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October 25 A Future Worth Building | Pastor Taylor Ford | October 25th, 2026
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:28-31

First and greatest commandment.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Hear, O Israel
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17

We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19

Keep these commandments on your hearts.
Deuteronomy 6:6

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.
John 14:21
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.”
John 14:23

Impress them on your children…
Deuteronomy 6:7

When you sit at home…
Deuteronomy 6:7

When you walk along the road…
Deuteronomy 6:7

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering.
Romans 12:1

When you lie down and get up…
Deuteronomy 6:7

Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your and gates.
Deuteronomy 6:8-9

“Listen for God, stop and watch and wait for him. To love God means to pay attention, be mindful, be open to the possibility that God is with you in ways that, unless you have your eyes open, you may never glimpse. He speaks words that, unless you have your ears open, you may never hear. Draw near to him as best you can.”
Fredrick Buechner

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched landwhere there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:1-4
Loving your neighbor as yourself.

The second is this: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31
Loving my neighbor means seeing every person has my neighbor.
Loving my neighbor means I don’t need to seek revenge.
Loving my neighbor means seeing potential for transformation when everyone else just sees their past.
Loving my neighbor means sacrificially serving those in my church family.
Loving my neighbor means living out “BLESS.”

BEGIN with prayer
LISTEN to the needs of others
EAT a meal with your neighbors, co-workers or friends
SERVE others – look for ways to be a servant
SHARE your story of faith

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:7-12

Worship Set:
Praise The Lord (Everything Within Me)
How Great Thou Art
Center
How He Loves
47 min
October 18 A Future Worth Building | Pastor Daniel Collins | October 18th, 2026
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20
The Purpose of the Church:
To fulfill The Great Commission and to follow The Great Commandment.

The Great Commission in 3 frames:
Authority. Responsibility. Promise.
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”
Matthew 28:18

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Colossians 1:15-20

“If we pray that prayer, we shouldn’t be surprised if we are called upon to help bring about God’s answer to it.”
N.T. Wright

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…
Matthew 28:19

Responsibility: Make disciples.

Disciples are those who have ordered their lives around being with, learning from, and becoming like Jesus.

“You can have many influences...but you can only have one King.”
Jeremy Treat

… Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19b

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Romans 6:3-4

And teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…
Matthew 28:20a

“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:31-32

… And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:20b

Worship Set:
Yes He Lives
Gratitude
Great Are You Lord TAG
The Blood
The Stand TAG
42 min
October 11A Future Worth Building | Pastor Ray Armstrong | October 11th, 2026
Pastor Ray
October 10th and 11th 2026
We remember because God has been faithful.
In the future, when your children ask you, “What do these stones mean?” tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.
Joshua 4:6-7
We honor the Faithfulness of God in the Past by investing in the next Generation.
We will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done.
Psalm 78:4
We Embrace the future because God who is faithful is still at work.

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
Isaiah 43:18-19
Worship Set:
Doxology
Praise the Lord (Everything Within Me)
He's the One
Worthy is the Lamb
Oh the Cross
Fall Like Rain
38 min
October 04 A Future Worth Building | Pastor Ray Armstrong | October 4th, 2026
The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.” When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 1:1- 4
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
Nehemiah 2:17-18
Mission answers these questions: Why do we exist? What has God called us to do?
Vision answers: What would the future look like if we faithfully live that mission?

The Great Commission: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20
The Great Commandment: Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 22:37-39
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
William Duell
Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.
Nehemiah 1:3
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10

The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:19-20
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Dr. Martin Luther King
When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 1:4
“The church is only the church when it exists for others.”
Dietrich Bohoeffer
I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
Nehemiah 2:18
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
Nehemiah 2:19
I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.
Ezekiel 22:30
The Questions before us
1.     What do we see?
2.     What have we grown accustomed to?
3.     Where are the broken walls around us?
4.     What is the Lord asking of us?

Worship Set:
Move Of God
Fall Like Rain
Jesus Be The Name
The Dove
He Has Done Great Things
42 min
September 27 Remembrance | Pastor Daniel Collins | September 27th, 2026
Pastor Daniel
September 26th and September 27th
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Ephesians 2:19-22
“One of the great battles of the spiritual life involves remembering. In fact, ‘remember’ is among the most frequent biblical commands, second only to ‘fear not.’ Fears, threats, competing affections, and distractions all conspire to make us forget, to lose the plot of our own redemption stories, forgetting even the most recent revelations of God’s nearness to us. Forgetting the God who holds us together, the many competing voices of this world pick us apart like vultures over their prey, leaving us pulled apart and picked over.”
Tyler Staton [from After Amen]
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,
Ephesians 2:19
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinarand settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:1-4
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it...”
Genesis 1:28a
“The greatest love of the heavenly city is the love of God, and the greatest love of the earthly city is the love of self.”
St. Augustine [from The City of God]
Genesis Pattern: Grace. Rebellion. Divine Judgement. New Grace.
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:1-3
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:20
In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Ephesians 2:21-22
A visible witness of reconciliation to the world.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8
Together, we are to be visible witness who are both faithful and disruptive.
A Faithful Witness
Faithful in belief.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2:42
Faithful in behavior.

Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-Control.

Faithful in practice.

Scripture & Prayer.
Worship & Community.
Fasting & Simplicity.
Silence & Solitude.
Self-Examination & Reflection.
Confession & Accountability.
Peacemaking & Reconciliation.
Service & Generosity.
Justice & Care for the Poor.
Sabbath & Celebration.
A Disruptive Witness
“We need a method of living in light of the gospel that unsettles people from their stupor. They way we communicate our faith must puncture the buzz of modern life.”
Alan Noble [from Disruptive Witness]
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.”
Eugene Peter [from The Message]
“I wonder if anything is more urgent today, for the honor of Christ and the spread of the gospel, that that the church should be, and should be seen to be, what by God’s purpose and Christ’s achievement it already is: a single new humanity, a model of human community, a family of reconciled brothers and sisters who love their Father and love each other, the evident dwelling pace of God by His Spirit. Only then will the world believe in Christ as Peacemaker. Only then will God receive the glory due to His name.”
John Stott [from The Message of Ephesians]
45 min
September 20Remembrance | Pastor Taylor Ford | September 20th, 2026
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Ephesians 2:14-18
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18
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May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ…
Galatians 6:14
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What did Jesus accomplish on the Cross?
Purchases sin’s penalty.
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His purpose was to create in himself one NEW humanity…
Ephesians 2:15
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17
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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
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You were bought at a price…
1 Corinthians 6:20
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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding.
Ephesians 1:7 -8
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What did Jesus accomplish on the Cross?
Peace with God.
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For he himself is our peace…
Ephesians 2:14
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Thus making peace…
Ephesians 2:15
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He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Ephesians 2:17-18
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The cross gives me peace WITH God.
The cross gives me the peace OF God.
The cross makes peace BETWEEN the people of God.
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Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.
Colossians 3:15
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Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
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What did Jesus accomplish on the Cross?
The dividing wall DESTROYED – Brings us together as one family in Christ.
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Who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations, His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility…
Ephesians 2:14-16
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There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28
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“The church demonstrates God’s power when “people who could never get along outside the church” are now living together in peace.”
Tim Keller
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“Salvation is a community creating event.”
Joseph Hellerman
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Family shares our stuff with one another.

Family shares our hearts with one another.

We stay, embrace pain, and grow up with one another.
From Joseph Hellerman
41 min
September 13 Remembrance | Pastor Ray Armstrong | September 13th, 2026
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:11-13
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Remember who we used to be:
1.     Separate from Christ. The Gospel is not the adoption of Jesus’s ideas on how to live but knowing Jesus personally.
2.     Excluded citizenship in Israel. Citizenship carries the idea of a commonwealth, community, or membership in a family.
3.     Foreigners to the covenants of promise. A foreigner may live in a country, hold a job, love the country’s culture, and even learn its language but possess none of the rights of citizenship.
4.     Without hope and without God in this world. This is the emotional and spiritual end of the line.
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Why we remember:
1.     Remembering creates humility.
2.     Remembering creates gratitude.
3.     Remembering creates compassion.
4.     Remembering strengthens identity.
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How can I remember well?
1.     Remember truthfully.
2.     Remember specifically.
3.     Tell the story.
4.     Allow remembering to change the way you look at others who seem far away.
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Remember that you were separate from Christ. The deepest need of your life could not be met by improvement, achievement, or religion. You needed Christ Himself.
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Remember that you were excluded from citizenship in Israel. You stood outside the people through whom God had been telling his saving story.
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Remember that you were foreigners to the covenants of the promise. You stood outside the promise-shaped hope that God had carried through generations toward the Messiah.
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Remember that you were without hope. You may have had wishes and plans, but you had no promise strong enough to carry you through life.
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Remember that you were without God in the world. You lived in His world, surrounded by His gifts, yet distant from the Giver.

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Closing Benediction
“Jesus, teach us to remember who we once were so that we may glory in who we have become in You. Remind us daily of what You have done for us, and form us into Your image for the sake of others. Make us a people who carry Your presence into the world for the good of our communities and the glory of Your Name. Amen.”

