Our Pastor brings a message regarding Fathers utilizing passages from Romans 8 and from the book Ball Four by Jim Boulton.   Reading several sections from Jim Boulton’s story, as well as sharing some of his memories of Pastor Harvey Meek.  Elaborating on how as time went by they grew in understanding each other better in certain ways.  This message hits home on so many levels.  Pun intended! 

Pastor delves further into praying in the spirit.  Discussing the Tent of Meeting and how the Priest were required to keep lamps burning and wicks trimmed.  This is a metaphor for our lives. He shows how our life, our prayers, our relationship to the Lord and others is profoundly changed through our prayer language.

You’ve heard it said that “sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me.” Well, as you’ll hear Pastor Barbie Loflin point out in today’s lesson, words are powerful and they really can hurt us. They can form our lives – a blessing or a curse – as we submit to what we’re told about ourselves. But God has made a way to escape the words that would hold us down as we submit to his powerful words.

“Life can sometimes be complex.” 

Pastor Meek discusses how the Holy Spirit works through our prayers.  There are situations and problems that are just too difficult or complex to know how to pray and that is why we pray in the Spirit.  This doesn’t mean we “pray” telling God what He needs to do, but by allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through us. As Pastor states, “We are not encouraged or required to come to God with a solution.”  Listen to find out more about Praying in the Spirit.

Our relationships with Christ that began as a joyful dance often become distant because of distraction. And though we may try to fight our way back to that place of peace and joy, our strength will ultimately fail. Listen as Pastor Barbie shares about the power of the Holy Spirit's Blessings of Liberation that free us to continue the dance as though it was never interrupted.