The Grow Series will start on January 7 at Praise. Join us for four weeks as we look at four of the ways we are called to be disciples of Christ. I’m really excited for this series–whether you are a new or mature Christian, you’ll have the opportunity to be challenged and encouraged in these four areas of growth. Don’t miss it!
This weekend at our worship services we’ll be talking about the state of Praise–we’ll be reflecting on God’s blessings to us over the past year and looking ahead to what lies in store for us in 2012. I hope you can join us this weekend–it will be a very interactive message!
Saturday worship–5:30p
Sunday worship–10:30a
This summer we are working our way through the Epistle to the Romans this summer. Catch the videos of the sermons here: http://praisehimwith.us/content/sermons.php
And here is the preaching schedule at Praise:
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Today we completed our series of sermons on love and respect, with Pastor Ryan speaking principally to women on ‘Reaching His Heart’ – 6 key areas that motivate your husband. Men spell respect like this: Conquest, hierarchy, authority, insight, relationship and sexuality. The slides are here:
As before, this sermon series is based on the DVDs made by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs. His site is here: Love And Respect, where you can download the podcasts, buy books and DVDs of the material.
Next week Pastor Ryan will begin the next series on the teachings of Christ: ‘The Gifts of Jesus’, which will lead us up to Easter.
As we wind up our Love & Respect Series this coming Sunday, you may be interested in attending a marriage seminar to keep working at your relationship with your spouse. We considered hosting a video conference at PCF but decided against it as we saw the reach and impact we were having with our sermon series, Sunday school classes, and small groups. If you are interested in attending a conference, though, here are some options for you:
Family Life’s “The Art of Marriage” video conference dates & locations
Information on all of Family Life’s marriage conferences
See you this Sunday for the wrap-up of our series!
Continuing our series of sermons on love and respect, today I spoke on ‘the Crazy Cycle’ – how we act on it, how we get off it, and how to avoid getting on at all. The slides are here:
Next week, Judy will be talking to husbands about how to reach your wife’s heart, and Pastor Ryan will end the series by speaking to the wives about how to reach your husband’s heart. These last two sermons get very specific about what motivates your spouse, and what makes him/her so very different to you.
Again, during the sermon I promised you a link to the DVD series site – here it is:
Our sermon series called ‘Love and Respect – from Crazy Bad to Crazy Good’ is now in full swing, based on the DVD series of the same name. We’ve taken it, compressed it in some areas to fit to four sermons (not an easy task!). The material was developed by Dr Emerson Eggerichs, and The slides are here:
Next week, I’ll be talking about the Crazy Cycle – how we get on it, how to get off it and how to stay off it. The week after that, Judy will be talking to husbands about how to reach your wife’s heart, and Pastor Ryan will end the series by speaking to the wives about how to reach your husband’s heart. These last two sermons get very specific about what motivates your spouse, and what makes him/her so very different to you.
During the sermon, I promised you a couple of links – here they are:
Hey everybody! This Sunday will be a great one–we start the morning with Sunday school for all ages (even nursery care for ages 0-3) at 9am, and we’ll be worshipping at 10:30am. I’m excited for this message because Pastor Kevin Skaret will be preaching about the Holy Spirit. I got to hear Pr. Kevin, our youth director, do a run-through of his sermon today and I’m excited for everyone to hear it. Lastly, after the service, we’ll have refreshments and a business meeting at 12:15pm. The meeting includes some important business, so I hope you can stay. See you in the morning!
Yesterday’s sermon was a change in our plans for the GOING series. We dealt with a topic that needed to be addressed. It’s an issue in all of our lives–conflict. Conflict is a necessary part of life and can be good, but oftentimes we handle it very poorly. Conflict occurs at work, at church, and at home, and we can either respond in a loving, healthy way or respond in a hurtful way.
This is one sermon I’d like everyone at Praise to listen to–you can download it here, and the slides are here:
Here are some of the hurtful ways we respond to conflict–these hurt ourselves and others, and we called them all “conflict garbage”:
The healthy way to respond is to go directly to the person that has offended us and share how we feel. We also need to be ready to acknowledge our own faults in the situation. This can be so hard, though! Thankfully Christ has given us his love which heals, forgives, and showers us with grace.
Questions to ponder….
A next step..
The next time someone brings you their conflict garbage, will you take it and pass it along or will you encourage them to respond to conflict in a healthy way?
Today was the sixth of eight sermons in the GOING series – the point centered around the fact that living a full life is a messy business, and never more so than when raising children. We’ve completed a section of talks where we went from the birth of the nation of Israel to the point where we see we must take the mission of Christ very seriously. In this sermon we began talking about things we must do as a group – teaching our children has a very high priority.
Here are the Powerpoint slides…
… and the audio will be posted here.
We used statistics from George Barna’s site here.
This should also interest parents and Christian educators.
Don’t forget – we’ll be covering this at Small Group of Wednesday morning and evening – all are welcome.
Here are some questions to mull over – please leave a comment as well:
For further reading: Story of the prodigal son – Luke 15:11-32; also 1 John 3:1