A Church in Greenville, SC.
Thoughts From Pastor.
This past Sunday was a very important day at First Assembly. God moved in a powerful way during the worship service. The Holy Spirit confirmed what I felt God was saying to me earlier. He will restore our message and our worship will be so powerful that the community will come to see why we [...]
Full of Faith.
I believe Mary was full of faith when she said,
“Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38)
You know that sometimes our faith begins to wane when we get our eyes on the circumstance. Mary did not look at the circumstances. She was not married and was [...]
God’s View of Christmas.
There are two points of view of the Christmas story.
First, there is Mary’s point of view. We looked at the Christmas story from her perspective on Sunday. The description of her spiritual journey reveals that she began with anxiety, moved to acceptance and then camped at adoration. That is good.
Second, God’s point of view is [...]
How to Have a Song for Christmas.
I read an interesting article on how to maintain spirituality during the holidays. Apparently others have the same struggle I do with keeping a scheduled prayer time etc during holidays. However, keeping our focus on Jesus is essential to maintaining spirituality during holidays and having a song in our heart.
We can learn from Zechariah "how [...]
Are You Singing this Christmas?
I don’t mean are you singing in the choir this Christmas? That would be scary wouldn’t it? I mean do you have a song in your heart this Christmas? You may say, I am singing Jingle Bells. We sang that song as kids with these words: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, rabbits all the way. Oh [...]
Waiting for the Day!
As a young child waiting on Christmas day was agonizing. In those days we didn’t have many toys and to get a new bicycle or something equivalent was huge for us. The last days leading up to Christmas were difficult because we could not wait for the day to come. I can’t ever remember being [...]
Preparation for Christmas.
Our family is already heavily involved in preparing for Christmas. My wife usually shops year around for Christmas. Now that Christmas is approaching, she intensifies her shopping. This past week I pulled out all of our Christmas decorations. Our house is beginning to look like Christmas.
I believe it is important to prepare for the Christmas [...]
Effective Personal Prayer Life.
Sunday we spoke about the power of one person’s personal prayers. In retrospect this passage gives us some keys to a powerful personal prayer life.
First, Live Right. This consists in living by the word of God. We are not concerned with perfection here because that would eliminate all of us. Walk in the light that [...]