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Word-Bible Sunday

10/26/2023

“For you have set my heart free”—what beautiful words! So often people think that God’s Word is a list of “don’t’s.” But God’s Word is a river of life! It is truth that sets our heart free because it guides us to the One who loves us and has a plan and purpose for our lives. It is not the dry, dusty pathway of heartless rules, but a path of life and truth and fulfillment and love. It is the pathway of Christ. “I run in the paths of your commands, for you have set me heart free.” Let go of the chains of guilt and shame and failure and sorrow and be set free by the life and love of Christ. Discover God’s promises for your life. Trust God! God loves you!

(scripture of the week)
I have chosen the way of truth;
I have set my heart on your laws.
I hold fast to your statutes, O Lord;
Do not let me be put to shame.
I run in the paths of your commands,
For you have set my heart free. (Psalm 119.30-32)

(Prayer of the week)
Almighty and Loving God, thank you for your great love and the way you forgive us and give us new life. Strengthen and guide me with your Word. Open my heart and mind to trust in your plan and purpose for my life. Open my life to your power that touches and transforms life. Renew within me a fresh appreciation and confident hope in your love and plan and purpose for my life. Let your love burn within me that others may see you in all I do. Amen.

Blessings in Christ! –Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily—Sir Isaac Newton

Listen to recent sermons by Dr. TJ Jenney at YouTube &
http://inspiresundaymessages.blogspot.com/
Check the latest leadership blog by Dr. TJ http://www.drtj.us

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Autumn Blessings

10/19/2023

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As a person that loves warmer temperatures, the bright sun, and all the grandeur of summer, I tend to hold on tenaciously to summer. But there’s a time when the brisk cool breeze, smell of wood burning in the fireplace, and colors of the autumn leaves, invariably win me over. I have a cup of hot cider or pumpkin spiced latte, sit back, and think to myself, autumn is here, it’s time to enjoy the beauty of the season before the colors fade to winter. I enjoy the fall festivals and the roadside crafts, and my favorite, a relaxing drive down a country road that winds through fields with famers harvesting crops and forests with trees bundled in fall colors.
It reminds me that each season of the year has its special beauty and its own unique blessings. It also reminds me that each season of life has its special blessings to be enjoyed. More often than not we tend to look to the past or press to the future and forget to simply be present in the moment and enjoy God’s many blessings. I invite you to lean into the moment and enjoy the beauty of creation, the warmth of family, and the blessings of hearth and home. Make every day a special day and give thanks to God for His manifold blessings. God is good. All the time.

(scripture of the week)
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to reap,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to gain and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away,
a time to rend and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11)

(prayer of the week)
Lord, help us to embrace each season of life and live each day to the fullest. Help us to thank you for the blessings and to lean into your strength for the battles. Thank you for the gift of life itself, and help us to live each day as a gift given to others and to you, in your name, Amen.

Blessings in Christ–Pastor TJ

God's grace, unsought and unearned, blows through my life,
and all I need to do is raise my sails
to catch the full wind- Catharine of Siena

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The Road Less Traveled

10/12/2023

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This is a beautiful season for a walk along a path in the forest or wooded park to enjoy the beauty of the leaves changing colors and the cool, crisp autumn air. The poet Robert Frost once spoke so eloquently about choosing the road less traveled, and how it wonderfully changed his life. It is a beautiful picture of the choices we have in life, and the paths we may take. The psalmist uses this very same imagery, painting a picture of our journey down the path of life. Choosing the way of truth is not drudgery or boredom; rather it is choosing the path of life . . . and in the end, we discover that it empowers and sets our hearts free.

(Verse of the week)
I have chosen the way of truth;
I have set my heart on your laws. . .
I run in the path of your commands,
You have set my heart free.
(Psalm 119.30-32 selections)

Prayer of the Week
Loving Creator, help me to set my heart on your ways, and discover anew the joy of living in your purpose and plan. Let me find strength and power in your Spirit. Help me to allow your Word to take root in my heart and life and bear the fruit of a deep and abiding faith and a life that gives you honor and praise. May I live a blessed life and be a blessing to others, through your power and to your glory. Amen.

Open your heart to God's amazing love!-Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
The challenge is to be a light, not a judge; to be a model, not a critic
-Stephen R. Covey

Listen to recent sermons by Dr. TJ Jenney at YouTube &
http://inspiresundaymessages.blogspot.com/
Check the latest leadership blog by Dr. TJ http://www.drtj.us

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Deep Longing

10/5/2023

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Most of us have a deep inner longing for God. The trouble is we stay so busy in life that we are often not in touch with that yearning until we are forced into quiet solitude or loneliness or desperation by a crisis in life. Then we feel the void that is there and the quiet tug of eternity on our heart. But we can also quiet ourselves from the busyness of the world, of deadlines and demands-and simply listen for the still small voice of God. Listen for a moment and feel the quiet whisper of God’s love in your heart; feel the steadfast strength of His grace encircling you. Renew the hope in God’s love and grace and rekindle the song in your heart.

(Verse of the week)
As the deer pants for streams of water,
      so my soul pants for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
      When can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food
      day and night,
    while others say to me all day long,
      “Where is your God?” . . .
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
      Why so disturbed within me?
    Put your hope in God,
      for I will yet praise him,
      my Savior and my God.
Deep calls to deep
      in the roar of your waterfalls;
    all your waves and breakers
      have swept over me.
By day the LORD directs his love,
at night his song is with me-
a prayer to the God of my life.
Why are you downcast,
O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
    Put your hope in God,
      for I will yet praise him,
         my Savior and my God.
(Psalm 42.1-11 selections)

(Prayer of the week)
Loving Heavenly Father, help me slow down from the busyness of life and quiet myself in your presence and love. Fill me with your strength and grant me grace to face life with hope and joy.   And strengthened by your love, may I touch others with care and compassion. May others see your love and grace in all I do. May I be a blessing to others, through your power and to your glory. Amen.

Open your heart to God’s amazing love!-Pastor TJ

(quote of the week)
It is not how long you live but how well you live---Ben Franklin

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