Whew! Close one! My study exploded.

Two more study sheets for Sunday.

• PDF LESSON 8 : Who Gets It : James 3-13-18 : ffc : dave scott : 112915 : STUDY SHEET THREE
• PDF LESSON 8 : Who Gets It : James 3-13-18 : ffc : dave scott : 112915 : STUDY SHEET FOUR

Our choir did a great job again for Thanksgiving.

• Thank you so much choir. Here are the songs we sang and a couple with the congregation joining us. We added a sanctuary microphone a few months ago, not to project the live sound through the system but to allow me to record the audio–singing and spoken word. Works very well. I still need to do some tweaking, as I would like to have a little stronger signal, but really it is doing just what I had hoped for. Thanks to the guys on the board for going with this extra (not huge) expense.

I can also burn these songs to CD at your request.

CHOIR MP3: Thanksgiving 2015 FFC Choir Congregation Logic Ed 112215

Trying to get caught up. I didn’t even realize that I had not posted this until a few days ago. This is LESSON 7 in our James study.

Message Title: Mission Impossible!

Message Text: James 3:1-12

MP3: LESSON 7 : Mission Impossible : James 3-1-12 : ffc : dave scott : 111515

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Wisdom. Who really gets it?

Who is wise and understanding among you?

Don’t have to guess.

James tells us this week in James 3. Will we be listening?

Similar to last week’s text, this is very plain and clear, and difficult to accept. But if we will surrender our ideas and thoughts, and make them all bow down and obey Christ, what a blessing on the path ahead, for us and for the people to whom God will express his greatness and love and mercy … through us.

Message Title: Who Get’s It?

Message Text: James 3:13-18

• PDF LESSON 8 : Who Gets It : James 3-13-18 : ffc : dave scott : 112915 : STUDY SHEET ONE
• PDF LESSON 8 : Who Gets It : James 3-13-18 : ffc : dave scott : 112915 : STUDY SHEET TWO

Hello All,

And then it was December … Still on full speed ahead until January, then time slows to a crawl. Right? 🙂

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC November 29 2015

To You, O LORD, we give thanks …

• (Psalm 30:4 ESV) Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
• (Psalm 30:12 ESV) That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
• (Psalm 57:9 ESV) I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.
• (Psalm 75:1 ESV) We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.
• (Psalm 86:12 ESV) I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
• (Psalm 92:1 ESV) It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High.

Hello All,

Recent discussions … “Can you believe that it is almost Thanksgiving?” And … “Can you believe that it is almost 2016?”

Remember when “2001: A Space Odyssey” seemed about 100 years in the future. Yeah! Fifteen years ago now. 🙂

• PDF Bulletin FFC November 22 2015

James spares no words when he details the potential destructiveness of our tongue. And if that were not enough he tells us that is is humanly impossible for us to tame this destroying member of our body.

So what do we do? How do we do the impossible?

Good thing that God does the impossible. Good thing that we have very clearly written instruction concerning the way we are to speak to one another.

Well, it would be a good thing if we were listening. So are we? Has God taught us how to talk? How to react to disappointment and anger without hurting back? Never paying back insult for insult?

Or are we not convinced that controlling our tongue is out of the realm of possibility?

There is not explicit direction as to how to deal with our problem in this text. James just gives the dirty, rotten lowdown on the tongue.

But there is tremendous encouragement implicitly revealed in our text.

1) Facing the impossibility of the task we are forced to trust God. That’s a really good thing, right?

2) Fresh water. If we have the potential to sully the water, then maybe we have the potential to keep the water clean and pure. And that is the grace-filled, exciting opportunity we should be thrilled to fulfill. We can be vessels of God’s fresh water.

• (John 7:37–38 NASB95) Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

Living water flowing out of you and me like a river! If this doesn’t “wow” you, then take a moment and check your pulse.

Quit polluting the water, peeing in the pool. Let God direct our ways and our words. Quit coming up with our own stuff, digging our own wells, finding our own refreshment.

• (Jeremiah 2:13 ESV) For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Fresh water to a spiritually thirsty world! That’s what I’m talking about!

We have the opportunity to be fresh water.

No more human pollution.

Fresh water springs from the living water fountain of God.

No more rationalizations.

Listen to and obey God’s teaching as to how we speak to other people.

No more human principles overshadowing God’s truth.

Understand the potential for either destroying or building.

No more excuses.

Message Title: Mission Impossible!

Message Text: James 3:1-12

• PDF LESSON 7 : Mission Impossible : James 3-1-12 : ffc : dave scott : 111515 : STUDY SHEET ONE
• PDF LESSON 7 : Mission Impossible : James 3-1-12 : ffc : dave scott : 111515 : STUDY SHEET TWO
• PDF LESSON 7 : Mission Impossible : James 3-1-12 : ffc : dave scott : 111515 : STUDY SHEET THREE
• PDF LESSON 7 : Mission Impossible : James 3-1-12 : ffc : dave scott : 111515 : 111515 : STUDY SHEET FOUR

Hello All,

A cool, but beautiful Friday.  Here is our bulletin for November 15, 2015.

• PDF Bulletin FFC November 15 2015