Author: Nathaniel Colt

Join us today for a special guest speaker Terry Castleberry. Terry and Babs are missionaries to Belize.

Key Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:2

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Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Confessions

Key Scripture: Psalms 32

• The Lords Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) can be summarized in A.C.T.S
  • Adoration
  • Confession
  • Thanks
  • Supplication
• 3 words often used to denote our disobedience
  • Transgression
    • Departure from God
    • Flight is our normal reaction
  • Sin
    • missing the mark
    • Romans 3:23
  • Inequity
    • Twisted or distorted
    • Taking pure and distorting it
    • God plan is for a straight line
• 3 ways God responds to confession
  • Forgiven: Jesus already paid the price
  • Covered: Romans 3:23; 6:23
  • Justified: not counted against us
• How we should respond
  • Go to God while there is still time
  • Don’t be suborn: you know what is right and what you need to do…don’t run from it
  • humility

Join us today as Pastor Ken shares a message titled Why The Bible?

Key Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17

• We must be devoted to the scriptures
  • Have the right attitude
  • Meditate in the Word
  • Obey the Word
  • Have a sensitive and receptive heart
• We must be directed by the scriptures
• We must be dependent on the scriptures

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Arrested by God’s Love

Key Scripture: Acts 9:1-19

• Saul was on the Damascus to arrest christian when God arrested him
• God busted Saul (Acts 9:3)
• Saul is arraigned (Acts 9:5)
• Saul is tried
• Saul is sentenced
  • Acts 9:6, 16
  • Sentenced to die daily (Colossians 3:3-6)
  • And to live in service to God as a Bond Servant (1 Timothy 1:12; Titus 1:1)
• Saul is restored (Acts 9:17)

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 5

• People spend 50% of their time thinking about money according to one study
• Money is the 2nd most talked about thing in the Bible (2nd only to love)
• 2,350 verses in the Bible are related to money
• 16 out of the 38 parables of Jesus in the bible are related to money
• Malachi 3:7-12
• When we return to the biblical tithe, we will be blessed
• Maybe not financially but there are many ways God will bless us
• Do you rob God? When we hold back our tithe that is exactly what we are doing
• Is it possible to rob God and not be aware of it? Yes but we are still responsible
• Tithe literally means means 10th
• There are 3 types of tithes
  • levitical Tithe
    • Numbers 18:23-24
    • Tithe to support the work of the Lord and those in Ministry
  • Festival Tithe
    • Deuteronomy 12:4-7
    • Tithe to bring people together and promote unity
  • Poor Tithe
    • Deuteronomy 14:28-29
    • Tithe to help those less fortunate than you (benevolence fund)
• Bible also talks about Offerings which are above and beyond our tithe (Exodus 25:1-2)
• Some people say they can’t afford to give, but really you can’t afford NOT to give

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 4

Key Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30

• Money and possessions are a very effective tool that God uses in our lives
• Money and possessions are very effective tests
• money and possessions are a very effective testimony that God uses
• Stewardship requires Action
• 5 Biblical reasons why everyone should be a tither
  1. Obedience
  2. Honesty
     • Malachi 3:8
  3. Love
     • John 14:15
  4. Gratitude
     • Psalms 116:12-14
  5. Faith
     • Malachi 3
     • Proverbs 3
     • Matthew 6

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 3

Key Scripture: Luke 12:42-48

6 Keys to wise money management

1. Use a budget
   • Proverbs 21:5
2. Have a savings plan
   • Proverbs 21:20
3. Don’t Co-Sign for someone else’s loan
   • Proverbs 17:18
   • Proverbs 22:26-27
   • Proverbs 6:1-5
4. Stay out of debt
   • Proverbs 22:7
   • Hebrews 13:5
5. Avoid get rich quick schemes
   • Proverbs 28:19-20
6. Don’t buy on impulse
   • Proverbs 21:5

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship part 2

Key Scripture: Philippians 4: 10-14

Financial Contentment…

1. is the ability to be content in plenty or poverty
2. is possible
3. is a secret to be learned
4. is accompanied by a grateful spirit
5. is required by God
6. is achieved by God’s power

If you would like Christ to give you financial contentment…

1. confess our sin of discontentment
2. submit to Christ’s will for our financials
3. ask Him in faith for his power to be content with money

Join us today as Pastor CJ shares a message titled Taking the Stew Out of Stewardship

Key Scripture: Genesis 39:1-6

There approx. 2,350 verses in the bible related to finance. Second only to Love.

“Steward”: A steward is someone who manages the resources of another to accomplish the goals of the owner.

Three biblical financial stewardship realities:
1. God owns all your money,
2. God enables you to earn all your money
3. You have a responsibility to manage God’s money to accomplish his purposes.

There are three truths good stewards live by:
1. Owners have rights; stewards have responsibilities.
2. Second, every spending decision is a spiritual decision.
3. The primary requirement for a steward is faithfulness.