What Did Your Church Teach On?
Mar 07, 2010 
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We’re starting a new post series, Sunday Service Synopsis, on the blog. Let’s continue the weekend church conversation by sharing your answers to a few simple questions.
1) What did your church teach on this weekend?
2) What was your take away? In other words, how will you apply the weekend teaching?
3) Anything awesome happen? Like a lot of salvations or baptisms? New songs? Etc.
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In this 4 week series in church has been on love & marriage…today was specifically on conflicts in the marriage, and knowing which of the 5 love languages you are so that you & your spouse can understand one another! Even got very detailed with sex & lots of laughter! It was great! Our pastor rocks! Every Tuesday you can log on to lifepointnow.com & watch the podcast of the service from the Sunday before! Check it out sometime!
That’s awesome Lisa. Ironically, our church is just concluding a series called Love & Marriage. Last week we talked about how to deal with conflict in marriage. Such an important topic.
My Pastor Taught on Creating a lifestyle of Worship. Which is something I aim for anyway, but, it was still good to hear again!:) Its One of the Core Values of our Church, My Pastor likes to review them( Our Core Values) in-between Sermon Series’
We review our core values a lot as well. We regularly ask, “how are we doing with our values” and we talk about ways to close the gap between what we say is important and how we actually live it out. Always great to remind folks.
I’ll go as well.
1) My church, The Church at Chapel Hill, taught on trusting God with our finances. Its something we talk about a couple times a year. I love how creative the message was and that it wasn’t just about giving, but about TRUSTING. Do we trust in God or our IRA? Do we trust in God or our 401K. Good stuff!
2) While we’re already tithers, my wife and I want to give more; to bless others. To do that we need to get out of debt and free up our funds. We’re working on it through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace program.
Our home group recently did a study on generosity in tough times. You are correct, it all comes down to who or what you trust. The more we trust God, the more we can let go of everything else.
This week’s sermon at my church – Lifeline Community in West Jordan, Utah – was on 1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1 Don’t Arouse the Lord’s Jealousy by Pastor Bryan Hurlbutt. http://www.lifelinecommunity.com/
What was your major take away and how will you apply it?
At Buckhead Church Andy Stanley spoke on running from God, this week talking about God’s grace and discipline in our lives. We have been in the book of Jonah.
The main point was “God is generous in His grace but He is also thorough in discipline–not so He can PAY us back but to BRING us back.”
“Not so He can PAY us back but to BRING us back.” — Whoa thats good. Too often we misunderstand God’s discipline.
So true. I had never thought of it that way before. Love my church and my pastors!
I love Buckhead Church as well. I don’t know about the other pastors, but Andy Stanley is the man.
I attend Browns Bridge and heard the same message. Oddly enough this was one of those messages where God explained to me an event that has taken place in my life very recently. In fact,I find that happening a lot now. It was awesome to see so many walk the aisle at the end of the service and tell God “I give up and will no longer try to run” and they will be in my prayers. I know how difficult that decision is to keep and I battle with it every day. The only thing that keeps me from trying to run again is that I know I cannot outrun HIM.
1) What did your church teach on this weekend?
My pastor spoke on Lamentations 2:1-10 and Romans 6:11-14 and how “a fulfilling spiritual connection with God cannot be achieved without experiencing brokenness for our sin.”
2) What was your take away? In other words, how will you apply the weekend teaching?
For me, it was a reminder that I need to truly be sorry for my sin and I must truly try not to do it again in order to fully be repentent of my sins. It also reminded me that when I sin against others, I need to go to them and apologize for the hurt I may have caused them.
3) Anything awesome happen? Like a lot of salvations or baptisms? New songs? Etc.
This week they mixed the order of the service out a bit and we sang some songs, the pastor spoke and then we sang a few more songs. The songs at the end are not a usual order for us and the praise and worship time during those songs was amazing.
Thanks for sharing Layne. Sounds like a challenging message and a good view on repentance of sin. Apologizing can be tough. But as well know, its necessary. I love when we have worship after hearing the Word taught. Feels like it adds more depth.
We taught on Jesus’ way he desire for us to give, fast, and pray in Matthew 6. My take away: Will give towards mission work, and pray and fast leading up to Easter Sunday for our community.
Oh no! Did you just mention the F word (fasting). You mean people still do that?
Love to hear about churches with a heart for their community. Knock it out of the park on Easter. We call it a “God-Lob”. It’s one of those times when God just throws you a floater and says, here’s the people. Love on em.
Our church just began our Easter series, Perspectives, which takes a look at Jesus’ ministry leading up to his death from the point of view of different people in the Bible. This week, the subject was Zacchaeus. My take away: Jesus engaged unlikely people, much to the disgust of the religious leaders. But the way he took the time to acknowledge and “love on” Zacchaeus, led to life transformation and had a huge impact on the community. I want to be a leader like Jesus, not like the religious teachers of his day.
Good word!
End of a series on worry. Today was God consciousness – ways to be aware of God throughout the day. From greeting God as with anyone else you meet that day, to formal prayer and scripture time. Through the day listening to praise or teaching and praying short prayers for those who come to mind. Very practical helps for being deliberate about walking in the Spirit.
Very practical ways to “Pray continuously”.
PS. Love to hear the tips for not worrying if you’ve got that one mastered.
Just the daily struggle to actually live what I say I believe.
Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.
The sermon was on how rich we really are and how we’re supposed to handle those riches…needless to say the message hurt…a lot!
Gotta love a good soul bruising.
Our pastor continued his “Family Works” series today. He spoke about raising champions and how their minds need to be filled with God’s promises, their mouths with God’s victories, and their spirit’s with God’s power (1 Sam 17/David and Goliath). I took away that our youth need this power goodness now as they will face giants, just as we adults do. In my relationships with young people I will encourage this. Today was also a day of literal baptisms as well as spiritual.
Awesome Rita. Is the message online anywhere? I’d like to check it out.
1) When bad things happen
2)”Faith is not for protection. Faith is for endurance.”My minister also talked about how when things happen there are causes but there is also a purpose, and we are better off focusing on the purpose than on the causes or the “why”. It reminds me to be on the lookout, watching for God to bring good out of bad situations, no matter what happens. I don’t have to be able to explain it, I just have to be able to endure it with faith.
3)Hmmm…someone reported today that someone else was at some kind of conference or something and 62 people gave their lives to Christ. I clearly wasn’t paying attention during announcements. Ha. But that’s pretty awesome!
How are you liking the church there? Is this one “home” for you now?
3) Wow! That is awesome.
Andy Stanley finished the “White Flag” series today. One word….Incredible. He spoke from the book of Jonah. “You can run from God. But you cannot outrun God.” This was illustrated by the life/story of Jonah. “God’s grace is generous. His dicipline is thorough.”
Got at least a few Northpoint/Buckhead/Brownsbridge folks on the blog today. Sounds like it was an awesome series.
My pastor spoke about the abundant life that Jesus promised in John 10:10. Said that the abundant life is not measured by our circumstances but by our fruitfulness. And that God uses discipline as well as blessing to bring us into an abundant life. Abundant life is not material riches but spiritual fullness. More or less.
What’s the direct application for you personally?
It resonates with me because I just came out of a time of tough circumstances. But I responded right, sought the Lord, and was still fruitful. Now I am experiencing a time of blessing. But through it all, as I submitted to God, He brought abundant life. It is a good message for people with entitlement issues or for those going through tough circumstances. The promise is that we all can and should have “abundant life” in Christ.
1) The church we’ve been attending just did a 4 week series on sex. today was on how ALL of us should handle the issue of same sex attraction.
2) I thought I wouldn’t get much from it since it’s not a struggle I have but my takeaway was to show empathy and love people like Jesus does and to remember that no matter what the struggle, people are people and we all have temptations we deal with.
3) They showed a powerful video testimony and read an email from two members who have now given their sexuality to Christ and no longer engaged in same sex relationships. Then IV (pastor) urged us to consider the REAL issue – intimacy with God. At least 4 people got saved in the service I was in – and it was a small service.
