Sunday August 25th

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I hope you really enjoyed the encouraging words from Dr. Larry Waters last Sunday.  I think this may be a real link to reaching outside our body and being able to reach people who never felt like they belonged in Church.  I have nothing against T.V. Evangelist but I think everyone needs to have a Church home where they can come and fellowship with other brothers and sister in Christ.

This week Summit Church will have service for us this week.  I hope you are as excited about this week as I am.  Joel and his group will lead us in Praise and Worship and Joel will bring a message on some of the basic of the Kingdom of God here on earth.

I encourage you this week to prepare for Sunday by reading  several scriptures, to Pray fervently for God to do a mighty work in you and in our body.  It will take all of us working togeather to accomplish what we want to see in our lives and the life of this Church.

One last request we really are going to get a directory of the members into everyone’s hand but till then call someone this week encourage them, tell them how much they mean to you and pray for them.  Nothing builds a closer bond between two people then to have someone pray for you.  I f you need someone’s number call me and I will get it for you

See you on Sunday and remember to do something good for somebody this week.  I love you and God especially loves you!!!

Pastor David

This week we will be going Old School in the Old Testament

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in Isaiah the 5th Chapter Vs 1-2

We will be talking about Christians with a conflict of interest.

We have spoken many times about how the choices we make in life help determine who we are.  It makes a difference what we do but it also makes a difference why we do it.

We have to set priorities in our life and stick to them.  We have to make the right choices for the right reason.  We don’t always make the right decision but we should be striving to have the right reasons for the things we do.

I am excited about the future of our church but we are going to have to make some commitments and choices over the next few weeks and months they will take us in the direction God is leading us.  To make these decisions we will need to be praying and reading the scripture God is laying on our Hearts.  We don’t want to just look like the sweet grapes on the vine we want to be sweet taste in God’s mouth.

Invite someone to come to church with you on Sunday and make this week a special week by making the right choices and honoring the commitments we have made to each other and to God.  Do something Good for somebody and I will see you on Sunday!!!

David Whitmore
Pastor

This week we will be in Matthew 14: 22-23

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This week we will be in Matthew 14: 22-23

We will be talking about Fear and the hold it has over us.

The very first sermon I ever preached was on this Chapter and Peter walking on the water.  Believe me I was as afraid as Peter to go out into that auditorium and preach to a congregation full of preachers.  I stayed in the Pastor study waiting for them to come get me while they waited for me to come in.  Finally the pastor came and got me and said they had sung all the songs they knew and I needed to get in there.  I will never forget that feeling or that sermon.

I have overcome my fear of standing up in front of a congregation but I am still in awe of how God will give me new insights into scripture even in the middle of my sermon.  I hope you have felt the power of the Lord as you were praying or reading your Bible and you have had this same feeling.

As we talk about fear and the disciples on that boat I remember a story I heard about a man while sports fishing off the Florida coast, capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.
Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted, “Are there any gators around here?!”
“Naw,” the man hollered back, “they ain’t been around for years!”
“Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy, “How’d you get rid of the gators?”
We didn’t do nothin’,” the beachcomber said. “The sharks got ’em. The lesson be careful what you ask for.

I hope you have a great week and do something good for somebody and I will see you on Sunday!!

David Whitmore

This Sunday

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This week we will be in Luke 15 vs 1-10.

We will be talking about how God never gives up on us.

I hope you were able to attend last Sunday when the ministry of Summitt Church blessed us.  We were challenged to allow the Holy Spirit to indwell us and go out and make a difference in the world.  We can’t do that if we are afraid to allow God to use us.  Let’s make the commitment this week to pray for someone that God puts on our heart, to go where he leads us to go and to read our Bible every day.  Listen God fed the multitudes with a few loaves of bread and few fish and he can also use a little Church in Pleasant Grove to reach out and touch this city.  We just need to make ourselves available.  Invite someone to Church with you on Sunday and remember to pray for those on our prayer list.