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Worship Set:
What The Lord Has Done
The Blood
Jesus Have It All
How Great Thou Art
44 min
September 06 Remembrance | Pastor Daniel Collins | September 6th, 2026
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Ephesians 2:11-22
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Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands) remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:11-12
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But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility…
Ephesians 2:13-14
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He says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
Isaiah 49:6
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By setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Ephesians 2:14-18
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Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Ephesians 2:19-22
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We must remember who we once were.
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We must remember what Jesus has done.
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The many dimensions of Christ work on the cross:
We must remember that because of Jesus we can have victory over death.
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We must remember that because of Jesus our sins are forgiven.
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We must remember that because of Jesus the dividing walls of hostility that we are tempted to put up against one another have been broken down.
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We must remember that because of Jesus we have become something for something.
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We must remember what we have now become.
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A people who live into God’s vision of the Church as a family.
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A people who commit themselves to being spiritually formed into the image of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit for the sake of others.
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A people who with glad and sincere hearts reorder their lives in ways that free us up to partner with God in the flourishing of our communities.
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Closing Benediction
“Jesus, teach us to remember who we once were so that we may glory in who we have become in You. Remind us daily of what You have done for us, and form us into Your image for the sake of others. Make us a people who carry Your presence into the world for the good of our communities and the glory of Your Name. Amen.”

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Worship Set:
Praise Chorus
O Praise The Name
Holy Forever
Jesus We Love You
32 min
August 30 Pastor Taylor Ford | August 30th, 2026
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24
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Three Daring Prayers that will strengthen your faith and increase your influence:
1. Search me and know me.
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You know me
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You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Psalm 139:1-6
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You know me —> You are with me
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Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Psalm 139:7-12
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You know me —> You are with me ——> You made me
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
Psalm 139:13-18
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You know me —> You are with me ——> You made me ——> You search me _______________________________
If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent;your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Search me, God, and know my heart…
Psalm 139:19-23
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Three Daring Prayers that will strengthen your faith and increase your influence:
2.     Test me
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Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Psalm 139:23
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David’s life was full of tests:
· The test of obscurity
· The test of opposition
· The test of success
· The test of rejection
· The test of waiting
· The test of revenge
· The test of failure
· The test of consequences and family pain
· The test of grief
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Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
James 1:3-4
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Some encouragement about the “testing” times of life:
1.     God does not trick us… but he does REFINE us through testing.
2.     Don’t waste the test … In the tests of life we should not try and manipulate circumstances, or cheapen the process, but rather double down on our trust in God and his timing.
3.     Trust God’s heart even when you don’t see his hand.
4.     Stay faithful in the ordinary
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Three Daring Prayers that will strengthen your faith and increase your influence:
3.     Lead me
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Lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139
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The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake…
Psalm 23
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
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John Wesley’s Personal Questions of Reflection
1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
2. Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
3. Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
4. Can I be trusted?
5. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
6. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
7. Did the Bible live in me today?
8. Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?
9. Am I enjoying prayer?
10. When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?
11. Do I pray about the money I spend?
12. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
13. Do I disobey God in anything?
14. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
15. Am I defeated in any part of my life?
16. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
17. How do I spend my spare time?
18. Am I proud?
19. Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
20. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
21. Do I grumble or complain constantly?
22. Is Christ real to me?
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How is it with your soul?
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Worship Set:
Mighty Name Of Jesus
Like Incense
My Hallelujah
I Love You Lord
Holy Spirit
20 min
August 23 The One Anothers | Pastor Ray Armstrong | August 23rd, 2026
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:16-18
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The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Psalm 19:1
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Creation —> Sinai —> Tabernacle —> Temple —> Jesus ___________________________________
Seeing the Glory of God does not mean we will reflect the Glory of God.
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The Old Testament word for Glory is Kavod. It is the idea of weight, substance, significance and honor. The Glory of God is the weightiness of who God is.
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It is God making Himself known – His presence, character, goodness, holiness, power, mercy, beauty and love becoming visible or experienced. ___________________________________
Now show me your glory.
Exodus 33:18
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And the Lord said, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you…
Exodus 33:19
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And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
Exodus 34:6-7
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Creation —> Sinai —> Tabernacle —> Temple —> Jesus
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The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
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The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.
Hebrews 1:3
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For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:6
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Jesus said, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.”
John 12:3
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Creation —> Sinai —> Tabernacle —> Temple —> Jesus —> Cross
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I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one.
John 17:22
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We all…are being transformed into His image with ever increasing glory.
2 Cor. 3:18
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Creation —> Sinai —> Tabernacle —> Temple —> Jesus —> Cross —> God’s people (that’s us)
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Every time we, the church, live out one another verses the world gets a glimpse of the Glory of God.
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We can admire the character of God without acquiring the character of God.
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Beholding. Transforming. Reflecting.
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Becoming like Jesus doesn’t happen in isolation.
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The Question is not: Have I seen the Glory of God?
The Question is: Can anyone see something of the Glory of God in me?
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Worship Set List:
Yes He Lives
Praise Chorus
What A Beautiful Name
Man Of Sorrows
41 min

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