Bulletin & Sermon Notes December 15, 2024

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The Wise Men’s Humility

Matthew 2:1-13

Indications the Wise Men were humble:

1. The Wise Men were _________________ yet teachable, not pompous and arrogant.

2. The Wise Man were wealthy and, yet they were ____________________________ sensitive.

3. The Wise Men were from an advanced culture, but they were still ________________ in foreign affairs.

4. The Wise Men were men, and yet they stopped and asked for ______________________.

5. The Wise Men were mature a

Bulletin & Sermon Notes December, 15 2024

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Lessons From The Shepherds

Luke 2

1. They made a definite choice to pursue the 

           __________________________ above all else.

2. They got out of their ______________________ 

 and search for the Christ-child.

3. The deepened the topic of their 

 ______________________________.

4. They returned to their jobs with a different 

 _______________________________.

Bulletin & Sermon Notes for December 8, 2024

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Joy vs. Disillusionment

Luke 1: 26-35

Lessons to learn if you really want joy:

1. Put the feelings and needs of others ahead of 

__________________.

2. Seek to have a genuine encounter with 

_________________.

3. Walk in ______________ every day no matter 

where God ____________________.

Will you be disciplined enough to be obedient every day in what Eugene Peterson calls “a long obedience in the right direction”? When you do there comes an inner satisfaction

Bulletin & Sermon Notes for December 1, 2024

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Bulletin & Sermon Notes for November 24, 2024

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Thanksgiving My Favorite Holiday:

Hebrews 12:28

¨ I would have been tempted to boycott the first Thanksgiving service.  Think about what our forefathers had endured the previous year.  From our pampered perspective they didn’t have much to be thankful for. 

¨ Thanksiving is my favorite holiday.  A time of families gathering and remembering and celebrating God’s goodness and blessings.  If America’s first stettlers could give thanks for their meager harvest

Bulletin & Sermon Notes November 10

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Abounding in Thanksgiving

2 Corinthians 4:15-18

15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is see

Bulletin & Sermon Notes October 27, 2024

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Sermon Notes

Thanksgiving:

When Jesus said, “Thank You!”

1. JESUS GAVE THANKS FOR ___________________________________________.

 a. Matthew 15:35-37

2. JESUS GAVE THANKS FOR ANSWERED ___________________________________________.

 a. John 11:39

3. JESUS GAVE THANKS FOR ____________________________________ CROSS.

 a. Luke 22:14-20

Bulletin & Sermon Notes For October 20, 2024

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“Blessed Is The Nation Whose God Is The Lord”

Psalms 33:10-22

1. God is _______________________; 

                      nations are ________________.

2. God honors the ___________________ 

 that honors _________________.

3. God is the source of our ________________ not military might.

Do you want to help make this country strong? Live a life of integrity. Go to work on time and do an honest day’s labor. Be faithful to your mate. Love and discipline your child

Bulletin & Sermon Noted for October 13, 2024

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Sermon Notes

Leading and Following

1 Peter 5

1. The Christian Leader.

           a. To feed.

           b. To protect.

 c. To guide.

2. A good shepherd:

 a. Is willing.

 b. Not greedy for money.

 c. Being an example.

 d. Not for approval of men.

3. The Godly ___________________________

 a. Humbly ________________________

 b. Is divinely ______________________

 c. Fully __________________________

 d. Eternally ________________________

Bulletin & Sermon Notes October 6, 2024

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Leading and Following

1 Peter 5

1. The Christian ___________________.

            a. To _______________

            b. To _______________

 c. To _______________

2. A good shepherd:

 a. ________________

 b. Not _________________

 c. Being an _______________

 d. Not for approval of _____________

3. The Godly _________________

 a. Humbly _______________

 b. Is divinely _______________

 c. Fully _________________

 d. Eternally ________________

Bulletin & Sermon Notes September 29, 2024

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“A REASON TO SUFFER”

1 Peter 4:12-19

1. Some suffering is__________ — expect it.

a. Sometimes we suffer because of our Christian __________________.

b. Sometimes we suffer because of our own _______ ___________.

c. Sometimes we suffer because of a _________________.

d. Sometimes we suffer because we live in a fallen _________________.

e. Sometimes we suffer because of God’s ___________________.

2. All suffering is purposeful — ____________ in it.

3. Patient s

Bulletin & Sermon notes 9-8-2024

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“A Reason To Deepen”

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Part 1: There are two primary reasons we need to grow deeper in the Christian life:

1. Have the strength to withstand trouble.

2. To appreciate the best God has to offer.

The three areas we need to grow in the Christian life:

1. We are to deepen mentally by “preparing our mind’s for action.”

2. We are also to deepen __________________, by becoming like God in His holiness. 

 Four motivations for holiness:

 1. To ______________

Bulletin& Sermon Notes September 1, 2024

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What Does God Want From Me?

Micah 6

What we are to do

¨ We are to do Justice

¨ Justice is seen in Honesty

¨ Justice is seen in Fairness

What we are to love 

¨ We are to love Mercy

¨ Mercy show itself  in Benevolence

¨ Mercy shows itself in Forgiveness

How we are to behave

¨ We are to walk humbly 

¨ Humility shows itself in our relationships with  others

¨ Humility shows itself in our relationships with God

¨  

God has made it perfectly clear His expectations of us. If

Bulletin & Sermon Notes 8/25/2024

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“A Reason To Deepen”

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Part 1

There are two primary ______________ we need to grow deeper in the Christian life:

            1. Have the ________________ to withstand       

                    trouble.

 2. To appreciate the _____________ God has to 

                     offer.

The three __________________ we need to grow in the Christian life:

 1. We are to deepen _____________ by 

                   “preparing our _________________ for 

Bulletin & Sermon Notes for August 18, 2024

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Sermon Notes

A Study Through Peter

1 Peter 1:1-12

1. We are a part of God's people and are a part of His victorious kingdom.

2. We have been born again and are guaranteed eternal life in heaven.

3. We are protected by God and are exempt from unnecessary _________________________.

4. We have meaning in ______________ and are thankful it's temporary.