We have our VBS Worker’s Meeting tonight (at 6:30PM). VBS is in the air (or at least the planning of it).
Crestview’s VBS will be June 18-22 (6:30PM – 8:30PM) nightly for ages 4-6th grade.
You can register your children using this link. You can listen to VBS music here.
We’d love to serve our children this summer, helping them “search the visible and discover the Invisible.”
You might be aware (especially if you’re from Crestview) that my mother was visiting me this past week. She was having consistent chest pain and ended up going to same day care to get checked out before returning home. They ended up doing lots of tests, including a heart cath to make sure she didn’t have blockage. That was this morning. All the tests came out well. We’re still not sure about what caused the chest pain but we’re certain it’s not a heart issue. My sister flew in and will help drive my mom home later this week.
Thank you to the people who visited, brought us a meal, brought us chocolate :), prayed, and encouraged us these past 24 hours. We’re grateful to be surrounded by so many loving friends and family.
My 4/30/17AM sermon, No Other Gospel, from Galatians 1:6-10 is now online. While this passage shows what brought about Paul’s shock and awe at the Galatians’ desertion of the Gospel, what I tried to drive at was application for believers. In other words, yes, we should stand up for the Gospel. But, we should suspect ourselves. We might be tempted to drift. Some angel might appear and seek to allure us away from Christ alone. We must hold fast to Christ alone, banking all of our hope and trust in Him.
I hope this sermon encourages you.
I love this shock-and-awe moment from the movie Hitch:
Tomorrow, Lord willing, at Crestview, we’ll continue working through the book of Galatians (Galatians 1:6-10), with one of the Apostle Paul’s shock and awe moments. Specifically, we’ll see what is so shocking about gospel distortions. I hope to see you there and hope you’re helped to move to no other gospel other than what is found in Christ alone.
Today, is your living Christ? Philippians 1:21 has Paul writing from a prison cell saying to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Today, no matter what you face, no matter who you have to deal with, no matter what troubles emerge, no matter what privileges come, let your living be Christ.
Pray night now that your life would be all Christ. He’s not only worthy of that. He’s able to accomplish His life in you.
My 4/23/17AM sermon, Why Galatians? from Galatians 1:1-5, is now online. This sermon helped introduce the book of Galatians to our body and showcase why it’s worthy of our study. Considering who Paul was, what our need is, and how God’s glory is the end of the matter helped clarify why we should study. I hope this sermon encourages you.
Amazing News today…
Jesus gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age. (Galatians 1:4)
Praise Him today for what He’s done for you.
This coming Sunday, Lord willing, we’ll get rolling in to the book of Galatians with a sermon on Galatians 1:1-5. I really hope to help everyone see why we need to study this book and what we can hope to see through our study of it. It’s a great week to plug in and join us. Our Corporate Worship begins at 10:15AM on Sundays. In the meantime, you could read through this book before Sunday and ask yourself, why is this letter important. Hope to see you then.
My 4/16/17 (Easter) sermon out of Galatians 1:1 entitled Jesus, Raised From The Dead, is now online. This sermon helped kick off our Galatians series as well as give a good summary of what we gathered to celebrate on Easter. Specifically, this sermon helped show how the Gospel message points to Easter glories. I hope you enjoy it and it helps you glorify God with your life.
Scotty Smith is such a blessing with his grace-infused prayers. Here’s one on Post-Resurrection Awesomeness that is fitting for this Monday after Easter…
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:25-27 (ESV)
They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” Luke 24:32 (ESV)
Lord Jesus, of all your post-resurrection appearances (1 Cor. 15:3-7), my favorite is the visit you give to these forlorn friends on the road to Emmaus. I have much in common with them (Luke 24:13-35), for I too can be “foolish and slow of heart.” Thank you for your tenacious tenderness, limitless patience, and steadfast love.
Keep doing for me what you did for our Emmaus Road brothers. Help me to see you everywhere in the Scriptures, for you are the main point and primary hero in the entire Bible. You’re our Substitute to trust long before you’re our example to follow. You lived in our place and you died in our place, and rose victorious for our justification. Hallelujah!
May Moses’s words—especially the Law, constantly drive me to you. For you’ve fulfilled the demands of the law for us, and are now fulfilling the beauty of the law in us. We could sooner sneeze the sun into existence than we could earn our salvation by our works. Keep me free from every form of performance-based spirituality, Lord.
And, Jesus, keep convincing me that you are the resounding “Yes!” to every promise God has made through the prophets—not just with respect to your cross, but also to your crown (2 Cor. 1:20). Having risen from the dead, you are now making all things new. You are sovereign over every molecule and moment, every person and place. Faith, not fear, is the order of this day, and every day.
Jesus, give me an incurable case of “redemptive heartburn,” like that which you ignited in the hearts of our Emmaus brothers. Keep showing me more of your glory and grace, that I might give you the adoration and allegiance of which you alone are worthy. So very Amen I pray, in your loving and transforming name.
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