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Text: Acts 3:11 - :44

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28th December 2008
Message by
Pastor John Gunden
Attendance - 144
Offering - $2,054.00
 
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Youth Pastor
Dan Dickenson
2009 Seizing Opportunities with Divine Interruptions!
Acts 3:11 - 4:4
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Acts 3:1 - 10
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Feeling Or Faith?

READ: Acts 16:25-34 He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. —1 John 5:10 Many people seem to think that it's wrong to say we know we are bound for heaven. But the Bible tells us we can be sure. Jesus said, "He who believes in Me has everlasting life" (Jn.6:47). To question, therefore, whether one has been redeemed after he has fulfilled God's requirement for salvation is to call God a liar! This is a terrible sin. How much better to trust God's Word, which says, "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God" (1Jn. 5:1). A believer was once asked, "Do you feel that your sins are forgiven?" "No," was the reply, "I do not always feel that they are forgiven, but I know they are, because God says so in His Word!" Paul did not say, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will feel that you are saved." He said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). Not all people feel that their sins are forgiven the moment they put their faith in Jesus Christ and receive the gift of salvation, but they are saved nonetheless. The feeling may come later. Even the faintest cry to God for salvation is heard and answered. Rest on the rock-solid foundation of the Word, not on the sinking sand of your feeling! — Henry G. Bosch He died upon the cross for me, He bore the awful penalty; And now I'm saved eternally —I'm saved! Saved! Saved! —Smith Salvation is not feeling, but faith.

 
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We are looking for 101 ways to save money!


We are looking for 101 ways to save money! Would you be willing to share your secrets to saving with the congregation? Let’s help each other out! Please submit your tried and true method of saving money to: babyblueregal@yahoo.com We all spend money in these areas:

Auto • Clothing • Education • Gifts • Groceries • Health & Beauty • Health care • Household • Insurances • Legal/Professional • Pets • Recreation/Dining • Taxes • Tithing/Charities

Here’s an example: In general plan to do less convenience things and do it yourself. Cut your own boneless chicken breasts and use the bones for broth. Mow your own lawn. Fix your leaky faucet. Grow your own tomatoes. Can your own garden vegetables & fruits. Make your own gift. Etc.

Business Directory for Riversedge


We want to publish a directory of businesses to our member-ship! Submit the name and telephone number of your business to:
EMILY - click here
so our congregation can support you.


Self-Awareness


Come to Me . . . —Matthew 11:28 God intends for us to live a well-rounded life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside. Then we tend to fall back into self-examination, a habit that we thought was gone. Self-awareness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of our life in God, and self-awareness continually produces a sense of struggling and turmoil in our lives. Self-awareness is not sin, and it can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped into a totally new set of circumstances. Yet it is never God’s will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs our rest in Him must be rectified at once, and it is not rectified by being ignored but only by coming to Jesus Christ. If we will come to Him, asking Him to produce Christ-awareness in us, He will always do it, until we fully learn to abide in Him. Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it. Beware of allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to divide your life. This only serves to sap your strength and slow your spiritual growth. Beware of anything that can split your oneness with Him, causing you to see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is as important as staying right spiritually. And the only solution is a very simple one— "Come to Me . . . ." The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words. Yet in every detail of our lives where we are found not to be real, we would rather dispute the findings than come to Jesus.


MISSION STATEMENT

Our Church Mission exists to REACH unbelieving teens and their families,
to CONNECT them with other Christians, to help them GROW in their faith,
and to challenge them to DISCOVER their ministry and HONOR GOD with their life.


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