The day or the hour

May 24, 2011
    Matthew 24:36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." As you know it was predicted that Jesus would return on Saturday at 3:00 p.m., but as you see we are all still here. Now this same person is telling us Jesus will return in October instead and that he was off just by a little. But Jesus said no one knows the day or hour not even Himself, so either Jesus is wrong and this person is right or the other way around, for may two cents iam going with Jesus!
    The truth is if someone saids they know when Jesus is coming they are lying or deceived! But in either case we must not believe them or we will be deceived as well. This also causes the world to grow cynical of our message of the return of Jesus and the believers to dispair of their hope in His return. I will leave you with this final thought, when Paul wrote his second letter to the Thessalonians he was addressing the same issue  we face today with those who set dates and say Jesus has come. Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, "Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction," So dont let someone decieve you into believeing a date, the Bible is clear about what has to take place first before His return, and please heed Pauls warning! Love you all.

    Pastor Sam.
 

When your spirit sings

March 31, 2011
    My spirit was singing to Jesus and kept singing to Him, singing this song "I believe", by Andy Chrisman of 4Him. I decided to go YouTube and listen. The instant i started to play that song the Holy Spirit fell on my spirit and tears filled my eye's and my spirit began to sing over and over this phase. " Come Holy Spirit bring Jesus, come Holy Spirit, i love You because You bring Jesus to me".
    When you notice your spirit is singing to the Lord, STOP whatever your doing, it means the Hol...
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Embracing who we are in Christ

February 10, 2011
    In our Upper Room meeting we discovered that one of the issues the hold us back in our Christian walk in not believing what God says about us. We dont embrace who we are in Christ, we reject the Word of God concerning ourselves and instead embrace guilt, condemnation and self-loathing. This self-loathing keeps the Holy Spirit from overflowing our lives and setting us free from patterns of behavior and sin that traps us and thus we never grow. 
    We see this with Moses in Exodus 3 and 4 w...
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Floppy Puppy

December 10, 2010
    Acts 7:51, "You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in the heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did." In Steven's amazing message he is telling the Pharisee's, that they resist the Holy Spirit and as a result they repeat the mistakes of the past. The only way we can escape the pattern of making the same mistakes over and over is thru the power of the Holy Spirit. 
    I was playing with our new puppy Sunny the other day and all was ...
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Always giving thanks

November 24, 2010
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    As two men were walking through a field one day, they spotted an enraged bull. Instantly, they darted toward the nearest fence. The storming bull followed in hot pursuit, and it was soon apparent they would not make it. Terrified, the one shouted to the other;   
    "Put up a prayer, John. We're in for it!"
    John answered, "I can't. I've never made a public prayer in my life."
    " But you must"! implored his companion. "The bull is catching up to us."
    "All right," panted John, "I'l...
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Measuring a Miracle

November 9, 2010

Three weeks ago we prayed for a brother with a back injury, and seeing how God healed him thru our prayers got me thinking that prayer is a miracle. The sooner we realize this fact, the sooner prayer ceases to be a dull routine or a religious burden. It becomes an exciting adventure that molds your life and the lives of those for whom you pray. If prayer is a neglected or ignored discipline in your life, then it's time you and I attempt to measure this miracle and discover what we are missing...


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Jump before you look

August 25, 2010
In April 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with numerous other skydivers and filmed the group as they fell and opened their parachutes. On the film shown on the news report, as the final skydiver opened his chute, the picture went berserk. The announcer reported that the cameraman had fallen to his death, having jumped out of the plane without his parachute. It wasn't until he reached for the absent ripcord that he realize he...
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Got the Spirit?

July 20, 2010
"We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.... [We] have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost." -A.W. Tozer-  Like Tozer i believe that something is missing in our churches and that some...
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The Voice of God

June 4, 2010
"The voice of God is upon the waters; The God of glory thunders, The Lord is over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful, The voice of the Lord is majestic. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord hews out flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord makes the dee...
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A worshiper of God

May 25, 2010
One of the things that demostrates our God is so very real is our praise and worship music. Its how we sing to Jesus, how we praise Him that shows He is real. No other religion even comes close, nothing in this world compares to the worship of  a real God. Perhaps its one of the best parts of being a christian, at least for me, the honor and joy of worshiping my King, there's nothing like it. Sets me free in ways nothing else can, brings healing to my broken heart, brings the rain to my dry a...
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Pastor Sam Rhodes 

 

 
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