Friday Night
Todd Gaddy
“Unfinished Business”

John 17:1-5 (read me)

He talked about a ride to church he had one Sunday morning. He and his brother were messing around in the back seat and his mom looked back and said if you don’t know it off you’re going to get a spanking. It quieted down for a little bit but just like clock work they started up again. She looked back said alright when we get home you going to get a spanking. That was the longest church service I’ve ever been in. During every part I was praying “Rapture, Rapture, oh please Rapture”. After church we loaded up in the car and all the way home there was no talk of spankings, none what so ever. We got home my dad said alright boys go up to your room I’ll be there in a minute. To make a long story short he finished what he had started.
Jesus also had a job to do and he finished it. See there’s a problem with us Christians, we like glorifying and praising God but we’re not too keen on the work part of it. We like to come in get our daily bread but when it comes to exercising, we kind of slack. We like the experience God has given us but the expectance we can’t handle. So we like Jesus have a job to do but ours is still unfinished business. Jesus sent us to go and make disciples. It’s not enough to get them saved we’ve got to birth them, baby them and raise them. God draws people to Him all the time. But God’s drawing power doesn’t give us an excuse to be lazy. This is about us going to them, stepping out, taking this outside these four walls. To do that we might need to be around people that don’t have the Holy Ghost. We might also need friends that are sinners (with caution but it’s true). When you look at Jesus ministry on earth, He was always around the sick, the hurting, and the poor. Because the well people don’t need a physician, we have to find ourselves around people who have needs. We like it quick and easy but our job is to make followers of Christ this takes patience. Disciple making is messy! But this is what we’re told to do. Matthew 28: 19-20 (read me)
He told a story about a friend both their kids swim together that how they met. They’ve know each other for a couple months and one day Chris asks Todd a question. “Todd there’s got to be something more, that’s got to be something more in life.” Bro. Gaddy had a chance to through the Bible they’re going through the book of John right now. You say Bro Gaddy take him to Acts show him how to be saved. Well he’s not there yet; he’s still trying to figure out who God is. He’ll get to Acts just not yet.
“You’ve been given the tools, the North American Youth Congress Syllabus is complete now GO!”

Friday Morning
“bethechurch.cc”
Danny Rivers

You are 11 years old sleeping on a blanket in your hut in South Africa. You’re dreaming of glory on a soccer field. You awake to the screams of your mother, local police force themselves in your house yank you and your brother out of bed, lead you out side. Your father rebels and is greeted with gun fire. Your mother is soon brutally attacked at knife point. The police take you and your brother to the river and make you throw your mother in the river. For the next 2 years you see things boys your age should never see (or any one at any age for that matter). Over the years you’re forced to kill countless innocent villagers. Finally you get your chance to escape over the next weeks you travel hundreds of miles going throw trash cans for food and drinking rain water compiled in leaves. You go through villages that know who you are and won’t help for fear of what the police would do if they helped. You finally find the refugee camp to help you out. Your hungry, thirsty, stomach hurts. You stand in line for food you never get then go to look for doctor that‘s out of medicine. The feeling in your stomach you know is about to kill you.
Now picture you’re a 9 year old girl and it’s Christmas morning. You wake up and it’s just another ordinary day. Hunger pains, no presents, no tree. You live in inner city America poverty stricken and poor.
Now you’re yourself again. You walk outside to the parking lot of your local church just after an awesome youth service. There was singing, praising and speaking tongues the preaching was powerful. You go to the local Denny’s after church for dinner. You spot a homeless person huddled up at a bus stop, something tells you go give a couple of bucks for food or even you coat. You don’t you pass on by you eat you meal something keeps gnawing at you. You load up in the van and on the way home it hits you. There’s got to be something more. I’m in church living right, I know what to do and what not to do but there’s got to be something more.
These scenarios are all true. Probably the last one hits more close to home for some of you. Your comfy life is not the reality of life though. There is a real and hurting world out there and we need to stop turning a blind eye and a deaf ear. Apathy: “the absence or suppression of passion”. It’s lethal. If we don’t do anything we will die with everything else going on around us. You will not wake up someday and it clicks and all of a sudden you do something. It has to be a conscience effort on our part. Don’t just go to church, be the church. Take this outside these four walls.
The problem is we’re raising up a 2nd generation of Pentecostals that are arrogant and out of touch of the world around them/us. The Bible says in Matthew 22:37-39 (read me) the most important commandment but the second most important is “Love your neighbor as yourself” Do we really do this. I mean honestly, as myself? Really? To do this we’ve got to get past our fears and apathy and we’re going to have to sacrifice. (Sacrificing doesn’t tickle). We’re going to have to do things we’re never done before. We are the only representation these people will ever have of Jesus. I don’t want to hear the response “If Jesus is like you, I don’t want anything to do with Him” We are literally His hands and feet here on earth. Are they moving and reaching?
Sometimes the best kind of love is no string attached and for their benefit. We’re so worried about getting them saved that we look right past the need at hand. We live in a carnal world and people have physical problems (we know they have a soul problem but they might not be to that point yet.) If we minister to this need with out any ulterior motives that’s the ultimate goal is serving people serving God
Matthew 25:40 (read me)
This paragraph is for youth leaders!!! Let’s not get them all pumped up to save the world when our neighborhoods have so many needs cold, hungry and hurting. Let’s lead by example, take them down to a homeless shelter and pass out blankets or serve food. Lead by example. Don’t make outreach out of reach.

