This past Sunday we discussed part 3 of “Building Relationships”.
Part 3 “Choices”
1. We must choose to build a relationship with God
2. We must choose to build a relationship with Ourselves
3. We must choose to build a relationship with Others
All three of these relationships work together, we can’t have one without the other.
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Every year we have a theme that represents the Vision of our church. This year that theme is”Building Relationships. We spend the month of January doing a series that surrounds our theme. I thought I would share part 1 and part 2 with you, it is as follows:
part 1 “Building the Body”
1. We must Love
2. We must Trust
3. We must have our Priorities in order
4. We must Serve
Part 2
1. We must communicate
2. We must Fellowship
3. We must be Loyal
These 3 things lead to Teamwork, Legwork, Wework.
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This past Sunday we were honored to have the Administrative Bishop of Arkansas in service with us. Bishop Les Higgins had visited our church back in 2007 not long after our appointment. Since that time God has really blessed Harvest Temple and opened up many doors for new ministry in our city, communities, and our local neighborhoods. Bishop Les really expressed the total transformation that he recognized the moment he walked in, from the remodeling to all the new faces. This is just another confirmation that God is doing GREAT things at Harvest Temple!
To God Be The Glory!
Thank you staff and leadership for a great job every week!
It’s AWESOME to see God work the way He does each and every Sunday. Last night I had a meeting with everyone who will be joining the church this Sunday (27 great new people). One thing that they all said was” our services are never the same, yet God’s presence is always so awesome!”
This is proof that no matter what approach you take in your church services, God can move and change lives!
I want to say “THANK YOU” to everyone who participated in making yesterday a success!
We had a great day!
One thing that defines a growing church is the things that you have going on outside of the every Sunday and Wednesday routines. If you attend Harvest Temple you know that is definitely the case. I just thought that I would send out a reminder to everyone about the upcoming events:
9-19-09 Auburn Concession (if you are interested call Will or Channing)
9-20-09 Family and Friendship Sunday (if it rains we will have this in FLC)
9-26-09 children’s seminar
10-02-09 Revolution
10-11-09 Celebrating 88 years
Somebody call and check on Paul……….he must be sick, kidnapped, or maybe depressed! Something is definitely wrong! He hasn’t blogged or played a joke on anyone since August 31.
As most of you know, Lindsey and I are on vacation (thanks to our wonderful church family). This morning I told Lindsey how strange it felt not being in service at Harvest Temple, it’s been 2 1/2 years and this is the first time we have missed a Sunday together (HT family may consider this a blessing..LOL). You know what is even more strange, this is our first vacation in 10 years…..
Hope to get back to Alabama soon! (I’m tired of strange…)
As most of you know, Casen turned two years old this past week. He is really doing well in progressing from the baby stage to the toddler stage. He is already potty trained, he can feed himself, play the wii, etc. Lindsey and I are very proud of his early childhood accomplishments, but when he grabbed up the iphone and started scrolling through the apps and playing with all of his favorites, we started to wonder is this normal? Well to top things off yesterday Lindsey and Callie went to Walmart to buy some groceries and the boys stayed home with me, so we decided to go outside and play a little while, well this 2 year old son of mine got my Blackberry unlocked it and started calling people in my phone-book, before I realized it, he had went from the letter A-Q.
So how do you know when a 2 year old is too smart?
As you guys know we have been doing a series called twisted, and the last 3 weeks have awesome! (You would have thought I would have listened.)
Over the weekend we had our 32 Annual Softball Tournament for the Church of God. The days leading up to the tournament my mind said you can still play, but Sunday morning my body said you are an idiot! LOL
On a serious note Paul warns us in Ephesians ch.6 to put on the whole armour of God, not just bits and pieces. The one piece we fail to put on is the helmet of salvation. We need to guard aganist Satan’s number 1 tool, and that is deception of our minds, as he is so good at twisting the truth!
