ME: Superficial conversations - How are you? Fine! Good . Okay. I try to answer honestly. But sometimes it feels easier to tell a simple lie. There are some moments, some days, some seasons where when someone asks me how I’m doing I should say, I’m Not okay. I may look fine, talk/act normal. But if I’m…

There is a good chance that you have or have seen one or more copies of the Chicken Soup Books. What started out as one book of inspirational stories designed to encourage us, has now turned into a huge series of books. Everyone needs encouragement. The popularity of these books show us that many people…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, we come before you today with Joy in our hearts. Joy for being in this space together. Joy for being able to be together. And joy for the day itself which represents the day in which our new lives can begin. We thank you and praise you this day for all these things…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this first Sunday in Lent, we are standing at the stream of life and longing for your presence amongst us in this time that seems to be a never ending period of grief, despair, sorrow, and sadness. We are ready to celebrate and be able to praise you once again.…

Let us pray…God, may the words of my mouth, the meditations of all of our hearts, and the willingness of our spirits be pleasing unto you this day. Today’s time of reflection on this Psalm is going to be a bit different for us. I know I typically spend time relating the scripture to our lives but I want…

By the Grace of God we are saved and set apart for Glory.

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this day that we celebrate Christ’s arrival in Jerusalem and immediately move to his passion, we ask that you help us to open our hearts, minds and spirits to your still speaking voice above the din of all other voices in our hearts, minds, and spirits so that…

March 5, 2012 By John Barnett Read, print, and listen to this resource on our website www.DiscoverTheBook.org Lessons learned in the furnace of affliction often get etched deeply into our hearts and lives. David learned a lesson in his hard times. That lesson was that life must be lived on purpose for…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we gather this day, we are reminded that your love knows no limits and no bounds. Help us in this time to remember and reflect on this idea so that we can find comfort and peace in a time that is out of our control, and remind us that your time is perfect. Now,…

God's Reassuring Love will carry you through every test and trial to heal, restore, comfort and protect you towards your divine calling!

ss=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'>1) 7-21-09…AM…SBC 2)“A Ghastly Pandemic” Part 1 Mark 10:1-12 Introduction: 1- there is a battle going on today that reaches farther than the borders of Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea 2- this battlefront reaches not only our borders but the borders…

I want to talk about RADICAL LIVING. And Radical living involves a lot of things we will study over the coming weeks, but it begins with Radical Presence of God. If I were to ask you what the most common emotional pain people struggle with in our culture is… many would answer anxiety or depression or…

Pastor Carzadean delivers a powerful message on trouble. and how important it is that we “Hold On, and Don’t Let Go” as we face it.

Now I will tell you what! preparing this weeks sermon was quite difficult! I spent a lot of time working through this text. reading commentaries and wrestling with the themes that seemed at first to not really flow into the kindo cohesive whole that is easy to understand. And quite frankly it wasn’t…

Announcements The Revelation Bible Study is this Thursday at 6:30pm. This is great way to connect! We hope to see you there! There will be a link sent out for those that would like to join us online. Angel Tree- we have 5 angels yet that need to be adopted. See Kathy for information. 3.After church today,…

God never fails us. Its so easy for life to throw us some bad things we need to be steadfast in our commitment to God. Moses,Noah,caleb,Joshua,Daniel,paul,peter, and many more stood with God. And so should we. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: But a companion of fools shall be destroyed. For…

Walking with Jesus Seeing the Real Jesus (Missing Jesus)! There are things in this world that are changing; however, there are things in this world that will never change. Never changing: Seeing Jesus through a hope rooted in this world. No matter what hope and Jesus meant to them it resulted in a blindness…

March 2, 2012 By John Barnett Read, print, or listen to this resource on our website www.DiscoverTheBook.org Open with me to I Samuel 18 as walk through a few chapters to get to our passage for today. These chapters remind us that: Our Struggles Frame God’s Faithfulness The context of these dark and…

Introduction On behalf of the Ward family we would like to thank you for coming this morning. Certainly, Linton would have very much appreciated your presence. The circumstance that brings us together today is the most solemn kind of circumstance, and one we must often face in this world of sickness,…