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The app is a great resource where you can stay connected to First Colony
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Thank you for joining us today.
We are glad you're here.
>> Grant: Well, good morning and welcome to the First Colony Church of
Christ, where our mission is to honor God and to lead people into a
growing relationship with Him.
I'm excited you've decided to join us today as we center on the Biblical
truths found in the book of Jude.
Church, honestly, I'm just excited we can meet today.
We have electricity; we've got heat; we've got light in the house; this
is a great day.
You've got Internet at home.
We're able to do this so let's not take advantage of this wonderful day
the Lord has made when we get to come together and worship.
So with that, let's stand and enjoy worship together this morning.
>> Richard: Amen!
Thank you, Grant!
Our God is faithful!
("Every Giant Will Fall" playing
>> Richard: Let's sing.
>> Richard: Yes!
Nothing is impossible with our God!
(Applause)
we just want to worship the Lord this morning from a thankful heart,
amen?
("10,000 Reasons/Bless the Lord" playing)
(Applause)
>> Richard: You may be seated.
>> Joel: Well, good morning, everyone.
It is so good to see you.
It's kind of hard to believe that just a week ago on Sunday, it seems
like almost a month ago; and inbetween we had a pretty incredible
snowstorm and freeze and all that fun stuff.
And what I thought was really fascinating is we have plans.
Last Sunday, I had plans.
I had food I was gonna make.
I had projects I was gonna get caught up with.
Typically you're planning for school.
You're planning things for work.
And then all of a sudden everything is shut down, and all your plans are
gone.
And the question is: what's really important to you?
And so we may write out our lists and write things that are important to
us, and in Scripture in Matthew chapter 6, verses 20-21, it says "But
store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where Mott and critic,
vermin, do not destroy, where thieves do not break in and steal, for
where your treasure is, there is your heart also."
And it was so cool to look on Facebook and see people's plans were
destroyed.
What was really important, property, was messed up; but yet, families
were together.
People were helping people.
There was even someone who set up a coffee station out in front of his
house because he knew what it's like to not have coffee.
And I'm sure many of you experienced that as well.
And so I have right here the word "Treasure" and the question is: what's
important to you?
Because one day your treasure is going to be tested, and it's going to
take the test of fire; and only what's done for God will last.
There's a famous quote that says, "Only one life will soon be passed,
only what's done for Christ will last."
As you look and say, okay, what is really important?
Where should I spend my time?
God's Word and people's souls.
That's my prayer for myself as well as each one of us as well.
Thank you very much.
(Applause)
>> Grant: Thank you, Joel, as always.
As Pete and Missy Edgmon come couple to lead us in communion, please
gather your supplies at home.
If you're at home, get your packets out.
If you don't have one, they're in the back.
When you finish, please put them in the bags and baskets at the end of
the aisle, that would be great.
Let's prepare our mind and hearts into enter into in time of communion.
Pete and Missy?
>> Pete: Thank you, Grant.
Good morning, church.
My name is Pete Edgmon and my wife Missy.
It's truly a privilege to be able to lead you and celebrate the Lord's
Supper this morning and be together today.
Let's bow.
Holy Father in heaven, how great is Your Name.
You're the great and everlasting God, Creator of the ends of the earth.
How abundant are Your mercies, Lord.
Father, help us cast aside our daily troubles of this world from our
thoughts and prepare our minds to consider the sacrifice that Your Holy
Son, Jesus, made for all of us.
Father, from the Scriptures in the gospel of Luke, Jesus says, "No one
lights a lamp and then hides it or puts it under a basket.
Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand where its light can be seen by all
who enter the house."
Father, may we all have that brilliant light that radiates the Spirit of
God and avoid the distraction and division of this world and be unified
through Jesus Christ.
Father God, bless this bread that represents Jesus' broken body on the
cross and bless this cup that represents His precious blood shed.
Let us take these emblems in remembrance of Him.
In Jesus' Holy and Almighty Name, amen.
Let us partake together.
>> Missy: I will read from the book of Jude, 1, verses 17 through 21.
(reading)
("This I Believe/The Creed" playing)
>> Richard: Why don't we all stand together and continue to worship the
Lord?
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>> Richard: Thank you for your worship.
You may be seated.
>> Grant: Scott Wolfe, an elder of the church, will lead us in our
offering prayer.
>> Scott: Good morning, everyone.
It's really great to worship with all of you this morning.
As an eldership, we really like to thank you for your continued support
and faithful giving at first Colony.
