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06/19/2022

Happy Father's Day

I do believe that this is my favorite pic of the Men's camping trip to Shepard's State Park, special thanks to Pastor Ro...
03/27/2022

I do believe that this is my favorite pic of the Men's camping trip to Shepard's State Park, special thanks to Pastor Rodger, Brother and Associate Pastor Albert, Brother Dave, Brother Matt, Little Brother Coby, and of course our Lord for making for a great experience of fellowship and comradery.----Brother Jason.

11/11/2021

Sorry it should say dish. Blessings.

11/11/2021

MIA dont forget breakfast Saturday at 9am bring your favorite breakfast dista to share with the other MIA.

10/18/2021

Seventy Times Seven
Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven."
Matthew 18:21-22
Have you ever noticed that Peter's question followed directly after Jesus spoke about how to deal with a brother who sins against you? Peter thought he was being generous when he suggested that seven times was an acceptable number of times to forgive someone. Jesus replied that he had to be prepared to forgive seventy times seven - in other words as many times as was necessary. This was probably not what Peter or the disciples wanted to hear. It is not what we want to hear either. We grow up and live in a world that loves conditionally. If we do what people want us to do they love us. Sadly, even parents can love their children conditionally.
So it stands to reason that we often offer our love conditionally. If they do what we want them to do then we love them. If they don't, then we withhold our love and forgiveness from them. To further illustrate His point Jesus shared a story with His disciples about two servants. One owed the king a lot of money, but he couldn't repay it. The king took pity on him and forgave him his debt. Then he went out and met a fellow servant who owed him a small amount of money by comparison to what he owed the king. Instead of extending the same mercy to his fellow servant that he had received from the king he threw his debtor into prison. Naturally, when the king heard about this he was angry and delivered him to the torturers until he could pay his debt.
If there is someone whom you are refusing to forgive, Jesus is speaking to you when He says, "You wicked servant! I forgive you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?" (vv. 32-33)
Father, I realize that I can never repay my debt to You. I stand in Your presence as a sinner saved by grace. Help me to extend the same love and forgiveness to others that I receive from You. Amen.

10/15/2021

Forgive us, as we Forgive Others
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we firgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Matthew 6:9-13
Jesus mention several diffrent things in the Lord's Prayer. In fact, it is problably the most definitive prayer you can ever pray. Yet He chooses to highlight one aspect of it in Matthew 6: "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses" (vv. 14-15).
We live in a world where unforgiveness is rife. There is so much hatred and strife around. We live in a society filled with unforgiveness - sadly today people still harbor grudges and offenses relating to rhings that were done to them in the past. There'are no clauses in the Bible when it comes to forgiveness. God doesn't say you need to forgive, but ... He says if you want to be forgiven then you need to forgive. Terrible things have been done to people. There is nothing worse than inhumanity towards others.
The only hope for our world is for people to come to Jesus and expirience His forgiveness for their sins; then they need to extend that same forgiveness to others who have wronged them. When we realized how much God has forgiven us it will be impossible to withhold forgiveness from another person.
Unforgiveness makes you physically, emotionally and mentally sick. It can eventually kill you. Families have been torn apart, marriages have been destroyed and lives have been ruined by unforgiveness. No one wins when there is unforgiveness - especially not the person who refuses to forgive. This is the reason that Jesus was clear about forgiving. In fact, He spoke a lot about the need to forgive. He is our ultimate Teacher; He is the One we can emulate and model our lives upon.
Take some time to carefully pray through the Lord's Prayer. Carefully examine your heart when you come to: " And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you.

10/14/2021

Jesus Offends the Leaders
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant.
Matthew 21:15
When you read the Gospels it would seem that Jesus spent a lot of time offending the religious leaders of His day. Just about everything He said or did caused them to become indignant and offended. Yet in Matthew 17:27 we read, "Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have open its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you."
Jesus didn't break the law. He was careful to do the right thing. The reason that the religious leaders of His day were offended by Him was because He spoke the trurh and they didn't like it.
You will find the same thing happening to you when you speak God's truth. People will be offended - it is no different today - people don't like to hear the truth. I hope that you can see the difference between living or speaking in a caeeless way and speaking the truth of God's Word. Jesus did not act in an uncaring way. He did not go around hurting people - no not at all - Jesus loved sinners. He reached out to them. It was not the sinners that Jesus ran into trouble with, it was the religious people who became offended by what He said and did.
God calls us to be fearless when it comes to sharing the trurh of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can expect that not everyone will like what you are saying; however, if they take offense it must never be because you have been cruel or careles. Speak the truth in love - that is what God has commissioned you to do.
Father, You have called me to share Your truth with people. Help me to examine my heart so that I speak in love. Jesus, thank You for Your example. Help me to be fearless in sharing Your truth. Amen.

10/13/2021

Love And Respect
Submiting to one another in the fear of God. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. And you, father, do not provoke your children to wrarh, but bring them up in the training and admonition of rhe Lord.
Ephesians 5:21, 33; 6:4
If we cannot be a witness at home, anything we do outside kind of pales into insignificance. As the spiritual leader in your home God has called you to set the example. Our closest relationships can often be the ones that have the potential to cause the most offense. They are also the people whom we tend to offend the most.
What is it like in your home - is it a safe haven for the members of your family or is it a battleground. If it is the latter then you have to put a stop to it. God has given you the privilege of being the head of your home. This doesn't mean that you get to lord it over your family. It means that you get to lead by example. It is not an accident that Paul prefaced his comments on marriage and children with the injunction to live in love, to live in the light and to walk in wisdom. You are the one who has to show your family what it means to live in this way.
It all starts with verse 21, "Submitting to one another in the fear to God." When you live life like this your family will follow your lead. It starts with you. It doesn't matter what the world think of you - it matters what your wife and children think of you. God is looking for people who will stand up and be counted. Now is the time to rise - it starts at home.
Father, I am humbled as I bow in your presence. I thank You for Your love and grace that You have extended toward me. Help me to be a good spiritual leader in my home. Help me to be an example to my family. Amen.

