Rev. Brad Stevens(Getting Used to the Dark)12-6-15

Bro. Will Rogers(The Greatest Gift)12-2-15

Rev. Brad Stevens(Get Ready)11-29-15

Pastor Joey Burns(Return to the Word of God)11-29-15

Rev. Brad Stevens(Expect Something Good)11-22-15

Fire that Cleanses and Refines

Fire is a wonderful picture of the work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is like a fire in at least three ways: He brings God’s presence, God’s passion, and God’s purity. The Holy Spirit is the presence of God as He indwells the heart of the believer (Romans 8:9). In the Old Testament, God showed His presence to the Israelites by overspreading the tabernacle with fire (Numbers 9:14-15). This fiery presence provided light and guidance (Numbers 9:17-23). In the New Testament, God guides and comforts His children with the Holy Spirit dwelling in our bodies—the “tabernacle” and the “temple of the living God” (2 Corinthians 5:1; 6:16).

The Holy Spirit creates the passion of God in our hearts. After the two traveling disciples talk with the resurrected Jesus, they describe their hearts as “burning within us” (Luke 24:32). After the apostles receive the Spirit at Pentecost, they have a passion that lasts a lifetime and impels them to speak the word of God boldly (Acts 4:31).

The Holy Spirit produces the purity of God in our lives. God’s purpose is to purify us (Titus 2:14), and the Spirit is the agent of our sanctification (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2). As the silversmith uses fire to purge the dross from the precious metal, so God uses the Spirit to remove our sin from us (Psalm 66:10; Proverbs 17:3). His fire cleanses and refines.

Pastor Joey Burns(Follow Me)11-22-15

Rev. Brad Stevens(Church Basics-2)11-15-15

Pastor Joey Burns(Living Stones)11-15-15

Rev. Brad Stevens(Church Basics)11-8-15

Pastor Joey Burns(Fulfilling the Great Commission)11-8-15

What's our excuse

In the Philippines this Church was flooded, but they still came to worship yesterday!

A God that's into Details

Since the LORD attends such to the detail of an ice crystal, imagine how much more He attends to us, made in His image! 

This is a Marco Image of a snowflake.(Macro photography is the art of taking close-up pictures that reveal details which can't be seen with the naked eye. For example, while we can see the fly on the wall, our eyes aren't equipped to make out the fine details of the hairs on it's face. This is where macrophotography comes in.)

God asked Job thousands of years ago "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?" (Job 38:22). I believe this is what God was talking about. The complex designs of his creation the naked eye can't see. Beautiful.

Wishing you a wonderful New Year!

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