Celebration Church

Welcome to Celebration Church!

Welcome to Celebration Church!

This week we journey on into 1 John 3, remembering our foundational concept for this series: walking with Jesus means letting Him lead. Its a reminder to us that the goal is to be led by Him into what He has called us to do. As we walk with Him, John points out in this chapter that part of the way we need to be led is in how we love each other in this family of the Body of Christ. God wants us to be a part of His family, a loving family. The apostle John reminds us that we are called to support each other when the needs present themselves. Just as Christ laid down His life for us, we too are supposed to sacrifice and serve one another in actions and truth. Because love unknown is love unshown. Ultimately, the Apostle John reminds us in this chapter that love is a verb.

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Key Verses // 3 John 1:4, 1 John 3

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We take a look at 1 John 2, today in our 1-2-3 series; where we study the later epistles of the apostle John and where we look at what they mean for the foundation of our Christian walk. Our core concept we want to remember is that walking with Jesus means letting Him lead. Part of knowing God better and trusting Him more is letting Him guide our lives. One of the biggest areas that we have to let God lead in is teaching and showing us what it is to love properly. As John moves on in this chapter, we see him draw the connection between loving God properly and have a fruitful, unifying life with other believers. The inverse of which shows that if you hate your brother or sister, then the love of the Father is not in you and you are still in darkness. See, a divided love divides your life. And those who sow division and darkness are called anti-Christs. we need to watch out for anti-Christs. Ultimately, to be lead by Jesus means knowing that He is the way and the destination.

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Key Verses // 3 John 1:4, 1 John 2

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Kicking off a brand new series where we are going through the later epistles of the apostle John. Even though we are starting in 1 John, our leading verse comes out of 3 John: 3 John 1:4 "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." And with it, we are establishing this thought throughout the series, that walking with Jesus means letting Jesus lead. What God has done in our lives helps others to see what God can do in theirs. As we look at the foundational concepts of what it means to walk with Jesus, we have to understand that as we walk and follow Jesus, we will look more like Jesus. Following Jesus means active participation, it means we are constantly growing and being shaped by God into more of an image of Jesus. When we think there is no need for us to change, we deceive ourselves. Life with Jesus is never stationary.

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Key Verses // 1 John 1:1-4, 3 John 1:4

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We wrap up our Filling Empty series today, remembering our foundational concept one more time: when feeling empty, know that God is the only one who truly fills us. Remembering that God is the one who truly fills helps us to have futures that are filled by Him. We can trust all of our days to the God of yesterday, today, and forever! Pastor Brandon enlightens us to see the couple of ways we often misuse "tomorrow", and the unnecessary pain that it causes. First, we often pull tomorrow's challenges into today, complicating today's challenges. Second, we push today's challenges into tomorrow, complicating tomorrow's challenges. Through looking at the scriptures and God's warning to focus on today and not to worry about tomorrow, we are lead to ultimately see that trusting God with our future fills us with peace today.

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Key verses // Matthew 5:6, 6:34.

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As we celebrate Mother's Day in this series, we look at how often some of our first glimpses of grace happen in our homes because of our moms. Our foundational concept going through this series is a reminder; when feeling empty, we have to remember that God is the only One who truly fills us. God has always valued generational families, and His plans have always been generational. We can look the first encounter of Moses with God and we can see how, at the mention of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, Moses falls down on his face to revere the Lord. The truth is God's plans for godly parents are to help us in troubling times, and to point to who truly fills. Godly parents also help to guard the places that God has filled. Ultimately we can see that faith is cultivated in the home.

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Key Verses // Matthew 5:6, Exodus 3:6, 2 Timothy 1:3-8

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As we continue through our series, we remember what the foundational concept of it is; that when we are feeling empty, we have to remember that God is the only one who truly fills us. He fills us with purposes and gift to serve according to His great purpose. We are designed to be an active part of His creation. For He created us and designed us; He knitted us together in our mother's womb and set us apart before we were born. We are created intentionally, He calls us masterpieces. We are both a work of art and an Artist's work. As God fills us, and we draw close to Him, He shows us where are gifts and talents can be used to honor Him and bring him glory. Ultimately, He shows us that we were create to create.

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Key Verses // Matthew 5:6, Ephesians 2:8-10

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In this series our foundational thought is that when we are filling empty, we have to remember that God is the only one who can truly fill us. This doesn't stop the temptation to try and be filled by the world though. Last week we talked about our minds, this week we are talking about our eyes. What we fill our eyes with matters. “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23. Our eyes are a pathway to our hearts and the direction we walk in. Vision brings direction. We have to understand that our vision as humans will often lead to wanting the world's desires, which our fading, but pursuing God's vision leads to true life. Pursuing God's vision requires us to trust Him with our lives. Ultimately the vision you see is the version you will be

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Key Verses // Matthew 6:22-23

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This week we look at how a God-filled mind brings a God-filled life! We have to understand our foundational concept for this series, when we are feeling empty then we need to understand that God is the only one who can truly fill us. A God-filled mind begins with understanding that setting our minds on the truth is essential. Truth brings us freedom. And thinking on what is true sets us up to live lives that are truly free. The key to what defines truth is found in looking to Jesus. Jesus is the truth with flesh on. Everything he did was truth in action. "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" John 14:6

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Key Verses // Matthew 5:6, Philippians 4:8

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