Please note you are making a kingdom impact in transforming lives.
Many of you are aware of different ways to contribute.
There are different boxes at the doors and online are couple of digital
places to give.
Would you pray with me?
Father, we thank You for the many things that You give us, Father.
May we continue to be generous with Your gifts.
Father, we pray Your oversight this morning on our giving so that it may
advance Your kingdom and Your church.
In Christ's Name we pray.
>> Grant: Amen.
Thank you, Scott.
We're about to have our time of fellowship greeting and before we do,
let me just remind our first to fifth graders, you are invited to Main
Street Live, a great worship service with age-appropriate teaching and
activities.
So when we release, you see Joel right here in the center.
You can find Joel.
They will head across the hall to the chapel and have a great time over
there.
Parents, you need to sign your kids in so if you haven't done that this
head across the lobby and go sign them in over there.
Then you can pick them up there after service.
All right, let's go ahead and stand for our fellowship greeting.
Ask your neighbor how their pipes are doing and first to fifth graders,
head with Joel.
If you're online, sign in.
We would love to hear you're with us and how you're doing this week.
("Only King Forever" playing)
>> Richard: Thank you for your worship today!
You may be seated!
>> Ronnie: Fantastic!
Richard and team, thank you so very, very much for leading us so well.
Good morning, everyone.
Glad to see you here in the room.
To those watching online, we welcome you as well.
We'd love to hear from you and there on your church app, which is on
your computer screen, you can contact us and someone would be happy and
eager to pray with you this morning.
As Joel mentioned, it has been indeed quite a week.
You've heard of Armageddon.
This is iceageddon, snowageddon, freeze ageddon.
It's been a challenging week, more so for some than others.
These are first-world problems.
They're first-world pipes and first-world expenses and first-world
hassles.
It's not been a lot of fun.
Martha and I were without power for 36 hours and some of you much longer
than that.
I never appreciated or treasured our fireplace as much as I did this
past week -- I don't know if I would call it a lifesaver but a sanity
saver for a bit.
Our church building was without power from Monday through mid-morning on
Thursday.
We really didn't have a whole lot of damage.
We had a small water leak out back.
It was easily fixed.
You'll notice there's not much lighting in here right now so that is an
issue with the power outage that will be addressed over the next few
days, but other than that, okay.
As Joel mentioned, it was really encouraging to at least hear and be
aware of the way so many of you were just checking on one another,
checking on your actual neighbors; and being a friend in the Presence of
Christ.
It's good to be together today.
In our first service, my wife said "It is a little warm?"
It's above 25 so it's probably gonna feel warm, whatever it is.
We're in a message series called "Small Books, Big Messages."
Today we're in the book of Jude with the title "Protecting the Faith."
If ever this theme of small books and big messages, it's certainly
apropos for this small book, only 25 verses, named Jude.
We'll spend two weeks in this book.
We're going through the four no-chapter books of the New Testament 2
John, 3 John, Philemon, and Jude.
Jude will stress to us today that truth matters.
What a Christian believes, matters.
Churches have doctrine statements.
We have a doctrine at the same time where we list what -- statement
where we list what we believe.
I encourage you to believe it and ask every new member -- "You need to
buy in to this.
This is not up for debate here."
You know, another church, they may have a different set of beliefs.
What we believe is pretty much standard for conservative,
Bible-believing churches; but you need to take a look at our docket
ridge at the same time. --
doctrine statement.
We'll get through the first 11 verses today.
(reading)
now, I like the name Jude.
I got a grandson named Jude.
He's a great kid.
I like the name James.
I got a grandson named James.
Well, this Jude and this James are brothers; and they are half-brothers
to Jesus.
Yeah.
Same mother, different father.
This James is actually the writer of the New Testament book James; but
here Jude -- notice he doesn't mention, though, he's a half-brother to
Jesus.
He said he's a servant of Jesus Christ.
(reading)
That word "Kept" will see it again in the book of Jude.
It's a great concept here.
Notice how we're called; we're loved; and we are kept for Jesus Christ.
Mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
Now he get to the heart of the his message.
(reading)
Judices, I need to ask you to earnestly guard, protect, and contend for
the faith that's been once and all trusted and delivered to God's
people.
He said, I need you to care and to be aware.
Care about God's truth and I need you to be aware of threats to it.
Now, here when he said "Contend for THE faith" he's not talking about
personal faith.
