People from the Negev will possess
the hill country of Esau;
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.
They will possess
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
While we may need to be careful in appropriating specific Scriptures or promises for our personal lives, it is in God's nature and character to restore, and we can expect that what He doesn't restore He will surpass.
Worship Leader: Allison Slocum
Call to Worship: Days of Elijah, 289
Response to Prayer: How Deep the Father's Love for Us, 101
My Response to God: There is a Redeemer, 279
Worship 1: My Savior, My God, 287
Worship 2: He Hideth My Soul, 461
Worship 3: The Solid Rock, 511
Benediction: Days of Elijah (chorus)
Leslie:
Beautiful Things (Gungor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spkhp41ig4
Your Love Never Fails
Nothing Is Wasted (Elevation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9si4PXlAySM
Sovereign Over Us
Saturday, May 28, 2016
July 2 (Independence Day Weekend) / Outcry / Matthew 28:16-20 / Go and make disciples…
Matthew 28:16-20Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
The Great Commission
16 The 11 disciples traveled to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped, but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
When you follow Jesus, you can help other people follow Jesus.
1. Who gives you the right to make disciples? Jesus does!
2. Believers become belongers!
3. Trust and obey!
4. You are never alone!
1. Who gives you the right to make disciples? Jesus does!
2. Believers become belongers!
3. Trust and obey!
4. You are never alone!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
June 26 / Reason Together / Obadiah 17-18 / A God who Remembers His People
But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,
and it will be holy;
the house of Jacob will dispossess
those who dispossessed them.
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob will set them on fire and consume Edom.
Therefore no survivor will remain
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
HE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU!!!
Worship Leader: Allison Slocum
1. God uses covenant names five times in these two verses.
2. The Scriptures are full of promises and examples of remembering
A. His covenant
B. His people
3. The sending of the Messiah is the ultimate remembering!
Song Ideas Leslie:
God With Us (MercyMe)
He Knows My Name (the one we know)
He Knows My Name (Francesca Batistelli)
and it will be holy;
the house of Jacob will dispossess
those who dispossessed them.
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob will set them on fire and consume Edom.
Therefore no survivor will remain
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
HE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU!!!
Worship Leader: Allison Slocum
1. God uses covenant names five times in these two verses.
2. The Scriptures are full of promises and examples of remembering
A. His covenant
B. His people
3. The sending of the Messiah is the ultimate remembering!
Song Ideas Leslie:
God With Us (MercyMe)
He Knows My Name (the one we know)
He Knows My Name (Francesca Batistelli)
June 25 / Outcry / Matthew 28:16-20 / Go and make disciples…
Matthew 28:16-20Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
The Great Commission
16 The 11 disciples traveled to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped, but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
When you follow Jesus, you can help other people follow Jesus.
1. Who gives you the right to make disciples? Jesus does!
2. Believers become belongers!
3. Trust and obey!
4. You are never alone!
1. Who gives you the right to make disciples? Jesus does!
2. Believers become belongers!
3. Trust and obey!
4. You are never alone!
June 19 (Father's Day) / Reason Together / Obadiah 16 / A God of Distinctions
As you have drunk on My holy mountain,
so all the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
I may need to reevaluate this, but my initial direction with this verse was to say that God doesn't treat everyone the same...so that begs the question how do you get on His good side? (The answer, of course, is faith in Jesus.)
1. God punished Israel/Judah for restoration, but the opposing nations for destruction.
2. Another example of this kind of distinction is found in Exodus 8 and 9.
3. God has chosen to take a people unto Himself, and He does treat them differently.
A. They are given the law to learn God's character.
B. They are given prophets to learn God's plan.
C. They are given mercy after judgment.
4. Now God is building a spiritual kingdom.
A. The people of God are not found in one nation.
B. You can become one of God's people through Christ.
Worship Leader: Lis Hilton
One way to lead into this may be to wrestle with the issue of fairness. Is God fair? What IS fair?
Song Ideas from Leslie:
Your Grace is Enough
Inside Out
Your love oh Lord
Cornerstone
Special Music Idea:
Mercy Came Running (Macy wants to do a worship dance to this but she is out of town all week)
so all the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
I may need to reevaluate this, but my initial direction with this verse was to say that God doesn't treat everyone the same...so that begs the question how do you get on His good side? (The answer, of course, is faith in Jesus.)
1. God punished Israel/Judah for restoration, but the opposing nations for destruction.
2. Another example of this kind of distinction is found in Exodus 8 and 9.
3. God has chosen to take a people unto Himself, and He does treat them differently.
A. They are given the law to learn God's character.
B. They are given prophets to learn God's plan.
C. They are given mercy after judgment.
4. Now God is building a spiritual kingdom.
A. The people of God are not found in one nation.
B. You can become one of God's people through Christ.
Worship Leader: Lis Hilton
One way to lead into this may be to wrestle with the issue of fairness. Is God fair? What IS fair?
Song Ideas from Leslie:
Your Grace is Enough
Inside Out
Your love oh Lord
Cornerstone
Special Music Idea:
Mercy Came Running (Macy wants to do a worship dance to this but she is out of town all week)
June 18 / Outcry / John 14:1-6 / I am the way...
John 14:1-6Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
The Way to the Father
14 “Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me.2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also. 4 You know the way to where I am going.”
5 “Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Jesus is the only way to God.
I think I'll start with C. S. Lewis's Lord, liar, lunatic argument. If you are unfamiliar with this, here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma
1. You can only get to God through faith in Jesus.
2. You can't get to God through other religions.
3. You can't get to God through your own good works.
June 12 / Reason Together / Obadiah 15 / A God of History
For the Day of the Lord is near,
against all the nations.
