Filed under: RECENT POSTS, Sermons Online, sermons | Tags: easton maryland church sermons, Easton Maryland Worship Sets, Easton MD scripture music, Robb Horner
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12-30-07 Worship Set
12-30-2007 Sermon
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Thanks again Robb and Beth and also to our dedicated worship team (Greg, Amanda, Beth, Michael, Chip and Austin) You all serve us so well, Praise God
Thank you so much for sharing your testimony today. We are so blessed to have both of you not only as a part of our body but a major part of our leadership. What a testimony to the greatness and kindnesses of God to hear the details of how God wooed you to Himself. Thank you for your transparency and and for strengthening our faith in what God is able to do in our lives.
Know we do not take your service lightly and so encouraged by you both Thank You, Thank You!!!!
Eric and Laura
Filed under: Bible, Devotional, John Piper, RECENT POSTS | Tags: Eric Olson, New Years, Bethlehem Baptist, Easton Maryland Churches, Read through Bible in a year program, Bible reading plan
Two Years ago my son Hunter and I set out on the adventure of reading through the Bible in a year. We again are going to commit to doing this, Lord willing.
We used Bethlehem Baptist’s scripture reading plan. We wanted to pass this along to you in case you would like to join us.
Bookmarks for 2nd Half of Year
Regardless, of whether you use this tool, may God continually bless you by His grace in your reading of His word.
Eric
Filed under: Christmas, RECENT POSTS | Tags: Augustine, Churches in Easton Maryland, Eric Olson, serving the Eastern Shore of MD, Spurgeon, Thomas Watson
“Infinite and yet an infant.
Eternal and yet born of a woman.
Almighty, and yet nursing at a woman’s breast.
Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms.
Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.”
–Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“That man should be made in God’s image is a wonder,
but that God should be made in man’s image is a greater wonder.
That the Ancient of Days would be born.
That He who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle?”
-Thomas Watson
“Man’s Maker was made man
that the Bread might be hungry,
the Fountain thirst,
the Light sleep,
the Way be tired from the journey;
that Strength might be made weak,
that Life might die.
–Augustine
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.”
(John 1:14)
Merry Christmas,
Eric
Filed under: Links | Tags: Churches in Easton, Churches serving Caroline County, Churches serving Dorchester, Maryland, MD, Oasis Covenant Fellowship
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Filed under: Christmas, RECENT POSTS, Serving the Community | Tags: 21601, Churches in Easton, churches serving Talbot County, Maryland
Wow, what a great time. It was a chilly evening, but what an opportunity to serve. It was such a blessing serving with the Saints that were able to make it!
Thank you to all who were able to come and be a part of serving our community! Also Thank you to Crystal’s Coffee for welcoming us and serving up wonderful coffee and hot chocolate to us.
For those of you who were unable to make it , we started our evening at Crystal’s Coffee for a hot beverages and a quick warm up for our voices. We then proceeded to Hyde Park to sing to those who live there. We then proceeded to the trailer park on Black Dog Alley. We hand out several Free Turkey Coupons and have already received a few calls.
We will deliver the Turkeys, Friday or Saturday. Please pray that God will do amazing things during our visit and that hearts will be open. Pray for discernment and wisdom for us. We are excited to serve these people in this way and pray the doors will remain open for the Gospel, not just during this Christmas season, but throughout the year.
We are open to ideas on how to continue to minister to these people.
I look forward to sharing more with you on Sunday.
God bless,
Eric
Eric, mentioned this sermon.
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Have a great week and keep making Him preeminent!
