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Preparing for Ash Wednesday Service @ Out Of The Box

February 17, 2010 Posted by imagebearer | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

40 Day Devotional for Preparation in 50 Golden Days of Evangelism (Corrected Version)

40-Day Evangelism Devotional Guide _Corrected_Version_Download_Here

February 17, 2010 Posted by imagebearer | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Team Impact – Coming April 14-18, 2010 Hosted by 1st Hillsville UMC Held @ VFW Community Event

TEAM IMPACT:  “Every Member, Every Night”

COMING APRIL 14th – 18th!! THIS IS BIG!!!

We want you to begin now praying for the success of our crusade!!  The greater the involvement of the entire church the greater the attendance of lost people.  The more church members who attend the more lost people who attend!!

There is nothing (NOTHING) better than seeing people come to know the Lord!  Our church (YOU) can make the difference.  Our faith and zeal for the Lord will be taken to new levels as a result of your attendance.  Our church will never be the same!!

“Every Member, Every Night”!!

Excited in Christ,

Susan Clark, Chair

Attendance Team

February 17, 2010 Posted by imagebearer | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

This Day In The Life Of Your Pastor – February 16th, 2010

2. Holston Evangelism Conference – Events – Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church: http://bit.ly/b3UWVi via @addthis about 10 hours ago from web

3. Out of the Box will be having Ash Wednesday Service Wednesday night at 7pm about 10 hours ago from web

4. Carroll County Ministerial Association meets @ 830am at Shoneys about 10 hours ago from web

5. bed time, lots to do tomorrow but nothing more important than sitting at the feet of Jesus, Bible study at 10am about 10 hours ago from web

6. Evangelism & Witness – Ministries – Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church: http://bit.ly/ctTtGp via @addthis about 10 hours ago from web

7. kids r n the bed, Misty is preparing 2 b n bible study with me tomorrow @ Out of the Box 10am to Noon, I am working on Evangelism Conf needs about 11 hours ago from web

8. I am n awe of what God is already doing n Holston. Evangelism Conf is this Fri & Sat. U can still sign up tonight or tom if u get it n early about 11 hours ago from web

9. Mike, Caitlin, and the grandbabies just left, I miss them already http://myloc.me/3TKcP about 12 hours ago from UberTwitter

10. I must stop working for God and allow God to work through me about 16 hours ago from vlingo

11. “Hollywood is a place where they will pay you a 1, 000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul” Marilyn Monroe about 16 hours ago from vlingo

12. Wow I received a book called soul keeping in the mail today didn’t order it didn’t know about it about 16 hours ago from vlingo

13. Spread the word we are having out of the box tomorrow 7 p m about 17 hours ago from vlingo

14. Praying for marriages so many are struggling these days about 17 hours ago from vlingo

15. heading home & spending time w the wife, kids, & grandkids 4 the evening, turning off the blackberry. If u need me I will respond after 10pm about 17 hours ago from web

16. @faithengineer need to work on mine always seems to be last minute with me but that tends to come when needed for any refunds about 17 hours ago from UberTwitter in reply to faithengineer

17. working on Ash Wednesday Service for Out Of The Box Tomorrow Evening – Join us 7pm designed with youth in mind but everyone welcome & wanted about 18 hours ago from web

18. Experiencing God Bible Study meets for the first time in the morning at Out of the Box 10am to Noon about 18 hours ago from web

19. Carroll County Ministerial Association meeting is in the morning at 8:30am @ Shoney’s about 18 hours ago from web

20. planning for Carroll County Community Holy Week Services about 18 hours ago from web

21. Myrtle Beach Marathon undecided on deal for runners – Local – TheSunNews.com: http://bit.ly/aoxuTJ via @addthis about 16 hours ago from web

22. 6 more days of feasting before the fast begins, then comes spiritual feasting about 16 hours ago from web

23. wonder how many other Youth God is going to call to preach out of Out of the Box????? about 16 hours ago from web

24. spent some fellowship time with Pastor Betsy King about 16 hours ago from web

25. Just spent some fellowship time with Charlie and Marlyn, Charlie is giving me pastoral counseling tips about 16 hours ago from web

26. just had lunch with a young man who feels called to preach about 17 hours ago from web

27. RT @RevMSlaughter: Curious crowds don’t equal committed disciples; why I believe we must refocus evangelism from attractional to missional about 17 hours ago from UberTwitter

28. sermon planning this morning about 19 hours ago from web

29. went to a Census meeting and the folks who called the meeting forgot there was a meeting??? about 19 hours ago from web

30. 50 Golden Days Resources: 40 Days of Preparation Devotional Guide « Imagebearer’s Weblog: http://bit.ly/9lh5FL via @addthis about 21 hours ago from web

31. http://imagebearer.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/50-golden-days-resources-holston-conference-audiovisual-library-catalog/ via @addthis about 21 hours ago from web

32. 50 Golden Days Resources: Fifty Characteristics of Disciple-Making Congregations « Imagebearer’s Weblog: http://bit.ly/dANt3m via @addthis about 21 hours ago from web

33. EVANGELISM RESOURCE LIST « Imagebearer’s Weblog: http://bit.ly/bFLvxE via @addthis about 21 hours ago from web

34. 50 Golden Days Resources: Intentional Ideas for Effective Evangelism – Inviting People to Your Church «: http://bit.ly/cjJPTU via @addthis about 22 hours ago from web

35. 50 Golden Days Resources:Christian Witnessing and Evangelism « Imagebearer’s Weblog: http://bit.ly/c2e4TB via @addthis about 22 hours ago from web

36. updating the blog with Resources for 50 Golden Days of Evangelism www.imagebearer.wordpress.com about 22 hours ago from web

37. Headed to the office much work to be done about 23 hours ago from vlingo

38. Was just getting ready to leave 4 the office but Samuel just came to snuggle in daddys arms. Wish I could freeze this time with all my boys about 24 hours ago from UberTwitter

39. Still no word from the organizers of the Myrtle Beach Marathon, I am really surprised

February 17, 2010 Posted by imagebearer | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Day 48-90 Days to read the New Testament (TNIV)

Galatians 1

¹ Paul, an apostle—sent not with a human commission nor by human authority, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— ² and all the brothers and sisters with me,
To the churches in Galatia:

³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

No Other Gospel

⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— ⁷ which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let that person be under God’s curse! ⁹ As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let that person be under God’s curse!

¹⁰ Am I now trying to win human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Paul Called by God

¹¹ I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. ¹² I did not receive it from any human source, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

¹³ For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴ I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵ But when God, who set me apart from birth ^[a] and called me by his grace, was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. ¹⁷ I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸ Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas ^[b] and stayed with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ I saw none of the other apostles—only James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.

²¹ Then I went to Syria and Cilicia. ²² I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. ²³ They only heard the report: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴ And they praised God because of me.

Galatians 2

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

¹ Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also. ² I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. ³ Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. ⁴ This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. ⁵ We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

⁶ As for those who were held in high esteem—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—they added nothing to my message. ⁷ On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, ^[c] just as Peter had been to the Jews. ^{[d] 8} For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. ⁹ James, Cephas ^[e] and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. ¹⁰ All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

Paul Opposes Cephas

¹¹ When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. ¹² For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. ¹³ The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

¹⁴ When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

¹⁵ “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles ¹⁶ know that a person is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in ^[f] Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

¹⁷ “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! ¹⁸ If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.

¹⁹ “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” ^[g]

February 17, 2010 Posted by imagebearer | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment