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>> Thank you for joining us 

today. 

We want to let you know about a 

few items of interest.  

First, go to our website, 

firstcolonychurch.org, and go 

there often.  

You'll find links to our worship 

services, Bible study options, 

online giving, and our podcast 

"Anchor Point." 

You can also download our church 

app.  

Just search for First Colony 

Church of Christ in the App 

Store or on Google Play.  

The app is a great resource 

where you can stay connected to 

First Colony Church.  

Thank you for joining us today.  

we are glad you're here.  

>> Grant: Good morning and 

welcome to the First Colony 

Church where it is our mission 

to help people.  I am grant, a 

missions minister.  We are 

honored to journey with you and 

looking at the biblical truths 

found in 1 John.  Stand with me 

as we get to worship our king. 

>> Richard: Yes, let's worship 

the king.  

"Unstoppable God" 

>> Richard: Yes, our God is 

unstoppable.  His kingdom is 

unstoppable.  Our God reigns 

forever more.  Don't you agree?  

"One Thing Remains"

>> Richard: Yes.  How many of 

you are glad the love of God 

never fails you?  Thank you for 

worshiping with us, church.  You 

may be seated.  

>> Corey: Good morning.  The 

Bible says that death and life 

are in the power of the tongue.  

As I was reading that, I was 

reminded that we are powerful 

with our words.  And I came into 

my office one day and it was a 

rough morning and I found this 

rock sitting in my office and it 

says "you've got this."  No 

matter what the devil throws at 

me or pressures come my way, 

I've got this, not because of 

me, but because of Him.  I don't 

know how your week has been.  

Kids, maybe you had a rough time 

with that new teacher.  Mom and 

dad, maybe it was a rough week 

for you as the kids are driving 

you crazy.  Hello.  I want to 

encourage you, you've got this.  

We're going to have the power of 

death and life in our tongue.  

You can do all things through 

Christ who strengthens now.  It 

is not about us, but about our 

God and He is powerful.  Go 

encourage someone.  

>> Grant: Amen.  Thanks, Corey.  

We are about to enter our time 

of communion.  If you're at 

home, gather your supplies or if 

you're here get out your 

packets.  Troy and Rachel 

Matthys are going to be leading 

us.  

>> Rachel: My name is Rachel 

Matthys and this is my husband 

Troy.  We are so glad to lead 

you.  His body that was given 

for us and the bloodshed 

represented by the cup.  Let's 

pray.  Lord Jesus Christ, we are 

so humbled to be able to come 

before you every single week.  

Lord God, we are thankful that 

we get to partake this together 

and be reminded of your body 

that was broken.  Lord Jesus, 

your body that was bruised and 

broken and crushed for us so we 

could be restored to our father.  

Lord Jesus, we thank you for 

that restoration, of the broken 

relationship that started way 

back in the garden.  Jesus, we 

thank you for your blood that 

was shed, your blood that flowed 

so it could wash away every 

stain that sin has left on us so 

that when we come before you and 

stand before you, we are 

presented as whole and complete 

and washed white as snow.  We 

thank you for loving us enough 

to make that sacrifice.  Don't 

let us take it for granted, 

Lord.  Thank you for letting us 

share this together as a united 

body in Christ.  This power is 

phenomenal.  We pray that it 

would be a light and a reminder 

to the rest of the world that 

there is restoration from a 

broken and fallen world.  We 

thank you in Jesus' name.  Amen.  

Let's partake together.  

>> Troy: The scripture reading 

this morning is from

1 Peter 1:21-23

Through Christ you have come to 

trust in God. 

And you have placed your faith 

and hope in God because he 

raised Christ from the dead and 

gave him great glory.

You were cleansed from your sins 

when you obeyed the truth, so 

now you must show sincere love 

to each other as brothers and 

sisters. Love each other deeply 

with all your heart.

For you have been born again, 

but not to a life that will 

quickly end. Your new life will 

last forever because it comes 

from the eternal, living word of 

God.

"Jesus Messiah" 

>> Richard: Why don't we all 

stand together and continue to 

worship the Lord Jesus this 

morning. 

"Jesus Messiah" 

>> Richard: Amen.  Thank you, 

church, you may be seated.  

