IYGH Commencement Service

David Lockwood - a dear friend who consistently encourages me to do the impossible by doing the impossible himself. A staunch supporter of Integrity Church, Integrity Homes and now Integrity Youth. He has done this while running multiple businesses, maintaining numerous properties and starting a you tube channel that is going viral. 

Michael and Wendy Quinn, the Quinn family, and Manna Missions for one a decade of friendship, partnership and support in Advancing the Kingdom. Their mission extends into nations. Michael Quinn are two very close friends of Pastors Rob and Jill. It is their family that opened the door for Integrity Church to be planted in this building in Bonita Springs. 

Tim and Krista Aduddell, for their giving hearts and desire to pray for, protect, and partner with their pastors to support the ministry in changing lives. Their love generous support and friendship

Message - Abraham Lincoln said everything I am and everything I hope to be I owe to my darling mother

Ben Carson said, his mother never made excuses, and she never accepted excuses from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, "Do you have a brain?" And if the answer was yes, then she said, "Then you could have thought your way out of it.

But what do you do if you don’t have these pillars?

“Aging out” -

I remember being 18 and still needing lots of guidance...

Pure religion cares for the needy and unprotected

James 1:27 ESV

27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Visits the orphans and widows - the most unprotected and needy classes in ancient societies

Keeps one free from the world.

Pure religion does not merely give material goods for the relief or ease ones conscience, it also oversees and takes responsibility for their care (Acts 6:1–7; 1 Tim. 5:3–16).

A. The disciples raised up others to care for the widows

B. We have a responsibility

James 2:14–18 ESV

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Faith that works.

John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 3:3 “Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.””

Faith will meet physical needs.

People care what you say when they know you care.