2023 Wk 1: A NEW YEAR
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Updates
Updates
Upcoming MidWeek Stream will be a Book Study with Christine Caine starting Wednesday January 25th at 630pm. I have five books coming to pass out January 22nd.
The Crucial Component in this study will be to see the need to shift from mere “Imitating Christ” to developing a “stronger relationship in Christ.” You could call it “Living from the Inside Out”.
MidWeek Ministry relaunch for Children and Adults.
Pray with us as we reconsider this need to reopen Wednesday nights to the public. Would you consider attending face to face or would you consider assisting cook, sing, teach, and play each Wednesday here at Cornerstone to reach this neighborhood for Christ?
Women’s Brunch is being scheduled for Wednesday January 11th at noon. Details to follow.
Men’s Saturday Breakfast is January 14th. TBA
FriendDay is January 15th and we have left the door open our Nazarene Family to join us.
So, who will you invite this month to discover the true meaning of knowing Jesus?
Intro
Intro
Lyrics from the 1976 hit “Fly Like a Eagle” by the Steve Miller Band...
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
'Till I'm free
Oh, Lord, through the revolution
Plans for a New Year
Even without planning and preparations the New Year has come.
Even without celebrating and staying up late the Date has changed from 2022 to 2023.
Even without giving it any thought—the rent, taxes, and the world spinning into the future will happen again and again.
Most likely, over all of the years we have lived we haven’t really changed...
what we do,
who we do it with, and
why we end up doing it for the most part!
However, things do change…
One good point is that GOD NEVER CHANGES!
Key Points
Key Points
Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.* He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.*
5 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.
Malachi 3:6 (NLT)
“I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed.
WELCOME TO 2023!
Key Points should probably be...
Key Points should probably be...
Prayer
Time management
Budget
Vision-Write it Down
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New homeowners who are becoming their parents may still need advice after reading Dr. Rick’s book.
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“They have read the book but still don’t understand.”
“They have read the book but still don’t understand.”
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
We have read the passage, but do we understand it?
We have read the passage, but do we understand it?
Investigate / Application
Investigate / Application
Prayer, Time management, Budget, and Vision Planning — but if we don’t trust the One Who Made Us— we are just slippin’ slippin’ slippin’.
Without hearts bent towards God relying on the Holy Spirit each day...
Prayer can just be crutch
Time management can be self-management
Budget planning can be just what I can do and
Vision-Write it Down becomes all about what I want to see happen.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
6 Seek his will in all you do,
and he will show you which path to take.
HE WILL SHOW YOU WHICH PATH TO TAKE...
Make it personal
Make it personal
Lyrics from the 1976 hit “Fly Like a Eagle” by the Steve Miller Band...
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh, there's a solution
pure religion is…
27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
THIS IS HOW WE START THE JOURNEY, BUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO END THE JOURNEY?
God is “Calling us into His Marvelous Light”.
NOT the light of your best friend, family member, or today’s most popular motivational speaker
Jesus is calling you into His Light!!!!
New Beginnings
New Beginnings
4 We are reborn into a perfect inheritance that can never perish, never be defiled, and never diminish. It is promised and preserved forever in the heavenly realm for you!
It may be a new year, new expectations, new anxieties… but
SAME GOD!