Sermon 1.3.10
Here is the first sermon of the new year:
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Hit The Snooze
reAWAKE has been postponed one week due to weather forcasted for this evening. We will start reAWAKE next Wednesday January 13th here at The Heart 6:30PM. We will have a meal and childcare will be provided. Please plan to attend this important event as we look to kick off the new year focused on what God is calling us to in 2010!
Sermon 12.20.09
Well a week late, but since services were cancelled last week due to the snow thought you might enjoy watching this.
As always you can download an audio only file of the sermon by clicking here.
Snow Church Tomorrow
We will not have services on December 27th due to the ice and snow. Merry Christmas to everyone and have a Happy New Year!
Sermon 12.13.09
Here is the video from this past Sunday’s sermon:
You can download an audio only file of the sermon by clicking here.
Niger
The team is set. The tickets are purchased. We are sending a team to Niger! Plans are well on their way as the team will leave on January 25th and return on February 7th. This isn’t just about the team this is about The Heart hearing and responding to God’s call to “go and make disciples.” We are all in this together. Here are the details as of now to get you up to speed.
The Team: Kenyon Gerbrandt, Kenny and Hailey Hopkins, and Tricia Howard
The Objectives: 1. Support and bless the ministry of Yacouba and Renate Seydou and Hosanna Institute of the Sahel. 2. Learn the well drilling process so that The Heart may send out future teams independently. 3. Drill water wells. 4. Work with street children living at the Hosanna House orphanage.
Prayer Items: 1. Pray for the processing of passports and VISAS. 2. Pray for the families represented by those going while they are away. 3. Pray for the finances as there are still other expenses to cover. 4. Safe travel. 5. Favor with the people of Niger as we join God’s work there. 6. Team unity and wisdom. 7. Safety of luggage and baggage throughout travel. 8. God’s glory to be seen and heard in places that may have never seen or heard it.
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Sermon 12.6.09
Here is the video from this past week’s sermon:
You can download an audio only file by clicking here.
Deck The Heart
Don’t forget Friday night 7pm here at The Heart we will have our “Deck The Heart”. We will pull out all the Christmas decorations and decorate the church. Be sure to bring your favorite Christmas goodie. The evening starts at 7PM. See you then!
The Burden of Joy
“Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!” –Nehemiah 8:10
So what exactly is the joy of the Lord? I’ve been struggling with this somewhat nebulous concept since we started this series last week. It seems so trite and cheesy. Almost as if it’s overuse has diminished its value or potency. But it’s a theme repeated throughout the Scriptures. There is a strong connection between our strength and the joy of the Lord. So what does it mean “the joy of the Lord”?
I’m beginning to see the joy of the Lord as being related to burden. Jesus said that his burden is easy and his yoke is light. This idea is hard to swallow sometimes. We tend to make following Jesus a difficult and unnecessarily burdensome thing. We like to measure our relationship and devotion to Jesus in terms of do’s and do not’s. And so our faith becomes a works based process that is completely sterile. Furthermore we justify and rationalize and compare our devotion to Jesus with the perception of how well others are keeping up with the game. So we degenerate into a competition of morals. “They can’t do that.” “I would never.” “They call themselves Christians.” Through these statements we make subtle agreements that our own morality is somehow superior to that of those around us. All the while we shift our focus from the freedom of God’s grace to the burden of man’s behavior.
The end result: We’re grumple pusses.
Yup. We keep mental scorecards and if you don’t measure up your out and we’ll either let you know forthrightly or through more subtle gestures like gossip, or boycotting or passive guilt. (My stomach turns.)
How can we chose the joy of the Lord over our self-centered burdens of following him?
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