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Prayer Corner
Please pray for West Coast
Christian Fellowship in Encinitas California.
WCCF is hosting a community BBQ outreach on Oct 25th and Pastor
Barry Young, a close friend of ours and a fellow church-planter, has asked us
to pray for this outreach. Pray that God will draw members of the community to
hear the message of Jesus. Pray that God will lead people to make WCCF their
church home. Take a minute and pray right now....
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This Coming Sunday, October 11, 2009
I've
noticed over the last few years that customer service is a lost art. So often,
employees see themselves as victims of the boss or too inconvenienced to help
me find what I'm looking for in their store. As followers of Jesus, it isn't
just our duty to be good employees and good bosses, it is our gift to God. As
followers of Jesus we ought to be the employee everyone wants on the shift. We
need to be employers of such high regard that people are lined up to work for us.
Sadly, this is a lost skill but Colossians 3:22-4:1 gives us the map toward
this lofty goal. Come on out this weekend to learn more from a message called
"Employee of the Month". See ya Sunday....
Coming up....
- October 18 - Special Speaker - Our Pastor from our Parent Church, Dave Hoffman
- October 25 - Colossians 4:2-4 "Prayer Power"
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A Word of Encouragement
"Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come." 1 Corinthians 10:11 (NKJV)
This scripture ties up a longer section referring
back to the stories of the Old Testament. The writer wants us to know that
every word in the Bible has value for us. In fact, this tells us that we who
believe in Jesus are the ones "upon whom the ends of the ages have come." We
were the target of these stories, the reason they were written and we need to
value them - both the Old and New Testaments.
Henry Morris points out that the word "examples"
here, in Greek, is tupos from which we get our English word "type". The Old
Testament characters and stories are "types" from which we can draw meaning.
For example, Job is a "type" of person who understood what it meant to stay
true to God no matter what the circumstances and no matter how much you don't
understand why things turn out as they do in life. Job is an example to us, a
figure meant to encourage us, give us instruction and hope.
Finally, take a look at the word "admonition" which
is nouthesia in Greek. It means "to put in mind" or "to train by word". God has
not left us to fend for ourselves in life. He led more than 40 authors over a
period of 1,500 years to give us exactly the "types" He wants to use to "train
us by word." He saw to it that after thousands of years, His training is there
to help us make sense out of life. How tragic that so many people never
prioritize reading His Bible, let alone studying and memorizing it. Make it
your thought today to get into the Word.
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WorshipVibes
 by Jamie Brees
What Did I Do Wrong?!
Psalm 44:17-19
"All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant. Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path. But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness."
Not all of our suffering is the result of something we did wrong. (Yes, probably more often than not it is, but not always.) The psalmist here reminds us that God's ways don't always make sense to us. He knew that Isarael had remained faithful to God and yet God chose to allow them to suffer defeat in battle anyway. God is not obligated to reward our faithfulness and devotion, though He often does. Sometimes - as Job could no doubt attest - God allows suffering and pain in our life that He may be glorified through it.
This psalm has an encouraging ending: "Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love" (vs. 26). We need not wallow in our self pity. We can beseech our Lord to deliver us and glorify Himself through His own faithfulness.
This psalm is an important key in Paul's thesis in Romans 8. Read more about it at www.worshipvibes.com.
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You can read more at the WorshipVibes blog. Feel free to leave your comments and to suggest further topics.
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Thank You
Thank you Tatum Church of
Christ for donating to us all of the Amor missions trip supplies. These costly
supplies, including everything from hammers to 100 gallon drinking water tanks,
are essential for our trips to build houses for the poor in Mexico. We
skipped our trip to Mexico
this year due to the political situation in Mexico but hope to organize and
send a trip in November 2010. Now we've got all the tools we'll need. Thanks Tatum.
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Operation New Neighbor
 Thank you so much to Tim & Nichole Juillet for all of your hard work to keep this ministry active and moving forward. We have been so excited to see the new faces come to church for receiving one of these great invitations to FourteenSix.
If you are not involved and would like to get plugged in somewhere, please don't hesitate to contact Tim Juillet. Or, if you have any extra envelopes hanging around your house that you are not using, please consider donating them to this ministry. Thank you to all of you for your continued support with our Operation New Neighbor ministry.
If you would like to
help, please contact me at: Tim@fourteensix.com.
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Operation Mailer
Our January Mailer is
scheduled to be the largest outreach effort in our church history. We're
raising funds now through our "change challenge" and we hope you will be part
of our efforts. This will help us send invitations to visit our church to 30,000 homes.
If you
can help, please use our PayPal account (see below) or contact the church office
info@fourteensix.com.
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Vision
We believe in gathering
followers of Jesus together in order to encourage each other, provide training
in Godliness and create opportunities for us working together. We want to make
a difference in our community by teaching and walking out the principles of
Jesus. This is the definition of what church ought to be so we've created the
Christianity 101 class, and others like it, to help build our children and adults into well
educated followers of Jesus. It's not about the "breakfast and a movie Sunday
morning show", it's about really following Jesus from our hearts. This is the
driving force behind all we do at FourteenSix.
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Special Announcements
Saturday, October 10 - Men's Power Breakfast 7 a.m. - Desert Palms Coffee Shop.
Sunday, November 1 - Kingswood Elementary School - our FIRST Sunday Service will meet here.
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