WHO

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"Who am I?
This or the other?
Am I one person today, and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
And before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army,
Fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me,
these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine."(2)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 348.

Scripture

For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. I Corinthians 15:9-11

Song:

"What If I Stumble" DC Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egM_jQVsfxI

[Brennan Manning:]

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today

Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips

Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.

That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

What if I stumble?

What if I fall?

Is this one for the people?

Is this one for the Lord?

Or do I simply serenade

For things I must afford?

You can jumble them together

My conflict still remains

Holiness is calling

In the midst of courting fame

'Cause I see the trust in their eyes

Though the sky is falling

They need Your love in their lives

Compromise is calling

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

What if I lose my step

And I make fools of us all?

Will the love continue

When my walk becomes a crawl?

What if I stumble

And what if I fall?

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

You never turn in

The heat of it all

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

Father please forgive me

For I cannot compose

The fear that lives within me

Or the rate at which it grows

If struggle has a purpose

On the narrow road you've carved

Why do I dread my trespasses

Will leave a deadly scar

Do they see the fear in my eyes?

Are they so revealing?

This time I cannot disguise

All the doubt I'm feeling

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

What if I lose my step

And I make fools of us all?

Will the love continue

When my walk becomes a crawl?

What if I stumble

And what if I fall?

What if I stumble?

Everyone's got to crawl

When you know that

You're up against a wall

It's about to fall

Everyone's got to crawl

When you know that

Everyone's got to crawl

When you know that

You're up against a wall

It's about to fall

Everyone's got to crawl

When you know that

I hear You whispering my name

(You say)

My love for You will never change

(Never change)

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

What if I lose my step

And I make fools of us all?

Will the love continue

When my walk becomes a crawl?

What if I stumble

And what if I fall?

What if I stumble

And what if I fall?

What if I lose my step

And I make fools of us all?

Will the love continue

When my walk becomes a crawl?

What if I stumble

And what if I fall?

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

You never turn in

The heat of it all

What if I stumble

What if I fall?

You are my comfort

And my God

Is this one for the people

Is this one for the Lord?

Sentence Prayer

Take my life and let be

Consecrated, Lord to thee.

Take my moments and days-

Let them flow in ceaseless praise. . .

Take my hands, and let them move

At the impulse of They love;

Take my feet, and let them be

Swift and beautiful for thee. . .

Take my voice and let me sing

Always, only, for my King;

Take my lips and let them be

Filled with messages from Thee. . .

Take my silver and gold-

Not a mite would I withhold.

Take my intellect and use

Every power as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will, and make it thine-

It shall no longer mine-

Take my heart-it is thine own,

It shall be they royal throne. . .

Take my love-my Lord, I pour

At they feet it treasure store.

Take myself-and I will be

Every, only, all for thee.

Frances Ridley Havergal Pocket book of prayers pg 357

DIRTROADS

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I was born at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number. You can go anywhere from nowhere." -Robert Schuller

Scripture

God's Message yet again: Go stand

at the crossroads and look around.
   Ask for directions to the old road,
The tried-and-true road. Then take it.
   Discover the right route for your souls.
But they said, 'Nothing doing.
   We aren't going that way.'

Jeremiah 6:16 Message

Song

Go West Young Man Michael W. Smith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCfD7sxwdf0

I'm blazing a trail that leads to vice

So easily enticed

By darker means

When out of the wilderness of choice

I hear that one small voice

Call to me

[CHORUS]

Go West young man

Go West young man

When the evil go East

Go West young man

Go West young man

Find a heart that's golden

Why must I wander like a cloud

Following the crowd

Well, I don't know

But I'm asking for the will to fight

To wear the Crown of Life

And You say go

[CHORUS]

The mind is weak, the heart is frail

When it goes beyond the pale

So unwise

[CHORUS]

Sentence Prayer

Praise you Father for the pre-set roads you have sent me down.  

Praise you Jesus for the heaven road you have provided. 

Praise you Counselor for the path of Holiness you are compelling me down.

Forgive my lust for pavement; help me instead to accept life as it is.  

May I not seek ease but your strength to end my journey well.

Thank you for playful dogs.  Thank you for the imprints, I leave behind.  

Thank you for the uphill struggle, so I can enjoy the level ground.

Father, I take the time to pray for those on a more difficult dirt road, than mine.

