Our Weakness; God's Strength Pt.2 - Judges 7&8

Judges tells the story of a people who continually remain faithless while God remains faithful to them. In Gods kindness he raised up Judges to draw the people back to himself during this lawless and brutal period in the history of Israel. The purpose of the book of Judges is not to point to good qualities of the "heroes" that God worked through and try to imitate them, but rather to recognize the peoples need for the true hero, Jesus. This remains true today, we are constantly realizing our need for a savior knowing the we cannot attain the perfection that the law of God demands but Jesus has lived the perfect life for us. Let us learn from the mistakes of the Israelites and rely wholly on the true hero King Jesus. 

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Our Weakness; God's Strength - Judges 6

Judges tells the story of a people who continually remain faithless while God remains faithful to them. In Gods kindness he raised up Judges to draw the people back to himself during this lawless and brutal period in the history of Israel. The purpose of the book of Judges is not to point to good qualities of the "heroes" that God worked through and try to imitate them, but rather to recognize the peoples need for the true hero, Jesus. This remains true today, we are constantly realizing our need for a savior knowing the we cannot attain the perfection that the law of God demands but Jesus has lived the perfect life for us. Let us learn from the mistakes of the Israelites and rely wholly on the true hero King Jesus. 

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God's Victories - Judges 4 & 5

Judges tells the story of a people who continually remain faithless while God remains faithful to them. In Gods kindness he raised up Judges to draw the people back to himself during this lawless and brutal period in the history of Israel. The purpose of the book of Judges is not to point to good qualities of the "heroes" that God worked through and try to imitate them, but rather to recognize the peoples need for the true hero, Jesus. This remains true today, we are constantly realizing our need for a savior knowing the we cannot attain the perfection that the law of God demands but Jesus has lived the perfect life for us. Let us learn from the mistakes of the Israelites and rely wholly on the true hero King Jesus. 

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An Unlikely Deliverer - Judges 3:12-30

Judges tells the story of a people who continually remain faithless while God remains faithful to them. In Gods kindness he raised up Judges to draw the people back to himself during this lawless and brutal period in the history of Israel. The purpose of the book of Judges is not to point to good qualities of the "heroes" that God worked through and try to imitate them, but rather to recognize the peoples need for the true hero, Jesus. This remains true today, we are constantly realizing our need for a savior knowing the we cannot attain the perfection that the law of God demands but Jesus has lived the perfect life for us. Let us learn from the mistakes of the Israelites and rely wholly on the true hero King Jesus. 

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Broken Heroes Pointing to the True Hero - Judges 2:11-19

Judges tells the story of a people who continually remain faithless while God remains faithful to them. In Gods kindness he raised up Judges to draw the people back to himself during this lawless and brutal period in the history of Israel. The purpose of the book of Judges is not to point to good qualities of the "heroes" that God worked through and try to imitate them, but rather to recognize the peoples need for the true hero, Jesus. This remains true today, we are constantly realizing our need for a savior knowing the we cannot attain the perfection that the law of God demands but Jesus has lived the perfect life for us. Let us learn from the mistakes of the Israelites and rely wholly on the true hero King Jesus. 

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Lead Us Not Into Temptation… - Matthew 6:13

Prayer is incredibly important in the life of the believer but if we are honest we all have struggles when it comes to prayer. There are those of us that find it challenging to pray because of business, those that have vibrant prayer lives, and those of us that just simply struggle to know what to say. Jesus has kind words for us in Mathew Chapter 6:5-13 on what prayer is and what it should look like. Jesus kindly modeled our dependance on God through prayer and gave us examples in scripture. In this series we are going to walk through The Lord's Prayer in hopes that we would become a praying church. 

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Forgive Us Our Debts - Matthew 6:12

Prayer is incredibly important in the life of the believer but if we are honest we all have struggles when it comes to prayer. There are those of us that find it challenging to pray because of business, those that have vibrant prayer lives, and those of us that just simply struggle to know what to say. Jesus has kind words for us in Mathew Chapter 6:5-13 on what prayer is and what it should look like. Jesus kindly modeled our dependance on God through prayer and gave us examples in scripture. In this series we are going to walk through The Lord's Prayer in hopes that we would become a praying church. 

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Give Us This Day - Matthew 6:11

Prayer is incredibly important in the life of the believer but if we are honest we all have struggles when it comes to prayer. There are those of us that find it challenging to pray because of business, those that have vibrant prayer lives, and those of us that just simply struggle to know what to say. Jesus has kind words for us in Mathew Chapter 6:5-13 on what prayer is and what it should look like. Jesus kindly modeled our dependance on God through prayer and gave us examples in scripture. In this series we are going to walk through The Lord's Prayer in hopes that we would become a praying church. 

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Church Planting Sunday

Church planting Sunday is not a break from our A Praying Church Series but rather an opportunity for us to continue to pray "your kingdom come" and see that through Jesus the "all the families of the earth will be blessed." From the beginning God's plan was that the gospel of Jesus was to be spread throughout the world primarily by the planting of churches that would be a blessing to the world by worshiping Jesus, being faithful to the Bible and planting other churches. Sharing our story as a church plant connects us with very first churches planted by the apostles.

