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Potluck Dinner, June 28th - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Paul and Joan Spjut will be worshiping with us on Sunday, 28th . Paul has a long history with our church and they were missionary’s in Ecuador when our team was there on our mission trip last summer. They were instrumental in translating and the orientation for our group while we were there. They have since retired in CA. Please join us in welcoming them with a potluck dinner after worship on the 28th .
Catch up and fill up…. all at this event!!!
 


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Scripture for June 28, 2009

 

Psalms 139:13-18 (RNLT)

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They cannot be numbered !18 I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!

 


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God is all-seeing, all-knowing, all-holy, all-present. God knows us, God is with us, and his greatest gift is to allow us to know him.

 

Sometimes we don't let people get to know us completely because we are afraid they will discover something about us that they won't like. But God already knows everything about us, even to the number of hairs on our heads (Matthew 10:30), and still he accepts and loves us. God is with us through every situation, in every trial — protecting, loving, guiding. He knows and loves us completely.

 

God is omnipresent — he is present everywhere. Because this is so, you can never be lost to his Spirit. This is good news to those who know and love God, because no matter what we do or where we go, we can never be far from God's comforting presence (see Romans 8:35-39).

 

God's character goes into the creation of every person. When you feel worthless or even begin to hate yourself, remember that God's Spirit is ready and willing to work within you. We should have as much respect for ourselves as our Maker has for us.

 

—Life Application Bible Notes

 


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Often our inconsistent prayer lives and inability to keep up with Bible reading plans have left us feeling like failures. However, in Messy Spirituality Mike Yaconelli reminds us that admitting such failure and receiving God's mercy is the first step of true Christian spirituality. Through engaging biblical teaching as well as vivid personal stories Mike will point you towards the Savior who meets and transforms us in the midst of all our messiness.


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Journey with Much-Afraid and her companions Sorrow and Suffering as they follow the Shepherd through dangers, toils, and snares to the high places of God's love. This beautiful allegory---written in the tradition of Pilgrim's Progress---includes a brief autobiography and Hurnard's account of how she came to write her beloved classic.

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The Purpose Driven Life
In this remarkable best-seller Rick Warren will help you understand God's purpose and plan for your life so that you can learn to live the life for which you were created. The book is divided into forty short chapters so that it can either be read as a personal devotional or studied in a small group setting. Don't let yourself or your family and friends go without this life-transforming book!


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Read Somewhere - Thursday, January 15, 2009

 

 

Knowledge is what tells one that tomatoes are a fruit. Widom is what tells us not to put a tomato into a fruit salad.

During a radio interview I was asked why so many Bible characters had serious flaws. My answer was simple. That's all God has to work with. All the perfect people are in heaven. The only ones on earth are the folks with serious weaknesses. The talent pool has always been pretty thin when it comes to moral perfection. God works with sinners because that's all he has to work with. In heaven we will all be vastly improved-perfected by God's grace. But until then, he uses some pretty ornery people who fall short in many ways, and he does some amazing things through them. That is what grace is all about. We do the messing up--and God does everything else.

There are millions of reasons to allow pain and suffering rather than eradicating them, but most of those reasons can only be understood within each person's story.

 

This is us don't you think? - Saturday, January 03, 2009

 

The story is told of a little piece of ebony which complained bitterly because its owner persistently whittled on it. Since he was making a flute out of the piece of ebony, he paid little attention to its complaining. "Without this whittling and cutting you would be only a stick. You may not like it, but wait. Little piece of ebony, I am  changing you into a flute, and soon your sweet music will cheer and comfort many. This whittling and cutting is needed to make you a blessing.  Meditation Moments by Millie Stem

 


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