>> Grant: Well, it is time to 

pray over our offering.  Before 

we do, let me remind you that 

giving online is safe, secure, 

and easy to set up.  If you're 

here, we have giving boxes at 

the exits or you can text to 

give.  This church doesn't 

function without the tithes and 

the offerings that go to support 

the ministries of everything we 

do here, but it also goes to 

bless and impact our community 

for Christ as well as our 

international mission.  Thank 

you for your hearts.  Let's go 

to the Lord in prayer.  Father, 

you are good.  Your love endures 

forever.  You are Jesus, 

messiah, Lord of all.  Whether 

we only have pennies to bring 

before you or great riches, we 

know that these are from you and 

for you.  We give you our time, 

talents, possessions and say, 

Father, use them for your will 

and your kingdom.  We trust you 

and pray this in the powerful 

name of Jesus.  

>> Kyle: My name is Kyle and I 

want to invite you to join me 

for our first conversations 

intensive.  We will study our 

church's Bible study called 

first conversations.  You can 

get a copy in person in our 

lobby or find a copy on our 

website.  We will meet right 

during your lunchtime from 12:00 

p.m. to 1:00 for four 

consecutive Tuesdays starting 

Tuesday, September 7.  This is 

for you if you're curious about 

Jesus or if you are a seasoned 

believer and you just need 

polish.  I want you to join me.  

We have all kinds of space.  You 

can find the registration link 

on your website.  Remember, this 

is the first conversations 

intensive and you are invited.  

I'll see you soon. 

>> Grant: I've done Kyle's 

intensive.  If you haven't done 

it, I encourage it.  If you are 

in first to fifth grade, 

Mr. Joel Smith is at the back 

doors.  We're going to release 

to main Street live.  Parents, 

you can head to the chapel and 

get the kids checked in.  This 

is a great time to fill in the 

connection card.  You can do it 

here or on your phone scan the 

C.R. code.  Let us know you're 

with us and your prayer request.  

Our staff prays for you every 

week.  We would love to pray for 

you today.  We have a room 

called new here start here just 

across the lobby.  We would love 

to have you join us after 

service.  Say hello, answer 

questions, and we've got a 

little gift for you.  Folks, it 

is time for our fellowship 

greeting.  Let people know what 

you're cooking up this weekend.  

If you're online, jump into the 

chat box.  We'd love to know 

that you're here worshiping with 

us this morning.  

[Indistinct chatter] 

" King Of My Heart" 

>> Richard: Sing it out, church.  

Let's sing that chorus one more 

time, church.  Praise the Lord.  

Amen, church.  You may be 

seated.  

>> Shane: Welcome to those 

watching online.  I'm Shane, the 

pastoral care minister.  We are 

in our 1 John series walking in 

the light.  We want to 

congratulate Aelita Matytsina.  

She was baptized a few weeks 

ago.  

[Applause] She is the adult 

daughter of George Kruashvili 

and Vlada Matytsin.  I think 

you're moving back to New York 

this week?  All right.  Our 

prayers go with you.  We're so 

thrilled that we saw the new 

birth in your life and may God 

go with you.  

[Applause] 

>> Shane: Well, friends, I've 

got some fantastic news 

recently.  You see, I received 

this e-mail and you are not 

going to believe my luck.  A 

prince from my jeeria e-mailed 

me and he needs some help and he 

needs help.  What are the odds 

of a Nigerian prince, royalty, 

e-mailing me locally.  They need 

to get out of Nigeria.  They 

want to send it to my bank 

account and I get to keep 10%.  

So I sent them my bank account 

information a few weeks ago and 

things seemed to be fine now 

they need my social security 

number to make sure it's me.  

What do you think I should do, 

do it?  Don't worry, honey, I 

didn't do that.  You know, maybe 

they're trying to deceive me.  

Scams like this unfortunately do 

work.  One company calculated 

that this specific e-mail has 

cost the average victim over 

$2,000.  That's no invoke.  So 

don't be deceived by such 

things.  You've been warned.  So 

far in the 1 John, he is giving 

warnings.  He gave warnings to 

the Christians of his day and 

they are applicable to us.  He 

gives warning of loving 

worldliness more than we love 

God.  And later in this series 

you'll see that he gives a 

warning about the lack of love.  

He warns about truth versus lies 

and light versus darkness.  

There are two themes, one is 

that God is light and we must 

walk in his light.  God is light 

and those who know and love 

Jesus must love like him.  God 

is light.  God is love.  Walk 

accordingly.  But the warning we 

get here in

1 John 2:18-27

Is how to deal with deceivers 

and those who would lead you 

astray.  These deceivers are 

worse than those behind the scam 

e-mails.  They're spreading 

false teachings of the very 

nature and identity of Jesus 

Christ, deceiving about who 

Jesus really is.  John writes: 

I am writing to warn you about 

those who want to lead you 

astray.