Contend for THE faith, used to describe the content of what is believed
by Christians including certain things as the identity of Jesus; the
proclam makes of the Gospel; how we come to Christ; how we live for
Christ.
As well as the moral teachings of the Scriptures.
This faith has been once and for all delivered.
In other words, it's not open to change or revision or addition.
We're not looking for a new, improved, more marketable version.
Today we find the content of of this faith on the pages of Scripture,
which provides all doctrine profitable for teaching; reproof;
instruction; and righteousness.
Let me just state it clearly: here we are in 2021, and the Bible should
always be the base, the basis, of our belief in anything.
And if it doesn't square with Scripture, well, Scripture becomes the
filter.
We worship the Lord, and the Bible is our filter.
Now, he says in verse 4, he gets real specific.
(reading)
In other words, nobody comes in wearing a sign saying, "Hey, everybody,
I'm a threat."
Here we are in our day and age -- you really don't have to be in
geographical proximity.
It's easy to sort of communicate.
Well, certain individuals, they've secretly slipped in among you and
here's what is going on.
(reading)
Now, let's keep that stripture on the screen here -- Scripture on the
screen here.
They pervert, the grace of Jesus, the wonderful grace of God, that
forgives our sins, renew us, and gives us access to the Holy Spirit.
But they twist and pervert it into a license for immorality, sexual
immorality.
You know, sex is a wonderful gift from God, given to a husband and wife
in marriage.
Those are the boundaries, according to what the Scriptures teach us.
He says, you have some influencers who have come in, and they want to
redefine Jesus; and they want to redefine morality.
So here's Jude speaking to a group of Christians and they live in a
pluralistic, relativistic culture, follow willing all sorts of fads; but
he says, "I need you to be rooted and grounded in the teaching that has
been passed down and handed down to us."
Part of, I think, this message of turning the grace of God into a
license for immorality -- "Hey, God forgives sins."
"You just -- you do you; however you want to live, go for it because God
specializes in forgiveness."
And "Also, there's no real judgment to come.
Judgment is outdated."
He'll say in verse 5, (reading)
"You may have some teachers or influences who try to give you a new
message.
You already know this.
I want to remind you of the reality of judgment."
he will give Thorel station and pictures of it.
The Lord at one time delivered His people out of Egypt but later
destroyed those who did not believe.
Did they have a good beginning?
They had a GREAT beginning, delivering out of Egypt; but they didn't
have a good ending.
Verse 6.
(reading)
Even the angels who rebelled against the Lord -- great beginning.
They did not finish well.
Verse 7.
(reading)
Obviously a reference here to the reality of hell.
By the way, does your mind have room for a God who judges?
Or have you forgotten or distanced or stiff-armed that part of God's
nature?
You know, all of us in this room, our sins will either be judged and
punished in eternity; or they will be judged and punished in the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Let me just remind you of something I have mentioned the last couple of
weeks.
Jesus Christ does not save us just from low self-esteem.
He saves us from the eternal consequences of our separation from God.
And when we minimize the significance of the Gospel, when we minimize
the significance of what Christ has redeemed us from, honestly our
relationship with Him doesn't last.
You know, people will come to Jesus -- got a little problem, "See if
Jesus can fix it."
Have a little problem with a child or marriage.
"Let me run to Jesus, see if He can fix it."
When you run to Jesus Christ, fully cognizant that without Him "I face
eternal death," THAT's a different mind set and approach to the Gospel.
Judices, you may have people tell you there's no judgment and that grace
of God just means you can rebel against Him; you don't need to listen to
Him; you don't need to love and honor Him.
That's just not true.
You remember so Dom and Gomorrah?
God judged them.
You remember the angels?
God judged them.
Remember Israel in the wilderness?
God judged them.
He doesn't wink in rebellion in a teacher, influencer, or follower.
Verse 8.
(reading)
Notice not only the strength of the faith handed down but on the
strength of their dream and imagine makeses. --
imaginations.
(reading)
Or one translation says "They just speak irreverently about spiritual
matters."
Verse 9 -- sort of a difficult verse to understand.
(reading)
In other words, Jude's point is, you may have some influencers and
people around you who are arrogant; they reject authority; they speak
irreverently about spiritual things; even the archangel Michael
understands he has a station; he has an assignment; and the Lord is over
him.
Even the archangel says "The Lord rebuke you."
I mean, the Lord.
N.T. Wright, a well-known Bible scholar, says it like this: "Once you
reject supernatural authority, it's easy to reject human authorities as
well, whether in the church or in the wider world.