Amen   Roger Miller

KIDS

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"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." Henry Ward Beecher

Scripture

All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. Isaiah 54:13 NIV

Song

"Who We Are" By Switchfoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2q09FzBAc

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1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

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1 2 3 4 5

We were just kids just living in

Wide-eyed, innocence

minivan floor like a tenement

We were just kids who believed in

More than just dreams in

More than just justified

Ends to a means

With the sky wide-open

Like a child, eyes-open

like a child, unbroken

by the wheels gone by

We know

Who we are

(in the fever of our youth)

Who we are

(We've got nothing left to lose)

Who we are

(There's still time enough to choose)

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

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1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

We were just kids

Just limited, misfit, itinerant

Outcasts singing bout the dissonance

We were just kids, wide-open

Like a child, eyes-open,

Like a child, unbroken

by the wheels gone by

We know

Who we are

(in the fever of our youth)

Who we are

(We've got nothing left to lose)

Who we are

(There's still time enough to choose)

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

They said it's complicated

They said we'd never make it this far

But we are

They said the fight would break us

But the struggle helped to make

Who we are

Who we are

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1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

Who we are

(in the fever of our youth)

Who we are

(We've got nothing left to lose)

Who we are

(There's still time enough to choose)

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

(I wanted something with meaning)

Who we are

(Yeah I wanted something to believe in)

Who we are

(Yeah, sure as I'm here breathing)

Who we are

(I wanted more)

Who we are

(Yeah, I wanted more)

Who we are

(Yeah, I wanted more than just a feeling)

Who we are

Who we are

(Yeah, for more than just a season)

Who we are

Who we are

(Yeah, we become what we believe in)

Who we are

Who we are

Who we are

SENTENCE PRAYER

Jesus

May we come so you can lay your hands on our life

May we come so you can bless us with faith

May we come so you can bless us with laughter

May we come so you bless us with life. 

Amen

Prayer based on Matthew 19:13

NOW

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"Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."   The Lord of the Rings  Gandalf and Frodo Baggins, Chapter 'The Shadow of the Past'.

Scripture

Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. ¹⁴ For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Esther 4:13,14 NIV

Song

City on our Knees by Toby Mac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlaKYbG5Bq0

If you gotta start somewhere why not here
If you gotta start sometime why not now
If we gotta start somewhere I say here
If we gotta start sometime I say now
Through the fog there is hope in the distance
From cathedrals to third world missions
Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave
Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide in a beautiful display
It’s all love tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
If you gotta start somewhere why not here
If you gotta start sometime why not now
If we gotta start somewhere I say here
If we gotta start sometime I say now
Through the fog there is hope in the distance
From cathedrals to third world missions
Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave
Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide in a beautiful display
It’s all love tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh-oh-oh
Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together
Tonight could last forever
Ooh
Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together
Family
We’re family
Oh Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together
You and me
Yea, you and me
Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide
In a glorious display
Cuz its all love tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh oh oh
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Oh oh oh
If we gotta start somewhere why not here
If we gotta start sometime why not now
Songwriter: Toby Mac

Sentence Prayer

Father, .  help me to be someone who’s ready to offer your bread of life to the spiritually hungry.  Give me eyes to see them, a heart to see them, a heart to love them, hands to help them, and your words to feed them.  Whether or not I am every sent out on a mission trip, help me to see myself as “On Mission” for you every day and every place you put me.  Thank you for helping me to understand this essential purpose of my life. Amen

A.    Dore God the Father for ruling the time and Opportunities given to you.

C.onfess the times you have wasted the time and opportunity either out of selfishness or laziness.

T.Hank  God for all the Esthers that have impacted you.

S.upplication  Think of all the needs that have intersected your life and pray for them.

JESUS WAS A ROCKSTAR

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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.  John Lennon

Scripture

because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did instead of trusting in God to make them right. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble. 33 As it is written in the Scripture: “I will put in Jerusalem a stone that causes people to stumble,    a rock that makes them fall.Anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed.” Isaiah 8:14; 28:16 Romans 9:32,33

Song

"Jesus Was A Rockstar" Scott Stapp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-9uv8HvtPE

He walked on water man. He made that water wine.

And then he drank with people you and me would just cast aside

He did his people good. Just like he said he would.

And in the blink of an eye, he gave a blind man sight

His love was thunder in the sky

His roar was lions in the night

When he spoke he always drew a crowd

His message was his lifestyle

He gave us everything and more

He was the party we’ve been looking for

Maybe, just maybe…. Jesus was rockstar!