Hoe warns them in verse 22. 

Who is the liar? 

It is the man who denies that 

Jesus is the Christ.  

Such a man is the antichrist he 

denies the Father and the Son. 

He is warning them because these 

false teachers are trying to 

deceive them about Jesus, 

distorting the truth, denying 

that Jesus is not the messiah.  

Minimizing the authority of 

Jesus, claiming that Jesus is 

not Christ or not king.  So 

let's dig into these verses and 

what is the meaning of this term 

anti-Christ?  They reject the 

foundation of our faith.  They 

reject that Jesus is the Christ, 

the messiah, the anointed one of 

God.  They are false teachers.  

They say he's not the flesh.  

They recollect his divinity.  

They might try to redefine him.  

He's good, but he's not God.  

He's a son of God.  He's not the 

son of God sent in the flesh.  

Note this, the spirit of the 

anti-Christ always diminishes 

the person and work of Christ.  

Any teacher that comes to you 

diminishing in any way the 

person or the work of Christ, do 

not trust that teacher.  Now, 

let me pause and note that both 

here and in the book of 

Revelation, there is a 

distinction between Anti-Christ 

and little anti-Christ.  The one 

with a capital A will come and 

deceive us.  This future 

ultimate Anti-Christ will be 

given great authority and power 

and many will follow and worship 

him.  We as followers of the 

true messiah of God need not 

fear this.  We follow the king 

of kings and the Lord of Lords.  

Can I get an amen to that.  We 

have the king and we are in his 

kingdom.  We don't need to worry 

about this anti-Christ.  We know 

how this show ends.  He is 

victorious over sin and Satan 

and over death itself.  We need 

to be careful of false teachers 

and the anti-Christ, but we have 

nothing to fear.  Here John is 

talking about these little 

anti-Christs, who are against 

Christ and they try to diminish 

his divinity.  He rejects the 

nature of our faith, the 

identity of the son of God.  

Second, an anti-Christ abandons 

the church.  Physically they may 

desert the foilship, stay among 

us for a while and be deceivers, 

but they will eventually abandon 

the church.  They went out for 

us but did not belong to us.  If 

they belonged to us, they 

wouldn't do this.  These 

anti-Christs, they left and 

bugged out.  I can't help but 

think of the words of Jesus that 

John recorded in chapter 10.  

Jesus says, I'm the shepherd, 

the true shepherd knows his 

sheep and the sheep know the 

shepherd.  They follow him and 

they know his voice.  The good 

shepherd lays down his life for 

his sheep, but the hired hand 

abandons the sheep and runs away 

when trouble comes.  John 

continued.  

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Just like in Bible times, false 

teachers, deceptive preachers 

are going to show their true 

nature and diminish Christ in 

some way, but you will see they 

don't really know or love their 

followers, but use them to 

fatten their wallets and egos.  

They won't be faithful like a 

good shepherd that is 

shepherding God's people because 

they know the voice of the 

shepherd.  They will spiritually 

deny the faith.  

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Again, we see what we know and 

believe about Jesus Christ is 

crucial, critical, the main 

thing above all else, but to 

those her ticks Jesus was 

important.  She was significant, 

but he wasn't the savior.  Let 

me say a few words about what an 

anti-Christ is not in case 

you're worried about that.  John 

here is not talking about 

Christians who have doubts.  

He's not talking about 

Christians who backslide into 

sin.  He's not talking about 

Christians who stray from the 

way of Jesus for some time.  

That's not an anti-Christ.  He's 

not talking about interpretation 

of second and third order 

doctrines in Biblical teachings.  

That's not an anti-Christ.  The 

anti-trustee is diminishing the 

work of Jesus.  The foundational 

things of our faith, his atoning 

faith.  It's almost like John 

anticipated that there might be 

worries and anxiety because of 

this strong, straightforward 

warning that he's giving them.  

In verse 20 he says.  

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This is what he's promised us, 

even eternal life.  Did you note 

in those couple passages, the 

two wonderful and powerful 

things he gave us.  He first 

said we have the Holy Spirit and 

that spirit that anointed Christ 

anoints us and dwells in us.  

Second, we know God's saving 

truth, we have his word.  The 

same Holy Spirit that dwells in 

us serves truth and it is the 

same spirit that inspired John 

and the other biblical writers.  

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What a wonderful gift we have 

there.  John implores us to 

recognize the spirit of God not 

akin to those against Christ.  

