Matthew Kennedy Katie Welcome to Family Service Heather Talking about prayer Asking parents for stuff everyday Food Can we play Help on hw Leave a light on What do we say in return Dads awesome at making eggs Pancakes Crepes We ask more than thank with our parents Same thing with God Help Forgive me Help me feel better God I love that you Protect me Cool things about god Glad you’re my savior Thank you for friends For your power Who kneels? Close your eyes? Fold your hands? Hands together? Look up? Bow your head? We can pray anywhere anytime Hallowed – holy – set apart The first part is all about God, not even asking anything I surrender In roman times they held their hands out like they were shackled 3 things you love about your parents, 3 they love about you, 3 you love about God Hocus … Continue reading →

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Paul Shari Milewski Women’s Retreat coming up Small groups starting up Jeami Duncan War for 22 years Gulu region in northern Uganda Pechay (sp?) – pocket of super dangerous territory That’s where the school is being built Jon Matthew 6:1-13 Challenge from Entie (sp?) Wright No idea how to prepare this message Q: what do you say to a God who already knows what you’re going to pray? I have the same anxieties about prayer that you do Is God tired of hearing me talk? Disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray Does the person next to me just want to listen to me talk to God? I want to give you words, concepts, ideas to get to the heart of the Father When we grow in maturity in Christ, we get to the bigger concepts Going to focus tonight on “Our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed … Continue reading →

Paul Katie Tiffany More volunteers needed for Children’s ministry Jon Jesus had a passion to explain His Father to His followers He told His parents and His followers strange things I’m about My Father’s business My food is to do the will of My Father To teachers, religious people He had a clear understanding of the Father When you love somebody, you talk about them a lot My dad is 76 and he’s had a long walk with Jesus The following story is told in interesting places Jesus had a flow and rhythm to his life: desolate place and prayer, come back and do ministry The Shamelessness Of The Father – Luke 11:1-13 Not teach us how to heal but how to pray How do I get to that place? They came to the conclusion that there was more to… We like scripts, but we like complexity If it’s more … Continue reading →

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Jon Stephen 5th Sunday of Advent Luke 1 Jon 1 Samuel 18:1-4, 19:4-6, 20:40-41 Talk about friends David and Jonathan Friendship is an amazing experience, but there are so many dimensions Friends we can be retarded with Part of the joy is just being with friends, not the destinations Not just our own context, want to put it up against this story This is a story of humanity, of people coming together Consistent themes 1. Friends are consistent In this text, Jonathan made a covenant with David Closest we have is a marriage vow Spend the rest of our lives together What a covenant relationship is not Lot of users in our culture Users ask if I move into this relationship are my needs met Covenant relationship, your needs come 2nd Ebb and a flow to all relationships Sometimes they can’t give back to you all the time I’m not … Continue reading →

Paul The Heckmans Luke 2:8-20 Paul Jon The kids are gonna take over so whatever happens, praise the Lord! Kid’s Program Jon Thinking about family dynamics What is the greatest gift you can give to your family? Maybe it’s love or an “I’m sorry” Paul

Paul (dirge) (Praise is rising) (mighty and strong to save) Stephen Keating 3rd Sunday of Advent Matthew 1:18-25 Jon Tendency to focus on negatives when we say/hear “you’re just like your father” 2 of the most important men in my life Ernie Woolner and Dennis Berry Great deal of respect for both of them A lot of who I am is shaped by my father Watching people become more and more like Christ Great to have male role models Thinking of the Christmas Story Don’t know what kind of a father Joseph was Imagine raising the son of God Joseph, having other children to raise, would treat the honor of raising Jesus just as seriously V. 19 – Joseph was a just man and a righteous man Knew the Torah, practiced business with integrity Don’t hear much about him after the birth How it relates to loving God with everything … Continue reading →

Paul (Every Chorus I Sing) Eastman Family Micah 5:2 Matthew 1:18-25 – The Birth Of Jesus Christ Paul (A thousand times I’ve failed) (I am a famine, my heart a drought) Jon Today is Stephen Keating’s birthday I love being here and seeing your faces Some passages of Scripture to share Everyone is created in God’s image and that we matter We matter to the Great Healer of this world Be comfortable with the way God created you Great power can come from embracing you Deuteronomy 6:4 This is a Shamah, an important Hebrew prayer He is One Ephesians 1:7 God is forgiving Need to walk through life forgiving Acts 17:24-25 God is generous 1 John 1:5 God is light Because He is light, there is no darkness Truth cannot coexist in light and darkness 1 John 4:16 God is love One, Forgiving, Generous, Light, Love Jesus did not come … Continue reading →

Paul (As morning dawns) –Today is the start of Advent We celebrate in advance, we see it coming Janes Family Isaiah 11 Paul A song of longing (How Great Is Your Love) –Don’t want to stop being thankful 2 days after Thanksgiving (waltz) (What could I say?) (You stood before creation) Jon Genesis 1 Colossians Philippians Start out with separating light from darkness Then land/water, vegetation Sequence of order in complexity Tree more advanced than a rock Now we have animal life Woman final creation Amen and it was good More advanced, complex, beautiful to look upon Look upon this progression and the thing that strikes me is that we mean something to somebody, to our Creator Person next to you easy to love, what about the person who cut you off? Family? Realizing that they had dominion over everything, they tried to find an identity other than God Began … Continue reading →