Thanks for sharing about the salvations. Always gets me excited.
At COTC we are starting an 8-12 week study called “re-think church.” We are examining the purpose and practices of the church. Today was the intro. We were looking at how all throughout scripture, God has had a people, or at times a person, who He called out of sin. We saw how God looks on the church with love and adoration, though there is nothing pretty about her.
Today reminded me that God loves His church far more we do. The best quote from the sermon was, “We can not expect the church to be on earth what she can only be in heaven.” If we are to be like God, we love what He loves and hate what He hates. If we say we are His, but hate His bride then we are lie to Him and to ourselves.
This week I started recording accompaniment tracks for our worship team to play along to, since we are not able to find a steady acoustic or electric guitar player. If there is a guitar player in Wilmington NC who reads your blog and needs a church we definitely have a place for them to serve in worship.
Have a great week!
Plug away Nathan. I hope you guys find a guitarist soon.
In week 2 of “Practical Atheist” series at NewSpring Church. Today, was on Giving, specifically, tithing. Pretty intense teaching, but so needed! Perry gave great examples from OT that show how the tithe is placed in the human conscience; not just a law thing, there were examples hundreds of years even before the law was given. Jesus also affirmed it as he rebuked the Pharisees, and of course, assumed that in our age of grace, we would go beyond a tithe as we realize the fulness of what He did for us in saving us!
Oh, and a few dozen people got saved from this message! Go Figure! : )
Our church talked about tithing as well. And like yours, there were quite a few salvations. Funny how that works.
We talked about our duty as Christians not because its an obligation but because the world needs Jesus.
“I DO” marriage series at LakePointe. 1Cor 13:4-8. Made me think about the ups and downs of marriage and how love always prevails. Married couples were given the opportunity to convert their marriages to “Covenant” marriages.
Marriage is a covenant; NOT a contract. Our culture has lost sight of this and the divorce rate proves it.
Our sermon was fine this week. (It was on Moses’ commission from God. His arguing with God shows that he perceived his own weaknesses as things that should disqualify him from doing God’s work, when in fact God didn’t see it that way.) However, the real eye-openers for me this week came from our Lenten studies after church. We’re watching one of Ray van der Laan’s videos from the That The World May Know series. This particular episode (Finger of God) shows that the plagues that God sent weren’t just random, haphazard choices. Each plague chosen was a challenge to one of the core gods the Egyptians worshipped. For one god, the Nile was considered his lifeblood. So the One True God changed the Nile to actual blood. Another god was frog-headed, and inspired the plague of frogs. For another god, cattle were sacred. So my God smote the cattle. The list goes on and on.
What I took away from this was the blessed reminder that even when I don’t understand what God is doing, or what His reasoning is, He does have a plan and a purpose. Since I’m currently in an uncertain time in my life (an unemployed single parent), this reminder was truly a comfort for me.
Hi Tara. Welcome to the blog. We’ll be praying for you during this “uncertain time” in your life. I imagine that its tough as a single parent without steady work. But as you said, God knows what’s up even when we struggle with our current situation. Keep trusting in Him.
Hi,
My pastor continued his series in the Book of Revelation. He discussed 11:1-14, the testimony of the two witnesses. If anybody’s interested, you can find it at http://www.colliervillebible.org.
I’m really enjoying going through the book, mostly because it’s God going, “You’re not going to be ready for this…that’s OK, I’m still going to be with you.” I’m leading a Bible study through Ezra right now, so Jim talking about how the witnesses have the hearts of Zerubbabel and Joshua (Jeshua) really spoke to me and gave it a connection to another thing I’m considering. Mostly, I’m just glad I’m not in danger of being on the receiving end of God’s wrath anymore.
One of the missionaries we help was here yesterday from Camp of the Peaks in France. He told about an older gentleman in France, who lives in Normandy, who said that ever since he saw the Americans come through on the beach in WWII, he’s had a love for us and for what God can do through us in France. He just said to the missionary, “Make sure you come back…we need you!” I thought that was pretty cool.
Great!