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You Obey God?
It is amazing to me that the things we see as insignificant are glaring to the eye that sees everything in the entire past, present, and future of the whole world.
God gave King Saul a very specific directive in
1 Samuel 15:3 ” Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
Saul gets to Amalek and makes an executive change decision. In essence, Saul says, “Let’s destroy all the worthless things/people and save all the good animals and people (like the king, “Agag”) He uses human thinking and reasoning and actually thinks his idea is better than God’s.
When Samuel catches up to the army, Saul says, “Hey, what’s up Samuel…I did what you said and destroyed everything.” Then, Samuel says something that gives me chills every time I read it.
Why Intimacy?
Our Mission Statement as a church is:
To bring people into an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and each other.
The last two Sundays, Harry Fleming has preached on important parts of this statement. Week one was all about ‘bringing people‘ and week 2 was all about the forgiving power of ‘Jesus Christ‘. You can watch those messages here. The sermon series is called, “The Skinny on PromiseLand” and it explores ‘the why’ behind ‘the what’ of everything we do.
This week, I will tackle one word Read the rest of this entry
Huge First Wednesday Worship Night
On Wednesday night, Nov 2nd. Our team that traveled to Nigeria will report in on how everything went. We will be showing video, pictures, telling stories, playing instruments, etc. PLUS, you don’t want to miss our cool new clothes! The service starts at 7pm. We will be streaming it online as usual.
Plus, we will be Read the rest of this entry
Baptism Candidates
We are focusing on baptisms this week at PromiseLand San Marcos and expect many to be baptized. We are praying.
Why and for what reason are we lifting up prayers?