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Weekend Recap for 10.24.10

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Set List: Always Forever (Phil Wickham) Furious (Jeremy Riddle) Here I Am To Worship (Tim Hughes) Give Me Faith (Elevation Worship) Band: BGV's: Carly Absher Acoustic & Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton Words are very powerful. Words can change our mood. They can brighten our day or ruin it. Our words have a lot of power. But the words of God can radically change our life for eternity. This weekend we looked at a story about Moses that most people don't tend to think about. Moses is a major part of the Old Testament and the history if Christianity. When we think of Moses we think of his birth and being sent down a river to avoid certain death. We think of the ten commandments. We think of Charlton Heston. We think of parting the red sea. We think of how God used him to deliver the Israelites out of the hand of Pharaoh. But we don't think about the 40 years he spent from age 40 until he was 80 running and hiding in the dessert. But what Moses learned in those 4...

Set List 10.10.10

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Songs: Your Name (Paul Baloche & Glenn Packiam) Give Me Faith (Elevation Worship) Sweeter (Dave Fitzgerald) It Is Well (Horatio Spafford & Todd Fields) Band: Acoustic and Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton BGV's: Mary Beth Holmes Cajon: Mark Monteiro What a great weekend! This series has been a great series and I know that we have all taken away so many things that we can add to our life in this area. This weekend was very specific to guardrails for our finances. If we think about our greatest regrets in our life most often they will be about either money or sex. So last week we talked about Guardrails for sex and this week we talked about money. There are basically 2 different types of people in this world. There are consumers and hoarders. Or we could say it this way... spenders or savers. Andy Stanley challenged us to make this a normal part of our lifestyle to Give 10%, Save 10% and Spend 80%. A good way to tell if money or God is our master is to notice is we only h...

Set List 10.03.10

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Songs: King of Wonders (Matt Redman) Always Forever (Phil Wickham) Love Came Down (Brian Johnson) My Soul Sings / A Little Longer (Delirous and Cory Asbury Band: Drums: Mark Monteiro Bass: Gerald Lay Electric Guitar & BGV's: Corey Wilkins Keys & BGV's: Carly Absher Acoustic, Electric, Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton This week a really cool time of worship. Being a church plant and a very young church it is a special occasion when we have a full band and this weekend we did. We also have begun to add and have more and more new musicians and vocalist which is an awesome gift from God and the growth He is giving this church. I am grateful for our rich time with the Lord Sunday. I really sensed God's presence and I was overwhelmed with the thought of how much joy God takes in His children delighting in Him. It is amazing to think about how our voices raising together please the heart of God. We also continued in our awesome series called [GUARDRAILS]. This week An...

Jeremiah 29:11...

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Jeremiah 29:11 (English Standard Version) 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. As I was reading this verse this past week because I need a simple reminder that God is for me. God should me something totally new about this verse. It just so happens that what He showed me was exactly what I needed to hear. It was as if God was screaming this at me. We all have struggles in our life... for me one of the struggles I have is that Satan plants these day dreams... thats the best way I can describe it... During the day sometime God puts these thoughts or day dreams in my head and Satan is very slick in how he plants these thoughts. He makes you think that you are thinking them up on your own. But then He will blast you for thinking these things and tell you that now because you think about these things then they will come true. For instance, sometimes I will have the feeling that I am going to ...

Set List 09.26.10

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Songs: Happy Day (Tim Hughes) Nothing Is Impossible (Planet Shackers) Give Me Faith (Elevation Worship) Higher Than The Mountains / Love Never Fails (Brian Johnson) Band: Acoustic & Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton BGV's: Mary Beth Holmes Cajon: Mark Monteiro 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 (New International Version) 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. When we read this verse a lot of the time we think this is a great idea for our spouse, our kids, our grandkids, and people we love. But, for ourselves it seems to extreme. Fleeing from sexual immorality is something that we have to take very seriously. Because we all are bombarded with sexual influence in our life. What our country promo...

Set List 09.19.10

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Songs: Love Came Down (Brian Johnson) Higher Than The Mountains / Love Never Fails (Brian Johnson) You Are Good (Kari Jobe) Give Thanks / O How He Loves You An Me (Unhindered) Band: Cajon: Mark Monteiro Acoustic: (Me), Jason Eaton Lead Vocals & BGV's: Mary Beth Holmes Lead Vocals & BGV's: Sarah Hatfield Do you believe the people that you hangout with can affect you negatively? Proverbs 13:20 gives us a promise and a warning. It says, "He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm." The promise is that if you hangout with and spend time with people who are wise YOU WILL grow in the area of wisdom in your life. Which we would all say that we want that. The next is a warning... If you are a companion to a fool you will suffer harm. At some point the fool's suffering will affect you or rub off on you. It doesn't say that you will even do the things that the fool does. You could stay strong in your convictions and live...

Set List 09.12.10

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Band: BGV's: Carly Absher Acoustic & Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton Songs: It Is Well (Todd Fields ver.) Always Forever (Phil Wickham) Draw Me Close To You (Kelly Carpenter) More of You, Less of Me (Brian Johnson) [GUARDRAILS] are a system designed to keep vehicles from straying into dangerous or off limit areas. Wow! What a powerful series this is going to be. I love when we get challenged to take steps in growth. It is easy to come to church and never leave differently. So what are some areas in your life where you need to out up [GUARDRAILS]? Where are some areas where you need to trains your consciences to warn you? Where are you tip toeing the yellow line just trying not to fall off the cliff? There are areas in our life where we need to create a standard of behavior that becomes a matter of our conscience. No one ever starts something planning to mess up their life but no one plans not to either! So make sure you come every week over the next six weeks for this...