Ever feel like just giving up? I have. In fact, this feeling has crept into my soul more times than I care to remember.
Life with Christ isn’t easy. If you want an easy life, don’t look for Jesus to give you one. No offense, but it is hard to live in unity with you. It is much easier to call all the shots on my own as an individual. It ...
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On Sunday, April 1, our children (in the Aspen class and elementary classes) will be participating in a water walk during Sunday School. We’ll be taking a short walk to a water source near County Line and South Park to collect water in plastic containers and bring them back to church. This experience will simulate what many African families have to do every day: go out to search ...
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Many of you spend time imagining what your kids are going to be like when they grow up. You dream about what sports they’ll play, where they’ll go to school, who their friends will be, what kind of person they will marry, what their pursuit of God will look like. And you’re hoping and praying they just don’t get pregnant or impregnate anyone in high school.
Is that the limit of ...
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Week 4: Carrying the Cross
“We should also count the cost of not taking up our cross – of not following Him. Turns out, He is offering us the deal of a lifetime. A graced life does not always go the way we intend – or expect. But it will always be acceptable, satisfactory, and bring us to the real desire of our hearts.” – Willem H. Dogterom
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Our new Bible study will begin on Tuesday evening, March 27 at 7:00pm.
(If you prefer to do a daytime study, please let us know — we are looking to start a morning study when there is enough interest.)
The new study is called Influence: Living and Sharing a Life of Wisdom. It takes an indepth look at mentoring relationships in the Bible and helps us understand how we can make a difference in the lives of those around us. Along the ...
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Last week in church a little girl walked up to me and said, “Mr. Ballard, I’d like to give you some money for the kids in India so they can have medicine.” She then handed me a one dollar bill and a stack of coins. It was a really sweet moment.
Her generosity, like yours, is making a difference in India. During February our church raised $754 for medical supplies for India. That means that the HIV hospital that we helped ...
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Special Easter Offering: At our Easter service we’ll be collecting a special offering for Blood:Water Mission to provide clean water for our neighbors in Uganda. Just $1 provides clean water for one person in Africa for an entire year. We’re hoping to surpass our offering of $2500 last year so that we can provide an entire community with safe drinking water. As they say in Africa, “Water is life.” As we celebrate the new life we have because of the ...
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This past Sunday, the elementary classes began reading the stories of Easter week. They read about Jesus’ profound teaching during the Last Supper when Jesus went around to each disciple and washed his feet. Feet that had been walking in sandals, perhaps sometimes barefoot, through all kinds of dirt, dust and muck. The lowest of low tasks was taken on by the Lord of the Universe. And ...
Week 3:
The question is: “Are we like Judas, who was so overcome by his sin that he could not believe in God’s mercy any longer and hanged himself, or we like Peter who returned to his Lord with repentance and cried bitterly for his sins?” The season of Lent, during which winter and spring struggle with each other for dominance, helps us in a special way to cry out ...
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Henri Nouwen writes “When Jesus fed five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, he was showing us how God’s love can multiply the effects of our generosity. God’s kingdom is the place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.”
2012 is the year of experiencing and extending uncommon grace through AGCC. We can and should expect God to use ...
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