Sermon notes 11/20/11 at CFC

My notes from the sermon today at CFC. We are still going through the series based on Francis Chan’s “Forgotten...

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Sermon notes 11/13/11 at CFC

Here are my sermon notes from...

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Drawing Closer to God

No The word phobos is used in a lot of places like “They were afraid of the Jews” but in a lot of other places it is used to describe the feeling people had after an amazing miracle had just happened. … And walking in reverence for it’s husband and by being drawn near and closer to God by the Holy Spirit, the church multiplied.

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Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 3: Brenda Salter McNeil

When you go among people that are so radically off from you culturally, it takes a lot of work to figure out what discipleship looks like in their culture. (personally I’m still trying to figure this out in American culture!)

…This was a great moment and I think I would have done well to just go and pray for a bit, or have all of us pray for a bit, but conferences are what they are, and when McNeil was done they launched some cheesy video advertising something.

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The Holy Spirit, Gifts, and Freedom

(I realize this quote starts out kind of arrogant, but stay with me.) We lack for Christians who feel themselves expendable in the warfare of the soul, who cannot be frightened by threats of death because they have already died to the attractiveness of this world. Such Christians will be free from the compulsions that control and...

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