We’re convinced God wants to be present and powerful in every part of our lives, church, and community. We know it’s not all good. In fact, sometimes things are downright difficult. However, even when life gets hard, God is working for our good. (Romans 8:28) Real deal relationship with Jesus is the key to overcoming. His legendary ability to redeem, reconcile, and restore is the big news of the biblical narrative. Believing in and connecting others to that reality is what we’re all about …
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By Ron Barnard
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By Ron Barnard
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By Ron Barnard
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By David Adams
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---Sunday Notes--- Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:17-18 ESV - - Rock: double meaning… For the Church to be the Church, it must be …
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Jesus came for and has sent us to every demographic and community on planet earth. #ToSeekAndSave There came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue. Luke 8:41 ESV And falling at Jesus’ feet, he implored him to come to his house, for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. Luke 8:41-42 ESV What is dying i…
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By Ron Barnard
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We should be compassionately motivated to introduce people to Jesus and the life we’ve found in Him. When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banqu…
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Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. Proverbs 4:25-27 ESV Distraction is a simple strategy the enemy uses to keep us from what God wills for us. Be sober-minded; be watchful. …
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We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10 ESV Jesus perspective on prayer was that we should first pray for our Father’s Kingdom priorities! The Kingdom coming is a reference…
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We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37 ESV A heart that isn’t wholly His has no hope of being whole. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8 ESV Jesus told h…
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2 Kings 13:14-19 14 When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” he cried. 15 Elisha told him, “Get a bow and some arrows.” And the king did as he was told. 16 Elisha told him, “Put your hand on the bow,” and Elisha laid his own hands…
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Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Colossians 3:2 ESV A breakthrough in mindset precedes, knowing and living the will of God. The most challenging thing about a mindset shift is that it requires your mindset to shift! The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremia…
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-- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Mark 10:46 The world may try to give you a label, but only Jesus has the authority to name you. Mark 10:47-48 The key to have His Perspective is to call out to Jesus. Mark 10:49-52 Faith is trusting that God can see the things we can’t see. POEM- A beggar since birth To the world without worth Always told by others what is real…
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Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:2 NLT There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Proverbs 14:12 ESV Any perspective besides Go…
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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. - Abraham Lincoln The LORD is a friend to those who fear (revere) him. He teaches them his covenant. Psalm 25:14 NLT There’s no greater friend than God! Greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 NLT This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have …
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And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 ESV Jesus knows what you’re looking for even when you don’t. This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”, and I am the worst of them all. But Go…
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These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. He saw these visions during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah. Isaiah 1:1 NLT Even an ox knows its owner, and a donkey recognizes its master’s care, but Israel doesn’t know its master. My people don’t recognize my care for them.” Oh…
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When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” Matthew 16:13 NLT A world that doesn't know God is a world without wisdom, destined to be misguided and broken. Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets…
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By Ron Barnard
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Where are you? Genesis 3:9 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” Genesis 3:1 ESV The devil loves to put a question mark where God has put a period. And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the…
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Leviticus 8:28 NLT ”Moses then took all the offerings back from them and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering. This was the ordination offering. It was a pleasing aroma, a special gift presented to the Lord.“ Judges 8:28 NLT ”That is the story of how the people of Israel defeated Midian, which never recovered. Throughout the rest o…
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Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. John 5:1-2 NIV In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thir…
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Series: Stories Joseph’s Turn to Trust Christmas in July! ~~Pray Dillon dance lessons for his birthday gift VIDEO “I feel like you’re trying to lead!” Don’t let overthinking, timing, or temptation make you detach from or distrust God. Joseph is a man who has a brain, he was obviously a skilled carpenter, has been entrusted with a wife and now needs…
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We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets of Baal. 1 Kings 19:1 NLT So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not kil…
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Title: The Lavish Love of the Father. Scripture: Luke 15:20 Parable defined. A parable is, literally, something “cast alongside” something else. Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth in order to illustrate that truth. Prodigal defined A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way. Having or giving something on …
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Matthew 14:22-24 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves be…
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We do missions because we are the Kings kids on a mission! The Word became flesh and blood, moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes… like Father, like Son, generous inside and out, true from start to finish. John 1:14 MSG You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of …
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By Ron Barnard
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Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4-5 NLT But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witness…
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Thankfulness is the Right Choice. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Ps. 107:1 ESV Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a presen…
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God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 NLT - - Husband, Wife, Brothers, Sisters, Aunties and Uncles, etc… He (Jesus) makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is heal…
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Honor the Place That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the seco…
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We’re so glad you are here! Thanks for checking out Sunday's message! -- SUNDAY'S NOTES -- Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you. Luke 6:37 ESV The biblical approach to having plenty, is to intentionally sh…
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See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. 1 John 3:1 ESV So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, i…
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Jesus tomb time was a setup for the greatest victory in History. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10 NLT The central reason Jesus came was to restore life and relationship. Dying to Self Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their si…
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