Guest speaker: Brent Silkey

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”‭‭John‬ ‭13:35‬ (‭NIV‬‬)

Reference text: ‭‭Luke‬ ‭10:25-37‬

“About this time another large crowd had gathered, and the people ran out of food again.”Mark‬ ‭8:1‬a (‭NLT‬‬)

Reference text: ‭‭Mark‬ ‭8:1-9‬

Guest Speaker: Nolan Bechtold

“Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, “What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?””‭‭John‬ ‭4:27‬ ‭(NLT‬‬)

Reference text: ‭‭John‬ ‭4:1-18, 27‬

Become more like Jesus

“For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:29a‬ (‭NLT)‬‬

Bring people to Jesus

“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:8‬ ‭(NLT‬‬)

“So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.”‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:11‬ ‭(NLT‬‬)

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)

‘And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.’ Philippians 4:8 (NLT)

“I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.”

Philippians 3:13 (NLT)

Reference text: Philippians 3:12-14

Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved.

Philippians 3:2

Reference text: Philippians 3:1-4

“We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ― Charles R. Swindoll

Reference text: Philippians 2:14-18