Make me know Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.

Good Friday Afternoon to All!

Here is something that I hope to never get over: Being amazed at the wisdom and the reach of our God in his Holy Book the Bible!

Wow and Wow! Right in front of our noses … that is if our noses are bowed before the throne of God! If your nose is elsewhere (and you know who I’m talking to), then not so much. 🙂

I thought I was choosing our Ezra study, but I have a sneaking suspicion that God was leading me on, but, then again, I guess he is supposed to do that so I am okay.

Enough rambling. But the church has always been the church, hasn’t it. Except when it was Israel but you know what I mean. They finally had the foundation to the new temple finished and were praising God … except the ones who were crying so loud that you could hardly hear the praise band.

With their attention dominated by the physical dimensions of the building, they could not see the glory of their God.

But those who were able to trust God were in for an amazing ride. This week we have guest appearances by Haggai and Zechariah who give us more of God’s perspective of this rebuilding project than what we see from Zerubbabel and Jeshua’s ground level view.

Message Title: It’s Not the Building, It’s the God!

Message Text: Ezra 3:1-13

• PDF It’s not the Building, It’s the God! / Ezra 3:1-13 / FFC / Dave Scott / 022314 HANDOUT ONE
• PDF It’s not the Building, It’s the God! / Ezra 3:1-13 / FFC / Dave Scott / 022314 HANDOUT TWO

See you Sunday!

Dave

Here is Sunday’s bulletin. The last Sunday in February and glad of it. 🙂

• PDF Bulletin FFC February 23 2014
• DOC Bulletin FFC February 23 2014

Here is a site for free church cartoons I found. Permission to print 1,000 copies.

Building Church Leaders / Practical Training from Leadership Journal

http://www.buildingchurchleaders.com/multimedia/cartoons/

Two examples:

Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the Lord weighs the motives.

Hello Again,

Sorry for my confusion with the other posts. I linked to the wrong files. Duh! I think I have it right now though. Whew! This week we return to our study in Ezra.

Does God build now the way he built in Old Testament times? Whether ancient temples then or evangelizing our community now, I believe in Ezra we see essential principles for being part of God’s construction process.

Message Title: Principles of Building 101

Message Text: Ezra 1:5-2:70

• PDF Principles of Building 101 : Ezra 1-5 – 2-70 : Dave Scott : FFC : 021614 HANDOUT ONE
• PDF Principles of Building 101 : Ezra 1-5 – 2-70 : Dave Scott : FFC : 021614 HANDOUT TWO

• Principles of Building 101

  ✓ God stirred their spirits to go, 1:5b.
  ✓ They rose up, 1:5a.
  ✓ They supported the work, 1:6-11.
  ✓ They left their comfort zone, 2:1.
  ✓ They followed their leaders, 2:2-70.

Hello Everyone!

So glad that we are having more snow. Aren’t you?

Here is our bulletin for the week.

• PDF Bulletin FFC February 16 2014
• DOC Bulletin FFC February 16 2014

John & Katie Carter with daughters Tikvah and Anya will be sharing with us in our SS and Morning Worship services.

Ezra gets put off for one more week. My “schedule” has been blown to smithereens anyway, and God has really put this week’s message on my heart. Just happens to hit around Valentine’s Day but was not planned (at least by me). 🙂

FORGIVENESS …

Something that as Christians we should excel at … but we all know that is too often not true.

Sometimes secular psychologists, well, it doesn’t have to be a psychologist, sometimes the guy down the road or our unsaved work friend knows forgiveness better than we do.

Does that ever just bewilder you as it does me?

FORGIVENESS …

We should have it down, but we don’t, but when we do, how amazing!

MESSAGE TITLE: FORGIVEN!

MESSAGE TEXT: Ephesians 4:31-32 & Selected

• PDF Forgiven 020714 HANDOUT ONE
• PDF Forgiven 020714 HANDOUT TWO