Balancing Ministry N' Work

This morning June 30 th , 2013 we are joining many other churches around the country to discuss the importance of prayer. As I watch the news and look around our nation I am concerned. Society today continues to deteriorate. People no longer follow Biblical values; they live their lives focused on the moment and on material things. They only think about themselves. Our nation has lost its way. No longer can we comfortably say that we are One Nation Under God, unless our nations god is something other than our Creator. Sadly our leadership bows to the whims of people and special interest groups. The Supreme Court of the United States made that clear this week and seeing how the President and other leaders responded are perfect examples that we need to be praying for them. As true believers in the One True God we only have one thing we can do. It is something that every single one of us can do. It is not pushing petitions, it is not standing on street corners calling out everyth

Message title:   I am, I can, I will The Big Idea for message:   Let God carry out the plans He has made for you. ME (orientation):   Last week we started out looking at how the nation of Israel was wandering through the wilderness for 40 years. In Deuteronomy 2 God says: “2 The Lord then said to me, 3  ‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north,” Basically God was telling them enough of this wandering, I have something better for you. Take that step in faith! Sadly each of us acts like the Nation of Israel from time to time. We allow ourselves to get in a rut and to continue doing the same things. Like the nation of Israel we never want to take that step in faith. For 40 years the nation of Israel was saying I’m not going to change, I can’t it is to hard, and I won’t do what is needed. We also respond to God that way. God does not want to hear I’m not, I can’t, or I won’t. What he wants from us is I am doing what

Message title:   I am, I can, I will   ME (orientation):  I can think back over the years in my life and see I did not always let God be in control. Those teenage years that I spent doing what I wanted regardless of what anyone said. Those early adult years going out and partying. Even the first few years of our married life was lived without God in control. I spent many years doing many things in life. Seemed like I was always doing something new but from a spiritual perspective I was running in circles. Sadly even the first few years after I accepted Jesus as my lord and savior it was more of the same, I was spinning in circles. I was a Christian but I still controlled everything. It was not until I really had a need in my life that I began the process of letting God control things. It was only then that Jesus started showing me the path He had laid before me, it was then that God showed me that there was a better way. His Way! WE (identification): Is this something you