New Series this Sunday...Lesson 1

you don't have to live like this!!!! address the problem. embrace the solution. you can change! you can have victory. you can have reconciliation! Pornography is a common problem among Christians! It is an addiction that can have a haunting affect on your life and your relationships! this Sunday...WE WILL TALK ABOUT IT! and how to deal with it, in your life and in the lives of others.

God and Man?

Someone says, “How can this be? He was the ‘God-Man’!”
If He was not a man – who was the Babe in Bethlehem’s manger?
If He was not God – why did a choir of angels come down from Heaven and sing at His birth?
If He was not a man – who called Himself “the Son of man”?
If He was not God – who said, “I and my Father are one”?
If He was not a man – who washed the disciples’ feet?
If He was not God – who washed them from their sins in His own blood?
If He was not a man – who was it that wept at Lazarus’ tomb?
If He was not God – who called Lazarus forth from the tomb?
If He was not a man – who hungered on the mountainside?
If He was not God – who fed a hungry multitude on that same mountainside with a little boy’s lunch?
If He was not a man – who stood before Pilate when Pilate said, “Behold the man”?
If He was not God – who caused Pilate to wash his hands and say, “I find no fault in this man”?
If He was not a man – whose hands and feet were nailed to the cross?
If He was not God – who rent the veil in the temple?
If He was not a man – who hung on the cross?
If He was not God – who moved the earth from its foundations?
If He was not a man – who cried out from the cross, “I thirst”?
If He was not God – who gave the woman at the well living water?
If He was not a man – who cried out, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
If He was not God – who said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do”?
If He was not a man – who was buried in Joseph’s tomb?
If He was not God – who cam forth from the same tomb three days later?
I say to you today, HE WAS MAN! HE WAS GOD! HE WAS THE GOD-MAN,
And He is mine!

by Clyde Box

changed

i love being part of a community that is aware and that cares about the needs of others and the need to make the Christian life what it is meant to be. so often we compartmentalize areas in our lives and label them one thing or another. such as, my home life, or my life at work or my spiritual life. something we all need to understand is that all parts of our lives are spiritual parts. to separate one from the other is to try to take God out of that part of our life. when we stepped into this world in human skin, we entered into a spiritual life and journey no matter what we put our faith in, who we follow or what we do. The end result will be up to what path we decide to take, and who we are trusting in to take us there.

Most of us have allot of the easy parts down. the faithfulness to the church body. the morality. the religious repetitiveness. the lingo. the "right" answers. the "right" positions. we show up at the "right" times and in the "right" places. But, it is so much more than that. It is this Christ transforming your whole life. Every part of it. Every breath you breathe and every word you speak, changed. because of HIM. your outlook on life. your world view. your desires. your hopes. your goals. your future. your destiny. your destination. all changed by this man. Jesus.

I believe we have been changed to bring change. Yes spiritually through sharing the life changing love of the gospel that is available to ALL who believe. Everyone. The rich, the poor, the lovely the unlovely. The different. The rejected. Those in bondage. The immoral. The broken. The fallen. The confused. And the only place it is found is not in some religious group or some set of moral regulations but is ONLY found in the life changing love of Christ. through salvation.

For those of us who have experienced this salvation and have been redeemed, how is it affecting every area of your life? how has it changed you. what has it given you victory over? what has it given you freedom from?

what do you do differently now? how do you treat others? how do you treat those that hate you? that disagree with you? do you hold any bitterness?

How many pharisees despise you and how many that are lost love you?

do you just preach against them.....or do you pray for them?

who is it, that is different because of the difference Christ made in you, when HE CHANGED YOU!

yasm family Christmas party a hit once again

yasm community together once again for a time of true fellowship. What an amazing night. The food was most excellent! Thanks to Sarah Gordon and her mom! The gag gifts were hilarious! But, to me the greatest time, was the time of affirmation. What a sacred an special time. I love to sit back and listen to you all encourage, lift up , and share how Jesus has been evident in someone else's life, and, how it has made a difference in yours. God has blessed us, to be able to have a community that is selfless, giving, and makes loving God, and each other the center of what happens in our lives. As a group, lets never forget evenings like this, when we are all together, and when Christ and His life changing love are so evident. It is refreshing and encouraging to be a part of a community that is real, about life, God , and our struggles, but challenges all of us as a whole to be closer to Christ and to be more like Jesus himself. thank you all for being you! may peace be with you today!

dont stress....

it's december.....
traffic is bad...
lines are long...
people are unreasonable...
money is tight...
emotions are peaking...
loneliness is haunting...
debt is flowing...
materialism is winning...
the lost are questioning...

the person in front of you is yelling at the cashier, trying to get you to chime in. The light is blinking. You are waiting. You are still waiting. The manager is coming, no she turned around to help someone else first. People are starting to complain in harmony...the roar is getting louder....

what do you do?
how do you respond?
oh your a follower of Christ...
oh your different than they are huh? or are you?