Community Church - Edwardsburg episodes:

• December 15, 2024Taking Back the Christmas Story

  Luke 2:1-15

  The part about who’s calling the shots.

  God, not Caesar

  The part about the manger

  Stone, not wood – humble and accessible

  The part about the Inn

  No room

  The part about the shepherds

  Rejected by man, valued by God

  The part about the glad tidings

  Savior, Christ, Lord

  The part about peace on earth

  For whom? Those who believe

  The other part about the shepherds

  They obeyed

  ...more

  

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• December 08, 2024Get the Picture

  Get the Picture

  John 4:43-54

  Picture of Faith

  Infant

  Don’t know much

  Just our need

  Growing

  Trusting His Word

  with us

  sufficient grace

  no condemnation in Him

  preparing a place

  Realized

  Big Picture

  John 20:31, 1:17

  Moses’s Signs of Judgment

  Water to Blood

  Death in Life’s Prime

  Jesus’ Signs of Grace

  Water to Wine

  Life at the Point of Death

  ...more

  

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• December 01, 2024Divine Appointment

  John 4

  ...more

  

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• November 24, 2024True Worship

  True Worship

  John 4:1-26

  In the Way

  Race (culture) – No one beyond the reach

  of grace

  Religion – Inoculated by

  formal and empty religion

  Record – A broken life defined

  On the Path

  Hope – Speaks to thirst before sin

  Reality – Open heart/Open life

  At the Goal

  Worship is:

  Submission of our nature to God

  Quickening of our conscience by His holiness

  Nourishment of our mind by His truth

  Purifying of our imagination by His beauty

  Opening of our heart by His love

  Surrender of our will to His purpose

  ...more

  

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• November 17, 2024Complete Joy

  Complete Joy

  John 3:22-36

  Being the Best Man

  Send out the invitations

  Care for the Needs of the Bride

  Knowing the Real Jesus

  Comes from above

  Bears witness

  Speaks the Word of God

  Gives the Spirit without measure

  Loved by the Father

  Holds all in His hand

  Having a Life of Faith

  It’s Elementary

  It’s Essential

  It’s Eternal

  ...more

  

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• November 10, 2024Jesus is King!

  continuing in the book of John

  ...more

  

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• November 03, 2024Are You Pick'n Up What I'm Lay'n Down?

  Are you Pick’n Up What I’m Lay’n Down ?

  John 3:1-15

  What Nic Picked Up

  Jesus had truths for life.

  Jesus was from God.

  Part of what he needed.

  What Jesus laid down

  Need an infusion of life

  Don’t act surprised.

  Jesus gives what he demands

  Who was lifted up

  Serpent – Sin

  Bronze – Judgement

  Pole – Cross

  God gives one remedy

  Jesus came not just so you can learn life but so

  that you can have life.

  ...more

  

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• October 27, 2024Decluttering

  Decluttering

  John 2: 13-25

  Obvious Observations

   Jesus is a manly man.

   Jesus protects His own.

   Jesus had a rightful claim on the House of

  God

  Painful Purging

   Jesus didn’t destroy their businesses, but

  he put them in their proper place.

   Jesus’ power was not in physical force but

  in His mere presence.

  Righteous Restoration

   Place of prayer

   Place of atonement

   Place of His presence

  Quite the Question

   Zeal for what consumes me?

  ...more

  

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• October 20, 2024SO THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE

  John 2:1-11

  ...more

  

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• October 13, 2024FOLLOWING

  Following

  John 1

  Identities Established

  God is eternal, personal, life-giving creator.

  I am created for His glory and nobody’s Savior.

  Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the

  sin of the world and giver of His Spirit.

  Faithful Following

  Start

  Clear Presentation

  Continual Invitation

  Prayerful Intervention

  Steps

  Growing relationship

  Cultivation of gifts

  Ministry assigned

  Stability

  All about desire which is determined by

  the answer to one question.

  “Why are you following me?”

  Supernatural

  Power to produce change

  Jesus knows who we are and

  who will be.

  ...more

  

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