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1. Maggie Nuxoll wrote:

I began going to this church the first Sunday in January 2010. I was raised Catholic, taught CCD and went through the Life in the Sprit Seminars, as well as attended prayer meetings. I have been hungry for a very long time, always grabbing, collecting and attempting to get something out of every service I attended.

I have attended a few other churches in this area but on that Sunday in January I walked away full. I walked away knowing that I was going to be fed every time. My Spirit was elated and danced around my insides like a child who had just ridden a roller coaster for the first time. Every service since then I have left looking forward with the same anticipation as a child looks forwards to a birthday party. Today was no exception.

How clear and concise was today's message. Wow! I never really thought about what Jesus had to say with regard to who He was. I have heard those passages enumerable times in my life, but to hold them, to digest them to hear them spoken in the contest of who HE is was in HIS own words is an epiphany.

Not that I never knew, I always knew. I just never thought. WHO DO I SAY THAT HE IS? WOW! Now to be presented with that question while HE is looking directly into my eyes, into my soul, is beyond mere words, beyond who I am. That question asked of me, has definitely put my life back into perspective.

I, again, am looking forward with great anticipation of what is going to happen next.

Sun, February 28, 2010 @ 6:21 PM

2. Jeff Bigelow wrote:

I thought your message today was fantastic. During your sermon I thought back to a study that my wife and I did several years ago of the religion of Islam. An imam from Tampa was invited to one of the sessions. He acknowledged that Muslims consider Jesus a prophet, but not the Son of God. My mother-in-law then stood up and said " there are many places in the Bible where Jesus says He is the Son of God, if He is not, He was either a liar or insane, therefore, any religion claiming to acknowledge Jesus as a true prophet, but not who He claimed to be, is a false religion because a true prophet can be neither." The imam had NO reply! See you next week.

Jeff

Tue, March 2, 2010 @ 11:22 AM

3. phoenix barr wrote:

JESUS IS MY AWAKENED BREATH OF LIFE..I was lifeless running into dead end corners..making the same mistakes over and over again..UNTIL FINALLY I WAS TRAPPED IN DEEP DISTRESS IN DARKNESS that almost destroyed me. NOW IM COVERED IN HIS BLOOD..and made more than WHOLE AGAIN. He took me and molded me into a SOLDIER OF WORTH working for him. I AM NOT ONLY encouraged more..but DEEPLY honored to be used by his Majesty JESUS CHRIST!....I LOVE YOU JESUS! CAN YOU HEAR ME! IM SCREAMING! CELEBRATING! SHOUTING OUT YOUR NAME! I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE JEEEEESUUUUS! WOOO!+

Fri, March 5, 2010 @ 7:44 PM

4. Leah Smithey wrote:

I really enjoyed Part 1 of the "Jesus Exposed" series. I often hear non-believers say that Jesus never claimed to be God. This is simply untrue. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus claims to have angels at his command, that he will judge others at the end of time, that he can forgive sins, etc. This sermon/topic reminded me of a passage from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I just wanted to share this passage:

"Then come the real shock. Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.

One part of the claim tends to slip past us unnoticed because we have heard it so often that we no longer see what it amounts to. I mean the claim to forgive sins: any sins. Now unless the speaker is God, this is really so preposterous as to be comic. We can all understand how a man forgives offences against himself. You tread on my toe and I forgive you, you steal my money and I forgive you. But what should we make of a man, himself unrobbed and untrodden on, who announced that he forgave you for treading on other men's toes and stealing other men's money? Asinine fatuity is the kindest description we should give of his conduct. Yet this is what Jesus did. He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offences. This makes sense only if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin. In the mouth of any speaker who is not God, these words would imply what I can only regard as a silliness and conceit unrivalled by any other character in history.

Yet (and this is the strange, significant thing) even His enemies, when they read the Gospels, do not usually get the impression of silliness and conceit. Still less so unprejudiced readers. Christ says that He is 'humble and meek' and we believe Him; not noticing that, if He were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some of His sayings.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

-CS Lewis

Sat, March 20, 2010 @ 12:13 PM

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