Objectives in life
This week Gabe Dodd , Student Pastor shares with us about objectives in life, wrapping up Divine Design.
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things have been created through him and for him.
Colossians 1:16
After seeking, trusting, and loving God, we need to model Christ to our family, friends, church and the world through love, discipleship, grace and leadership.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
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Divine Design - Spiritual Gifts
This week, we continue with the series Divine Design. Pastor Randall will guide us through the sSpiritual gifts and how these are connected with our purpose.
God designed us for a purpose. He gave us gifts to strengthen others as part of our design. God gives us spiritual gifts ; it is our responsibility to use them and requires faith to put them in practice.
Divine Design - Desires and Experiences
This week, Pastor Randall refreshes us in the idea that God gives us desires and experiences to help fulfill our purpose. God does not waste any of our experiences; He has a purpose for your life.
It can seem that sometimes God hides his will and purpose from us, but He doesn't.
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also,
along with him, graciously give us all things?
Rom 8:32
God will give us everything we need because He loves us. He proved it on the cross.
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Divine Disign - Designed for a Purpose
This week we started a new series called Divine Design. Pastor Randall will walk us in the course of the reality that we are designed for a purpose.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:13-16
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Connect - Better Together
This week, Pastor Randall continues sharing on the series " Connect " , this week celebrating community. We all want community but it’s not something that is celebrated. As part of our culture, we celebrate Individualism.
God created us to be better together . As God’s people , we should celebrate community and the idea of individualism should be foreign to us. As for Adam and Eve, Noah and his family, Moses and Aaron , Davis and his warriors, Jesus and his disciples, Disciples going out in pairs, Paul and his fellow travelers we need to grasp and understand that “We are better together.”
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing,
but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25
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Connect - All Things in Common
Pastor Randall will share with us from last week’s passage in Acts 2:42-47, but from the perspective that Genuine Community requires Commonality.
Healthy churches have a strong sense of commonality. The strongest and healthiest comminutes are small groups or growth groups who have all things in common.
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Connect - Connecting With Others
This week we are starting a new series call Connect. This week we will be reading from Acts 2: 42-47, where we will see that connecting to a community helps us to connect with God.
We all desire to belong to a community where we are accepted, valued and loved. The bible tells us that God established the church as the community where Christians belong.Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
1 Corinthians 12:27
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Inverted - Be Authentic
This week, the last on the series Inverted, Pastor Randall will share with us why we should be authentic.
Like in Luke 18:9-14, we can’t be changed until we are authentic with God. In this story, one man went away changed and the other stayed the same.
Jesus inverted the thinking. He wanted them to see that to be strong is to be humble and real. Today we need to do the same: Humble yourselfbefore God, be honest about your life and struggles, and be courageous enough to step out and seek God.
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Inverted - Timeless Forgiveness
This week, Pastor Randall will share from Matthew 18:21-35 where we will discover that only forgiveness sets us free.
Sometimes we are feeling hurt or betrayed which gives us feelings of revenge. We become bitter and cynical, and we dwell in a mad environment and we do not forgive. We will hear the testimony of Missy Gruber forgiving her dad.Forgiving is extremely hard and goes against everything in us, but forgiving is the way to show that we have experienced Gods forgiveness ourselves.
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Inverted - Give to Gain
God’s economy goes against everything our logical minds tell us. Our mind tells us "If I want to gain, then I'd better hold on to what I've got." Jesus says that’s a foolish way to think. He says to gain we have to give. We need to be rich toward God.
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Inverted - Be Faithful
This week, Pastor Trent shares with us from Luke 19:12-26 that we all have the same opportunity each day to be faithful. It doesn't matter how much we do, the opportunity is still the same.
We are encouraged to be faithful, not just for ourselves, but for the ones beside us. We need to remember that in our private life, work life and public life there is always someone who needs God. We need to be faithful to the vision God has given to the church.
We need to use all that we are, all that we have- to reach all we can.
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Inverted - Be Gracious
Pastor Randall continues with the series Inverted, sharing this week, about the truth: God is gracious to those who come to their senses.
To receive God’s grace we have to come to our senses and we don’t have to wait until we hit the bottom, God takes us where we are. In order to receive His grace, we need to approach the Father with confidence.
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