“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2011

November 27 - two services :: 9:00 and 10:15 am
December 4 - two services :: 9:00 and 10:15 am
December 11 - one service :: 10 am – Posada - NO NURSERY
December 18 - two services :: 9:00 and 10:15 am
December 25 - one service :: 10 am
December 28 - Weds night :: NO COMMUNITY GROUPS
January 1 - one service :: 10 am
January 4 - Weds night :: NO COMMUNITY GROUPS
January 8 - two services :: 9:00 and 10:15 am

CHRISTMAS 2011 :: ADVENT READING SCHEDULE

Whether it’s food stamps or seeking out food at shelters, many families struggle to get food. According to the Rio Vista Center, 32 percent of all Phoenix families are dealing with a hunger hardship. “You can just feel their heart wrenching, that they have to do this,” said Debbie Allen with the center. Allen helps those in need fill out paperwork for food stamps. The center also provides food once a month for families who need an emergency supply. Allen said since the beginning of the recession, the center has been busier, with an increase in people looking for food…{…more…}

Bridger Adam Agee & co. do it again!

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Today is Tim’s sentencing; could be up to 10 years in prison. A simple act of civil disobedience as a matter of conscience, will the judge take JUST action or try to make an example of a very fine young man. Read the story below for some of the history/details. We’re with you, Tim!

In disrupting a federal auction of oil and gas leases, Tim DeChristopher became a hero, but he now faces as many as 10 years in prison… […more…]

born July 22nd @ 1:33am, 8lbs 5oz, 20 inches long

congratulations Keith & Lisa!

My Utmost for His Highest

The Collision Of God And Sin

“Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.”
- 1 Peter 2:2

The Cross of Jesus is the revelation of God’s judgment on sin. Never tolerate the idea of martyrdom about the Cross of Jesus Christ. The Cross was a superb triumph in which the foundations of hell were shaken. There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross: He switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God. He made Redemption the basis of human life, that is, He made a way for every son of man to get into communion with God.

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” The whole meaning of the Incarnation is the Cross. Beware of separating God manifest in the flesh from the Son becoming sin. The Incarnation was for the purpose of Redemption. God became incarnate for the purpose of putting away sin; not for the purpose of Self-realization. The Cross is the centre of Time and of Eternity, the answer to the enigmas of both.

The Cross is not the cross of a man but the Cross of God, and the Cross of God can never be realized in human experience. The Cross is the exhibition of the nature of God, the gateway whereby any individual of the human race can enter into union with God. When we get to the Cross, we do not go through it; we abide in the life to which the Cross is the gateway.

The centre of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much. The Cross is the point where God and sinful man merge with a crash and the way to life is opened - but the crash is on the heart of God.