He reminds us that we knows the 

truth.  We have our share of 

deceivers and false teachers 

today as well, right.  One thing 

we have to deal is we live in 

the information age.  Boy, there 

sure is a lot of information out 

there.  Anything and everything.  

So much information and so 

little wisdom.  Whether you're 

into health, politics, 

gastronomy, theology, you can 

find every and any theory or 

perspective on what you want.  

The rabbit holes are endless and 

so many are dark holes when you 

start getting into them.  So 

many experts, so much 

information, so many links to 

clink.  Maximized for tracking 

optimization.  Information can 

be commodified and weaponized 

like never before.  You know 

this.  We're living in that 

world.  I'm not anti-digital or 

anti-internet.  These tools can 

be helpful if they're used with 

wisdom and responsibility.  Some 

of the most useful tools can be 

the most dangerous tools.  A 

fool with a flame-thrower still 

has a flame-thrower.  Wisdom 

comes from the Lord and in the 

community he's forming among us 

his family, the church.  Brett 

McCraken has a book that helps 

us triage the knowledge and 

connection.  I'm going to run 

through the four things he says 

to triage.  He says we need to 

trust the near over the far.  

Local and embodied is better 

than distant and intangible.  

This goes for our sources of 

knowledge and wisdom.  I can 

better gauge the electrocute and 

the wisdom when I see that 

person living out or not the 

principles that they teach.  Do 

they practice what they preach?  

I can get information from 

anywhere, but wisdom is borne 

out of and shared from real-life 

relationships.  Instead of 

listening to the online 

fearmongering or the click bait 

tools.  Invest your time and 

energy in the people you can 

know who know you.  People who 

know you and you can be known by 

fully in a real relationship.  

Second, we should time-tested 

over breaking buzz.  The news 

cycle really fast.  I don't have 

time to get over the last 

outrage before the next 

offending headline comes along.  

Showing down and taking our time 

to discern things.  Allowing our 

God-informed reason to catch up 

with our emotion is a good 

thing.  Let's take a breath and 

not fall for the breaking buzz.  

The third thing is to trust 

holistic wisdom over near head 

knowledge.  We need spiritual 

life formation not just 

information.  What good is how 

smart I am if I'm not growing in 

the character of Christ?  I need 

to be around wise faithful 

Christians more than those whose 

lives bear little fruit of the 

spirit.  Finally, we should lean 

into community over autonomy.  

One of the great lies and 

individuals of our age is 

individualism and autonomy.  

It's a big one.  Our foolish 

digital age can profoundly 

isolate us from true community.  

Its very algorithmic structure 

can cater that our preferred 

reality silo.  We're urged to 

follow your heart and find your 

own truth in yourself.  Did you 

know that proverbs 3-5 says lean 

not on your own understanding.  

Our hearts will deceive us time 

and again.  Let me ask you a 

question.  Have you ever 

rationalized your way into a 

room are really bad decision, 

listening to your heart?  It can 

go really bad.  One of the 

greatest gifts God has given us 

for wisdom is community.  We 

need accountability of save and 

loving community to help us 

learn and grow.  Discernment and 

disciple ship.  Learning his 

word in our community with our 

fellow apprentices is so vital.  

The Bible makes us wise by 

revealing God who is the source 

and standard.  The church helps 

to make us wise by orienting our 

life rhythms and surrounding 

ourselves with other wisdom 

seekers.  The spirit of God will 

guide you into all truth, the 

spirit, the church, and the 

word.  These are fantastic 

blessings you have in Christ.  

Use them.  I want to circle back 

to two key words, anointing and 

abiding.  It is used in the Old 

Testament to refer to the 

anoints of a high priest or a 

king.  John says just as Jesus 

was appointed by the Holy 

Spirit, we also are anointed.  

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There is that other key word, 

abiding, remaining.  In had a 

lot of the English translations 

it is abiding.  The Greek term 

means to stay in one place, to 

live settled into a certain 

reality of Christ.  John uses it 

to refer to the permanent 

life-giving relationship 

disciples have.  As we abide in 

His word we aside and the father 

and the Holy Spirit.  Take full 

advantage of these blessings.  

Depend on the Holy Spirit.  

Deepen your understanding of 

God's word and truth.  Abide in 

Christ, the anointed one.  The 

one who is our messiah, Lord, 

and king.  Since we're kind of 

talking around this, let me ask 

you, have you been baptized by 

water in the spirit?  Do you 

have the anointing of the Holy 

Spirit by being baptized?  If 

not, why not now?  You can 

experience in salvation and 

anointing today.  We would love 

to assist you with that today.  