And once you do that, the most obvious thing to cast off, to cast off
restraint in any and every aspect of the behavior, not the least of
which in relation to sex."
And these teachers are overthrowing or ignoring the proper structures of
authority, and the result is moral chaos and pollution.
The different teachers appear to offer a way of life which is exciting;
it's different; it's liberating; but the only thing they really achieve
is shame, darkness, and chaos.
Back to the book of Jude, verse 10.
(reading)
He says woe to them and gives three more Old Testament illustrations.
(reading)
You remember those three episodes?
The way of Cain?
Run away anger.
and resentment.
Balaam's error, such a gifted profit, could have been such a force for
good!
It was all wrapped up in himself and sold his gift for profit.
And Korah's bobbleon, -- rebellion, it just galled Korah to submit to
someone else's authority; to see someone else used by God; and he
created a rebellion himself and others against Moses and against God's
plan.
What Jude reminds these Christians of the reality of God's judgment
against rebellion and that judgment awaits unrepentant behavior and mind
set.
And his strong teaching here is intended to motivate Jude's readers to
be discerning; to remain committed to the faith once and for all
entrusted to God's holy people.
All right.
We've read it, at least these first 11 verses.
We'll come back next week to the latter part of this book.
Let me give four observations under the heading "These things never
change."
Some things never change.
Some things should.
Here are some things that should never change.
Here's the first one: the faith once delivered.
It should never change.
The faith once delivered.
Jude verse 3.
(reading)
In other words, there are no new gospels coming along; no new moral
codes coming to us.
We did not discover the Christian faith.
We did not discover mystically the information in the Scriptures.
It was delivered to us.
No one mystically discovered the meaning of Jesus.
No one mystically discovers the meaning of salvation.
No one mystically discovers how to access God and what He's thinking.
This information is delivered to us, and faith is basically a response
toinformation.
Jude realizes this body of information is under assault.
It's being attacked.
Some things never change, and our core convictions as Christians should
be rock solid.
Our doctrine statement as a church, if you will.
Now, sometimes people will use this illustration.
There's certain beliefs we should hold in a closed hand and other
beliefs we can hold in an open hand.
Closed hand and open hand.
The closed hand are topics, issues, and items that pretty much separate
being a Christ-follower from someone who's not.
We believe these; we support these; these are fundamental issues of the
faith.
The sufficiency, supremacy of Scripture.
The fallenness of the humanness; that Christ's death upon the cost cross
is the ONLY satisfaction for our sin; justification by faith; the
inseparable connection between faith and personal holiness; God's
eternal hatred against sin but His eternal, immeasurable love towards
sinners like you and me.
The deity of Christ, bodily resurrection of Christ, the coming of
Christ, eternity; heaven and hell.
You know, fundamental things believers hold on to.
Then there are other matters you hold in an open hand.
Open hand are thing that as we study and grow may discuss and debate.
We don't have to agree on them.
You know, in Galatians 1, Paul would say, if anybody preaches to you a
different gospel than what I'm preaching, let that person be acured and
then in Romans 14 he says, some of you will have disputes on disputable
matters and you'll not see certain things alike.
They're not primary matters.
They're secondary things.
And he says, love one another; be patient with one another in those
matters.
As believers, there are certain convictions we hold as Christians, and
we hold them in a closed hand.
There are other items that we hold in an open hand that we discuss,
debate.
We may disagree but at the end of the day, we're brothers and sisters in
Christ.
Here's something else that never really changes, and that's the reality
of false teaching, false teachers, false influencers.
Jesus talked about it.
Paul talked about it.
Peter talked about it.
Jude talks about it.
John talks about it.
As you read through the New Testament, sometimes if you start paying
attention, you're almost surprised at how often it's mentioned.
In other words, it's a reminder -- don't be shocked, but it's just a
reminder that anything beautiful will have some cheap counselor fits to
it -- counterfeits to it.
But the faith has been once and for all delivered and just be aware and
care if ever Jesus, the core message of Jesus, is trying to be
redefined.
Be aware and care when morality that's been handed down is trying to be
redefined, and the grace of God turned into a license for immorality.
Which leads to a third thing that never changes, our need for
discernment.
Jude here is sounding the alarm.
Be aware.
But listen, friends: Christians, well-grounded Christians, you can spot
something spurious, something that is counterfeit.
Have you ever seen a counterfeit $9 bill?
No.
You know why you have never seen a counterfeit $9 bill?
