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Sermon: A Beautiful Mind

On this week we take the theme from camp and mix it with our July sermon series "At The Movies". We have taken movie titles and pulled a theme or message from the movie and have used it to present a message from God. Today the movie selected was "A Beautiful Mind". We take a look at the second chapter of Philippians where Paul explains the mind of Christ. We also had a wonderful song service on this week and I was asked by Bro. Joshua Williams to share those songs. The mic doesn't always pick up the sound of the audience collectively but everyone was spirit filled on this week and it showed.

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Sermon: The Lion King

On the second week of our At The Movies sermon series we take a look at a very familiar movie, The Lion King. In this sermon we take a look at Daniel in the Lion’s den facing certain death! But because of his courage and faithfulness as a child of God he has nothing to worry about as the king of lion’s keeps their mouths shut! What has God protected you from?

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Blog: Heavy Rain

It's dark, your vision is impaired, stability is in question, and you're unsure of when it will end.  Many of us have experience driving in heavy rain on the highway.  I travel back and forth to school from Temple to A.G.S.T and a couple of months back I was truly terrified!  On my way back one evening I drove into a thunderstorm.  Everything became black as night and the roads began to change as if I were driving on top of a body of water.  The car was moving side to side because of the wind and no matter how high the windshield wipers were turned up my vision was impaired.  The only thing that I could make out were the hazard lights of those in front of me and the strips on the road.  Those strips illuminated the path that I had to stay on.  I prayed and I asked God to bless me to make it through.  Now that I had prayed it was time for me to do my part.  I slowed down so that I could maneuver the car in case I lost track to regain it, I turned on my high beams in order to see the strips on the road so that I could stay in my lane, and I slowly proceeded with caution.  Usually on a clear day I would zip back to Temple now that the speed limit is 75 but today I had to be content that I was safe and take my time going through the storm until I made it through.  Well guess what?!!  I made it through!  And what seemed like an hour was only about 15 minutes! I learned something that day when I faced the toughest storm I had ever driven through.  I couldn't simply speed through the storm because I could kill myself.  I couldn't pray the storm away either.  I had to endure through the storm.  I had to adapt to the storm.  I had to learn to drive and progress, no matter how slowly, through it.  I learned to be patient through the storm because it would eventually be over.  

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Sermon: A Change Is Gonna Come

The singing was so good on the 4th week we went ahead and included it before the sermon. Enjoy the singing and the message of Bro. Walter Williams!

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Sermon: Forgiveness of Others

The forgiveness present among humanity is much larger than what we see. We are a part of a larger scheme designed by God.

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Sermon: I Want You Back

We have here our fourth sermon in the sermon series titled The Gospel: According to Michael Jackson. In this lesson we use the song by Michael Jackson called “I Want You Back” in order to teach what to do when we decide that we want to be back in relationship with God. God has not left you or forsaken you, it is usually us that leave God and when we are ready to come back God is willing to take us back. Listen up as we finish up our sermon series.

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Blog: Forgiveness of Others

I am guilty of being a YouTube binge watcher and one of the most interesting channels that I subscribe to is Odd Tinkering. I love this channel with a passion because it shows someone taking what would be garbage to one person and making it of use again. One of my most favorite episodes I watched from this channel showed the creator take an old Super Nintendo video game system that had yogurt spilled on the inside, it was discolored, and not working properly. The man took this unit and with much care and detail took it apart, cleaned what seemed to be every piece, fixed the plastic pieces that had been discolored by age, and made new what was broken! I’ve slotted the video to pickup at the point in which he shows the damage before and shortly after shows what is restored and better than its previous state! Check it out below.

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Blog: I Want You Back

Who remembers the 11 year old Michael Jackson singing about lost love? The song titled I Want You Back is a classic! It will never die as it has been sampled so many times in so many genre’s of music. This song speaks about someone taking for advantage the love of another and once the reality of life without that love exists, it hits like a ton of bricks! This song is much like our relationship with God. We have all at one point in time sinned and gone against the command of God intentionally. Knowing full well that He loved us enough to send his son to die on a cross for us! But once we shun Him and live in sin we soon will realize that life on the other side is not all it’s cracked up to be! I want to talk about that eye opening moment and what we need to do today to get BACK with God! Because He most definitely wants YOU back!

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Sermon: Lean on Me

Week 3 came and went! We received a GREAT word from local minister and brother in Christ Scott Meyer! He presented us a message from the book of Romans speaking to us about leaning on each other and having actual unity in the body! You’ll want to listen to this one!

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Sermon: Heal the World

In this lesson we take a look at the Good News and what it means for Christians and how it can HEAL THE WORLD!

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Sermon: Old Town Road

In the second week of the 2019 One Word Series with the theme of “God & Your Ipod: The Playlist of Life” we had Jordan Hubbard come and bless us! He used the title of Old Town Road to speak on favoritism in the church. Have a listen!

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Blog: Heal the World

There's a place in your heart and I know that it is love. And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow. And if you really try you'll find there's no need to cry. In this place you'll feel there's no hurt or sorrow. There are ways to get there if you care enough for the living. Make a little space make a better place. Heal the world make it a better place. For you and for me and the entire human race. There are people dying if you care enough for the living. Make it a better place for you and for me.

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