Long Story Short \ Part 3 \ The Wisdom Books - 5 Stages of Wisdom and Maturity \ Pastor Brent

Does the Bible have 66 books and letters or 62? If you immediately say 66 because you’ve counted and memorized your books ion the Bible you’re not wrong, BUT in this service we explain how 62 is also correct!

As part of our Long Story Short series, tomorrow we will tackle the historical books. We will cover around 1,000 years of Hebrew history as we give footnotes versions of the book of Joshua through Esther. We will see what led to the downfall of Israel and how all these years later it could still lead to our downfall today. It has been said that “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Let’s learn from those historical books so we don’t have to repeat them!

Join us for our Worship Experience from our Brandon Campus! We are in part two of our series, “Long Story Short.”

Long Story Short \ Part 1 \ The Pentateuch - God Needs You \ Pastor Brent

Have you ever gotten orange juice by juicing an apple? You will probably look at that question and think "well no", but so often in life we are surprised about the reactions coming out of us.⁣

April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House in Virginia the Army or Northern Virginia surrendered to the Union Army. It was the first of many dominos to fall in bringing the American civil war to an end. This surrender recast the direction of an entire nation. It forecast the future directing a whole country into a brand new journey.

Join us as we will discover how the act of surrender within our heart can bring understanding to and shape our future.

The heart has always been considered the most important part of the human body. No matter how strong the rest of the body is, if the heart is sick, we will be sick. Amazingly, modern science can now perform heart transplants. The first successful heart transplants were in the 1960’s, but today around 2,000 heart transplants happen each year. Spiritually speaking, God also wants to perform heart transplant. He removes our old sick heart and replaces it with a new heart that logs to know and follow him. Like the human heart, the heart of this new heart every area of your life.

Join us as Pastor Brent shares his personal story of how God’s heart transplant changed a very personal area of his life, and how he is so much better because of it.

According to the American heart Association, nearly half (48%) of Americans have some form of cardiovascular (heart) disease. This includes the 647,000 Americans that die from heart disease every year, and the 805,000 Americans that have a heart attack each year. The internal struggle of unmanageable feelings, uncontrollable thoughts and the selfish desires of our hearts can be just as unhealthy to our lives and relationships.

Join us as we are going to talk about how we can win within our own internal struggle by looking to God for a new heart.

In the book Gaily the Troubadour, published in 1936, Arthur Guiterman wrote the following poem:

First dentistry was painless; Soon oranges were seedless,

Then bicycles were chainless The putting green was weedless,

And carriages were horseless The college boy hatless,

And may lays, enforce-less. The proper diet, fatless,

Next, cookery was tireless, Now motor roads are dustless,

Telegraphy was wireless, The latest steel is rustless,

Cigars were nicotine-less Our T=tennis courts are sodless,

And coffee, caffeine less. Our new religions, godless.

Join us as we continue the I Love The 80’s series by examining an elder brother who “Gives Love a Bad Name” because he is full of religion, but far from The Father.

I Love the 80’s - Part 2 - The Power of Love

Welcome to the 80’s! An era of Jordache jeans, rubies cubes, Beetlejuice and teen girl heartthrob Kurt Cameron!

Inflation is high, interest rates are skyrocketing and we have a whole in the o-zone (probably from all the hairspray)… but hey, we’ve also got Ronald Reagan and reaganomics! We’ve got cable TV, which includes this new totally tubular channel called MTV! We can even take our music with us now with our Walkmans! And don’t forget the new Nintendo NES system! I’m the king of Duke Hunt!

Join us as we discuss The Loving Fathers point of view in the Prodigal Son Parable!

Pull out your Jordache Jeans and dust off your Thriller Cassette Tape! Cause “I Love the 80’s” is here!

Guy’s, it’s time to put on your parachute pants and comb your mullets… and mustaches! Ladies, throw on your LA Gear Shoes, slip into your favorite leg warmers… and use that Aqua Net to make your hair as big as possible!

…Cause it’s time for the “I Love the 80’s” series at Arise! So weather you drive the station-wagon, fire up the old IROC-Z, or just Walk Like an Egyptian, you don’t want to miss this Thriller of a series!