Today’s session is part 2 of Teaching Church that took place at Church of the Nazarene in Harrisonburg, Va. for a group of pastors and leaders from the Virginia District Church of the Nazarene. In part 2 of Teaching Church Pastor Adrian Mills invited Pastor Sam Montanez to come and share on understanding our powers and overcoming our deficits.
04/09/21- March 18, 2021 Teaching Church Part 1- Sarah Kinzer
Today’s session is part 1 of Teaching Church that took place at Church of the Nazarene in Harrisonburg, Va. on Thursday morning March 18th for a group of pastors and leaders from the Virginia district church of the Nazarene. In part 1 of the Teaching Church Pastor Adrian Mills invited Sarah Kinzer to come and share a devotion from her book “Abide”.
04/04/21- Harrisonburg Campus: Beauty for Ashes, Part 1: Life for Death- Pastor Adrian Mills
http://bible.com/events/48673711
Beauty for Ashes, Part 1: Life for Death
Easter is really about a trade. And the truth is, God makes terrible trades.
What’s the worst thing about your life right now?
Sickness, despair, hopelessness, loneliness, heartbreak?
God will trade you for it. That’s what Easter is all about.
Isaiah 61:1-1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,because the Lord has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim freedom for the captivesand release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favorand the day of vengeance of our God,to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beautyinstead of ashes,the oil of joyinstead of mourning,and a garment of praiseinstead of a spirit of despair.They will be called oaks of righteousness,a planting of the Lordfor the display of his splendor.
Luke 4:16-19
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
-Jesus intentionally points to Isaiah 61 at the very beginning of his ministry. Jesus used this passage to summarize his mission here on earth.
-You might call Isaiah 61:3, “Three Bad Trades and a Consequence”:
-We trade our ashes and He gives us beauty.
-We trade our mourning and He gives us joy.
-We trade our despair and He gives us praise.
-We trade our broken and feeble roots and He makes us oaks.
Beauty for Ashes
-Ashes were sign of destruction, despair, and mourning.
-Many of us know “ashes” quite well. There are many synonyms – hopelessness, brokenness, hurt, and emptiness.
-But those are just cousins to the worst of the ashes – DEATH.
-Today on Resurrection Day we can be very specific about what “beauty for ashes” means: life for death.
Ephesians 2:1-5
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
You were dead (Ephesians 2:1-3)
-Sin festers, it corrodes, it deteriorates and destroys. It brings death today, and eternal death.
Now you are alive (Ephesians 2:4-5)
-If you are in Christ, He exchanges your death and gives you new life.
Lewis’ Story
Experience a real life story of God exchanging beauty for ashes, trading death for new life!
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Week 1 Testimony from our Beauty for Ashes series (April 2021).
youtu.be
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In Christ there is always beauty on the other side of your ashes.
04/04/21- East Rock Campus: Beauty for Ashes, Part 1: Life for Death- Jared Link
http://bible.com/events/48673711
Beauty for Ashes, Part 1: Life for Death
Easter is really about a trade. And the truth is, God makes terrible trades.
What’s the worst thing about your life right now?
Sickness, despair, hopelessness, loneliness, heartbreak?
God will trade you for it. That’s what Easter is all about.
Isaiah 61:1-1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,because the Lord has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim freedom for the captivesand release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favorand the day of vengeance of our God,to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beautyinstead of ashes,the oil of joyinstead of mourning,and a garment of praiseinstead of a spirit of despair.They will be called oaks of righteousness,a planting of the Lordfor the display of his splendor.
Luke 4:16-19
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
-Jesus intentionally points to Isaiah 61 at the very beginning of his ministry. Jesus used this passage to summarize his mission here on earth.
-You might call Isaiah 61:3, “Three Bad Trades and a Consequence”:
-We trade our ashes and He gives us beauty.
-We trade our mourning and He gives us joy.
-We trade our despair and He gives us praise.
-We trade our broken and feeble roots and He makes us oaks.
Beauty for Ashes
-Ashes were sign of destruction, despair, and mourning.
-Many of us know “ashes” quite well. There are many synonyms – hopelessness, brokenness, hurt, and emptiness.
-But those are just cousins to the worst of the ashes – DEATH.
-Today on Resurrection Day we can be very specific about what “beauty for ashes” means: life for death.
Ephesians 2:1-5
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
You were dead (Ephesians 2:1-3)
-Sin festers, it corrodes, it deteriorates and destroys. It brings death today, and eternal death.
Now you are alive (Ephesians 2:4-5)
-If you are in Christ, He exchanges your death and gives you new life.
Lewis’ Story
Experience a real life story of God exchanging beauty for ashes, trading death for new life!
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Week 1 Testimony from our Beauty for Ashes series (April 2021).
youtu.be
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In Christ there is always beauty on the other side of your ashes.
04/04/21- WBTX Program- Lewis Roberts Testimony
Lewis was born and raised in Kansas. He and his son moved to Virginia in 2020 and his not wife joined them about two weeks later. Lewis joins us today to share how God has delivered him from a life of drug addition, how he is apart of Celebrate Recovery at Church of the Nazarene and hopes to be a leader in CR. Below is a link to a five minute video that we played on Easter Sunday of Lewis’s testimony.
Experience a real life story of God exchanging beauty for ashes, trading death for new life!
Also here is a link if you want more info. on Celebrate Recovery
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