10/12/2021

Walk In Wisdom
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16
We are living in the last times. You only have to look around you to see that man is not walking circumspectly; people are constantly doing foolish things. Wisdom is a scarce commodity in our world. Paul tell us that the reason for this is because the days are evil. His counsel to us is: "Do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is" (v. 17). No matter what is going on in the World around us, you and I are called to walk in wisdom. We are called to understand what the will of God is - and when we understand what His will is then we are to do it.
How will we know the will of God? We are to be filled daily with the Spirit. The Spirt will lead us into all knowledge; the Spirit will reveal the things of God to us. As we spend time in God's Word He will reveal to us what His will is.
This month we are talking about firgiveness. We are talking about the things that would cause us to give or take offense. We are talking about allowing God to be the one who judges. The Word tells us that vengeance belong to God alone. No matter what happens you have to trust God to do His will in your life and the lives of your loved ones.
What is the result of being filled with the Spirit? "Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God" (vv. 19-21). Can you see that if you live like this you will walk in wisdom?
Father, I thank You that You are Wisdom. In You there is no confusion. I ask You to fill me with Your Spirit. Show me Your ways and lead me along the path of wisdom, for Your name's sake. Amen.

10/09/2021

Do Not Pick Up An Offense
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
John 16:1 (KJV)
What you say is what you get; so today we are going to rejoice in the Lord and not be offended. We choose not to pick up an offense. Jesus commands us, "Ye should not be offended." They say if you kick a dead dog it won't move right? So, if you are dead to self, you should not be open to picking up any kind of an offense.
If you kick a live dog, it will turn around and bite you. When we give our lives to Jesus, what happens to us? "Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:11). We die to self and live for the Lord.
So if people offend you, you shouldn't respond. You should not pick up an offense. In today's Scripture reading Jesus warned His disiples, "They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think he offers God service" (John 16:2). This is scary, isn't it? There comes a time when people will persecute you, thinking that they are doing God a service. This was exactly what Paul, the apostle, did before he met Christ on the road to Damascus.
When certain people offend you they actually bealieve that they are helping the Lord. One thing I have learnt in my Christian walk is not to point fingers. We are all sinners saved by grace. The only reason I have faith is because God gave it to me. When I pick up an offense I have to repent of it and lay it down. What concerns God is what is inside your heart. Ask the Holy Spirit to examine your heart today.
Father, help me not to become offended when other people do and say things that could be hurtful to me. Help me, I pray, to not be critical of other people. Above all help me not to cause offense because I believe I am doing You a favor. Amen.

10/08/2021

Do Not Offend Your Brother.
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
Romans 14:21
Paul in writing to the Romans tells them, "For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself" (v.7). We do not belong to ourselves; first and foremost we belong to God and then we belong to each other. When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior you become a member of His Body - the church.
Once you are His you can no longer live as you like, doing what you like. You life is meant to be lived glorifying God, your Father. It does not bring glory to Him if you live in a way that causes your brother or sister offense and results in them stumbling.
This means that I have to consider my lifestyle and how I live. In today's reading Paul uses the examples of food and wine. "Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All thing indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or made weak " (v.20-21). Freedom in Christ does not gives you the liberty to disregard the effect your lifestyle has upon other people. To often we have seen men of God stumble and fall, causing those who looked up to them to become offended and discouraged.
Paul further tells us that it is no our place to judge. "So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way" (v. 12-13). Your walk and your talk need to line up with each other. We need to take our witness for Christ seriously; He calls us to live so that we do not offend our brothers or sisters.
Father, I ask You to help me examine my heart. Show me through Your Spirit if there are things that I am doing that can cause an offense to a brother or sister resulting in them stumbling. Lord, forgive me, I pray. Amen.

10/07/2021

Do Not Offend
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Proverbs 18:19
There are many things that can offend people. For instance in Luke 7, Simon, the Pharisee, was offended by Mary Magdalene. Throughout the Gospels there are many instances where the religious leaders of the day took offense at what Jesus had to say.
It wasn't because He was saying the wrong thing, but because they didn't like the truth He was speaking. Jesus came to speak God's truth on earth - He didn't allow anything to prevent Him from doing that.
We on the orher hand, often offend because we say hurtful, uncaring things to people. It is one of the biggest problems in the church; people offend each other. The number one reason that you end up needing to forgive or to be forgiven is because of an offense - is that not so? For the next few days we are going to talk about this subject of taking or not taking offense. You need to know that you are forgiven. Like Mary you need to know that Jesus has washed away your past sins. You need to have confidence in what God has done for you through Jesus. Take a moment and examine your heart: Are you like Simon, the Pharisee. Do you go around judging and condemning other people? If you do then you need to repent of this and ask God to forgive you.
Proverbs 18:6-7 says, "A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
Our actions can give offense, but most times it is words that ofend. There is great power in the tongue, in it lies the power to do both good and evil.
Father, I come before You and bow in Your presence. Thank You that I am forgiven. Help me to be gracious to other people. I know that I can so easily take offense and today You are talking to me about not giving or receiving offense. Amen.

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