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Preparing Our Hearts to Worship – a transforming walk with Jesus leads to compelling Christian community

In an effort to help you prepare for the January 31st, 2016, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections about church health and vitality, I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. The sermon is about how we are called to create and promote compelling Christian community. (As Jason Hubbard, Light of the World Prayer Center, will be our guest preacher this week, this…

Preparing our Hearts to Worship – a life of Word and Worship leads to a Transforming walk with Jesus

  In an effort to help you prepare for the Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections about church health and vitality, I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is about how a life of Word and Worship leads to a Transforming walk with Jesus. The scriptures below are all referenced in the message. From the Scriptures Read and prayerfully…

Veritas Thoughts

Veritas means Truth and today we completed the first seminar in our Congregational Vitality pathway.  It was a wonderful Friday night and Saturday morning conversation about the process of becoming and maintaining a local church in a healthy missional position. Like all conversations, there was a variety of perceptions from our congregants, but one thing was clear.  We all want to be healthier.  What a wonderful desire.  So what is next?  In the short term, the vitality team will be…

Praying to know the hope we have in Christ

In Ephesians 1:18-19 Paul prays that the eyes of the heart may be enlightened.  This is a fascinating way to say “I want you to know in your deepest being.  I want you to believe the truth so deeply that it is as if you were able to read it in a book.”  But specifically, he wants the Ephesians to know the hope they have – a hope of being in God’s presence, a hope of being free from sin…

Preparing our Hearts to Worship

Preparing our Hearts to Worship In an effort to help you prepare for the Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections about church health and vitality, I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is about the need for Heartfelt worship and the scriptures below are all referenced in the message. From the Scriptures Read and prayerfully reflect upon these Scriptures…

Preparing our Hearts to Worship

  In an effort to help you prepare for the Sunday morning corporate worship  gathering on January 10, 2016 and to aid you in your own reflections about church health and vitality, I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is about the centrality of the Word of God and the scriptures below are all referenced in the message. Consider engaging in one or more of the…