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DISTRACTIONS!!!  Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuun!

Ok for real. This may seem like a slam dunk thing.
You are probably thinking "Duh, distractions are bad. I already know that."

I don't want to talk about the obvious bad distractions (Facebook, I'm looking at you)

I want to examine the big distractions in life.
Are you focusing on what God has made you for, or are you letting things (even things that are good) steal your focus?

I used to be a very political person.  I would listen to the talkshows, read the blogs, watch the news.   Good or bad, these were all distracting me from loving people and being the person that God made me to be.  My focus was in the wrong place.

Let me ask you.
Does the enemy need to get you to fall in order to get you out of the way?
NO!!!
All he wants is for you to focus on something else for a while.

This is a principle that we need to think about every day.



Songs For Sunday

Best Days
One Thing Remains
Soon
Overcome
Power Of Your Name


Altar
Where You Go I Go
I Will Go

Pastor Brian

Tomorrow is the day that the Lord has made...

Think really quick about the last time you procrastinated.
Let's be real, it was probably today.

It's so easy for us to look at the things that need to be done in our lives and think that there will be more time later to do them.

The reality is, there is no later.

When we have the priorities set in our lives there is no time for later, there is only "what is the thing that has my top priority right now?"
That might mean "hey I'm being distracted by a game on my phone or Facebook right now, but it's all good cause I still have 3 hours to get done what I need to"

Or it could mean "I have something that I HAVE to get done today but I'm going to take care of these 4 other things first because they aren't as time consuming"
Some people call these things "time wasters/stealers"

Augustine of Hippo said
 "God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”

For most of us, procrastination has become so ingrained that we may not even view it as that big of a problem.

We make light of it and joke about it.
When I really think about it though, it's not even humorous.
What is funny about not being people who do the things that need to be done when they need to be done?

And we are hurting our employers, family and ourselves.

So come on peeps (may I call you peeps?)
Let's stop making procrastination a priority in our lives.



Songs For Sunday

Build Your Kingdom Here
Cornerstone
Worthy Is The Lamb
How He Loves
Deliverer


Altar
Healer
Psalm 23 (NCU Version, there's no Youtube Vid for it)

Have a great week and I'll see you on Sunday!
Pastor Brian

I just need to be myself! / Sunday Worship 9/14/2014

God doesn't want me to be someone I'm not.
Wait... what?

This simple statement is both true and very wrong at the same time.

On one hand God does want me to be me. He wants me to be the best me that I can possibly be. In fact He wants that so bad he sent his Holy Spirit to help me become the person that He designed me to be.

On the other hand, God wants me to be someone I'm not.  He doesn't intend for me to stay as I am forever.  I'm meant to constantly grow to be like my Father.  If I stay as I am, I may do some good things but I'm not living in the fullness that God has made me for. 
I'm an incomplete puzzle piece and the other pieces that were meant to connect to me just won't fit right.

So next time someone says "I just gotta be me!" you can say, "You're so wrong that you're right."




Denies is leading on Sunday. BE EARLY!

Be a huge blessing to Denies and make leading this Sunday be the most fun and easygoing thing that she has ever done. 
PREPARE! 

Songs For Sunday

Holy Is The Lord
Your Great Name/There's Something About That Name
Nothing But The Blood
Never Once
How Great Is Our God

Altar

Break Every Chain
I Surrender (Kim Walker)


Have a Great Week