Because there's no such thing as a REAL, authentic $9 bill.
But those things that are beautiful and real and genuine and authentic
sometimes will have cheap counterfeits.
But as believers, well-grounded in the Scriptures, part of a church
that's well-grounded in the Scriptures, we can spot that which is
spurious and off-key.
Now, let me just ask: is there such a thing as objective truth?
Objective right and wrong?
Or is it a matter of personal opinion?
You see, in the Christian value system, God is the source of moral and
spiritual values.
Therefore, God is the source of what is moral; what is immoral; what is
spiritually sound; or spiritually unsound.
Therefore, what's right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, transcends
personal opinion.
It transcends societal opinion.
Now, without God, without placing Him as Lord and Master, each society,
each individual, we make up our own standards.
This is known as relativism and is sort of a dominant view today.
That's why often in society parents will simply ask their children, "How
do you feel about this?"
Which is okay to ask from time to time as opposed to, "Is this right or
wrong?"
The key element to Christian morality and Christian spirituality remains
simply this: there is a God.
He is not silent.
Right or wrong is independent of my personal opinion.
In order to determine whether or not something is healthy or unhealthy,
I believe I need to first ask: does God have anything to say about this?
What does, what do the Scriptures say?
And that's more important than "How do I personally feel about it?"
Here's one more thing that never changes: God's "Keeping" love for His
people.
Jude just reminds us that in the midst of attacks and influences that
are not friendly to your faith, God knows who His people are.
He loves you.
He gives grace to the humble.
His love for you keeps you in the folds.
Jude 1 (reading)
and here it is.
"Kept."
Kept for Jesus Christ.
He ends his book by saying this.
(reading)
There he closes with just a beautiful doxology, an expression of worship
to our great God and King, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and His
love that allows us to stand before Him -- how?
Blameless.
And without accusation.
As the Bible will say in Romans 9 northbound: we are God's vessels of
mercy and here we are.
We walk in this world and we stumble and fall.
You know, in my own life, I don't turn the grace of God into a license
for immorality; but that doesn't mean I've led a perfect life or lead a
perfect life now.
Not at all.
You know, grace, there is a mutant form of grace.
The mutant form of grace is grace without love for God.
I love the Lord.
I want to please Him.
Did you know that I sin all I want to?
I sin more than I want to.
I don't want to.
If I could take a pill today that would make it possible for me to lead
a practically blameless life, I'd do that.
(chuckling)
I fall so short.
We all do.
But the love of God keeps us because we're not rebelling against Him.
We love Him.
We want to honor Him.
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe He actually died for our sins.
We believe He rose again.
We believe He's interceding for us now.
We believe we are His children.
We believe He's coming back and He is preparing a place for us
throughout eternity.
My friends, hold on to your faith.
Treasure it.
It's a good, good gift from God that shows us the way.
It shows us the way of wisdom, and it shows us the way of salvation.
Now, as a church, we want to help everyone here take your next step as a
man of God or woman of God.
Those of you watching online, you can communicate with us.
Those of you in this room, you can communicate with us easily.
In fact, here in just a few moments today, woe will witness a baptism
into Christ.
Maybe that is your next step.
We'd love to help you take it.
All right.
Let' ask Scott to come couple here.
Scott Wolfe, one of our elders, will lead us in prayer, before we
celebrate a baptism into Christ.
Scott?
>> Scott: Thank you, Ronnie, for those powerful words.
Would you pray with me, please?
Father, as we close our time together this morning with thankfulness for
the hope, joy, and confidence that we have in Your Word; Lord, we
acknowledge You as the Creator of all.
You created us in Your image and we fully trust in You as our Maker and
Provider.
Lord, may we continue to be unified in spirit in Your church.
Lord, we ask that You fill us with Your Spirit of love and Junety.
We ask Your help to set aside difference and look to You to live a life
full of love and extended grace to others in all that we do.
You modeled for us the perfect example for that.
Lord, guide us to bear with one another in love, always extending grace;
Lord, may our words with each other always be seasoned with love You
showed us.
Father, we are Your church and we know that in order to effectively
disciple; to help others and to lead others to You, which You have
called us to do; we have to love each other deeply and follow the
example You set for us, Lord; so please strengthen us.
Father, guide us to better know the truth, Your Truth, Lord; and help us
not to listen to external influences that can turn us from Your
supernatural authority that may challenge Your Word and doctrine, Lord.
But let us not redefine Your Word or Your precepts.
