Included Music: Power in the Blood, Blessed Be Your Name, Because He Lives, and Worthy Is the Lamb followed by Wes and Judy Kent singing There Is a Fountain
Message Title: Celebration
Text: Nehemiah 8:8-12
Take Home Point: When we celebrate the grace given to us, our eyes move away from us and onto Jesus - our joy and our strength.
Included Music: Higher Ground, God of Wonders, I Need Thee Every Hour, and The Potter's Hand followed by Jerry and Ida Hale singing It's Me Again Lord
Message Title: Confession
Text: James 5:16
Take Home Point: We will never know the freedom and relationship God has prepared for us unless we embrace the painful transparency of confession.
Included Music: Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee, Come Now Is the Time to Worship, My Tribute, and This I Believe followed by Matthew Jones singing Scars
Message Title: Worship
Text: Luke 10:38-42
Take Home Point: It is easy to become so busy trying to do good things for Jesus that we forget He really wants us much more than what we can do for Him.
Included Music led by Jim Duncan: Down at the Cross, Days of Elijah, Make Me a Servant, and Jesus Messiah followed by Larry Cross singing Lily of the Valley
Message Title: Service
Text: Mark 10:42-45
Take Home Point: Jesus perfectly modeled love, and we are called to follow HIs example as we love our neighbors as ourselves. Service is love made tangible.
Included Music: Jesus Saves, This Is Amazing Grace, Nothing but the Blood, and Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) followed by a special song from Tom Isbell
Message Title: Simplicity
Text: 1 Timothy 6:6-10
Take Home Point: We chase after what we love. If we love and chase after money rather than God, we will only find pain and brokenness.
Included Music: The Solid Rock, God on the Mountain and How Great Thou Art (performed by Lanny McVay and Family), Blessed Be the Lord God Almighty, and Just As I Am followed by Matthew Jones singing You Were There
Message Title: Bible Study
Text: Psalm 119:9-16
Take Home Point: Our lives will never be transformed to purity unless we are focused on studying the Bible and applying it to every aspect of our daily lives.
Included Music: Worthy of Worship, Greater Is He that Is in Me, Love Lifted Me, and Shout to the Lord followed by Brad Breeding singing People Get Ready
Message Title: Prayer
Text: Luke 11:1-4
Take Home Point: Encountering God in prayer changes us, and that changes everything.