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Year to Increase: Encouragement

When we presented the 2011: Year to Increase plan in December, one of our concerns was how to keep the plan and the progress in front of us throughout the course of an entire year. One of the ways we decided upon was to stop after each preaching series and remind ourselves of what we have been...

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Community Worship Night, Friday, March 11th

Friday night, March 11th,  is our next Community Worship Night. We will be meeting at the Knights of Columbus, located at 366 East Broad Street at 7:00 for a time of corporate worship and prayer. Please come out and bring a friend with you to pour out our hearts in worship, love and thanksgiving for the extravagant, merciful...

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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Operation

If the purpose of the “gifts of the Holy Spirit” is to build unity and strength in the body of Christ then how must we operate in those gifts? I believe that Romans 12 gives us two very key themes to answer that question: grace and love. Paul writes that the gifts differ “according to the grace that...

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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Purpose

In both Romans 12 and I Corinthians 12 the Apostle Paul tells us about the “gifts of the Holy Spirit”. The Corinthians passage gives us a list of things that Paul refers to while in Romans Paul seems to be much more concerned with following through with those gifts than with giving a list of...

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The Fruit of the Holy Spirit

In our third week of discussing the Holy Spirit we set our attention on Galatians 5:22-23, “the fruit of the Holy Spirit”. Paul uses the word “fruit” here, I believe to show us that these attributes are not things that we work for or attain by our effort, but they are characteristics that the living...

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Sexual Purity from a Biblical Perspective, Saturday, March 5th

Join us for a discussion on sexual purity. Most of the churches teaching on sexual purity consists of abstinence before marriage and then silence on the subject after, why is that? The Bible has much to say about sexual purity, not simply do and don’t or yes and no but important, useful relational teaching. Our...

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The Power of the Holy Spirit

Our second in a series of four messages on the Holy Spirit, this week we discuss “the power of the Holy Spirit”. The reality of the Holy Spirit is that He lives within us, the Spirit of the Living God, the One that hovered over creation, that raised Jesus from the dead and indwelled the...

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Becoming Unshakable

I have always been intrigued by Jesus’ illustration at the end of the Sermon on the Mount. As He brings the sermon to a close He tells the crowd that anyone who listens and obeys the things that He has taught will be like a man that built his house on a rock foundation, when...

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Community Worship Night, Friday, February 11th

Friday night, February 11th,  is our next Community Worship Night. We will be meeting at the Knights of Columbus, located at 366 East Broad Street at 7:00 for a time of corporate worship. Please come out and bring a friend with you to pour out our hearts in worship, love and thanksgiving for the extravagant, merciful goodness...