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Prayer Corner
Please pray for an
outpouring of God's Spirit on our congregation. Pray that God will encourage us
all in our hearts and give us new strength. Pray that the Spirit will soften
our hearts toward each other so we can make deep and lasting relationships.
Pray that God will send His Spirit of joy among us as we make the move to
Kingswood Elementary on November 1. Take a minute and pray right now....
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This Coming Sunday, October 18, 2009
Dave
and Mark Hoffman are brothers who had, at one time, both planted churches.
After prayer they decided to join their two congregations and co-pastor
Foothills Christian Fellowship. Twenty years later the result is a 2,500 person
church that serves about 5,000 children per week, 4 Youth Venture Teen
Mentoring Centers and more than 30 on-campus Bible clubs in East County San
Diego. In addition, Dave and Mark mentored me and commissioned me to plant
FourteenSix Christian Church here in Surprise. This week we are blessed to
have Dave Hoffman visiting us from San
Diego with a message of encouragement. You'll not want
to miss Dave - I encourage you to come out. See ya Sunday....
Coming up....
- October 25 - Colossians 4:2-4 "Prayer Power"
- November 1 - Colossians 4:7-14 "Real History" DON'T FORGET THIS IS THE 1ST SUNDAY AT KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY
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A Word of Encouragement
"
Rejoice
in the Lord, O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful. 2 Praise
the Lord with the harp; Make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings. 3 Sing
to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy..." Psalm 33:1-3 (NKJV)
Have
you ever found yourself humming a catchy little tune when you're lost in the
wonder of a beautiful day? Have you ever turned on the tunes when you needed to
get on with a good cry? Have you ever listened to something so beautiful every
goose-bump on your body took notice?
Music
is a marvelous gift to us from God. It moves us emotionally, spiritually and
physically. When we hear it and sing it or create it, music has the power to
change our state of mind. Studies have shown that music can have a healing
effect on our emotions and even speed up physical recovery from injury. In
fact, studying music has been shown to increase I.Q. scores. What's really
interesting is that no one is exactly certain why this is so. The power of music
still remains a mystery and the Bible tells us we should use this marvelous
gift to worship God.
King
David tells us here that such musical praise from those who follow God is a
beautiful thing. We ought not to be ashamed to sing loudly with shouts of joy.
Notice that David lists out several instruments along with the human voice. It
seems clear that using whatever instruments we can find to praise the Lord is a
beautiful thing too. Let's worship with gladness, vibrancy and excitement and
let the music take us away.
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WorshipVibes
 by Jamie Brees
Amazing Grace
"Then King David went in and sat before the LORD; and he said: "Who am I, O LORD God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far? And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O God; and You have also
spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come, and have
regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, O LORD God." - (1 Chronicles 17:16-17, New King James Version)
Amazing
Grace is my all time favorite worship song, both for the words and the
melody, but mostly for the words. "Amazing" is the best way to describe
God's grace. When you fully understand the depth of our sinfulness
(depravity) compared to the holiness of God, you have to wonder how He
could love us the way He does. It is no small thing to forgive us all
the wrong we've done, all the crimes we've committed both small and
large, all the selfishness we've shown, all the temper tantrums and
childish behavior we've exhibited, all the evil and unwholesome
thoughts we've harbored - ALL our sin, not only in the past but in the
future as well.
"How sweet the sound"
When we have a real perspective of sin, God's grace is the sweetest
thing imaginable. It is nothing for a Christian to call himself a
wretch, as the author of this hymn does, because it only means that
God's grace is that much sweeter.
See the full text of the song at WorshipVibes.com. You may discover a verse or two you've never seen before.
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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 Shawn Stauffer and
Steve Opgenorth for helping put together our new and improved set-up and
break-down plan. Shawn worked nearly all day loading and unloading the trailer
helping design a plan to off load the trailer in under 30 minutes. Steve is
working on building a "nerve center on wheels", a cart that will hold our sound
board, computer and other sound equipment that again will cut down our load-in
time by as much as 2/3rds. Thanks Shawn and Steve.
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Vision
"Faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17
Our vision is to heavily emphasize
the teaching of the Bible. There is a temptation in our culture to emphasize
popular topics or spiritual fads. While a topical message series is certainly
okay from time to time, our vision is to put a premium on teaching the Bible
chapter by chapter and verse by verse so that issues like context and flow of
thought are included. We will do the occasional topical message series (we have
one planned for January) but our main emphasis will be regular study of the
Bible, one chapter at a time.
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Special Announcements: CELEBRATE with us!
Sunday, October 18 - Dave Hoffman speaks at FourteenSix, 10 a.m. Celebrate with us as our pastor from our parent church comes to visit us in Surprise - Carden Traditional School
Sunday, November 1 Kingswood Elementary School - Come celebrate with us as our church moves into a new and BIGGER home. FIRST Sunday Service that we will meet here.
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