Have you embraced the authority 

of the scriptures over your 

life.  Are you submitting your 

doctrine and the way you live to 

the authority of God's work?  

Well, I have good news because 

Jesus is the way, the truth, the 

life.  His way is beautiful.  

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As I mentioned earlier, an 

anointed one would be a prophet 

or a king to show that God 

himself gave them authority to 

act as his representative.  This 

leads me to a couple final 

questions.  As Jesus as our 

anointed one, I want to ask 

yourself personally, do I take 

Jesus as the Christ, the 

anointed one, the messiah of 

God.  This questions our 

modernistic post-truth view of 

the world.  Is Jesus the son of 

God, the way, truth, and life to 

the father.  Did he die to pay 

for my sins and rise again after 

three days.  Is Jesus truly the 

chosen one to save and redeem 

us?  There is no more important 

question you can answer.  A 

second thing I want you to ask 

yourself, is Jesus the king?  

This questions us personally, 

that individualism and autonomy 

that we crave.  We are having 

this feel-good religion of our 

day that says is Jesus really in 

charge?  Is he the king and 

loved and revered and given 

primacy and allegiance.  Is he 

truly my master that I'm an 

apprentice to, calling us to a 

new way of living in his 

kingdom?  Here's the trick.  Of 

course we want the savior, but 

we don't always want the Lord.  

We want the redeemer, but not 

the king.  We want the lamb to 

lays his life down for us, but 

we don't always want the lion of 

Juda.  We don't want him to 

meddle too much and get too 

involved.  Where is our 

allegiance?  It seems that 

politics can be as much of a 

fervor as religion these days.  

What is our prime directive?  Do 

we love Jesus more than our own 

family and how we wish our life 

to be.  Some opposed Christ, 

some minimize Christ sadly in 

the church and maybe you do 

sometimes.  Maybe I don't 

outright deny him, but there are 

ways I can diminish him.  How 

can I make Jesus center of my 

life.  In a bio the author says 

I can't recommend Jesus enough.  

That's true.  You can't 

recommend Jesus enough.  He 

always delivers more than you 

think he will because if Jesus 

is our king who calls us to 

follow him into the kingdom of 

God, that teaches us everything 

about life and how to live it.  

In the kingdom of Christ we 

receive a new identity, new way 

of living.  It's been said Jesus 

is living in you and he's dying 

to act like himself.  We get a 

new covenant, citizenship, 

community, mission, a knew hope 

based on the fact that Jesus, 

our king, rose from the dead.  

Can I get an amen?  He's 

beautiful, glorious, awesome.  

Jesus is everything that 

matters.  Why would we bend the 

knee to any other leader or 

system of this world?  Why would 

we love anything or anyone more 

than king Jesus, our Christ?  

Well, as Gary makes his way to 

come up and pray for us today, I 

want to say I do have some 

fantastic news for all of us 

today.  It's even better than 

getting an e-mail from a 

Nigerian prince.  Here it is.  

Are you ready?  The king is 

risen.  Amen.  The king is 

risen, amen.  Let's behold our 

king who is the messiah.  Let's 

make much of Jesus, our Christ 

and king and may he reign in 

your life and in mine.  

>> Thank you, Shane.  As we 

close in prayer, let us go to 

our king.  Father, we thank you 

so much for being our king.  

Lord, I don't know where 

everyone's heart is today.  I 

know at times I will always 

acknowledge you as my king, but 

in my attitude and how I feel 

about things, I try to take it 

back.  So if anyone is here 

today, that struggle with 

authority, father, in all areas 

of our life, fill us with a 

desire to submit to your 

authority and realize you are 

king over everything regardless 

of our behavior.  Father, maybe 

some here today have not 

acknowledged or made you king of 

their life and don't want you.  

You're king over their hearts 

and granted them repentance.  

Give them a desire to follow and 

observe you with a single gospel 

message.  You reign over our 

church at First Colony Church 

and we pray for the unity of our 

congregation and the wisdom of 

our leaders.  We ask that you 

protect us from the Satanic 

attacks that are amongst us.  

Father, you are king over our 

country and our country is 

struggling in so many ways, 

whether it be the physical 

ailments of COVID, whether it be 

the economy, whether it be the 

politics.  Regardless, you're 

over that and help us to honor 

that.  Lord, you have 

commissioned us to go out and 

share the gospel.  Please give 

us an opportunity this week.  

