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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Dear Friends,
Do you want to walk with God? Do you want to respond to God but feel that He is so far away or that you never feel
his presence? I have been speaking on the gift of God and his character for the last few years for I want
you to know that God gives to us much more then then we can imgaine. God wants to demonstrate His love to you, demonstrating
that so that He can have that love returned. You are special to Him, cause he made you into an original. There is one of
you. God made you so that you can walk with him and wants to hear your response to all that He gave you. This
last part of the series will almost take us to the end of the year and it will tell us how we respond to Him.
God is not just in His Spirit when we feel goosbumps or we see his power. God is in us and we respond to Him when we
let Him in through the people that He put there in our lives. God has not forgotten us and we must let God use them
to help us. God loves us through the good, bad and ugly people do. Paul was persecuted in everything he did and everywhere
he went. Satan tried to kill him and assigned a demon to kill him. Once he was killed and yet he was rose up from
the dead. God fellowships with us and we will learn what the word koinonia means and how deeply God wants to know us
and be with us. Today is our introduction to this part of the series. God not only is involved
in giving to us but in enabliing us to respond to Him. He wants our love and worship so HE gave us his
whole life so we can live with Him. I hope you enjoy this part of the series and that you will be blessed by us. Above
all things HE wants your worship. The God of all thigns that created your things wants you to worship him and walk
with Him. One day HE will make all men bow down and worship HIM but today you can walk with Him by your choice and to God
that makes your singing and walk special in His sight because you are special to him. To HIM you are worth the blood,
but to us we can never be worthy of that Holy blood. You were worth the price because HE loved you and created you.
So come with me as we share the glory of being able to serve and love Him. Thank you Lord for you are worthy of all your
praise and it is not wrapped up in what we see in our lives but just in who you are to us! Invite
someone to come to church with us, do not issues with people distract you but let God's love penetrate your heart and
love them as the song says with the love of the Lord. Share this site with them so that you can help to share God's
grace with them.
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Dear Friends,
I want you to tell you a few things. 1) I am against having a mosque on Ground Zero for that ground should be
used to honor those who were sacrificed to preserve our way of life, protecting us from the radical Muslims who seek to
destroy Israel and those who support her. 2) you are not alone for God is with you. God loves you and we are one body 3)
pray for those in Pakistan who lost their homes. Several ministers in Pakistan have contacted me for they contact anyone
to help them for they lost so much. One minister told me all 81 families of his congregation lost their homes.
Tell me something? Do you find reason to be sad for these things or reason
to rejoice? 1) about the mosque - it brings out people to help this nation come together to help us realize and those that
are in government that we are indeed a Christian nation. We sometimes are so focused on what is going on in our lives that
we forget who we serve. The President constantly showed who he serves but we need to show we stand for Jesus Christ! 2)
we need to tell people about love and tell them God loves them. We have come through many things yet we are still here.
We can still sing Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found was blind
but now I see. Since ( if) God be for you so who can be against you 3) - the devil tried to kill them but lost
the fight - they are still there. They are not alone and neither are you. They will survive and show people their strength
not because of how strong they are but because of who is their God. God will get praise from this and be glorified. Whatever
happens in your life is there to glorify God so look at your life as a chance to glorify Jesus and find ways to do so daily!
Pastor Don Carson
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Friends, Today we need
to realize the importance of grace in our obedience. Our obedience is not about doing but about being. It is about
what HE did for us so that we can receive it as a gift. Obedience is a gift. God gave you a gift and that
is the reason HE can call you obedient. You are not obedient because of your morality for there is none righteous no not
one. YOU cannot be good enough for if you could then Christ died in vain. Christ did not come for the righteous but
the unrighteous. Jesus said that to the Pharisees that because they did not realize they missed it, their sins
remained; but if they had realized it then they would be saved. To be saved you need to realize you need a Savior.
You have to come to the point that you know you need a Savior and stop trying to save yourself. Paul said that those
of you seeking to be justified by the law you have fallen from grace. Do not allow yourself to be
so full of yourself that you think you do not need God. Your obedience is not about your striving to be moral.
It is about Jesus work for you. So stop letting you be the answer for your problems. It is not about you but about
Him. Let Him be your source. Too often we have so many problems that we think we must solve it ourselves, but our answer
is in Jesus so learn to wait to Him!
Pastor
Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Monday, August 9, 2010
Dear Friends,
today we will be examining the Savior's work and how important it is in our Christian life. It is the 3rd part of the series
we are doing on the Character of God and it is the last part of this section. We need to realize the reality of what
Jesus did for it will change our lives in the here and now and the sweet bye and bye. This is to tell us that our Saviour
made us able to sit with Him in Heaven and that now God is pleased with you because of Jesus. You are perfect before God.
Jesus work is the only way you can be perfect before the Father. God is not mad at you. This is good news and this is the
gospel. Too many Christians think that your standing before the Father is based on you keeping a
dead law and whether or not you are moral. They judge whether someone is a Christian by whether they are a "good"
person. Goodness is not the reason you were saved, for if it were then Christ would not have died. There were many good
people who lived before Jesus came. Jesus said he did not come to call the righteous but for the unrighteous.
No one could keep the law for the law was not given to you to make you righteous, but so you would know that you needed a
Savior. Your righteousness and obedience is a gift, because God loved you so much that He had to have you in Heaven with
Him. You were worth the blood of Jesus. So walk in what you were provided, for God wants to give you his love because
of His grace. Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Monday, August 2, 2010
Dear Friends,
Today we will look at the end of evil and see that there will be a day when evil will be no more. Our sin died on the cross
and the problem that most Chrstians have is that they do not see it as being dead. They see it as being alive in their bodies
because we live in a fallen world. The Bible says that you are born of God and have the seed of God in you. He says he that
is born of God sins not. It says that Jesus defeated the devil and made a triumph over him. You always triumph and He calls
you an overcomer. It is not about you waiting to you get to Heaven until you will have victory for you have the victory now.
You know you will win because of the fact that Jesus has won it already and it is recorded. Just because you are a child
of God you win! You cannot lose because evil already lost. Last week I pointed out that Satan lost to Micheal and the warring
angels, the saints, and to Israel. The book of Revelation points this out - so why would he think that he can beat God if
he cannot be the creations of God.
I encourage you to stop seeing yourself by your failures and shortcomings and
start seeing yourself by His victory and what He did for you. The Bible is about what God in Christ did for you and not about
what you by your flesh must try to do to be made right with God. God made you right with Him so there is nothing more you
can add to it to be made righteous. Just go about and Be what He made you to be. Do what He said do but don't strive in your
doings because through them you think that God will become any more pleased with you then HE is right now!
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
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