Acts 2:42-47
Our mission is to help People see Jesus Christ in a way the have never seen or experienced Him before. We will do anything short of sin to reach those who are without Christ.
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Everyone is welcome!
Everyone is needed!
Everyone is changed!
Romans 10:13 says, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
I Samuel 10:6, “The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will be changed into a different person.”
Monday, August 31, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Week 4 - Jonah 4
In 4:10-11, “But the Lord said, ‘You have been concerned about this vine, but you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and it died overnight.’ “But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?”
Jonah was only concerned about Jonah and didn't see that it was really about Nineveh!
For us we get so concerned about us! What we want! What we like or dislike that we lose sight that it's not about us but it is about Nineveh! What is Nineveh to us? It could be a family member or a neighbor or a co-worker. Being concerned about Nineveh in our life could mean extending grace to someone we don't think deserves it! It could mean painting for someone or developing a relationship to open the door to share the Gospel!
So is it all about you? Before you answer no! Here is a little test for you to take to see if it is all about you
Look at your checkbook.
Look at how you spend your time, and then answer.
Is life all about you? Is it all about your house? Is it all about your remote control? Is it all about where you want to eat, all about where you want to go, all about your Facebook, all about your Twitter, all about that you’re married, all about that you’re not married, all about your work?
I could keep going but I think Jonah 4 makes it very clear not only to Jonah but to us that life is not about you but about the Nineveh that God has called us to go!
Jonah was only concerned about Jonah and didn't see that it was really about Nineveh!
For us we get so concerned about us! What we want! What we like or dislike that we lose sight that it's not about us but it is about Nineveh! What is Nineveh to us? It could be a family member or a neighbor or a co-worker. Being concerned about Nineveh in our life could mean extending grace to someone we don't think deserves it! It could mean painting for someone or developing a relationship to open the door to share the Gospel!
So is it all about you? Before you answer no! Here is a little test for you to take to see if it is all about you
Look at your checkbook.
Look at how you spend your time, and then answer.
Is life all about you? Is it all about your house? Is it all about your remote control? Is it all about where you want to eat, all about where you want to go, all about your Facebook, all about your Twitter, all about that you’re married, all about that you’re not married, all about your work?
I could keep going but I think Jonah 4 makes it very clear not only to Jonah but to us that life is not about you but about the Nineveh that God has called us to go!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Week 3 - Jonah 3
"The the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time: Get up and go to the great city Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you. This time Jonah obeyed the Lord's command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowd: 'forty days from now to Nineveh will be destroyed!' The people of Nineveh believed God's message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.
When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his thrown and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: 'No one, not even the animals form your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all. People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.' When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened." Jonah 3:1-10
Verse 1, God showed Jonah grace. Verse 10, we see God show Nineveh grace, God wants to show us grace. God is coming to us a second time. God is giving us a second chance. If we repent and we turn to Him, watch as He does more than we could ever imagine.
When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his thrown and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: 'No one, not even the animals form your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all. People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.' When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened." Jonah 3:1-10
Verse 1, God showed Jonah grace. Verse 10, we see God show Nineveh grace, God wants to show us grace. God is coming to us a second time. God is giving us a second chance. If we repent and we turn to Him, watch as He does more than we could ever imagine.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Week 2 - Jonah 2
"He said, 'I cried out to the Lord in my great trouble , and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead, and Lord, you heard me! You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. The mighty waters engulfed me; I was burried beneath your wild and stormy waves. Then I said, 'O Lord, you have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look once more toward your holy temple.' I sank beneath the waves, and the waters closed over me. Seaweed wrapped itself around my head. I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But, you O lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death! As my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord. And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy temple. Those who worship false gods turn their backs on God's mercies. But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise, and I will fulfill all my vows. For my salvation comes from the Lord alone."
What did he vow? We don’t know. Probably, what he vowed was, “God, if You tell me to speak, I will speak. If You tell me to go, I’ll go.” He said, “Whatever it was, what I vowed I will make good.” Some of you, there’s something that you are going to make good! I don’t know what it is, but you know that God has put something on your heart, and you need to make good. You know what it is, but you haven’t done it. “I will make it good.”
What did he vow? We don’t know. Probably, what he vowed was, “God, if You tell me to speak, I will speak. If You tell me to go, I’ll go.” He said, “Whatever it was, what I vowed I will make good.” Some of you, there’s something that you are going to make good! I don’t know what it is, but you know that God has put something on your heart, and you need to make good. You know what it is, but you haven’t done it. “I will make it good.”
Monday, August 3, 2009
Week 1 - Jonah
Jonah 1
John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
God is a speaking God - God has often spoken with the audible voice. God has often spoken through His prophets. God has spoken through circumstances. God has spoken through the voice of His Holy Spirit. If you’ve never, ever heard the voice of God, you can, if you simply open up His Word.
God will often ask you to do some things that you don’t want to do.
Delayed obedience is really disobedience
God may send a storm to grab your attention.
Sometimes our worst nightmare maybe exactly what we needed.
WHY? all because He loves us, because He has something for us to do, and He has a city or a group of people for us to impact. We’ve got a choice. We can keep running, or we can come back to Him.
John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
God is a speaking God - God has often spoken with the audible voice. God has often spoken through His prophets. God has spoken through circumstances. God has spoken through the voice of His Holy Spirit. If you’ve never, ever heard the voice of God, you can, if you simply open up His Word.
God will often ask you to do some things that you don’t want to do.
Delayed obedience is really disobedience
God may send a storm to grab your attention.
Sometimes our worst nightmare maybe exactly what we needed.
WHY? all because He loves us, because He has something for us to do, and He has a city or a group of people for us to impact. We’ve got a choice. We can keep running, or we can come back to Him.
For Study: Jonah 2
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