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This weekend we continue in our series called CHRISTIANITY OVER CULTURE. When we place our trust in Jesus we are called into a different culture. We find that by following Jesus we are exposed to God's original design for our lives. He created this universe and so he alone knows how to live this life to the fullest. Due to our sin nature we are engaged a battle once we trust in Jesus. He calls us to leave our slavery to our sin natures and to run in freedom to do the good God designed us to do. In order to run free from sin we must first learn God's directives and wisdom. Then through the power of the Holy Spirit we put the truth of God into practice in our lives.

God empowers us as we choose to honor Him in our bodies. This gives us a growing confidence and power to live for God. One area that living by God's truth and wisdom really affects us is with in marriage. Our culture has left any attachment to God's design for marriage and sexuality and so we must rediscover what God's plan is for us in this area if we are to succeed. Join us this weekend as we continue to explore 1 Corinthians by engaging chapter 7 of this key epistle. We will gain insight into the positive expression of our sexuality. You may learn some perspectives that surprise you regarding marriage. You won't want to miss this weekends message on how to succeed in marriage.

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This weekend we continue in our series called CHRISTIANITY OVER CULTURE. We are working our way through the book of 1 Corinthians.

This week we will see that though God cares about our souls, our hearts, and our minds, the truth is he cares about our bodies too. What we do with our physical bodies matters to God and so this week we focus on that truth. We have physical appetites and the truth is we can sin against our own bodies by the way we feed those appetites. God calls us to a higher standard when we put our trust in him and there is a reason. The reason is that as Christians we belong to Jesus and we are a part of God's family. This means that God wants us to live life the way he intended. If we continue to follow our culture we will be encouraged to feed our sin nature. This is destructive and will lead us away from God.

Truly what we do in our bodies is connected to our mind and soul and so it matters what we do in them. Life in Jesus' culture is different; it's pure and right, it's healthy and good. Join us this weekend as we learn from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 how we can honor God with our bodies.

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http://bible.com/events/49077855

Mothers Day is a day we set aside to honor our Mothers. Mothers are so important and fill such a crucial role in our lives. God created mothers to nurture us and train us to follow God.

This weekend join us for a special service focused on Honoring our Mothers. In the Ten Commandments God instructs us to honor our father and mother. The truth is that honoring our parents is crucial to our success in this life. It matters so much that we figure out how and why we must obey this command. Our mothers aren't perfect and some of us have hurts related to our moms. The command God gives is not dependent on our mothers being perfect but it is important because it affects our health and success. God promises that if we do honor our parents we will have a longer and healthier life. Our attitude towards our mothers comes from the God given position they hold and what that represents before God. As we obey God and show honor to our Mothers, we find health comes into our lives.

Join us this weekend for a reminder on how important it is to Honor our Mothers.

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http://bible.com/events/49070020

This weekend we continue in our series called CHRISTIANITY OVER CULTURE. In this series we are learning what the Bible says regarding the culture we are to be influenced by. Not the culture around us but by the culture Jesus is creating. Jesus calls us to live differently than the world around us. We are called to be different and this difference is for the better.

This week we learn how we are to handle disagreements between believers. We are to handle disputes differently than the world does. We follow a different set of rules because we follow a different leader. The Bible actually tells us how we are to treat each other and this will affect our disagreements because it affects how we treat each other. God calls us to live differently than the world around us. We are honest with everyone so if we get into a dispute we are able to come to a solution quickly. We don't act out of arrogance and pride but out of humility and empathy. This make us more able to solve disputes than the world around us.

Join us this weekend as we learn how to handle disputes and disagreements with other believers.

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This weekend we continue in our series called CHRISTIANITY OVER CULTURE. As followers of Jesus we are called to live for Jesus and not the culture of the world we live in. Our culture will say things are ok that Jesus says are not. We must live up to the standard Jesus calls us to not the standard of the world we live in.

In 1 Corinthians 5 we encounter an issue of sexual immorality that was being allowed in the church. The church was allowing and even proud of a man who was living in sin with his step mother. Now the issue of sexual immorality is nothing new and yet the church was proud of what was going on. Paul sends a sharp correction regarding their allowance of this behavior.

In our world today sexual issues have nearly taken over our culture. From prolific porn use to same sex relationships to people choosing their identity based on their chosen gender. There is an attempt to put sexual identity and practice at the top of our value system. We must deal with this issue in the same way the early church did. Drawing lines of morality and behavior in the church based on what God's standards are, is crucial if we are to continue to help people move from death to life.

Join us this weekend as we deal with this difficult and PG-13 of sexual immorality and accountability in the local church.

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This weekend we continue in our series called "CHRISTIANITY OVER CULTURE". In this series we are studying the first letter to the church in Corinth. This letter addresses many of the issues we face in our US American culture. Like the Corinthians we are affluent and driven and so have some of the same struggles they had.

This week we will learn about the view we should have towards spiritual leaders. God uses leaders to help us grow in Him. They are limited and the view we should have of them is presented in this week's message. We have a tendency to get attached to spiritual leaders in a way that causes divisions. Of course this error is one that we are prone to in our culture as well. When a pastor leaves a church many of the people leave after he does. When talking at Bible studies a person brings up their preference for the former pastor over the present one. We tend to build loyalties around spiritual leaders. This is a mistake due to immaturity.

This week we will learn how to grow past this immature tendency to attach, in the wrong way, to our spiritual leaders. We need to allow spiritual leaders to help us attach to Jesus. He is the one we must be following. Just like when we are young we look to our parents for everything we can grow very dependent on our spiritual leaders. We must make sure we are growing in our dependence on Jesus. They will not always be there and so we can fall away if God moves them somewhere else. Leaders can sometimes encourage this out of a need to be needed. We must grow and mature remembering that we are all following Jesus. Join us this week to gain the proper perspective of the spiritual leaders that God puts in our lives.

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