Show them what we CAN do.
HOW do we get past out fears:
1.) Realize it’s not about me
2.) Put a face, a name, an experience to the pain and suffering.

WHY should I do this?
1.) We all want our lives to matter. Have you ever been alone thinking there’s got to be more, what am I here for? Will my impact outlive me? If I die now would there be a hole or would life just go on? Would your impact be remembered on in other’s lives?
2.) The Bible commands it!!! Isaiah 58: 6-8 (read me)
3.) You can do this!!! Acts 1:8 (read me)
How much do we spend on food (eating out), cell phones, or clothes? How much time do we spend talking on the phone, playing video games, or surfing the web? We are the last generation before Jesus comes (or at least it looks that way) and He trusts of to run with the baton the last leg of this race.
1Corinthians 9:24 (read me)

Thursday Night
Brent Keating
“When You See More, You Experience More.”

He talked about a Maui vacation he went on with his wife. A friend of his had given him a book called “Maui Exposed”. It was a behind the scenes look at Maui, giving tourists ideas, maps and adventures not given to normal tourists. So he and his wife and friends started up this mountain and they saw where the tourists had all parked their cars and were looking at a waterfall in the distance. The book stated if they stayed on this road you would get an up close look at this beauty. So they continued through a very detailed map and found themselves just feet away from this waterfall. They went the extra distance and because they were willing to take the time and follow the map they experienced beauty and sites up close instead of long ways away.
When you see a picture it brings to mind a word. If I showed you the picture of a desk, a locker, and a backpack it would make you think of what? School, right? If I showed you the picture of an apple, an orange and a peach what would you think of? Food or fruit. And if I showed a picture of a steeple, and altar, and Bible it would make you think of church. Every picture you see if going to get some response out of you one way or the other.
When we think of our lives it really breaks down into two parts; the spiritual and the secular. The spiritual side we have prayer, church, worship, Bible reading things of that nature. And on the secular side we have school, jobs, and friends. The two rarely ever mix or do we see God in our secular lives? Is God going unnoticed too much in our everyday lives? Am I cool with my dual set up? Is He with my everyday choices? When I leave church do I leave Him there? God is not church present God is omnipresent meaning He’s everywhere. We should be reminded of His majesty everywhere we look. The sun (the perfect distance from the earth so we won‘t freeze or burn), the moon, the stars (He numbers the stars and He knows your name). It’s like the Maui vacation, if we take this a little further and spend the time looking around for the beauty that He created. When we see a tree just think God made that tree (out of nothing). When’s the last time you created something out of nothing? And not just that tree but the thousand of different kinds of trees. He could have stopped at just one. He is the Creator. In Genesis after He created something He stood back and said “It is good”. Who are we to now say it’s not good or just walk by and ignore it? Nature is a whisper to us of the genius of God. We need to wake up from the materialism that has bound us for so long. When he was in Maui, he wasn’t driving just any type of car. He had a convertible with the top down, because if he was going to experience the majesty and the splendor around him he didn’t want to miss anything. When you inside a car you have a roof, windows, blind spots, it limits your view. If you pop the top your free to experience more. We cannot afford to go through life with the top up.

Romans 1: 19-20 N.I.V. states “19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”

.If you read Job 38-41 (read me) God shows up and explains it all to Job. Then Job realizes in 42:5 “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” God popped Job’s top in those 4 chapters. When he looked around he saw everything God had made. When you enter into some one’s house what is usually on the floor? A welcome matt. The Bible says I will enter His gates with thanksgiving and into His court with praise. It doesn’t say walk in sit down wait for the first song. When I enter in I should be thanking Him and praising Him. Not just in church but we need to mobilize our welcome matt. So anywhere we go, what ever we’re doing we can be thanking and praising God, because John 1:3 “All things were made by him;”

Thursday afternoon
Jeffery Goodman
Gen 35: 16-18 (read me)
“You are who your Father says you are!”

