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saturdayEV kicked off their January series yesterday. Each week during the TESTIFY series Tim interviews a member of their crew and then preaches a shorter sermon on one of the themes from the testimony.
Check out the Kristy Galea interview
Check out the sermon ‘Got the wrong idea about God?‘
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Kristy’s interview was great and then Tim spoke against God being:
Good stuff.
CCEC‘s January mission starts this week. The team arrive today. Summerfest will be launched tomorrow @ church. The program starts on Monday. Junior High program each morning @ Erina Fair Youth Centre. Senior High program each night @ EFYC.
My program: I’ll be MC tomorrow at ccecnitechurch; speaking in the adults tent on “Kids and the Internet” on Wednesday; doing the same talk at the Northern Lakes sfest on Thursday; speaking at the combined youth event on Friday night; and roaming around both of the teens programs throughout the week.
The following Sunday we begin our summer series’ in church. Morning: The Unique Challenge of Jesus. Nite: Wisdom for Life. saturdayEV begin a great series today called ‘Testify‘.
The following week nitechurch will be running Cafe Del Freeo on 17th & 18th Jan.
Good times ahead. Pray. Come. Rock on.
PS – I spoke at the Toowoon Bay Beach Mission Camper’s Concert last night. They have been doing a killer job at proclaiming Jesus!
Tonight I spoke about New Year’s Resolutions. The most popular NYR for Christians is to read the Bible and pray more throughout the new year. What is it that will help you to follow through with this resolution?
In response to Psalm 119 it’s having a heart that treasures God, His Word and obeying it more than life itself. In order to treasure God and His Word, we need to plan to spend time with him to hide his word in our hearts.
Following are some practical tools to help you: Read it, Remember it and Pray it.
READ IT
REMEMBER IT
PRAY IT
Do you have any tools for reading and remembering God’s Word?
Share them in the comments…
Dr. Andrew Davis suggests that there are numerous advantages of memorising whole books of the Bible as opposed to individual verses. One of the key things that he says is that it’s easy to take verses out of context when remembering them in isolation. (I think there are verses in the Navigators system that do this.)
My memory is often elephant-like in it’s ability to retain and use individual Bible verses. I’m thinking that I might have a crack at remembering a 1 or 2 books of the Bible next year. There are some that I can already recite large slabs of such as Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians that might be good ones to start with.
Can you remember entire books of the Bible? Check out the following article for some good tips on how to do it well.
An Approach to the Extended Memorization of Scripture
(direct download)
(h/t JT)
I’m preaching on Psalm 119 this Sunday @ ccecnitechurch. In it the Psalmist is deeply passionate about the word of God. Rejoice, delight, recount, obedience, praise, understanding, wonder, zeal and love are some of his responses to the word.
I’ve been challenged to “not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Deut 8:3 and Matt 4:4).
The following is one way that the Psalmist seeks to feed upon the word of God:
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11
Jerry Bridges says that one of the ways that the Holy Spirit guides is by recalling to our minds scriptures that we have memorised. Maybe he said that so Navigators could sell more memory verse cards! My guess is that it’s based more on Ephesians 6 and being armed with the Sword of the Spirit – which is the Word of God.
Here are 3 systems that might be helpful in arming yourself:
Do you know more Bible verses or quotes from your favourite movies?
Do you read the newspaper or the Bible first thing in the morning?
Delight in the Word of God. Be passionate about it. Remember it. Hide it in your heart.
Do you use a system for remembering verses? Which one? What’s it like??