May we continually strive to discern Your Word and be well-grounded in
Scripture so we can guard, defend, and protect the faith.
Lord, this past week was an historic weather event that impacted not
only our neighborhoods but our city, our state, and our nation.
Lord, this morning we specifically pray for all of those in this
congregation and in this community that suffered hardships -- suffered
property damage and just adverse financial impact of events like this.
We know it can be very stressful.
Lord, we pray for restoration and endurance.
During this event, Father, I was so encouraged to see how our
communities, our neighbors, and our friends stepped up to help people.
And many times it was probably people they didn't know but may we always
step up to help those in need just like Jesus did.
And finally, thank You for the Gift of Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Lord, forgive us forforgetting Your Love never changes; your Love never
fades; and that You never abandon the purpose for which You came, to
save us from our sin self condition; to redeem us; and give us a life
eternal.
The joy of a relationship with a Holy, Living God.
You are our joy and our peace, and we celebrate You, Lord.
Thank You for being our King.
In Christ's Name we pray, amen.
>> Grant: Amen.
Thank you, Scott.
Well, at this time we have the privilege of witnessing a baptism of
Frank Carl leverage, baptized by Kyler Cole.
>> It's a blessed day to be in the house of the Lord and we have a
unique opportunity today to witness new birth in Christ.
This is Frank.
He and his wife Janie live in sugarland with two young, beautiful sons.
They're just a wonderful family.
Frank has become a good friend to me.
He got connected to the church through the sell Celebrate Recovery
ministry.
Many men have touched his life here.
It's been a team effort and through that process, he's asked to study
the Bible more deeply; and we went through the first conversations
curriculum here, a Bible study.
In this that time, he relied he wanted to follow Jesus' example in
baptism.
So today, Frank, I want to ask you: do you believe Jesus Christ is the
Son to have God?
>> I do.
>> Do you repent of your sins and do you ask Jesus to be your Lord,
Savior, Redeemer today?
>> I do.
>> With that confession, I baptize you in the Name of the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of your sins.
Today you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
(Applause)
>> Grant: Amen!
What a beautiful sight to see!
Congratulations to Frank and your family.
Well, church, speaking of Celebrate Recovery, it's a phenomenal ministry
that we have of a group of people here at church.
As stress hits us in life, sometimes it can bring out the best in us.
Sometimes stress can bring out the worst in us.
So this is a place that, you know, when habits come; when hard times
come; this is a place where it's safe, confidential, and a great road to
recovery in healing.
Luckily with our Lord, who extend that; who helps heal our brokenness;
and a great church family that to wrap around you.
You may be sitting there thinking, "Well, my thing is not that big."
Well, this is a great place for you.
Or you may say, on the other hand, "This is too big.
Nobody can forgive me.
Nobody wants to be around me.
Nobody wants to hear this."
Well, church, Celebrate Recover I have a great place for you and good
for all of us, no matter our struggle that we face.
Hey, on Friday night, 6:30, it's happening here at the church building.
The online is still meeting as well so that option is there.
You can find the group out in the courtyard at 6:30.
It's a BYOCC event.
What is that?
Bring your own camping chair.
Set out in the courtyard.
Great time, great group of people.
Take advantage of that if you're ready for that next step.
Celebrate Recovery is a great place for that to happen.
Sunday is a lot of options to stay spiritually fed whether that's our
9:45 hour with kids ministries rocking, student ministries going.
There's thing in the gym for the adult ministry.
Great opportunity and everybody online, of course, we have our 10:00
class.
You can be on the live feed or YouTube.
If you want to catch Kyle's class during the week, you can go to the
YouTube channel and catch it on demand.
Great opportunities there.
Like it's been said already, this week was tough.
Luckily as Texans we have a lot of grit to get through this but there's
no way around it.
There were hard moments this week so for everybody that's here,
everybody online, I just want to say thank you guys for joining us; but
also, if your family has experienced some hardship and it's still a hard
time right now with your situation, let me know.
Let one of our church staff know.
We might not have the answers or solutions, but as the body of Christ,
we can come together and help one another.
So don't keep that to yourself.
Let's share that burden with the body of Christ.
All right.
As we go this week, let us center on some central Biblical truth and
foundations of the Bible.
It was helpful for me.
This week was a hard center week so it's love God; love our family; and
love others more than we love ourselves.
So as we do that let's go ahead and stand and close with one more song.
("Every Giant Will Fall" playing)
>> Richard: Thank you for worshiping with us today!
You are dismissed!