th, 2008

This past  Sunday’s message is on the idea of Worship as a discipline.

Skeleton comes from “Great Talk Outlines for Youth Ministry”

Acts 16:12-40

We Worship Because:

I. God is Worthy of Praise.
II.God is with us.
III. God has Freed us.
IV. God is working.

Some good illustrations from Dan Kimball, Matt Redman(The Unquenchable Worshipper) and Richard Foster.

Here is Redman’s

 

The year is 1744.  Hymn writer Charles Wesley is in Leeds, England, holding a prayer meeting in an upstairs room.  Suddenly there is a creak in the floorboards, followed by a massive crack, and the WHOLE FLOOR COLLAPSES.  All 100 people crash right through the ceiling into the room below.  The place is in chaos - some are screaming, some are crying, some just sit in shock. .

 

But, as the dust settles, Wesley, wounded and lying in a heap cries out, “Fear not!  The Lords is with us; our lives are all safe.”  And then he breaks out into the Doxology:  “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow” - perhaps a bizarre choice of song, considering what has just happened! 
But, here’s the point:  While everyone else was still licking their wounds, the heart of this unstoppable worshipper was responding with unshakable praise
From Matt Redman’s book: The Unquenchable Worshipper.

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