What a special day day of worship! With a full week of events associated with our “Enter His Gates” release, it was great to be able to celebrate it one more time with our church family. In addition to the new 16-track CD, we also had some new t-shirts and such. I have already received from very special encouragement concerning the new tunes. We are very grateful.
Today, we worshiped with songs from the new CD:
What a powerful day! Love, love what is happening in our church right now!
Loved having Lee commission our students to Charleston missions this week. The message on Judas’ predicted betrayal was unbelievable. I loved Jeff’s honesty and faithfulness to the biblical text. As believers, we are called to be faithful to one another, and yes, betrayal among God’s people happens and it is painful. What an incredible call!
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The only problem with today’s services is I could have done that a few more times. Incredible time with Jesus today. Absolutely incredible.
The above picture was taken during soundcheck today by one of our vocalists from her phone. The boys normally go to soundcheck with me. Today, amazingly enough, both of them had to go poo-poo during it and yelled it out really loud after we had finished a song during soundcheck. I love being a dad.
After everyone was out of the bathroom, it was a very special day indeed. Jeff’s message was powerful. He explained that Jesus’ example of washing the disciples’ feet was an expression of unity, acceptance, and service. What if every church, every home was full of people who applied this example? Still processing.
We had a great ensemble do a dramatic reading of the foot washing to setup the message. It was incredible. Every time that Laurie started saying, “You can’t wash my feet, I should be kissing your feet,” I couldn’t help but get weepy. Strutton did a great job of making a Last Supper table that will stay with us during these weeks of Jesus’ teaching through John 13-17. Amazing what he can do with stuff he got from Big Lots and the Dollar Tree. Love creativity on a budget!
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The Peak band did a wonderful job leading worship at North Side today. When our high school students lead, it’s not a novel gesture, they are really great worship leaders and we are honored to be led by them. Amanda and I were talking after services about how genuine, musical, and thoughtful they were with their leadership. So proud of each one of you!
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What a very special day of worship at North Side! In addition to recognizing our graduates, we also commissioned six college students who will be spending their summer in West Africa as North Side missionaries. God orchestrated a very appropriate and powerful service to send them off.
Jeff’s message from John 12 was specifically directed towards ministers. For all those who minister the Word of God to others, there are times when our souls become troubled. Jesus showed us how to speak the Word with grace and truth. For this message to fall in this week with these ladies being commissioned was a powerfully God-ordained moment.
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Special day at North Side! We had some info on promotion Sunday (June 3rd), family dedication with 9 families, great time of worship, great interview video on “who was Jesus,” and a wonderful message! Jeff’s teaching on John 12 was so good. So much to take in considering how we are to lay our lives down just as Christ was anticipating his sacrifice for us.
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What a great morning. The boys normally go to soundcheck with me, but birthday boy Obadiah was extra rowdy on the drums this morning.
It was such a powerful time of worship today at North Side. I can’t begin to tell you how much the Holy Spirit united the service today. There are times when we plan elements together and it’s great to watch them fall, and then, today, I listened to Jeff preach his sermon and use words that were verbatim of the last song we were going to do after his message on Mary anointing the feet of Jesus.
I figured he had looked at the flowsheet and studied the lyrics, but something also told me that maybe this was a God orchestrated thing. Turns out he didn’t know what the lyrics of the last song were, but as he preached in his message about “focusing on the gift instead of the Giver…Giver of every perfect gift…being satisfied in only Jesus…” It was wild.
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In our Christology, we have reached a pretty pivotal section: the resurrection of the Christ. Jesus is risen! He is risen indeed!
Few people deny the fact that a man named Jesus lived on this earth, gathered a large following, seemed to be a pretty decent guy, and then was killed. The point of debate has always been: did a dead man rise from the grave?
As we think about this section, here are some things to remember:
John 11:49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
What a wonderful text that led our worship time today! We focused on Jesus’ selfless sacrifice today and that is always time well-spent! Jeff’s message was plain ridiculous. The thought that we could possess a faith not to “offend Rome” really challenged some introspective time in my own life. Powerful!
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At this point in our Christology, we have arrived at the point where wrath and grace became forever entwined. The crucifixion of the Christ changed everything.
All 4 of the gospels report this event and yet each one has unique details. When put together, the 4 combine to provide many details about what happened when Love laid down his life willingly.
Here are some things to note:
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