People spend a lot of time naming their children. In the Bible naming a child was of great significance. The name represented and expression of nature and character. Isaac meant laugher, Esau meant hairy, Jacob meant surplanter, Moses meant drawn out. Rachel about to die after giving birth to this child names him ben-oni meaning (child of my trouble and sorrow). But he had a father that changed his name to Benjamin. Changing his name was significant when Jacob changed to Israel he walked away changed. Benjamin meant son of my right hand. His father changed his name, it didn’t matter what his wife wanted to name him, and it doesn’t matter our circumstances. His father called him by a different name. What ever has labeled you in life you Father does not know you by that name. God has something for you to do. In the New Testament the names of children were based on family tree and their past. When the angel came to Zechariah and told him to call his son’s name John. This was important so he was not tied to his past. Zechariah was mute until it was time to name the baby and when that time came he spoke up and named his son by the name given him. God has a name and a destiny for each and every one of you.

Thursday Morning
Lioda Howell
“Time for a Standoff”

The word run is in the bible 71 times, the word walk is in the bible 212 times, but the word stand is in the bible 274 times. She talked about Moses when in Exodus 2:15 where he fled (he ran away) and how our time for running is over. After Moses ran there are several verses where God told him to STAND. Exodus 3:10, 7:15, 8:20, 9:13 and 14:13-14. Moses was worried about his speech and making excuses of why he couldn’t do it. Exodus 4:10 God allowed him to have his brother Aaron with him and God will give him words. God is interested in our weakness so He can show his excellence. So with God’s direction Moses stood before Pharaoh. He stopped cowering he faced his fear and attacked the enemy back. We need to do the same. We need to stop grieving on what we cannot do. Each one has a god ordained destiny.

Your desire will determine your direction
Your direction will determine your destiny
Your destiny will determine your distance

So your desire determines your distance you will go with God. Do what God wants us to do and he will equip us to do it. Doubt will come. Just remember it’s going to get worse before it gets better. 2Timothy 3:12 “ye shall suffer persecution” not might but shall if you choose to live for God. When you’re in a fight you’re going to get dirty, you’re going to get bruised and you’re going to get some scars. But those scars should only propel you to get closer to God.
All fights start with a stand off. You get picked on so much and now it’s to the boiling point. When you get to the end of yourself that‘s when you find Jesus. He‘s on your side so you know your going to win. “You’ve picked on me for the last time devil”. Stop fighting in the natural and start fighting in the spiritual. Ephesians 6:12 (read me).
Moses was so wrapped up in his stinking thinking. “I stutter” I’m not good with words. He was worried with things in his past. Don’t let our past effect our present. Don’t live in the past but do learn from it. The sinful flesh had to die (Egypt’s firstborn) our flesh also must die. Paul said “I die daily”. Also Tribulation worketh endurance” “to the one that endureth” despite your situation you CAN exist and endure. God used the Red Sea to put His glory on display. At that time the Egyptian army was the most powerful on earth. In a matter of moments God wiped them completely out. God will use you to put his glory on display. When God brings you through He’ll give you a testimony. “You cannot have a testimony without a test” and “you cannot have a message without a mess”
It’s time to square our shoulders back, look it (whatever fear, whatever bondage, whatever circumstance or whatever thing) in the eyes and take one last look. Cause God will squash your problem. This world is desperately fighting for our souls young people. It’s time we fight back.

Wednesday Night
Joel Urshan
“I’m a lively stone and I’m ready to rock my world!!!”
Text: 1Peter 2:1-6, 9-10

