Pastor’s Messages (Page 20)
What is the Truth about Me?
Truth-About-Me Above is a link to a PDF from Neil Anderson’s writings (It’s OK to click on it! ) This is an amazing organized scripture list renouncing the lies we all hear from the enemy. Your weapon is Truth and that is found in the scriptures attached. Save this, print this and perhaps post this close to you throughout the day. You’ll soon memorize the scripture and add another piece of armor.
Spiritual Warfare: The Unseen Battle
THIS SUNDAY: July 19th Avoiding Landmines in the Unseen Battle Ephesians: 6 10-18 Spiritual Warfare: The Unseen Battle Series The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put…
Can Wisdom Bring Healing to our Country?
Can wisdom bring healing to our country? by Pastor Matthew James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God. Wisdom is a gift from a very generous God, but can anyone get it? Is wisdom different from knowledge? Colossians 2:2-4 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of…
What’s God’s answer to what’s happening?
What’s God’s answer to what’s happening? Pastor Matthew 6-3-20 We have been experiencing a season of suffering and division and it can feel overwhelming. First the COVID-19 Virus, causing physical separation and fear, and now the killing of George Floyd revealing the depths of relational and racial separation and disunity. It can feel overwhelming at times. When we see someone who’s job is to serve and protect, use their authority to kill and destroy, it can leave us wanting to…
In Our Devotions Attitude Matters
In Our Devotions Attitude Matters Are there some things you may need to change about how you spend your devotion time with God? Psalm 46:10 “He says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Quiet time, personal devotion, meditating on the word, no matter what you call it, I’ve noticed a greater need personally to be in God’s presence lately. Intimacy with God tends to be more organic when we go through new struggles and experiences. But sometimes I…
New Sermon Series: Being Honest with God: The Psalms
THIS WEEKEND: 5-24-20 How Long Lord? Psalm 13:1-6 During times of extreme hardship and suffering, is when our faith is put to the test. Do we really believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior or are we just reciting platitudes of a slightly religious world view? The Corona-virus has crashed into our world, and it reveals a plethora of world views that can’t answer the problem of suffering and death. So, let’s deal with it. Join us as we…
Prayer Walk!
What fantastic weather we are having. What better way of getting some exercise and being able to pray for your community. Check out Pastors latest prayer walk! Hope this encourages you to get outside this week as we stay Safe at Home.
God Hasn’t Changed!
God Hasn’t Changed! 1 Peter 1:24-25 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.” It’s Wednesday of Holy Week, but in many ways if feels like any other evening before a regular Thursday. This year there were no palm branches being passed out by the children last Sunday. No shouts in the sanctuary of “Blessed…
Struggling With A New Perspective
2 Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” My oldest son is a certified lifeguard. He told me, the right way to save someone who is drowning in the ocean is to wait for them to stop trying to save themselves. When they stop flailing, put your arm around them from the back and…
Tall Trees, Deep Roots Acts 1-4
Tall Trees, Deep Roots Acts 1-4 My wife and I were missionaries in Uganda for six years. While there we went to the Bwindi Impenetrable forest in Southwest Uganda to see the mountain gorillas. The Park their boarders the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is 124 square miles. There are 163 species of trees that house and protect 214 bird species, 129 mammal species, and 202 butterfly species. These tall trees have deep roots and are able stand despite…
A Life of Purpose (Series)
A Life of Purpose (Series) 2 Corinthians 5:16-18 What is your purpose in Life? Do you know? How do you decide what’s best from what is good? Is your joy dependent on things going the way you planned? Do you wish your real life was as exciting as your virtual life on new media? In a world sinking in medicated feeling of confusion, rejection and fear God allows us behind the curtain to discover the joy, pleasure and peace…
Developing the discipline of praying for others Elder Homer Haynes
Pray for others too: Recently, as I contemplated my prayer needs, God spoke through the confusion I was experiencing: What about the needs of others? Don’t forget to petition God the Father for the needs of others. Immediately I remembered my numerous prayer lists, the members of my family, church family, single parents, singles, couples, widows, orphans, co-workers, prisoners, and other acquaintances. I see the names, and the faces, I see the written, and spoken prayer requests. And in the…
Dance before the Lord?
Dance before the Lord? 2 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might. I’ve always loved to dance. I was a teenager in the 80’s when there were no rules to dancing. My friends and I would form a circle on the dance floor and take turns showing our best moves in the middle of our boogie arena. With every new move that was shared we would cheer with delight. Thirty years later,…
Who is Jesus…..Really??
Paul, in his letter to the Colossians, writes in response to some false and destructive teachings on the gospel message being spread in the early years of Christianity. These were not unique to that time, however, for we are faced with similar distortions today. Interestingly Paul never specifically identifies or confronts the actual false messages, but simply presents Christ as the CENTER of our faith; the very image of God, the Creator, the sustainer of all things, the fullness of…
Matthew 6:12 Devotion
CBF Elder Devotion Matthew 6:12 “Forgive us our trespasses as forgive those who have trespassed against us. As part of the “Lord’s Prayer”, many of us may mention this passage almost automatically and not give much thought to what it actually says. If we pay some attention on what we are really asking God here, however, at best it is puzzling and at worst is frightening. Consider; I Jn 1:8-9 “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves…
Ramblings about the Lord’s Prayer
ELDER DEVOTIONAL… As I mature in Christ, the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:1-4 increases in impact to my daily life. For example, I was taught the Lord’s Prayer in Sunday school as a little boy. I learned to blast through the prayer in record time, proud of the accomplishment. Nonetheless, I didn’t know that the Lord’s Prayer was part of scripture, located in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:1-4. When I joined the Catholic Church, the prayer’s relationship…