Put someone in our life that we 

can share the gospel.  Give us 

the question to ask and the 

encouragement that we can help 

others.  When they see that 

light, help us to give them the 

reason.  Lord, we commit to your 

authority this week.  We commit 

that you rule over our hearts, 

minds, resources, our time we 

spend, our attitudes, the way we 

treat others.  Please, please 

God, reign in our hearts.  In 

Jesus' name, we praise and you 

acknowledge you as king.  

>> Grant: Amen.  Thank you so 

much, Gary.  Today we have the 

privilege of witnessing Isaac 

Pace making Jesus his king this 

morning.  Let's turn our 

attention to the Baptistry as 

his father Andy will be 

baptizing his son.  

>> I'm Andy Pace and this is my 

son Isaac.  We're used to doing 

this type of thing in a milk 

trough.  This here is fancy.  A 

little while ago Isaac asked me 

about baptism and we kind of -- 

I thought, well, he's almost 

nine.  We had the conversation 

and I just put it off.  He comes 

asking again and had another 

conversation.  He kept asking.  

It reminded me of the story that 

Jesus told about the dude who 

had a dinner guest in the middle 

of the night.  Go away, go away, 

go away, knock, knock, knock.  

When you pray, be persistent and 

Isaac was because this was in 

his spirit.  So here we are this 

morning.  Something happening to 

Jesus between the night he died 

on Friday and the morning he 

rose on Sunday, he came up from 

the grave different.  He was 

different Jesus, new Jesus.  He 

had some additional abilities 

and a different bodies.  His 

disciples didn't recognize him.  

We call it his resurrection 

body.  When you go, you'll go 

down old Isaac and when you come 

up, you'll be new Isaac because 

the spirit of God will be in 

you, living and acting through 

you.  The Bible uses the term 

new creature.  So you will be a 

new creature starting today, 

which as I think about it is an 

appropriate term for an 

8-year-old boy.  Do you believe 

that Jesus is the son of God?  

>> Yes. 

>> Do you believe that he came 

to live on earth and died so you 

could have forgiveness of your 

sins?  

>> Yes. 

>> Do you want to turn away from 

those sins and live a life where 

you heart and your life has 

turned towards Jesus?  

>> Yes. 

>> Because you said these things 

and believe these things, I'm 

now going to baptize you in the 

name of the Father, Son, and 

Holy Spirit and you will receive 

the gift of the Holy Spirit.  

[Applause] 

>> Grant: Praise the Lord.  What 

a beautiful gift we get to be a 

part of and celebrate with the 

Pace family.  There are so s a 

ton of ways to stay spiritual 

fed and connected.  Make sure 

you're aware.  Every Sunday at 

9:45 we have Bible classes for 

all ages.  If you're with us at 

12:30, you can stay on the live 

stream.  Who is ready to get 

with friends?  We have a lot of 

great connection groups that are 

starting back up.  This is a 

great time to go online and sign 

up for connection group for this 

season.  There are some that 

want to get Bea from big groups 

and do one-on-one conversations.  

We have friend speak.  We have 

international neighbors and 

getting to teach about Jesus.  

We have a training coming up on 

the 11th.  We would love to have 

you join us if you're looking to 

make an impact there.  Several 

other things going on.  For our 

ladies, we have a workshop led 

by Colleen Searcy.  Parents and 

students, we have our zoo camp 

coming up this weekend.  Make 

sure you're registered for that.  

If you have a new baby, we have 

baby dedication coming up.  

Students, who likes food?  All 

of you do.  Make sure you have 

back-to-school brunch on your 

calendar for the 19th.  For our 

marriage couples, we have a 

marriage night.  Come to laugh, 

learn and invest in your 

marriage September 24.  For the 

whole church we have Wednesday 

nights coming back.  A full 

slate of things happening at the 

building.  Wednesday nights on 

September 22, the church will be 

open having lots of activities 

up here.  Guys, we love you and 

our church will be praying for 

you.  Let's stand to sing one 

last song to worship our king. 

"Unstoppable God" 

>> Richard: Hey, thank you, 

church for being here today.  We 

love you.  We pray for you.  You 

are dismissed.  

>> Thank you for joining us 

today. 

We want to let you know about a 

few items of interest.  

First, go to our website, 

firstcolonychurch.org, and go 

there often.  

You'll find links to our worship 

services, Bible study options, 

online giving, and our podcast 

"Anchor Point." 

You can also download our church 

app.  

Just search for First Colony 

Church of Christ in the App 

Store or on Google Play.  

The app is a great resource 

where you can stay connected to 

First Colony Church.  

Thank you for joining us today.  

we are glad you're here.