December 2010
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All Services Cancelled Tomorrow (Dec 26)
The ox is in the ditch. We don’t want your car to join it. So all services for Dec. 26 are cancelled.  1. Don’t Waste Your Sunday.  Gather tomorrow and listen to a sermon like this one by Charles Spurgeon. It’s called: Merry Christmas.  Take some time to strategize regarding your fight for faith in the new year. Start here. 2. Corporate Gathering on Wednesday This Wednesday...
Dec 26th
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Stockpiling Weapons for the Warfare
As the end of 2010 approaches, start thinking of ways to arm yourself in the fight for faith. Here are three good ways. 1. Remind yourself where the real warfare lies. Though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. (2Cor. 10:3-4) Put on the full armor of God so that you can...
Dec 21st
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That we might offer our lives back...
This past Sunday Nathan Young concluded his message with this powerful quotation from Michael Lawrence, Senior Pastor at Hinson Baptist Church. It’s a great reminder of how the atonement enables our evangelism.  Ultimately the end or purpose of Christ’s sacrifice is that we might once again offer our lives back to God as sacrifices, not as payment for sin but as living sacrifices of...
Dec 7th
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Missions and the Incarnation
Each Christmas season we remember that missions is the purpose of the incarnation: the babe in the manger is on a mission to seek and save the lost. To help remind ourselves of the missional purpose of Christ’s arrival into the world, two missionary families are ministering to us during December. Nathan and Krystal Young (and their two children, Miles & Madeleine) are taking the gospel...
Dec 1st
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