September 9 Care Group

We discussed the Sunday morning message called
"God Has Spoken - Breathed Out By God."

Key Verses:  2 Tim 3:16-17, Psalm 138:2, 2Peter 1:20-21

-We talked about what this means in our everyday lives.  It means that His word is our authority and gives us the guidelines to live our lives.
-His word is the engine, our feelings are the caboose.
-The common cultural saying "Follow your heart" and "Do what feels right" are horrible ways of making decisions and living life.
-Our measuring line is the word of God, nothing else.
-Scriptures inspire us to obey God, be encouraged, and give Him glory.
-We can always check what we are taught with the word of God, that's a safeguard for us.

June 3 Care Group

We discussed the Sunday sermons from Romans 6: 6, 14 - We have been crucified with Christ...sin will have no dominion over you.

-When we are tempted it's time to cry out to God for the grace to resist.  It's frustrating to find ourselves in a battle, but that doesn't mean we are enslaved.  It means that we have to make a choice!
-The fact that we even think to cry out to God is evidence of His life working in us and proof that we can present ourselves to God.
-It's a humble act of obedience to pick our cross and consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God.
-We must know who we are in God, consider what He's done for us, choose His way and keep presenting ourselves to God!

May 20 Ladies' Worship and Sharing Night

Well, we sang and we shared!!  It was great - we'll do it again sometime!!

May 6 Care Group

Our text for the evening was Romans 5: 9-11.  Here are the ideas we discussed:
-Heb 7:25
-His ongoing life guarantees our salvation, we are on our way to heaven, recipients of his grace, saved from the wrath of God!
-Now we always have light and hope even in extreme trials.  In hell there will be NO hope, NO mercy.
-We are hidden with Christ in God - Col 3:3  Lord, Hide me under the shadow of your wings.
-We are reconciled to God by His death.  Because of His death we will glorify God as He lives in us.  It is a process - that life working in us and saving us from temptations, trouble, sin...
-We rejoice = delight, enjoy, more than anything else
-Jesus, in his glory, is caring about the details of our lives and paying attention to us, answering our prayers.
-We can get side-tracked and think we have to take care of ourselves.  We must remember to keep looking to Him and asking for grace and help.
-Sometimes a lack of joy can stop us from enjoying his salvation and from giving joy back to God.
-We are sorrowful yet always rejoicing!
-Our real identity is who God made us to be.  Our prayer is "Lord, bring out your nature in me."
-We look forward to being with Him and that wonderful day when we will see Him and be changed into His likeness.