We took the opportunity this Sunday to share about our partnerships with the Act29 Church Planting Network, the Summit Network, and the Bridge Church (also a part of the Summit Network). Also we formally announced our partnership with Village Belfast a church plant in northern Ireland. We are incredibly excited about what God is doing in and through our parters to spread the fame of Jesus. 

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Your Kingdom Come - Matthew 6:10

Prayer is incredibly important in the life of the believer but if we are honest we all have struggles when it comes to prayer. There are those of us that find it challenging to pray because of business, those that have vibrant prayer lives, and those of us that just simply struggle to know what to say. Jesus has kind words for us in Mathew Chapter 6:5-13 on what prayer is and what it should look like. Jesus kindly modeled our dependance on God through prayer and gave us examples in scripture. In this series we are going to walk through The Lord's Prayer in hopes that we would become a praying church. 

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Hallowed Be Your Name - Matthew 6:9

Prayer is incredibly important in the life of the believer but if we are honest we all have struggles when it comes to prayer. There are those of us that find it challenging to pray because of business, those that have vibrant prayer lives, and those of us that just simply struggle to know what to say. Jesus has kind words for us in Mathew Chapter 6:5-13 on what prayer is and what it should look like. Jesus kindly modeled our dependance on God through prayer and gave us examples in scripture. In this series we are going to walk through The Lord's Prayer in hopes that we would become a praying church. 

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Our Father... - Matthew 6:5-13

Prayer is incredibly important in the life of the believer but if we are honest we all have struggles when it comes to prayer. There are those of us that find it challenging to pray because of business, those that have vibrant prayer lives, and those of us that just simply struggle to know what to say. Jesus has kind words for us in Mathew Chapter 6:5-13 on what prayer is and what it should look like. Jesus kindly modeled our dependance on God through prayer and gave us examples in scripture. In this series we are going to walk through The Lord's Prayer in hopes that we would become a praying church. 

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The Gospel and Rest - Mark 2:23-3:6

This week pastor John Murphy preached on Rest, and if most of us are honest we do not really know what rest means. Rest is often either seen as the chased after at all cost  thing or seen as bad thing in our culture, but Jesus has something very different to say about rest. Jesus says that rest ultimately points to him. 

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Growth and Maturity - Luke 17 - Bryan Hart

Bryan Hart, the guest speaker for this week, is a pastor at One Harbor Church in Morehead City, NC. He spoke on growth and maturity out of the all to familiar Luke 17 "faith of a mustard seed" story. Bryan boldly challenged us with the truth that if we are are never admit that we are immature in our faith there is a good chance that we are truly immature. Growing in our faith is all too important because as we cling to Jesus as our treasure we can rest assured in the hard times of life he calls us to. 

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A Disciple Making Church - Nehemiah 3

What does an obscure text in Nehemiah about a wall being built have to do with discipleship in the church today? More than you think. We often shift the responsibility of the tasks we are given to "the professionals." This often happens with discipleship as well. We shift the responsibility to help disciple, instruct and love others to the "pro Christians" who can handle the task. 

This obscure story about a list of people who did their part to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem points us to the truth that those people were significant in their insignificance to accomplish the task at hand. It takes a community of people, some of which who may seem insignificant, to disciple a person to walk with Jesus. 

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Evangelism - Acts 26 - Bryan Hart

Bryan Hart, the guest speaker for this week, is a pastor at One Harbor Church in Morehead City, NC. He preached from Acts 26 about how evangelism is often misunderstood and left to the "professional christians." We can learn from Paul's example that our motivation for sharing our faith does not come from our own gifting but rather through our right response to the work that Jesus has done. 

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The Fight: The Gospel and Spiritual Warfare - Ephesians 6:10-23

We're in a series called "Ephesians: The Church's Gospel Identity" Paul wrote this letter to the church at Ephesus and his main concern was that they would understand where their identity laid as individuals and corporately as the body of Christ. 

Today we looked at Ephesians 6:10-23 "The Fight: The Gospel and Spiritual Warfare" 

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The Gospel and Our Circumstances - Ephesians 6:5-9

We're in a series called "Ephesians: The Church's Gospel Identity" Paul wrote this letter to the church at Ephesus and his main concern was that they would understand where their identity laid as individuals and corporately as the body of Christ. 

Today we looked at Ephesians 6:5-9 - "The Gospel and Our Circumstances" 

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The Gospel in the Home: The Little Church - Ephesians 6: 1-4

We're in a series called "Ephesians: The Church's Gospel Identity" Paul wrote this letter to the church at Ephesus and his main concern was that they would understand where their identity laid as individuals and corporately as the body of Christ. 

Today we looked at Ephesians 6:1-4 "The Gospel in the Home: The Little Church" 

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