Can I get a witness?

He brought the dead to life

He rose when called to rise

There was a passion in his eyes and it spread like wildfire

His love was thunder in the sky

His roar was lions in the night

When he spoke he always drew a crowd

His message was his lifestyle

He gave us everything and more

He was the party we’ve been looking for

Maybe, just maybe…. Jesus was rockstar!

Can I get a witness?

Father I have sinned a million sins

Save me from this world you put me in

So come on. Come on. Bring Jesus back again.

JOHN 3:16-17

For God so loved the world,

that he gave his only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in him,

should not perish,

but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world,

to condemn the world;

but that the world through him,

might be saved.

His love was thunder in the sky

His roar was lions in the night

When he spoke he always drew a crowd

His message was his lifestyle

He brought the fire and the light

He wrote the songs you can’t deny

He rocked so hard, I can hear him now

He brought the house down!

He gave us everything and more

He was the party we’ve been looking for

Maybe, just maybe

I said maybe, just maybe

Maybe, maybe, maybe

Jesus was a rockstar

Can I get a witness?

Jesus was a rockstar

Can I get a witness?

Sentence Prayer

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

Sweetest Name on heaven and earth

Strongest Name on heaven and earth

Clinging to my Rock I will never be disappointed

Amen  R.M.

GOD'S HOSPITALITY

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It has deep roots in the notion of God’s every present 

hospitality in both nature and other people, the idea 

that, properly understood, ever thing in creation invites 

us to share in God’s love. Dakota Kathleen Norris  pg 202

Scripture

God appeared to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. It was the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing. He ran from his tent to greet them and bowed before them.  He said, "Master, if it please you, stop for a while with your servant. I'll get some water so you can wash your feet. Rest under this tree. I'll get some food to refresh you on your way, since your travels have brought you across my path."They said, "Certainly. Go ahead."

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. He said, "Hurry. Get three cups of our best flour; knead it and make bread."

Then Abraham ran to the cattle pen and picked out a nice plump calf and gave it to the servant who lost no time getting it ready. Then he got curds and milk, brought them with the calf that had been roasted, set the meal before the men, and stood there under the tree while they ate. Genesis 11:1-8 Message

Song

I am David Crowder Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqQOytpbmLY

[Verse 1:]

There’s no space that His love can’t reach

There’s no place that we can’t find peace

There’s no end to Amazing Grace

Take me in with your arms spread wide

Take me in like an orphan child

Never let go, never leave my side.

[Chorus: (2X)]

I am,

Holding on to You.

I am,

Holding on to You.

In the middle of the storm,

I am Holding on,

I am!

[Verse 2:]

Love like this, Oh my God to find!

I am overwhelmed what a joy divine!

Love like this sets our hearts on fire!

[Chorus: (2X)]

[Verse 3:]

This is my Resurrection Song

This is my Hallelujah Come

This is why to You I run

This is my Resurrection Song

This is my Hallelujah Come

This is why to You I run

There’s no space that His love can’t reach

There’s no place that we can’t find peace

There’s no end to Amazing Grace

[Chorus: (2X)]

SENTENCE PRAYER

Jesus;

You are knocking at the door of my heart

May I open up and give myself wholly to you

Amen

ACCEPTANCE

Snippet

Let Go and Let God

Scripture

He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said. Job 2:10

Song

All The People Said Amen Matt Maher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfPLYVZ5j0

You are not alone if you are lonely

When you're feeling frail, you're not the only

We are all the same in need of mercy

To be forgiven and be free

It's all you got to lean on

But thank God it's all you need

And all the people said Amen, whoa oh

And all the people said Amen

Give thanks to the Lord for His love never ends

And all the people said Amen

If you're rich or poor, well it don't matter

Weak or strong, we know love is what we're after

We're all broken but we're all in this together

God knows we stumble and fall

And He so loved the world He sent His son to save us

all

And all the people said Amen, whoa oh

And all the people said Amen

Give thanks to the Lord for His love never ends

And all the people said Amen

Blessed are

The poor in spirit who are torn apart

Blessed are

The prosecuted and the pure in heart

Blessed are

The people longing for another start

For this is the Kingdom

The Kingdom of God

And all the people said Amen, whoa oh

And all the people said Amen

Give thanks to the Lord for His love never ends

And all the people said Amen

Sentence Prayer

Be Still and Know that I Am God.  Lord Your Words lead me to the Calmness and greatness of your presence.  

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