Bucket Full of Grace

Where Is Abundant Life Fellowship Meeting Now? Right now, our church family is meeting at Adirondack High School in Boonville, NY , as we continue worshiping together in this displaced season. Adirondack High School is located at 8181 State Route 294, Boonville, NY 13309 . We may not be in our usual building, but we are still the same body of believers. In some ways, this season has clarified something the church always needs to remember: A sanctuary can be lost. A building can be damaged. A meeting place can change. But the Church of Jesus Christ remains. The Church Is Not a Building That truth is easy to say when life is normal. It becomes much more real when your church building is gone. The New Testament reminds us that the church is not brick, wood, carpet, or stained glass. The church is made up of redeemed people indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Buildings serve ministry, but they do not define it. That means Abundant Life Fellowship did not end when the building was lost....

The Foolishness of Preaching As Paul continues the subject that he started in chapter 1, the subject of the cross of Jesus Christ, to the Greeks foolishness, to the Jews a stumbling block, but to us it's the power of God to Salvation. Anecdote I heard a story about a preacher named Dr. Ironside who was speaking and giving his testimony about how Jesus had saved him at an outdoor event in San Francisco and at the end of the event a man came up to Dr. Ironside and handed him his card.  And Dr. Ironside recognized the name on the card, it was a man who was a well known socialist at the time, known specifically for his agnosticism[which is basically a philosophical belief that we can’t know truth], in fact he was going around and lecturing in Universities on his version of agnosticism and ridiculing the bible and Christianity in general and on the back of the card there was a challenge for Dr. Ironside to come the following Sunday at 4 o’clock and debate the man in an open forum on the...

  John 6 Notes: I AM the Bread of Life I’ve been reading a classic Russian Fiction called “The Brothers Karamazov” and it is a DEEP story.  I’m seeing things in it that go way beyond a normal novel.  The Brothers Karamosov We would all agree that there are good stories and bad stories and not necessarily good because they make us feel good, there are stories that are very good that make us cry and rethink our lives, so it’s not obvious what we mean by good right away.  There is a measure of depth in a story that we can all fundamentally understand.  There is a hierarchy of depth to stories and you could say that the deeper the story goes, the more fundamental truth and meaning it holds, the more it shows us what we already knew to be true but we just couldn’t articulate, [I feel this way when I read CS Lewis, which is why we named our second son after him when I read CS Lewis its like yes, finally, the thing that I have been struggling to put words to, there it ...