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04/08/18: Beyond Discouraged

Pastor Nila preaches this Sunday!

04/01/18 EASTER: An Egg, a Pearl, and a Cross

04/01/18 EASTER: SonRise Service

03/18/18 FINDING GOD IN YOUR SPIRITUAL WORLD, part 2

At the bottom of this page, you will find the letters written out for you that Pastor Dan reads in this sermon. May they speak encouragement to your soul. 

03/11/18 FINDING GOD IN YOUR SPIRITUAL WORLD, part 1

5 Spiritual Worlds

1.Foreigner

• You feel like an outsider.
• You find most relationships unsatisfying.
• You often feel lost.
• You have learned to be independent.

2.Fighter

• You see injustice everywhere.
• The earth could be so much better.
• You need hope that evil will end.
• You will not quit being part of the cure.

3.Faint

• You feel overlooked by people.
• You are motivated to leave a mark on the world.
• You are looking to stand out in the crowd.

4.Fugitive

• You have a very strong sense of right and wrong.
• You are troubled by the gap between your intentions and your actions.
• You do good things and hope they outweigh the bad things.

5.Flattened

• You are often overwhelmed by personal and world needs.
• You are a realist.
• You admire those who can persevere.
• You have a deep empathy for people.

03/04/18 LAUGH YOUR WAY TO A BETTER RELATIONSHIP: The Key to a Good Relationship with God and People

 Laugh Your Way to Better Relationships, part 4

The Key to a Better Relationship with God and People

 

John 1:19a - "My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak.”  

Psalm 46:10 - “Be still, and know that I am God.” 

 

     4 reasons why it is hard to listen

1.______________________________________

2.______________________________________

3.______________________________________

4.______________________________________

     2 Danger Zones

1._____________________________________

2._____________________________________

     3 Challenges

1._____________________________________

2._____________________________________

3._____________________________________

     3 Helps

1.____________________________________

2.____________________________________

3.____________________________________

 

     Applications

_________ I will work on really listening with people.

_________ I will work on being still and listening to God 

_________ I will spend 10 minutes a day listening to God 5 times this week.

02/25/18 LAUGH YOUR WAY TO A BETTER RELATIONSHIP: Discover Who You Are in the Body Of Christ

Here is a clip that might help further explain the 4 countries Pastor Dan is speaking on in this podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXcLU8xEJQ

We have been exploring through Dan's teaching and the videos of Mark Gungor on relationships. If you search within YouTube you will find a lot of Mark Gungor's video and clips on YouTube and are definitly worth a watch!

I Corinthians 12:12-27

My Profile

Time:     Objective  or  Subjective                 Future Oriented  or  Present Oriented

My Time Style is:

My Home Country is (most dominant):

My Adopted Country is (2nd most dominant) :

My top two countries make me one of the World's

______________________________________________________________________.

My motivations are  __________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________.

 

Applications:

___  I learned more about myself today.

___  I need to use my gifts as part of the body of Christ.

___  I will talk with a pastor about using my gifts.  

 

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02/18/18 LAUGH YOU WAY TO BETTE RELATIONSHIPS: Men & Women in Relationships

Laugh Your Way to Better Relationships Week 2

Men & Women in Relationships

Genesis 3:16-19
"To the woman he said, I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”  To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.  It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Ephesians 5:21
"Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ."

In this series we are looking at Mark Gungor's Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage series, the episode referenced is the Tale of Two Brains. Here is a YouTube link to what we watched this Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk

Notes:

•    Did you come from more of a traditional family or more of an egalitarian family?
•    What are women good at and motivated by?
•    What are men good at and motivated by?
•    What are danger zones for women?
•    What are danger zones for men?

 

Applications:

___  I have a better understanding of men and women

___  I need to watch out for my danger zones.

___  I need to work on submission

 

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02/11/18 LAUGH YOUR WAY TO BETTER RELATIONSHIPS: Broken People in Relationships

The video mentioned in this podcast is from Mark Gungor's Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage series, the episode mentioned is the Tale of Two Brains. You may be able to find clips on YouTube if you are interested. 

 

Laugh  Your Way to Better Relationships
Week 1-  Broken People in Relationships   (The reason why we can't all get along)   

1Corinthians 13:4-7 (MSG)
“Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.”

Romans 7:15-20 (NIV)
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”

Notes:

• Are there times where you find it hard to be loving? why? 
• How do you respond to your selfishness?  Ignore it? beat  yourself up?  ask forgiveness?
• Who do you relate most to?  Steve, Sally or Jody?
• What did you learn about relationships? Sin and brokenness? 

 

Applications

___  I need to stop hiding from deeper relationships

___  I need to learn more about my areas of weakness

___  I never realize that God is attracted to my brokenness

___  I need help in loving like Christ loves.                  

01/28/18 IN YOUR FACE: Count the Cost

Matthew 8:18-22

Two people are confronted by jesus as they attempt to follow Him. He has a different word for each of them. But both are to count the cost of following Him.