1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;
10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Wednesday Bro. Joel Urshan preached the message: “I’m a lively stone and I’m ready to rock my world” he took his text from 1 Peter 2:1-6, 9-10. He stated out talking about he seven men in the New Testament that went around doing miracles in Jesus name. They came upon an evil spirit and tried to cast him out. The spirit replied “Jesus I know, Paul I know but who are you?” We need to activate our faith enough that the demons in hell know our name. What the devil doesn’t want us to know, what he wants to keep hidden, is that obedience is the whole key to serving God. Obedience to God is like the veins that put the blood through our body. When we obey God’s voice and calling it allows Him to flow through us even more smoothly.
We are ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20 (read me)). An ambassador has no opinion; he or she takes the business of the kingdom he represents. He is like the mailman he cannot change the message, tweak the message or even give an opinion of the message. We are to preach this message boldly without fear, waver or falter. God is not a democracy He does not need a 2/3rds vote in order to move. When God makes up his mind to move it’s finished we might as well get in the middle of it. When we totally yield to god there’s no telling what would happen, holding nothing back deny your self take up your cross and follow me. Luke 9:23 (read me)
He told the story of his Great Grandpa Urshan was in Russia many years ago preaching in underground services. It was illegal to preach in Jesus name, they had to stick socks in theirs mouths when they spoke in tongues so not to be heard. One night the door flew open and the Russian Police stormed in lined everyone up against the wall and about to kill them execution style. Great Grandpa Urshan decided if I’m going to die, I’m might as well go out speaking in tongues. He closed his eyes started praying and when he opened his eyes the congregation was staring at him with mouths wide open. Up to this point t he had been preaching with an interpreter. When they asked him if he knew any Russian he said no. They explained go GGP Urshan that he told them police officers that there was an army of 10,000 angels circling this house. When we totally sell out to God its either going to kill us or make us live a more victorious life than ever before.
Stones are not alive. The only way for a stone to move is it somebody picks it up. We got to allow God to pick us up and use us. Sometimes the best thing to do is just stand still and let God mold you and carve you. Carve some character in you; carve His commandments into your heart. The children of Israel picked up stones when they crossed the Red Sea. These stones were for a testimony of God parting the Red Sea and delivering out of Egypt. Some times all we need to do is just stand and testify to everyone that walks by.
“Whom say ye that I am?” “Thou art the Christ, Son of the Living God” … “upon this rock will I built my church” we need to build out life upon sound doctrine. Lazarus had a stone in front of his grave. The stone had to be rolled away before Jesus could perform the miraculous. Sometimes we stand in the sway of God moving. I need to check my attitude to make sure it’s right. Make sure I’m allowing God to do his complete will in my life.
When David went looking for something to fight Goliath with, he was looking for something only god could use. He picked up 5 SMOOTH stones (no jagged edges or sharp points). They were smooth only God could get the credit. David reached into that bag picked out a stone and began to swing it in circles. All the stone felt was like he was going in circles. That’s the was we feel some times, same thing everyday school, home, friends, church, work, school home friends, church, school home friends church work. Same thing over and over and over. But think of it this way and what the stone did not realize is that it was going in circles but the more it went in circles the more momentum it built up and when he let it go the farther it went. It will propel us into areas we never though possible.
When they brought the woman to Jesus that had been caught in adultery, Jesus bent down and wrote in the sand. Every hand gripping a stone lost its grip and dropped. The devil might have a strong grip on your life but there’s something about the written word of God makes the enemy loose its grip. So stay in the word and know the word. “Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

GOD is like BAYER ASPIRIN … He works miracles.
GOD is like a FORD … He’s got a better idea.
GOD is like COKE … He’s the real thing.
GOD is like HALLMARK CARDS … He cares enough to send His very best.
GOD is like TIDE … He gets the stains out that others leave behind.
GOD is like GENERAL ELECTRIC … He brings good things to life.
GOD is like SEARS … He has everything.
GOD is like ALKA-SELTZER … Try Him, you’ll like him.
GOD is like SCOTCH TAPE … You can’t see him, but you know He’s there.
GOD is like DELTA … He’s ready when you are.
GOD is like ALLSTATE … You’re in good hands with Him.
GOD is like VO-5 HAIR SPRAY … He holds through all kinds of weather.
GOD is like DIAL SOAP … Aren’t you glad you have Him.
Don’t you wish everybody did?

Sorry - thought this was posted earlier in the week

The Ignited: Youth Outting

Saturday 8/11 6pm

Rose Mofford Park

we’ll be gathering at the Rose Mofford park to play basketball and volleyball and just hang out togather. Be sure to dress for the occassion (IE no high heels  ;))

 If you’re not familiar with the location you can use google maps, map quest or Yahoo maps to get directions. I’ve included the location address and maps below. Please come and bring a friend! Everyone is welcome.

Location:
Rose Mofford Sports Complex
9833 N 25th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85021
(602) 495-5047

Maps:
Google Maps

MapQuest Maps

Yahoo Maps

Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

II Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Psalms 119:105
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Here are some Actual Announcements Taken From Church Bulletins.-

Don’t let worry kill you — Let the church help.

Thursday night — potluck supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and the community.

For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

The rosebud on the altar this morning is to announce the birth of David Alan Belzer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Julius Belzer.

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the south and north ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk will please come early.

Wednesday, the Ladies Liturgy Society will meet. Mrs. Jones will sing “Put Me In My Little Bed” accompanied by the pastor.

Thursday at 5:00 p.m. there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club. All wishing to become little mothers, please see the minister in his study.

This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.

The service will close with “Little Drops Of Water,” One of the ladies will start quietly, and the rest of the congregation will join in.

Next Sunday, a special collection will be taken to defray the cost of the new carpet. All those wishing to do something on the new carpet will come forward and get a piece of paper.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind and they may be seen in the church basement Friday.

A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be “What Is Hell?” — come early and listen to our choir practice.