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"Every day we get the opportunity to shine Jesus' light and be his hands and feet, so how are you doing that? This Sunday we will look at how Jesus interacted with different groups of people and how we can follow Jesus' example."Nicole PfeifferBible Readings: Matthew 5:14-16 (NIV)

"Every day we get the opportunity to shine Jesus' light and be his hands and feet, so how are you doing that? This Sunday we will look at how Jesus interacted with different groups of people and how we can follow Jesus' example."Nicole PfeifferBible Readings: Matthew 5:14-16 (NIV)

Prayer is a wonderful and amazing privilege given to us by God. Just think of it. The almighty creator and Lord of the universe invites us to talk with him. How good is that! But too many Christians are inclined to keep prayer in a box. Prayer is so often confined to formal public worship times, structured prayer meetings, family devotion time, the beginning and end of church meetings, devotion time or bedtime. But prayer offers so many more possibilities. In next Sunday’s worship time Chris Jaensch will be inviting us to pull prayer out of the confining box we too often put it in, remind us of the flexibility of prayer and highlight its many exciting possibilities. Woven through the service Chris will be including a number of his own songs and the Bible passages that inspired them.Chris Jaensch
Bible Readings: Ephesians 1:3-8, Matthew 18:20, Hebrews 10:24-25, Psalm 119:105, Psalm 119:17-20, Matthew 6:5-8, Matthew 7:7-11, John 8:12, Ephesians 1:18, Ephesians 5:1-2 (NLT)

Prayer is a wonderful and amazing privilege given to us by God. Just think of it. The almighty creator and Lord of the universe invites us to talk with him. How good is that! But too many Christians are inclined to keep prayer in a box. Prayer is so often confined to formal public worship times, structured prayer meetings, family devotion time, the beginning and end of church meetings, devotion time or bedtime. But prayer offers so many more possibilities. In next Sunday’s worship time Chris Jaensch will be inviting us to pull prayer out of the confining box we too often put it in, remind us of the flexibility of prayer and highlight its many exciting possibilities. Woven through the service Chris will be including a number of his own songs and the Bible passages that inspired them.Chris Jaensch
Bible Readings: Ephesians 1:3-8, Matthew 18:20, Hebrews 10:24-25, Psalm 119:105, Psalm 119:17-20, Matthew 6:5-8, Matthew 7:7-11, John 8:12, Ephesians 1:18, Ephesians 5:1-2 (NLT)

At Pentecost, the Spirit enables all believers – not just the apostles but all the followers of Jesus – to speak in other languages so that the crowd could “hear them speaking in our own language about the great things that God has done! (verse 11).” Having gotten their attention by this miracle (signs and wonders are not merely for our entertainment/enjoyment/encouragement but area means to an end: to actively promote the Kingdom of God!), Peter is empowered by the HolySpirit to preach the message of salvation through faith in Christ. The result being that around 3000 people came to faith in Jesus! Withso many people converted at once, little wonder there was a focus on listening to the apostles’ teaching along with fellowship and worship together. All this was empowered by the Holy Spirit and played an important part in the on-going growth of the Kingdom.
Pastor Richard Haar
Bible Readings: Acts 2: 1-42 (Good News Bible)

At Pentecost, the Spirit enables all believers – not just the apostles but all the followers of Jesus – to speak in other languages so that the crowd could “hear them speaking in our own language about the great things that God has done! (verse 11).” Having gotten their attention by this miracle (signs and wonders are not merely for our entertainment/enjoyment/encouragement but area means to an end: to actively promote the Kingdom of God!), Peter is empowered by the HolySpirit to preach the message of salvation through faith in Christ. The result being that around 3000 people came to faith in Jesus! Withso many people converted at once, little wonder there was a focus on listening to the apostles’ teaching along with fellowship and worship together. All this was empowered by the Holy Spirit and played an important part in the on-going growth of the Kingdom.
Pastor Richard Haar
Bible Readings: Acts 2: 1-42 (Good News Bible)