Springfield First Church of the Nazarene Podcast

The reputation of Las Vegas is one of adult entertainment, debauchery, promiscuity, and sexual immorality, traits that are becoming increasingly commonplace in our culture today that God's holy people are to have absolutely nothing to do with.

It's one thing if what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas, but the sin which abounds in "Sin City" is becoming increasingly pervasive throughout the entire nation, most notably a gambling industry with annual revenues of over $80 billion dollars and growing.

As we conclude this series on forgiveness, Jesus shows us how love for God and love for others is truly quantified, and it involves the degree to which we forgive.

The forgiveness principle as taught by Jesus is that as we extend forgiveness we ourselves are granted forgiveness along with all the benefits and blessings that are accompanied with it.

In giving us another forgiveness formula, Jesus taught that seven repentant grievances against us must result in seven acts of forgiving resulting in nothing that should hinder the relationship between two people.

On this national day of remembering the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in which the United States experienced the worst attack in history on American soil, we heed the difficult and demanding word of Jesus to "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

The proportion with which we are to forgive others must be equal to but never less than the forgiveness we have already been shown as vividly illustrated in a most riveting story that Jesus tells about a man who desperately needed to appreciate the value of debt cancellation relative to debts owed him.

We begin an important series looking at the defining practice of Christianity as taught on several occasions in the New Testament using formulaic expressions with perhaps the most well known formula being 70 x 7 = indefinite.

We welcome to Springfield Church Jeff Brown, who is the Children's Pastor at Eugene Fairfield Church of the Nazarene. Jeff recently received his Master's degree in Christian Education from Northwest Nazarene University and is currently in the year of mentoring being mentored by Pastor John Hanna leading up to ordination in 2012. We are so glad to have Jeff, Amy, and their two sons Noah and Jonah join us for worship.

Our special guests for the day are Dr. Bob and Cambria Hunter. Bob is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene and a recent doctorial graduate of George Fox University in Leadership and Spiritual Formation. They will be sharing with us in the morning worship service and also later in the afternoon with our leadership team. For more information about their ministry, visit soulhydration.net.