St. John's United Methodist Church - Turnersville NJ

What is the difference between being a fan of Jesus and a follower of Jesus? 

Matthew 26:57-61 

Eddie Keith, Director of Family Ministries

If you are caught between what is right or what is easy...what do you do? Pilate tried to take the easy way out, to not make a choice. And by doing so, he made a choice that we still talk about today. 

An encounter with Jesus leads to an invitation to the cross. 

Sharing your faith, in words is important but also in your actions. We can't keep our faith all to ourselves. 

We are called to live Missionally. Thinking and doing outside of our own lives, our own thoughts and sometimes, stretching our own abilities. We are to live lives of compassion.

Some minutes stand out in our lives and some are so very ordinary. Those minutes that are memorable, are called moments and moments mark and shape our lives. 

How we use our minutes/moments in the course of a day matter. Jesus was intentional about how He spent His time and about spending time with His Father. 

Our souls need EXERCISE (Rom. 15:4), RENOVATION (Heb. 2:4), VISION CORRECTION (2 Cor. 4) and FELLOWSHIP (the book of Psalms)

Internal battles have the greatest potential to take you down! Judges 19-21 provides a detailed look into the chaos that was inside of Israel and the internal fighting... to say the least! 

In the days of Judges, Israel had no king. Everyone did as they saw fit. Micah set up his own idea of church, not what God wanted but what he wanted. 

3 areas that can cause disconnection- Pace of Life, Technology & Pain/Dissappointment

It's not usually the big sin that changes our lives but the series of little, insignificant sins that add up to an unfortunate consequence. We learn about Samson and how he did not live up to the promise his parents made to God. He constantly made small choices that ultimately ended up in his demise. 

Self-centered people pre-occupied with oneself and ones affairs. They tend to give more glory to themselves than to God. And they have no reason to put their trust in God because they only trust themselves. 

We all have moments, or for some, longer, of times of being self-centered. But it is how we continue to live that makes a difference