In This Episode: The disease of “Constant Partial Attention” (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/opinion/01friedman.html). Accept the fact that God is in control. Until we accept this fact, we wind up exhausted. We live as though the opposite of Matthew 6:33 is true. We incorrectly believe that we must seek everything else thinking the Kingdom of God will be added afterwards. Solitude is not a place. It is something in our hearts. “Talking” is too often used to control others, ourselves, or things. If we’re silent, where’s the control?
Listen to our interview with Carlos Whittaker: https://spumccolumbus.com/podcast/episode-10-carlos-whittaker-shares-about-the-holy-spirit/
Prelude: āVoluntaryā by J. Stanley Welcome / Announcements / Prayer with Lordās Prayer (Mary Lou Jarrell) Hymn: āFor All the Saintsā (Hymn 711) Apostlesā Creed (Alice Varner) All Saints Remembrance Special Music: āWhat a Beautiful Nameā (Joy Sloan, Sarah Teel, Jay Davis, Eric Buchanan, Connor Davis, Eric Jones, and Ken Posey) Reading of Scripture (Lucy and Rand Jones) Children Sermon (Sally Key Bowden) Anthem: āThe Eternal Gatesā (Wayne and Jeanne Martz | by H. Helvey) Sermon: āA Ray of Hopeā (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Hymn: āFaith of Our Fathersā (Hymn 710) Communion & Benediction (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Postlude: āGlorificamusā (Wayne Martz, Organ | J Dunstable)
In This Episode: What’s controlling you? Are you content with being a child of God? Foster defines the Discipline of Simplicity as “an inward reality that results in an outward lifestyle … We deceive ourselves if we believe we can possess the inward reality without its having a profound effect on how we live. To attempt to arrange an outward lifestyle of simplicity without the inward reality leads to deadly legalism.” Our lust for status in things produces within us anxiety and worry. Three inward attitudes that produce in us that outward reality of how we live: (1) What we have we receive as a gift from God, (2) What we have is cared for by God, (3) What we have is available to others.
Prelude: āPrelude: Merifieldā (Wayne Martz, Organ | by J. Correll) Welcome / Announcements / Lordās Prayer (Logan Ogletree) Hymn: āHere I Am, Lordā (Hymn 593) Apostlesā Creed (David and Mary Varner) Special Music: āLead Me to the Crossā (Joy Sloan, Sarah Teel, Jay Davis, Eric Buchanan, Connor Davis, Eric Jones, & Ken Posey) Reading of Scripture (Laura Marvets) Children Sermon (Sally Key Bowden) Anthem: āHere I Am, Lordā (Sung by Alex Burgin, Louise Gudger, and Rece Gudger) Sermon: āWaiting with a Purposeā (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Hymn: āTake My Lifeā (Hymn 399) Benediction (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Postlude: āAch, Gott und Herrā (Wayne Martz, Organ | by J. S. Bach)
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Scripture: Acts 3, Matthew 5:6, 2 Corinthians 12:8-10
Referenced In This Episode:
A. W. Tozer’s sermon to students at Wheaton College on October 2, 1952 (“Tozer Speaks to Students”) Settle in your mind before embracing the filling of the Holy Spirit: (1) Know you can be filled, (2) Know God wants you to be filled, and (3) Desire it. When you settle these things, then present yourself to God as an empty vessel ready to be filled. (Matthew 5:6)