Today was a good day! We're continuing to emphasize our Children & Youth on the last Sunday of each month. Our kids did a good job! My sincere motivation continues to be a practical integration of faith into the contemporary affaris of the human experience. I really want to see a maximization of our faith coming alive and become visible and viable--particularly during each and every worship opportunity. The Holy Spirit has clearly led me to identify some things that are affecting us: our location, our leadership, and our commitment to Christian education & youth ministry. I am seeing the Lord shine on our church in His own way and His time. Yesterday, the message shared came from Daniel 3:16 & 17 and its subject was 'The God that we serve is Able'. The underlying premise of the message is the same as that thesis of that text, that our faith in the ability of God and His providence would merge into human affairs and impossibilities. This involves a life that will not compromise in the face of intimidation or circumstance. I took time out of my preaching schedule to both encourage and challenge our congregation as a whole, as well as deal with a subject that could relate to our children and youth. The main points were
1. Remembering your history, heritage, and your hope - they are all connected.
2. Resisting the futility of worshipping and reverencing that which is carnal and corrupt.
3. Remembering the three c's:
Remember your connection '...the God WE serve...'
Remember Who's in control '...is able...'
Remember your commitment (Daniel chapter 1)
4. Reward - You are an overcomer
- Overcome by the Presence of God vs. 24
- Overcome by the Preservation of God vs. 26
- Overcome by the Power of God vs. 27
- Overcome by the Program of God vs. 29
- Overcome by the Promotion of God vs. 30
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