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SUMMER SERMON SERIES: TEN THINGS I CAN GIVE YOU ~ A STUDY IN EPHESIANS

“The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth… The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.” So writes Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book, Life Together, which describes the community life of those Christians who gathered in resistance to Nazism and the persecution of Jews. This Confessing Church, as it was called, found itself standing for Christ against the state and, as such, was obliged to look – as it were, for the first time – to the Bible to see what Christian community meant.

In an age where for different reasons – not persecution this time, but affluence and our own indifference – the Church of Jesus is tempted not to look to Him, we find ourselves with the same needs again. We need to relearn Christian community. We need to relearn what it means to grasp: “together with all the saints….how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.” We need to relearn from Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians what it means to live with and to love with one another for Christ’s sake. So God has given us ‘Ephesians’.

• JUNE 13 • Generosity • Ephesians 2:1 – 10 • S. Constable
• JUNE 20 • Prayer • Ephesians 1:15 – 19 • S. Constable
• JUNE 27 • Friendship • Ephesians 2:11 – 22 • S. Constable
• JULY 4 • Sympathy • Ephesians 3:11 – 20 • S. Constable
• JULY 11 • Humility • Ephesians 4:1 – 6 • S. Constable
• JULY 18 • Why Children? • Mark 10:13 & 14 • Zac Collins
• JULY 25 • What I’m Learning • Ephesians 4:17 – 24 • S. Constable
• AUGUST 1 • Submission • Ephesians 5:21 – 33 • S. Constable
• AUGUST 8 • God’s Friends • John 15:13-16 • Steve Hall
• AUGUST 15 • Honor • Ephesians 6:1 – 4 • Zac Collins
• AUGUST 22 • Allegiance • Ephesians 6:5 – 9 • S. Constable
• AUGUST 29 • Fortitude • Ephesians 6:10 – 18 • S. Constable

SUMMER SUNDAY EVENINGS

• AUGUST 29 at 5:30 • Congregational Picnic & Vision Program

FALL SERMON SERIES • INTO THE LIONS’ DEN ~ A STUDY OF DANIEL

This fall we will gather to worship at two times on Sunday mornings: 8:30 and 11:00.  Steve Constable, our Senior Pastor, will be preaching a series of sermons from the Old Testament book of Daniel – Into the Lions’ Den. Please invite your neighbors and friends from work to join you in worship, praying that they will hear and believe the Gospel.  Sunday school will begin at 9:45.

In 587 BC disaster struck Jerusalem when Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon suddenly captured the city, took most of its people hostage, and moved them 500 miles away to an entirely alien civilization. The Book of Daniel tells the story of a tiny handful of those people – young men whom God used to reveal to the dispersed and discouraged Jews a new vision of Himself.  These slaves led the Babylonians, from the Kings on down, into encounters with God which left them radically transformed.

Between our own compromised Judeo-Christian history and an increasingly pagan society, are Christians held captive between two clashing worldviews? Or are we in precisely the right place for God, if we will trust and follow Him, to use us to reach and restore contemporary culture?

• SEPTEMBER 12 • Witness • Daniel 1 • Steve Constable
• SEPTEMBER 19 • The Dreams of Kings • Daniel 2 • Steve Constable
• SEPTEMBER 26 • Defiant Faith • Daniel 3 • Steve Constable
• OCTOBER 3 • A Tyrant Humbled • Daniel 4• Steve Constable
• OCTOBER 10 • A Kingdom Toppled • Daniel 5 • Steve Constable
• OCTOBER 17 • Fearless Prayers • Daniel 6 • Steve Constable
• OCTOBER 24 • Enter the Son of Man • Daniel 7 • Steve Constable
• OCTOBER 31 • The Rage of Nations • Daniel 8 • Steve Constable
• NOVEMBER 7 • The Telescope of History • Daniel 9 • Steve Constable
• NOVEMBER 14 • Encouraged! • Daniel 10 • Steve Constable
• NOVEMBER 21 • They Do As They Please • Daniel 11 • Steve Constable
• NOVEMBER 28 • The Ending of the World • Daniel 12 • Steve Constable

SUNDAY EVENINGS at 5:30

• SEPTEMBER 5 • Prayer Meeting
• SEPTEMBER 19 • Uganda Mission Project Report
• OCTOBER 3 • Church Hill Mission Project Report and Prayer Meeting
• OCTOBER 17 • Fairmont Mission Project Report
• NOVEMBER 7 • Prayer Meeting
• NOVEMBER 14 • Congregational Business Meeting
• DECEMBER 5 • Prayer Meeting
• DECEMBER 12 • Congregational Business Meeting

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