LIVING FAITH
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COME WORSHIP
Worship is our weekly opportunity to come together to praise God for who He is and to thank Him for what He is doing. As we gather to worship this winter, we will keep a clear focus on the transforming power of Jesus’ Gospel in everything we do. Please plan to worship with us each Sunday. And when you come, bring along friends, neighbors, and co-workers with you to be challenged and encouraged by the Gospel. Our prayer is that, as we worship together, we will all hear from God, believe, take up our crosses and follow Him. Worship begins each Sunday at 8:30 and 11:00 AM. Sunday School and Discipleship for Adults begin at 9:45. Visit our sermon archive to listen to sermons again and to share them with your friends.
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RESTORE, O GOD: HOW THE KINGDOM COMES
The God of the Bible is the God who restores. We will begin 2012 with sermons that focus on His plan and power to make all things new: How the Kingdom Comes. We will also learn how SPC’s vision reflects where we believe God is calling us as a church, and some of the ways we hope to see SPC experience and spread restoration in our city.
- January 1 • All’s Well That Ends Well • Romans 8:28-32
- January 8 • Seven Things the Church Needs to be Re-Reminded of at this Time • 1 John 2:15-17, 28
- January 15 • How the Kingdom Comes: Not By Human Anger • Isaiah 11:1-10 & James 1:20
- January 22 • And You Yourselves Were Aliens • Deuteronomy 10:12-22
- January 29 • How the Kingdom Comes: Not By Faith Alone • James 2:14-26
NOT A TAME LION: A STUDY IN THE BOOK OF AMOS
Read the book of Amos and then check out today’s headlines. You will quickly understand that, as someone said, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’ Amos was written in a time when what mattered most was money and entertainment. The rich were getting rich out of any proportion to what they could need while the poor were shamelessly exploited and left to rot. Ironically, it was also a time of enthusiastic religious movements. But Amos describes all these man-centered movements and their rituals as abhorrent to God. This is what we would expect of a thumbnail sketch of the world behaving as it does. But sadly, Amos isn’t describing the world. He’s describing the Church – people who had practically forgotten what it means to believe in the God of Israel. Amos’s rebuke couldn’t be more timely than it for us today.
- February 5 • The Awesome God • Amos 1:1-2
- February 12 • Calling the Nations to Account • Amos 1:3 – 2:16
- February 19 • If God is Against Us • Amos 3:1-15
- February 26 • Prepare to Meet Your God • Amos 4:1-13
- March 4 • Stop Playing at Meetings • Amos 5:1-27
- March 11 • Stop Being Complacent • Amos 6:1-14
- March 18 • Seeing It as It Is • Amos 7:1-17
- March 25 • A Famine of the Word of God • Amos 8:1-14
- April 1 • In Your Anger, Remember Mercy • Amos 9:1-15
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JUST VISITING?
A Quick Orientation to Sunday Mornings at Stony Point Church
I’M NEW TO THE IDEA OF COMING TO CHURCH, IS THERE ANYTHING SPECIAL I NEED TO DO?
The quick answer is No. Whether you are new to Christianity and are just checking it out, or whether you’ve just moved to the area and are investigating churches – we want you to feel at home. It is entirely okay to join in or not as you feel comfortable.
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY CHILDREN?
If you have infants or toddlers, nurseries are available to care for them as you attend worship. If your children are between the ages of 3 & 6, they will be invited to the front of the sanctuary for a Children’s Sermon and escorted to their own Children’s Worship during preaching at the 11:00 service. They will be brought back to you in the sanctuary before the end of the service. If you prefer, you may attend Children’s Worship with them. Children’s Bulletins and crayons are available by the back door as an interactive worship tool for children to work through during the service. If needed, there is a Cry Room adjacent to the sanctuary where children can wiggle and the service can still be heard. We offer Sunday School classes for children of all ages every Sunday morning at 9:45.
WHAT SHOULD I DO DURING THE OFFERING?
We are very glad to have you as our guest. If you want to give in gratitude for God’s goodness to you, please do so. But don’t feel that you have to - it really is an opportunity for regular worshipers to tangibly invest in what God is doing here.
I’M INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT THE CHURCH AND MEETING PEOPLE HERE, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
We want to meet you, too. When you complete that Response Card in the bulletin or email us, we will get in touch with you to answer your questions. This website can also help you learn much about the SPC. Better still, attend our Newcomers’ Group on Sunday mornings at 9:45 or come to one of our frequent Newcomer Lunches in the SPC Café after worship.
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“The Church is a society of sinners – the only society in the world in which membership is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.” Charles C. Morrison
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