Napoleon Church of the Nazarene

STUCK// With my relationships by Napoleon Church of the Nazarene

Pastor Ken Behrens takes on our third week of the Stuck series, with "Stuck in my circumstances". Pastor Ken takes scripture from the book of Habakkuk to talk about how we become "Unstuck" from our circumstances when we let God redeem our plans and embrace "Yet Living!"

Week two of the series "Stuck", talks about being "stuck with myself". "Why do I do what I do? Why do I keep doing what I do?" Pastor Chip highlight three areas where we can be stuck with ourselves: Our Trying, our Isolation, and our Paradigm. We become "Unstuck" from ourselves when we surrender to the Lord's power, embrace His community, and when we are overwhelmed by His love.

We begin week one of a four week series titled, "Stuck". This week, Pastor Chip talks about being "Stuck...in my past". We can feel stuck in our past mistakes, our past hurts, and our past identities, but we can become unstuck when our failure is redeemed, our hurt is released, and our identity is realized though Christ Jesus.

Pastor Chip ends the Ministry Focus Month highlighting our missions ministry. Member of our missions council share their hearts and experiences with missional work in our local area as well as around the world!

This week for Ministry Focus Month, Pastor Chip invites Worship Pastor Ben Hartford, to speak about the worship ministry as well as the many hospitality ministries at the church. Pastor Chip touches a little bit on the different gifts of the church and how we each have one or more of these gifts to use for the kingdom of God.

Week two of our Ministry Focus Series, highlights our Student Ministry. Pastor Ken introduces the new brand for Student Ministries called, N2 Students and gives the inspiration and insight behind the new logo. He also interviewed some of the N2 adult sponsors, as well as some of the youth to share how they have been impacted by the N2 student ministry. Pastor Chip focuses his message on purpose and serving. He reads from 1 Corinthians 12, which talks about the body and each member of the body having a role in reference to the church.

Sunday, September 10, 2017 // This week we embark on a four-week series called Ministry Focus Month. We kick off this series with NapNaz Kids Ministry and Outreach.

Pastor Chip Bullock's talks about grace with this sermon titled, "Grace Upon Grace", in reference to the scripture found in John 1:16. We need to have an understanding of grace to understand who we are called to be as Christians. God’s expressions of grace were innumerable; His requirements were minimal. Grace is never earned, it is always offered, and its always more than enough!

Pastor Chip Bullock ends the I Am series with "I AM the Resurrection and the Life". Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life; therefore, I am sustained. Sometimes in life we ask the question, "why doesn't God do something about this"? Well the answer is, " He already has"! Chip hits on this point with the story of Lazarus and reveals how Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life and why we need Him.