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Speaker: Pastor Andy Searles

Scripture Focus: 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Sermon notes are as follows:

Different Circumstances Require Different Prayers (1)
• Prayer must become our primary default, not our last request.
• Prayer asks the following questions: What’s on your list? What’s on your heart? What’s your plea? What are you grateful for?
• When we pray for people, it changes how we view people.

Difficult Times Require Direct Prayers (2-4)
• It is illogical not to pray for someone because we don’t like them.
• Godly ambition leads us to seek peace, not drama.
• We must walk into each room, relationship, situation, and circumstance  with a non-anxious presence – because we represent one who is not  anxious about anything.
• There isn’t a person you will meet today, or any day, who God doesn’t deeply love.

Divided Situations Require a Unifying Christ
• A mediator brings two separated sides together. Jesus, our mediator,  took away our sin so we could be “brought back together” with God.
• Good news gets out to the world as we proclaim facts, demonstrate the power of facts, and share the meaning of facts!

Guest Speaker: Matt Bird

Sermon notes are as follows:

1) Disciples of Jesus are known for what they are for, rather than what they are against
2) Disciples of Jesus live lives of abundance, not of abstinence
3) Disciples of Jesus transform the world, while disciples of John withdraw from the world

Speaker: Adeemir Dacenay

Summary: How God uses difficult moments to spread His glory and how our past doesn’t disqualify us from being used in profound ways.

Speaker: Pastor Andy Searles

Scripture Focus: Acts 3:1-10

Sermon notes are as follows:

In Need (1-3)
• We must commit to spending time with Jesus if we are to be changed to influence change in others.
• Prayer & giving go together like faith & works. We have to be about both.
• It is the way of Jesus to constantly be inviting outsiders in.

In Power (4-8)
• Don’t get too preoccupied doing God’s work. In doing so, you could miss what God is doing.
• Often God won’t give us what we want because He’s got something better for us.
• The name of Jesus makes dehumanized people become rehumanized.

In Awe (9-10)
• As with the beggar at the temple, may our praise of God be louder than our cry for help.
• One changed life can create more ripples than we could ever imagine.

Speaker: Pastor Andy Searles

Scripture Focus: John 8:1-10

Sermon notes are as follows:

The Trap (1-5)
• A disciplined routine is the foundation for discipleship.
• Jesus often does His best work in awkward moments.
• Jesus knows how to unlock the latch on each trap.

The Turn (5b-7)
• We tend to have bigger problems with another person’s sin than we do our own. We’ve got to reverse this.
•  Jesus turned a legal quibble into a moral issue. We can get through  many misunderstandings by understanding the heart behind the action.

The Truth (8-10)
• We don’t talk to crowds; we talk to people. We don’t influence communities; we influence people.
• Repentance must happen privately before it can happen publicly.
• God’s level of love for us is greater than our level of sin against him.
• Our conscience can often be God’s deputy in our soul.

Speaker: Yvan Pierre

To fulfill the calling from Matthew 2:1-12, "And he went back to his own country a different way" and reach the people of Haiti for Christ, the International Christian Development Mission (ICDM) was founded in 1989. ICDM focuses on training a new generation for God’s Kingdom by educating children, training Christian leaders and pastors, and equipping Christians to be Christ’s witnesses.