As you have done, so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.
Even as God is over all time, He chooses to work in and through history.
Worship Leader: Allison Slocum
Call to Worship: All Who Are Thirsty, 492
Prayer Response: Give Us Clean Hands, 590 (may switch this one with the CTW)
My Response to God: Ancient of Days, 62
Worship 1: You are God Alone (this one is in that choir book)
Worship 2: We Bow Down, 31
Worship 3: All People that on Earth Do Dwell, 40
Benediction: Doxology (or vs. 5 of the hymn above)
Can we do the new doxology? It adds a bridge, and I love it. I think we've done it once, but it was a long time ago. [From Jason: I found indications we did it in Jan 2012, April 2012, and Oct 2014, at least. Kathy should have the music.] I think we learned it in Worship Kidstyle. (Wish we had drums!)
http://www.lifewayworship.com/findAndBuy/songPage/NewDoxology-II?versionId=92011&searchString=91237#sthash.7NqySu6n.dpbs
~Leslie
against all the nations.
As you have done, so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.
Even as God is over all time, He chooses to work in and through history.
Worship Leader: Allison Slocum
Call to Worship: All Who Are Thirsty, 492
Prayer Response: Give Us Clean Hands, 590 (may switch this one with the CTW)
My Response to God: Ancient of Days, 62
Worship 1: You are God Alone (this one is in that choir book)
Worship 2: We Bow Down, 31
Worship 3: All People that on Earth Do Dwell, 40
Benediction: Doxology (or vs. 5 of the hymn above)
Can we do the new doxology? It adds a bridge, and I love it. I think we've done it once, but it was a long time ago. [From Jason: I found indications we did it in Jan 2012, April 2012, and Oct 2014, at least. Kathy should have the music.] I think we learned it in Worship Kidstyle. (Wish we had drums!)
http://www.lifewayworship.com/findAndBuy/songPage/NewDoxology-II?versionId=92011&searchString=91237#sthash.7NqySu6n.dpbs
~Leslie
June 11 / Outcry / John 1:1-18 / In the beginning was the Word…
John 1:1-18Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Prologue
1 In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 All things were created through Him,
and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created.
4 Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.
5 That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 All things were created through Him,
and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created.
4 Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.
5 That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.
6 There was a man named John
who was sent from God.
7 He came as a witness
to testify about the light,
so that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light,
but he came to testify about the light.
9 The true light, who gives light to everyone,
was coming into the world.
who was sent from God.
7 He came as a witness
to testify about the light,
so that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light,
but he came to testify about the light.
9 The true light, who gives light to everyone,
was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.
11 He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.
12 But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,
13 who were born,
not of blood,
or of the will of the flesh,
or of the will of man,
but of God.
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.
11 He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.
12 But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,
13 who were born,
not of blood,
or of the will of the flesh,
or of the will of man,
but of God.
14 The Word became flesh
and took up residence among us.
We observed His glory,
the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)
16 Indeed, we have all received grace after grace
from His fullness,
17 for the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.
and took up residence among us.
We observed His glory,
the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)
16 Indeed, we have all received grace after grace
from His fullness,
17 for the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
Opening Song (theme song, will probably repeat each week for a while)
Seeking Set
Message:
The many sides of Muhammad Ali.
Getting to know Jesus.
The first section of John is written with hindsight, and gives a great introduction into who Jesus is.
1. He IS God, but also WITH God...welcome to the Trinity!
2. He is the source of light and life.
3. He is a people maker.
4. He is the revealer of truth and grace.
Do you know Him?
Declaring Set
passion in Christ alone - YouTube
Chris Tomlin - How Great Is Our God (Lyrics And Chords) - YouTube
He Reigns - Newsboys (with lyrics) - YouTube
This Is Amazing Grace Phil Wickham Worship Video with lyrics - YouTube
Closing Song (maybe every week)
Build Your Kingdom Here with lyrics HD - YouTube
passion in Christ alone - YouTube
Chris Tomlin - How Great Is Our God (Lyrics And Chords) - YouTube
He Reigns - Newsboys (with lyrics) - YouTube
This Is Amazing Grace Phil Wickham Worship Video with lyrics - YouTube
Closing Song (maybe every week)
Build Your Kingdom Here with lyrics HD - YouTube
June 5 / Reason Together / Obadiah 13-14 / A God of Compassion
Do not enter the gate of My people
in the day of their disaster.
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions
in the day of their disaster.
14 Do not stand at the crossroads
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.
Compassion is part of God's character, and He expects it of us. Even when someone is "getting what they deserve," we are not to pile on in judgment, but be kind and compassionate.
Worship Leader: Lis Hilton
Song ideas: (from Leslie)
Mighty to Save
From the Inside Out
All Who Are Thirsty
Came to My Rescue
Your Grace is Enough
Cry Out to Jesus
Follow You
Let It Be Said of Us
Drama Ideas:
Video Your Grace Still Amazes Me
in the day of their disaster.
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions
in the day of their disaster.
14 Do not stand at the crossroads
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.
Compassion is part of God's character, and He expects it of us. Even when someone is "getting what they deserve," we are not to pile on in judgment, but be kind and compassionate.
Worship Leader: Lis Hilton
Song ideas: (from Leslie)
Mighty to Save
From the Inside Out
All Who Are Thirsty
Came to My Rescue
Your Grace is Enough
Cry Out to Jesus
Follow You
Let It Be Said of Us
Drama Ideas:
Video Your Grace Still Amazes Me
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