We will be joining area churches in a service of remembrance, worship, confession and prayer in response to the killings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC last week. The service will be held this Wednesday night, June 24th, at Bethlehem AME Church located at 213 East Pearl Street in Burlington. The service...
Month: <span>June 2015</span>
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Ephesians 4:25-32 The Person, Purposes and Plans of the Holy Spirit: “What Grieves Him?”
Last week we talked about the Holy Spirit being a person who grieves. Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:30 “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God . . .” This was not a call to fear but rather a revelation of love. Paul was revealing to us that the Holy Spirit does not live within...
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John 14:15-18; Ephesians 4:30 The Person, Purposes and Plans of the Holy Spirit: “A Person Who Grieves”
For just a moment I want us to try to identify and feel a specific emotion. When I quote the apostle Paul and say “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit . . .” what is the first thing that you think and feel? Don’t make it theological and don’t try to make it right, just...
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A Conversation Around the Word, Sunday, June 28th
Sunday, June 28th, in our 10:00 service we will be gathering together to have a conversation focused on the Scriptures. For the next couple of weeks we are all reading John 15 together. We are being encouraged to read the passage each day, to pray through it, study it and to ask God to reveal...
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John 16:12-15 The Person, Purposes and Plans of the Holy Spirit: “A Person Who Listens And Speaks”
One of my favorite hymns is “In the Garden” by Charles Miles. For those that may not know it, the chorus says “And He walks with me and He talks with me and he tells me that I am His own; and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.”...