Loves to Try - Embracing Change: For a Time
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Focus: Everything has a season, a time. Seeing things this way frees us to let go and to embrace new things. A new thing isn’t necessarily a lifetime commitment, we can embrace it for a time, for its season. And we’re free to let go of things, because it may be that their season has passed. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Loves to Try - Embracing Change: Light in the Dark
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Focus: The light of the world has been born! We don’t have to walk in darkness anymore. We can follow Jesus who is the light that leads to life. Embrace the light! Isaiah 9:2-7
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Loves to Try - Embracing Change: Prophecy Realized
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Focus: God’s people were waiting for things to change. They looked forward to a leader who would rescue them from their oppressors and lead them with strength into an era of peace and honor. The realized prophecy was not what they expected. Some would embrace and follow Jesus, and others would reject the change from what they expected. Micah 5:2-5
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Loves to Try - Embracing Change: New Thinking
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Focus: Letting go of how the world tells you to think and what to want is part of the transformation that God brings about in your life as He replaces the world's values with His own. It might seem strange to refer to God’s Word as something new. And yet, as God transforms the way you think, your life and choices display something new for you that is different from your “old ways”. Romans 12:1-2
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Loves to Try - Embracing Change: Letting Go
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Focus: Change isn’t always easy. Change requires letting go of something. When God says He’s going to do something that eclipses something that we’ve been wanting, it’s an invitation to let go of what we’ve been focused on so we can embrace the new thing. Isaiah 43:14-21
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Loves to Try - Persevering in Love: Patient Endurance
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Focus: Troubles and testing that we go through exercise and grow our endurance for the race of life. We can’t schedule this exercise like we can schedule time at the gym, but we can consider it an opportunity to grow, and take great joy in that. James 1:2-4, 12-18
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Loves to Try - Advent Hymn Sing
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Loves to Try - Persevering in Love: Ever Hopeful
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Focus: Imagine love without weight, without the burden, without the fear of disappointment. Our hope is in Christ. Our trust is in the Lord. And our love is ever hopeful because God will never let us down. We can love others with a love that doesn’t give up, because God doesn’t give up. 1 Corinthians 13:1-8
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Loves to Try - Thanksgiving Eve
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At the Thanksgiving Eve service, people are given the opportunity to publicly share how they have been blessed and give God thanks and praise.
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Loves to Try - Persevering in Love: Tenacious Blessing
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Focus: Obeying the law of Christ means loving even through challenges and continuing to try even when it’s difficult. We love because He first loved us. We love with the tenacious, persevering love that comes from God. Galatians 6:1-10
info_outlineFocus: Belief in Jesus isn’t something we check off a list. We’re called to be Active in our Faith, and to Persevere in the hope we have because God is trustworthy and will keep His promise. Active perseverance includes continuing to meet together for worship, in whatever way we can.
Main Text: Hebrews 10:19-25