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Pew2You May 5, 2019 Pastor Dan Fitzgerald   Message Title: Building Materials   Highlights: What is God Building? You better know what the blueprints are for. Plans without progress produce frustration. Plans with perspective produce patience. God’s desire is that we see ourselves as free from sin and alive in Him. Faith is the currency…

Highlights: Word = God; Getting into the Word = Getting into God Ignorance is something the devil loves and if he can’t keep you ignorant he will keep you entertained. Both of these keep us distracted from the true knowledge that comes from knowing God. Church is not a club you join – it is…

Pew2You April 14, 2019 Pastor Phil Vance   Message Title: Addictions – RETHINK What You Are Thinking   Highlights: Wrong, worldly, sinful and/or unbiblical thoughts captivate your mind – Get rid of them!! We need to change our thinking from a lie to the truth of God’s Word! Your thoughts are driving your hope; negative…

Pew2You April 7, 2019 Addictions – What are you thinking? Pastor Phil Vance Highlights: 21-Day Brain Detox Plan Gather your thoughts: take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). Have focused reflection: be transformed by the renewing of your mind through repentance, forgiveness, and accurate biblical thinking. Journal: write about…

Pew2You March 24, 2019 Pastor Phil Vance and Guest Speakers   Message Title: Addictions – Testimonies   Highlights: The Problem – Everyone Struggles A testimony is the application of the Word of God to a person’s life.   Discussion Questions: Throughout the testimonies, we heard about the power of asking for help to gain victory. Where…

Pew2You March 3, 2019 Addictions III Pastor Phil Vance Highlights: God gives us the grace to work through pain not run from pain. Repeated actions create neuropathways in our brain. So changing an addiction is not as easy as saying no. We have to re-route the chemical process in the brain. Re-routing the chemical process…

Addictions, Part 2 Pastor Phil Vance   Highlights: What God gives us is sweet, but bitter when compared to the world’s counterfeit. It is the enemies trick. Strawberries vs. Snickers. When the real fruit comes, we have developed a distaste for it. Five essential characteristics that mark true addiction: Tolerance: The phenomenon of always wanting…

Pew2You January 27, 2019 Pastor Phil Vance   Message Title: How to Know Him   Highlights: As Christians our job description is: To know and make known God! God’s commandments are given for our protection and provision. We can obey because we have to, because we need to, or because we want to. If you…

Message Title: Do You Really Know Him?  Speaker: Pastor Phil Vance  Highlights:  Because of the fall people are knowing sin and growing in sin instead of knowing God! Over and over again throughout the Old Testament God acts so that His people would know Him. Do you know Him or do you “No” Him? Eternal life…

Pew2You January 13, 2019 Time for The Divine Pastor Phil Vance   Highlights: The most valuable, costly, and desired gift you can give jesus is your time! You can’t create time, Time can only be used. You can squander time, misuse time and regret time. Or, in contrast, you can redeem time. How to trust…