The River of Life Church, Dumfries.

Pastor Jason Cask; Senior Pastor of C7 Church, Glasgow.

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1 Kings : 18 -19 (New Living Translation) In the time of Elijah;his victory over the prophets of Baal then the running away to a cave where he encounters God.

We experience times when we see mighty victories, times of power, times of seeing God at work in our lives. Then there are times where we are in great need – of God’s presence, miracles of provision, a way ahead, a breakthrough – answers to our prayers.

Elijah – in the cave – needing God to bring answers, to bring Himself and we know that God didn’t come in His usual ways. In Bible, in Old Testament days, it was the way God so often visited people, brought His direction, instruction, miracles – earthquakes, wind and fire! Continue reading →

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Pastor Mark Smith talks about the importance of Church culture - the things we see as aexcellent; what we esteem; our priorities and values. Essentially, culture defines what we do and how we do it; our behaviour, flowing from what we believe.

At the core of our culture needs to be love, outreach, harmony and joy/worship.

In 2 Crinthians 12:20-21, St Paul was preparing to com eto the Church in Corinth for the 3rd time. He was worried about their culture. 2 Corinthians 13:5 - Examine yourselves; is your faith real and committed?

1 Corinthians 3:3 - He’s concerned about their ‘worldliness’, defined as jealousy and quarrelling. Worldliness is the attitude which excludes God. When we exclude Him, we develop stife - striving leads to strife!. Strife is bad - our solution to strife is to exclude worldliness!

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Helen Smith preaching about the woman in Proverbs 31 - representing the Church

Proverbs 31

The worthy woman - impossible model to match. A provocation, but not just for wives; also for the Church.

Rev 21:9
Rev 19:5

Preparation of the bride - she takes great care to get ready. Prob 31.
A picture of the bride of Christ. When a girl gets married, it’s the day of her dreams. This is talking of the marriage of the son of God.

How in our part of church, can we be a Prov 31 bride? Each of us has to fulfil our part.

1. Who can find a virtuous wife? Virtuous - of strength, valour, etc. the fullness of person - bold & confident, especially in battle. Continue reading →

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Pastor Mark Smith
Belonging

People like to belong!

Statistics show that people are generally poor at committing to something… they get scared of being involved, yet there is something in us that causes us to want to “belong”.
e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and the whole social messaging phenomenon.

1 Peter 2 v 9
A people belonging to God.
The Church – Gr. Ekklesia – assembly of called ones Continue reading →

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Emma Ashford, Clive Eddy and Libby Robinson bring their individual perspectives on the Hillsong Europe Conference, which they attended in London last week. Then Pastors Mark and Helen Smith speak about the importance of belonging and the significance of catching the cause of Jesus Christ. An awesome message for the Church of the future!

1 Peter 2:4-10 In v 4, Jesus was rejected by men, but chosen by God. It’s God’s opinion that counts!

v 9, we are: a) Chosen
b) Royal
c) Holy
… a people BELONGING to God Continue reading →

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John Edwards and the Walking Free Choir from Bradford

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Morag Miller: How to live ‘in’ the world but not be ‘of’ it.
 
Philippians 3 18-20
We are daily bombarded by negative gloom and doom from the news, full of ‘what if’s’, ‘maybes’, ‘probablies’,  and ‘might bes’ .All these can bring doubt!  There is recession, banks failing, airlines collapsing, oil and petrol prices soaring and the cost of living going up.  All of it negative and despair.
 
We are supposed to be in the world but not of it!  There are no ‘what ifs’ in God!

We need to learn to value today - it is a gift - if we keep worrying about future/hold from past then we’ll miss living out today
 
… have hope for tomorrow but live for today! Continue reading →

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Helen Smith, speaking about Compassion

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Pastor Duke: Matthew 19: 24 – 26. All things are possible with God

The problem when we don’t see all things happening… is not God … it’s us!
We down-rate ourselves – I’m not as good as… tall as… pretty/good looking as… I couldn’t do… am not able … etc.etc.
As we begin to apply the truths of God to our own lives our “I can’t” allows God to say “I can! “

3 Keys Continue reading →

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