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  • What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?

    Pastor Phil Vance Feb. 28, 2016 What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality? Highlights: 1. The Bible is the ultimate authority and the gospel the ultimate help for all of us. A. God wants us to walk in His laws and not in the laws of the culture of the day. 2. God invented and…

  • Love, God’s Favorite Word

    Pew 2 You Love God’s Favorite Word Pastor Phil Vance 2-14-16 Highlights: 1. For God to feel our love, we must keep His words. Love is in the keeping. 2. Those that press in more, get more. God responds to hunger. 3. Keeping God’s commandments makes His love complete in us. Discussion Questions: 1. Love…

  • The Playbook

    Pew2You The Playbook Pastor Phil Vance February 7th, 2016 Steps to Being Happy: 1. We Must Hear the Word of God. 2. We Must Do the Word. -If you neglect God’s Word, you will lose God’s heart amd lose God’s way. 3. We Must Speak the Word to Others (Pass it On) Discussion Questions: 1.…

  • What’s Your Tradition Condition?

    Pew2You What’s Your Tradition Condition? January 31st, 2016 Pastor Phil Vance Highlights: 1. To stay true in a changing world I must always stand on the word of God and not on the opinions of man. -Even if that opinion is my own. 2. Traditions are used to JUSTIFY how we are living. The word…

  • Put the Bible in the Mix in 20-1-6

    Pew2You 1-24-16 Pastor Phil Vance Put the Bible in the Mix in 20-1-6 Highlights: 1. Why are God’s words so important? – They are creative When God speaks, it happens. When we speak, we’ve got to make it happen. – They are powerful God has the power and ability to back up His word. –…

  • Living From Righteousness, Not For Righteousness

    Pew 2 You 1-17-16 Pastor Tom Weaver Living From Righteousness, Not For Righteousness Highlights: 1.) Righteousness is justification, right or just, purity of heart, holy, being and doing right. God’s character is the source of all righteousness. Pastor Tom referred to it as right standing with God. 2.) Righteousness is a good thing, but the…

  • Putting Off Procrastination

    Pew 2 You Aaron Schlueter Putting Off Procrastination 1-10-16 Highlights: 1.) Our afflictions are light, but they are not futile. 2.) Through struggle, difficulty, and pain greater, more meaningful joys are obtained. 3.) We are called to endurance, not indulgence. Discussion Questions: 1.) What gains have you seen through God’s use of “light afflictions” in…

  • Happy New Year!

    Pew2You Pastor Joe Fitzgerald Living Faith Fellowship Happy New Year! Highlights: 1. We want to change. If we are honest, we will all admit that there are times that we really don’t like ourselves. We are disappointed in our own character choices. 2. We need to change. 3. We can change. “If I want to…

  • HIS-story, my life

    Pew 2 You Dan Fitzgerald HIS-story, my life 12-27-15 Highlights: 1.) Our part of the story of God is to: a.) Tell others His story. b.) Surrender to His plan for me. c.) Witness and testify. d.) Surrender the outcome. 2.) We cannot mix up the two stories (our story and God’s). If we do,…

  • Wise Men Still Seek Him

    Pew 2 You Pastor Phil Vance 12-13-15 Highlights: 1.) No king is ever “born” a king, except for Jesus. Even Herod recognized that when he asked about Jesus. 2.) Jesus fulfilled over 300 Old Testament prophesies. The likelihood of one man fulfilling that many prophesies is astronomically low, further proving Jesus’ divinity. 3.) What can…

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