If you were about to be executed for your faith and sharing the Gospel of Christ and you had one chance to write a letter to the person you had been discipling in the church, what would you say? Would you tell him to hide so he doesn’t suffer the same fate as you? Would you plead with him to be careful where and when he proclaimed the Gospel? Would you warn him not to tell the authorities about your friendship so as to avoid scrutiny?

This was the actual situation the Apostle Paul found himself in at the end of his life. Sitting in possibly the most dreaded dungeon Rome could offer, Paul chose to write a final letter to his beloved friend and co-laborer in the faith, Timothy.

We can learn so much from this beautiful letter. On Sunday we will bear down on chapter 2; specifically, we will consider the instruction Timothy received on continuing the mission and continuing to spread the Gospel of Christ. Paul gives his friend encouragement, warnings, and direction regarding the monumental task he is about to undertake.

I am praying that Sunday morning we can learn more about the obstacles in the early church, God’s plan for overcoming those obstacles, and how we too can be “Timothys” in the present church; strong in the grace that is Christ Jesus.

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This Sunday is the Finale for our Fall Campaign, and we call it Celebration Sunday! Our fall campaign has been called PERFECT LOVE and we have been working our way through 1 John. In this series we have been learning how to love God and love his people. The Church is Jesus' work. He started it to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth.

The focus for Celebration Sunday is on LOVING THE CHURCH. We want to highlight the church that Jesus started in Mitchell that is seeing God's work get done. We all are a part of a great church community and God is doing some amazing things here!

Join us for a service full of worship, celebration and baptisms, this Sunday 11am at the Weborg 21 Centre in Gering.

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This weekend is the final message in our fall series called PERFECT LOVE. In this series we have been working our way through the book of 1 John. In this letter written to first century believers, we have been refocusing on our fellowship or relationship with God through Jesus. This final chapter of the book is focused on an important theme that we must live out if we are to accomplish the mission Jesus has called us to. The theme of the final chapter of 1 John is OVERCOMING.

We have all faced big challenges in our lives, challenges that could stop us from becoming the people we are called by God to be. God is working to change us and we must work with him in this process. We are called in this chapter to be overcomers in this world for God. It is through faith that we become children of God. Once in His family we obey Him because we love Him. It is through obedience to God that we stay in fellowship with Him. This fellowship with God is what ensures that we will win the battle against the evil world we live in.

Join us this weekend for the final message in this series called PERFECT LOVE.

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When we experience, the love of God, we experience a holistic transformation. God's love brings discernment, it brings obedience, and it brings confidence.

Come find out how 1 John 4 can lead us to knowing and living out the love of Christ.

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This weekend we continue in our series called PERFECT LOVE. In this series we are praying that everyone in our church experiences the power of perfect love. In order to follow Jesus you can't just know about Him, you need to know him personally. This requires that you meet Him and respond to His love and forgiveness. In the letter of 1 John we are learning about the nature of this fellowship or relationship with God through Jesus.

This week we come to the difficult topic of Love. Not love for God but love for other believers. This is hard because other believers are not perfect and act, at times, in ways that make them hard to love. John pushes us past our issues with others behavior, to act like the Disciples of Jesus that we are. This means that we will be able to love each other well even when we don't behave well. Jesus puts His life in us and that life makes us soft hearted towards other believers even when they hurt us.

Join us this weekend as we continue to focus on LOVE, God's love transforming us into the children of God that we are.

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This weekend we continue in our fall campaign series called PERFECT LOVE. This will be the fourth message in this series as we work our way through 1 John. In this series we want everyone in our church to experience the power of perfect love. God's love changes everything in our lives and this weekend we will learn about how it transforms us. God's love awakens us to understand who we were really created to be. God created us to reflect him and so in and through Jesus our sins can be forgiven and our spirits can be brought to life. This work of God allows us to be called children of God.

1 John 3:1 tells us this fact, we can see how much the father loves us because he calls us his children. Being called children of God gives us a new identity. Your identity will determine how you live and so having this new identity calls us into a different way of life. As a child of God you have fellowship or a relationship with him. The evidence that you have a relationship with God is revealed in how you live, especially how you act towards others. A relationship with God will drastically change these things.

Join us this weekend as we learn how our new identity changes us by transforming our behavior away from sin and towards obedience to Jesus.

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This weekend we continue our fall campaign called PERFECT LOVE. In this series we are working our way through the letter in the Bible called 1 John. Written by the Apostle/Evangelist John this letter is a word to Disciples of Jesus in his day. The letter is full of encouragement for them to stay true to Jesus and follow him faithfully until he returns. This weekend is the third message in this series and we will focus on 1 John 2:15-27.

This passage focuses on guarding your heart for God against forces that would pull you away from Fellowship with Him. We are in a spiritual battle and so we must be armored up against the forces that would pull our hearts away from God and steal our fellowship with Him.

Join us as we learn how to guard ourselves against what, in this world, will leave us empty, weak and disconnected from God.

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This weekend is the second week of our series called PERFECT LOVE. We will be learning from 1 John the type of connection we can have with God through Jesus. John, who was one of the twelve disciples, actually knew Jesus. He lived with him for three years and in that time his life was transformed. He continued to follow him through the Holy Spirit's presence in his life even after Jesus returned to Heaven. This personal connection we can have with God through Jesus is available but in order to experience it we must choose to be close to God.

The apostle John continues the theme of the importance of fellowshipping (having a relationship) with

God. He explains that a relationship with God is active not passive. In order to experience God we

must turn from our sin, hatred, and bitterness, and must turn to love and forgiveness. This is all rooted

in the fact that Jesus did the same for us. He died for us, He loved us, and He forgave us while we

were still sinners and against Him (Romans 5:1-11). Out of our love and gratitude from experiencing

the love of God we too must walk as He walked… in love!

Join us this weekend as we desire to Experience the power of perfect love by choosing to be close to God.

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This weekend is the first week of our series called PERFECT LOVE. We will be learning from 1 John 1 the type of connection we can have with God through Jesus. John, who was one of the twelve disciples, actually knew Jesus. He lived with him for three years and in that time his life was transformed. He continued to follow him through the Holy Spirit's presence in his life even after Jesus returned to Heaven. This personal connection we can have with God through Jesus is available but in order to experience it we must choose to be close to God.

John tells us that the choice to be close to God requires that we get honest and transparent with who we are before God. We must acknowledge our sin and our need for forgiveness and spiritual cleansing. This will lead to having our spirits brought to life by Jesus. If you are to be close to God you must walk into the light and remain in the light, that is the transparent truth of God's word.

Join us this weekend as we desire to Experience the power of perfect love by choosing to be close to God.

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This weekend is Kick Off Weekend for the Fall Campaign 2023. The series this year is called, PERFECT LOVE. We will be studying one of the Apostle John's epistles called 1 John. Through this campaign we want you to experience the power of perfect love. God's love is perfect and because it is perfect it has the power to change and transform us. We learn in the scriptures that we will only experience this change if we experience his love. How much power does Love have? The power to change everything in your life. God's love has the power to give us new life, to make our past go away and give us a new beginning. This weekend we will see the power that God's love has through the story of Nicodemus. He came to Jesus skeptically and left, transformed by God's Love.

Join us this weekend as we kick off our fall growth campaign. I'm praying that you too, will experience the power of perfect love in your life, I know you need it as badly as I do!

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