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Sunday Morning, Worship is from 9:45-10:45am |
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This service
is a blend of traditional components of
worship as well as innovative and
creative ways of
proclaiming the gospel
message through the use of multi-media
technology. Observance of our
long-standing Methodist traditions helps
us to feel a part of the larger
world-wide Christian community and our
historic Wesleyan roots. Children
attend the first half of this service
with their families, and are then
invited to the front for the Children's
Message.
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| Sunday Evening, Disciple
Bible Study 6:00-8:00pm |
Into the Word Into the World
- This intensive study is divided into four segments. Each of the books
of Genesis, Exodus, Luke, and Acts are studied for eight weeks. Like
Disciple I the lessons include thought provoking questions for the
individual and group. This study emphasizes the rhythm of coming to God
and going for God, of being in the Word and in the world individually
and corporately. |
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Tuesday, Men's Lunch and Bible Study
12:00-1:00pm
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All men are invited. Be ready for some interesting and
challenging discussions, all of which is supposed to relate to the
Bible. The men admit they sometimes stray, but with the help of
their fearless leader, Bill Keeton, Bible talk wins over table
talk. To appreciate the fellowship thick skin is a requirement,
but the food always makes the visit worth while. |
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Wednesday Evening, UMYF (youth group) grades
6th-12th 6:30-8:00pm |
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Thursday Evening, Ladies Christian Book Club,
7-?pm, every 2nd & 4th Thru. |
What's So Amazing about Grace?
By Philip Yancey |
In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson
and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon
alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, ' I have lost my
daughter, but I bear no grudge. I shall pray, tonight and every night,
that God will forgive them.' His words caught the media's ears -- and
out of one man's grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the
church's great distinctive. It's the one thing the world cannot
duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else -- for only grace
can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. In What's So Amazing
About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street
level. If grace is God's love for the undeserving, he asks, then what
does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers,
then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more
of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Yancey sets grace in
the midst of life's stark images, tests its mettle against horrific 'ungrace.'
Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust?
Can it triumph over the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan? Should any grace
at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and
cannibalized seventeen young men? Grace does not excuse sin, says
Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous.
It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to
sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. It forgives the
unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. It loves today's
AIDS-ridden addict as much as the tax collector of Jesus' day. In his
most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true
portraits of grace's life-changing power. He searches for its presence
in his own life and in the church. He asks, How can Christians contend
graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear? And he
challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants
to know, What's So Amazing About Grace? |
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