This Sunday is our final Christmas message. I’ve titled it “The Heart of Christmas – Love”. Love was the motivating factor for God sending down His one and only Son to a lowly manger in Bethlehem some 2,000 years ago. I hope to see you Sunday as we open God’s Word, study it, and come to understand how to apply it to our lives. We have Hope, Peace, and Joy because God so loved us…
Additionally, this Sunday we’ll be joined by our friend and music artist – Uriel Vega! His saxophone just warms up our worship! Uriel will be in both Sunday services, and he’ll return for Christmas Eve service Tuesday, December 24 @ 4pm. This is an evening your family and friends will enjoy and remember for a long time.
We are in the middle of our new series called, “The Heart of Christmas”. We began with the heart of Hope and last week we looked at the heart of Peace. This Sunday we’ll continue by examining the heart of Joy where we’ll look at joy through the lens’ of Psalm 126, as well as a few of Paul’s experiences. Joy is not a result of our circumstances, but rather a heart set on God and His presence in whatever is going on in our lives. I hope you can be in church for this joy-filled message!
Last week we celebrated our first Christmas service in the new Worship Center! We enjoyed the beautiful decorations, we sang some wonderful Christmas songs, and we looked at the topic of Hope in the Heart of Christmas during our time in the Word.
This week we look at Peace through the Prince of Peace – Jesus, God’s gift to us! I hope I’ll see you at one of our services this Sunday.
Our annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service is almost here! I’ve invited our good friend, Uriel Vega and his saxophone, to come and celebrate the birth of Christ with us. Uriel brings such a wonderful and warm vibe to our worship time, and you won’t want to miss it on Tuesday, December 24 at 4pm in our new Worship Center. This is an awesome family event! Childcare will be available for kids 3 and under. I hope you’ll invite some friends to join you.
The morning drizzle and cold has me drinking my morning coffee near our fireplace. It causes me to be a bit more reflective, as well. These past few weeks, before Thanksgiving, have caused me to reflect on God’s goodness this year. Not only has my Heavenly Father been good to me personally and to my family, but he’s been so very faithful to our church, too. In my reading today, I came across a passage that filled my heart.
This Sunday we continue our series called The Heart of Thanksgiving and I hope to see you for this special time together remembering and celebrating the goodness of our God. Allow me to encourage you to bring a friend with you as we enter into this special season of celebrating our Savior and the love that saved our souls forever. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness. Psalm 107:8-9
This Sunday, just hours prior to the elections, I am going to talk about why you and I need to be involved in the process, as well as speaking up to proclaim God’s truth, in love. The world shouts that Christians shouldn’t bring their faith into politics as they quote a familiar phrase – separation of church and state – but is this true? Is that phrase in the Constitution? Did Jesus speak on this subject? If so, what did He say? My message is called The Separation Delusion.
This Sunday I’ve called all of Restored Community Church together for 1 Service @ 10am for a holy convocation of prayer called “A Cry to Heaven”. This is a first for our church and you’ll want to be there for this special event – calling on God to save America. As we inch closer to election day – the most important election of our lives – we need to come together and ask God for mercy and grace as a people and as a nation. We see examples of this in the Books of Joel, Deuteronomy and others as examples of moments in history when God’s people desperately needed God’s forgiveness and favor.
For the last several weeks we’ve looked at passages telling the story of God’s people who’ve walked with God, turned away from Him, and then repented, returned, and experienced God’s Restoration and forgiveness.
On Sunday, October 27th @ 10am, we will come together to hold one large service in order to pray for our country to repent and return to God as His people in order that America might be sparred for a time of revival and salvation. We’re calling this special day – A Cry To Heaven.
This Sunday we’ll look at the former fisherman – Peter – and his bout with failure and how Jesus restored him back to his mission in life. How about you, have you ever experienced a failure that took you down and out for a time? Perhaps you’re there right now. I want you to know that God has not thrown you to the side. He’s waiting for you to repent, return, and be restored back to the purpose for which you were created. Everyone gets 2nd chances, and 102nd chances. Come here the message, “A Pardon for Peter” this Sunday!