Here is the bulletin.

Thanks, Brenda.

• PDF Faith Fellowship Church September 22 2013 bulletin

http://bible.com/59/ISA40.21.ESV Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
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Here it is. Church bulletin.

Thanks, Brenda!

• PDF Faith Fellowship Church September 15 2013 bulletin

A hypocrite is …
A person who is pretending to be someone or something he or she is not. She wears a mask as she attempts to elevate other people’s perception of her. In his mind he contrives an image of a person he pretends to be thinking to impress those around him.

But God turns the tables on us.
He paints a picture of his saints (holy ones/hagiois) that is beyond our imagination. In fact almost unbelievable. We continue to see in our study in Ephesians the lofty view that God clearly gives of his people, the Church, in Holy Scripture.

This week …
The Apostle Paul continues to instruct us to pursue this high calling, not by pretending to be someone we are not but by living up to who we are in Christ.

And he tells us how …
To learn who we are and what it takes to be who we are. No pretense or puffing ourselves up. Just faith enough to believe God and the amazing things he has done for us and in us through Christ’s finished work on the cross. And a willingness to change.

Message Title: Living Up to Who We Are in Jesus Christ / Living as the New People God Created Us to Be!

Message Text: Ephesians 4:17-32

HERE ARE THE HANDOUTS FOR THIS WEEK:

• PDF Living as New People Created by God Ephesians 4-17-32 HANDOUT ONE 091513
• PDF Living as New People Created by God Ephesians 4-17-32 HANDOUT TWO 091513

Kerry and I had a great time at the International Neighbors event at Western Illinois University Sunday evening.

And we got a tremendous surprise/blessing of God.

• Our new friend is “Rebecca” (Xitong).
• And totally out of the blue as God does things, Rebecca is a believer in Jesus Christ. We hope that she can visit us at church as soon as possible so you can meet her.

We also have another friend Zhulin that we have not yet been able to make contact with as she did not attend the event.

Please pray that Kerry and I will be a blessing to both of these young women.

Dave

Our church in Terre Haute, Indiana (World Gospel Church) drew many students from Rose-Hulman and we had several Rose professors attending our church. 

Rose-Hulman’s academic reputation also drew many Chinese International students, most of them coming to work on their master’s degree in engineering. We made several Chinese friends via this connection.

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ranked Top Undergraduate Engineering School in the Nation for 15th Straight Year

September 10, 2013

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – For the 15th consecutive year, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has been ranked the nation’s top undergraduate engineering college. The rankings are determined through an annual survey of America’s engineering deans and senior faculty members conducted by U.S. News & World Report for its 2014 Best Colleges guidebook.

In addition to being rated first among colleges that offer the bachelor’s or master’s as its top degree in engineering, Rose-Hulman is ranked No. 1 by U.S. News in individual programs including: chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. The list includes elite institutions in California, Boston and the nation’s military academies.

“It’s certainly another red-letter day in our grand history at Rose-Hulman. Yet delivering the highest-quality engineering education is our definition of daily life on our campus,” said President James C. Conwell, who joined Rose-Hulman in May 2013 as its new president. “Every day I learn something new here that confirms Rose-Hulman is indeed a place that transforms the lives of the best and the brightest students. It’s no surprise to me that Rose-Hulman continues to be viewed at the pinnacle of engineering education by our peers.”

This year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings join The Princeton Review’s 2014 Best 378 Colleges andthe Fiske Guide to Colleges 2014 in recognizing Rose-Hulman’s leadership role in undergraduate engineering, science and mathematics education. Rose-Hulman is also ranked No. 9 among the top 20 “smartest colleges” in America and No. 1 in student memory by Lumosity.

Rose-Hulman’s Class of 2013 has a 96.5 percent placement rate with an average starting salary of $65,800. In the past year, Rose-Hulman students have earned prestigious Goldwater, Fulbright and Whitaker honors. Student teams have also competed in international and national computer programming and cyber defense challenges. Looking forward, Rose-Hulman recently welcomed the most diverse freshman class in its history and received a record number of applications from prospective students.
READ MORE … http://www.rose-hulman.edu/news/on-campus/2013/rose-hulman-institute-of-technology-ranked-top-undergraduate-engineering-school-in-the-nation-for-15th-straight-year.aspx

Another handout for Sunday September 8, 2013 that I had not yet posted.

Text: Ephesians 4:11-16

• PDF Spiritual maturity is HANDOUT 090813

Spiritual maturity is …

• Spiritual maturity is embracing my role as a servant of God Most High and living with a holy passion for the plan and purpose of God which is evidenced in intense satisfaction in pleasing Jesus Son of God. This passionate service is directed by a discernment which has been developed by the constant practice of the word of righteousness in distinguishing good from evil.

The spiritually mature believer …

• Is on a settled path walking toward and working to the glory of God.
• Has embraced his or her role as a servant of God Most High.
• Displays faithful, loving obedience to God and a firm confidence in the long-term plan and purpose of God.
• Has a clear knowledge of Jesus Son of God and is no longer chasing meaning and significance through the ideas and schemes of people.
• Readily accepts equipping (teachable) that prepares him to serve (obedience) and once prepared is a builder in the kingdom of God (insightful).
• Serves in the local church fellowship with God’s plan and purpose in mind.
• Has a unity of faith with other like-minded believers that is built upon sound, biblical doctrine.

Spiritual maturity from our text in Ephesians 4:11-16 …

• I am teachable: I receive the equipping of the saints.
• I am purposeful: I understand my equipping is for ministry.
• I am a builder: I use what God has given to build up the body of Christ.
• I have come to a unity of the faith: I share a single-mindedness with fellow believers based on sound, biblical doctrine.
• I have come to a clear understanding of the Son of God: I now have a transforming vision of Jesus Son of God that strengthens and directs my life.
• I have come to maturity: I have come to a place spiritually and experientially where Christ is my living standard.
• I no longer am searching for life, meaning and significance as I have found all of this and more and now I grow and thrive as I am immersed in the truth of God and the love of God.
• I fill my part and do my share as directed by God’s Holy Spirit.

http://bible.com/59/PRO14.21.ESV Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
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September already.

Here are the handouts for Ephesians 4:11-16.

• PDF Speaking the truth in love, growing up in Christ HANDOUT ONE 090813
• PDF Speaking the truth in love, growing up in Christ 090813 HANDOUT TWO

I wrestled with this text over the last couple of weeks. So many questions to answer. I pray that by going through the winepress I will present to you on Sunday “the very wine of strengthening.” See Oswald Chambers below.

• Oswald Chambers
  If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily — “I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say,” the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of God, and you will be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through you to someone else. Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.
•  From “My Utmost for His Highest”  December 15 reading
• For more Oswald Chambers click here to link to online “My Utmost for His Highest“

Love,
Dave

Here is this week’s bulletin.

Thanks, Brenda.

• PDF FFC bulletin for 090813