SUNDAY EDITION

My Saviour's Love

God,I Look to You

BIG IDEA

Life transformation begins with encounters with God, shaped by relationships, established through spiritual disciplines, energized through serving and reproduced through authenticity.

                         Moving Toward Wholeness:

Philippines 1:6
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Philippines 2:12-13
12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

   "End of construction, thanks for your patience"
    (Billy Gram's Wife, Ruth, wanted this on her tomb stone)

                    The Process of Growing in God:

1# God: MOMENTS

Encounters with the Living God!

Colossians 2:2-3
2 My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

2# FAITHFULL : friends

2 Corinthians 6:14-18
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
17 "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."
18 "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

Friends who are faithful or full of faith!
It causes you to GROW!

Winnie the pooh: Eeyore

Don't be the moping and disheartening friend-

BE a friend who is Full of faith!

3# SPIRITUAL :disciplines

Hebrews 4:9-12
9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
10 for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.
11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

                 Worship with Gladness
                 Listen as you Pray
                 Intercede for Others
                 Study the Word of God
                 Meditate and memorize God's word
                 Set aside time to rest and be still

4# Meaningful: SERVICE

Romans 12:3-8
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to hisfaith.
7 If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;
8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

                     Called to Serve like Jesus!
              (Jesus washed the disciples feet).
   The Christian life is like a sponge; Once a sponge is full,
        you have to wring it out to be filled again!

5# LIFE CHANGING: events

2 Corinthians 4:7-10
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.