Sunday June 24, 2018

Notes from Sunday's service.  (Thanks, Jean)

Dr. Barclay- Something to think about:

Why are the churches not full? Why are some empty?

1) People often think they are not good enough to be in church.

2) Some think they are too good for church.

3) Pride, some people think they have it altogether and do not need God.

Some people try many things such as drugs, alcohol and sinful lifestyles, before they come back to Christ. No one is ever too good or too bad to come to church. God is a wonderful miracle working God, he can turn any situation around and work out a blessing, we could never have imagined. Our Heavenly Father longs for us all to come home to church and serve him together.

Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together in unity!

Pastor Caroline – Message: Jesus

When we think about the world today we need to remember, Jesus conquerors in the face of every doubt, every sin and every evil. In the name of Jesus there is healing and peace.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

There is nothing happening in or lives that Jesus cannot fix and bring a divine resolution. When we walk together with Christ, he will take away any feeling of loneliness and give us his peace and joy. Christ will give us a sense of contentment and happiness that is hard to fully to explain, almost indescribable.

Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:

Mark the Date

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~ Please note there will be no service on Canada Day, July 01.

~ September 7-9: Annual Prayer Retreat: Camp Geddie

It’s an exciting time of year again, when we remind you of our annual Prayer retreat coming up in September. More details will come over the next few weeks, so you time to think about who you will invite ;)

Sunday June 17, 2018

The video played at this evening's service:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpSE3eZTCNo

Sunday June 10, 2018

Here's the notes from Sunday's service.  (Thanks, Jean)

Rev. Roxann Spicer

Theme: Christ calls us to live our life fresh and new each day, never longing for yesterday.

Ezekiel 36:22-30

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them.

God takes our heart of stone and he crushes it. He then gives us a new heart of compassion and kindness.

Matthew 9:16-17

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Just like the new wine put into new wineskins. God puts his Holy Spirit into our new heart. Where there is new wine there is power. We need to let go of the old stuff in our life and let God fully fill us with his new wine.

Matthew 8:18-22

And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” 20 And Jesus said to him,“Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 21 Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Christ tells the people, they have a choice to make. Their family or him? Their tradition or him?

God does not want us to be parked in life. He does not want us to be stagnant, stale or complacent.

God wants to break down the old religious spirit and bring new fire and revival to all of us.

Salvation is not the end for the christian, it is just the beginning. When we serve the Lord we are always in forward motion. We cannot look back in life and long for another time. What worked back then, may not work now or tomorrow. We always go forward with Christ never backward.

Sunday June 3, 2018

From Pastor Caroline's sermon. The ACTS Prayer

A- Adoration-- I love you Lord

C- Confession-- I am a sinner

T- Thanksgiving-- Thank you for forgiving me 

S- Supplication-- I humbly submit my life to you Lord,

have you way in me.

This takes but a minute to pray and will become such a source of peace.

Sunday June 27, 2018

Notes from Sunday's Service  (Thank, Jean)

Dr. Barclay- Something to Think About

We must remember our words have weight, and uphold the promises we make.

If we are to receive the blessings of God we must fully believe what he said. People often wonder will God really answer our prayer. And yet people often make promises to God and do not keep them. Scripture teaches us when we make a vow to anyone we must keep it, especially to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:21 “When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you

In Acts 5 Ananias and his wife Sapphia, sold a piece of property and promised to give the profits to the Lord. Yet he kept back part of the profits for himself and presented the rest to the apostles. Ananias and his wife faced divine consequences for breaking their vow to the Lord. As scripture tells us they lost their very lives. The story of this couple, serves as a great reminder to us of the importance of the words we say and promises we make.

It would be far wiser for us not to make promise at all, it we do not intend to keep it or cannot keep it.

 

Pastor Caroline Barclay- Waiting on God

When pray we pray, no matter how long it takes for the answer to come we cannot give up.

If we wait on God, the answer will be far better than we could imagine and it will be for his glory. We need to trust God, to come along side us and do something far greater than we could ever do on our own.

There is never a time when God does not see or know what we need.

Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.

Proverbs 15:29 The Lord is far from the wicked,
But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

There are many examples of people in the bible waiting on God over a long time to bring an answer and make a breakthrough in their life, such a Joseph waiting while in jail and Ruth waiting while serving her mother in law. Job waited on God after losing his property and children, yet we read in Job chapter 42, God restored what was lost far beyond what Job could have ever imagined.