Bucket Full of Grace

It’s easy to miss the point.  It’s easy to not hear what the Lord is saying to you in your inner life.  It’s easy to listen to the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den and say well that’s a good story.  It’s easy to do this and that but not make a real substantive change in your eternal life.  Your life will be eternal, it’s just a question of where that eternity is spent… Can we have open hearts and minds today to learn from the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den? Can we invite the Holy Spirit into our midst to teach us, to give me the words and give us all the ears to hear? God arranged this to happen in the life of Daniel for so many reasons, and you are one of those reasons, for you to hear this today, for you and I to have a chance to change, to come closer to who we could be in Jesus Christ… if only we would really have ears to hear what He is saying to us through His Word today. Prayer Father, make this moment real and present in our lives today.  I see the ...

Sermon: We Value Prayer -August 2, 2015 Series: Kingdom Values Key Passages: Colossians 4:2-4 and Nehemiah 1:1-11 Andrew Huntress "Prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer - pray till you can pray." -CH Spurgeon. We Value Prayer From the Church Values Statement We Value Prayer: We believe that a truly believing people will always be a praying people.   That it is each believer’s privilege and responsibility to pursue a healthy consistent prayer life with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Colossians 4:2-4 Devote yourselves to pray er, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;   pray ing at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned; that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak. Introduction Sometimes we struggle with bibli...

Devote Yourselves to Prayer! Practical: When, Where, and How? Taking Steps for Prayer: When and Where? When are you going to pray? You may say, "I don't want a compartmentalized life with prayer in one devotional compartment and the rest of my life in other compartments. I want an integrated life with prayer saturating all I do." Well, amen to that. But it's a false dichotomy, and it won't work to choose between a season of prayer in solitude and prayer soaking the rest of your life, as though those were alternatives. If you want to walk in prayer all day long, you will need to linger in prayer in times of quiet communion with God. Why? Because you can't get deep with God on the run, fitting him into the cracks of your day. But you can enjoy continual fellowship with God on the run if you have gone deep with God in the stillness of the season of prayer. So yes, by all means make it your aim to have your whole day a walking conversation with God—...