Filed under: RECENT POSTS
Today’s devotion by Oswal Chambers has some great perspective on “wrestling with God” I pray that all of us (especially me) can confine our wrestling to the things that keep me from knowing God in a deeper way. Here’s the article:
You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God, and wrestle in prayer for other people; but to wrestle with God in prayer is unscriptural. If you ever do wrestle with God, you will be crippled for the rest of your life. If you grab hold of God and wrestle with Him, as Jacob did, simply because He is working in a way that doesn’t meet with your approval, you force Him to put you out of joint (see Genesis 32:24-25 ). Don’t become a cripple by wrestling with the ways of God, but be someone who wrestles before God with the things of this world, because “we are more than conquerors through Him . . .” ( Romans 8:37 ). Wrestling before God makes an impact in His kingdom. If you ask me to pray for you, and I am not complete in Christ, my prayer accomplishes nothing. But if I am complete in Christ, my prayer brings victory all the time. Prayer is effective only when there is completeness— “take up the whole armor of God . . . .”Always make a distinction between God’s perfect will and His permissive will, which He uses to accomplish His divine purpose for our lives. God’s perfect will is unchangeable. It is with His permissive will, or the various things that He allows into our lives, that we must wrestle before Him. It is our reaction to these things allowed by His permissive will that enables us to come to the point of seeing His perfect will for us. “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . .” ( Romans 8:28 )— to those who remain true to God’s perfect will— His calling in Christ Jesus. God’s permissive will is the testing He uses to reveal His true sons and daughters. We should not be spineless and automatically say, “Yes, it is the Lord’s will.” We don’t have to fight or wrestle with God, but we must wrestle before God with things. Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.
Lord, remind us of our fellow Saints in the battle. You designed us for fellowship and to help one another in these struggles. Amen
Filed under: CJ Mahaney, Free Stuff, Gospel Centered, Idolatry, RECENT POSTS, discernment
Amazing! Again Free Stuff from New Attitude! Find out your idols and where God will help you examine your heart!
Listen to CJ’s Discern your Heart!
X-ray Questions from “Seeing With New Eyes”. chapter 7
Here’s all 35 of Powlison’s X-Ray questions:
1. What do you love? Hate?
2. What do you want, desire, crave, lust, and wish for? What desires do you serve and obey?
3. What do you seek, aim for, and pursue?
4. Where do you bank your hopes?
5. What do you fear? What do you not want? What do you tend to worry about?
6. What do you feel like doing?
7. What do you think you need? What are your ‘felt needs’?
8. What are your plans, agendas, strategies, and intentions designed to accomplish?
9. What makes you tick? What sun does your planet revolve around? What do you organize your life around?
10. Where do you find refuge, safety, comfort, escape, pleasure, security?
11. What or whom do you trust?
12. Whose performance matters? On whose shoulders does the well-being of your world rest? Who can make it better, make it work, make it safe, make it succesful?
13. Whom must you please? Whose opinion of you counts? From whom do you desire approval and fear rejection? Whose value system do you measure yourself against? In whose eyes are you living? Whose love and approval do you need?
14. Who are your role models? What kind of person do you think you ought to be or want to be?
15. On your deathbed, what would sum up your life as worthwhile? What gives your life meaning?
16. How do you define and weigh success and failure, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, in any particular situation?
17. What would make you feel rich, secure, prosperous? What must you get to make life sing?
18. What would bring you the greatest pleasure, happiness, and delight? The greatest pain or misery?
19. Whose coming into political power would make everything better?
20. Whose victory or success would make your life happy? How do you define victory and success?
21. What do you see as your rights? What do you feel entitled to?
22. In what situations do you feel pressured or tense? Confident and relaxed? When you are pressured, where do you turn? What do you think about? What are your escapes? What do you escape from?
23. What do you want to get out of life? What payoff do you seek out of the things you do?
24. What do you pray for?
25. What do you think about most often? What preoccupies or obsesses you? In the morning, to what does your mind drift instictively?
26. What do you talk about? What is important to you? What attitudes do you communicate?
27. How do you spend your time? What are your priorities?
28. What are your characteristic fanasies, either pleasurable or fearful? Daydreams? What do your night dreams revolve around?
29. What are the functional beliefs that control how you interpret your life and determine how you act?
30. What are your idols and false gods? In what do you place your trust, or set your hopes? What do you turn to or seek? Where do you take refuge?
31. How do you live for yourself?
32. How do you live as a slave of the devil?
33. How do you implicitly say , ‘If only…’ (to get what you want, avoid what you don’t want, keep what you have)?
34. What instictively seems and feels right to you? What are your opinions, the things you feel true?
35. Where do you find your identity? How do you define who you are?
