Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth is a spiritual guidebook explaining the twelve Spiritual Disciplines and how they can bring a person closer to God. The disciplines are divided into three groups, Inward, Outward, and Corporate. The twelve disciplines are meditation, prayer, fasting, study, simplicity, solitude, submission, service, confession, worship, guidance, and celebration. The discussion of each discipline is supported with Scriptures and scholarly quotes that help readers grow closer to God.
Prelude: “Prelude in F” (Wayne Martz, Organ | by J. S. Bach) Welcome / Announcements / Prayer with Lord’s Prayer (Logan Ogletree) Hymn: “Praise To The Lord The Almighty” Apostles’ Creed (Len, James, Emmie, and Eric Kilgore) Special Music: “Build My Life” (Joy Sloan, Sarah Teel, Jay Davis, Eric Buchanan, Eric Jones, and Ken Posey) Reading of Scripture (Mansell Amos) Children Sermon (Caroline Green) Anthem: “You Do Not Walk Alone” (Wayne and Jeanne Martz | by Elaine Hagenberg) Sermon: “Faith and Life Disruptions” (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green with Tonya Badcock) Hymn: “Immortal Invisible God Only Wise” Benediction (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Postlude: “Auf Meinen Lieben Gott / In My Loving Lord” (Wayne Martz, Organ | by J. S. Bach)
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Waiting for the Lord is not just killing time.
Doubt has a negative effect on our confidence.
When God asks us to wait, we take it as an invitation that wants us to do something on our own. While we’re waiting and idle, it doesn’t mean that God is idle.
If you are waiting on God, you are watching for God.
In the midst of waiting, God becomes our sustenance.
Waiting makes us so vulnerable. It requires us to be dependent upon someone else.
Our faith and confidence in God is dependent upon our willingness to trust and wait on God.
Waiting reminds us that we are not the center, and there’s not a thing we can do about it.
Waiting reveals to others something about us. Waiting reveals to us something about God.
Unfortunately, we are convinced that our identity directly comes from what we do. In our relationship with God, there’s something about embracing and remembering who we are as children of God.
Rest assured in the time of waiting that the Lord your God is the everlasting God.
Waiting is not killing time. Waiting is looking around and looking for the God who spoke and creation leapt into existence.
Waiting is not sitting around and not doing anything. Waiting is the active anticipation of what’s next.
Carlos Whitaker: “The way to catch up to the voice of God is not speeding up but slowing down.”
God graciously makes His vitality available to our fallen world with only one condition: Wait on God.
To wait on God is to admit that we have no other help in ourselves or any other person or thing. Waiting on the Lord is a constant declaration of our confidence in Him.
Waiting on God is our confidence expectation in God.
Prelude: “Cantabile” (Jeanne Martz, Flute & Wayne Martz, Harpsichord | by A. Besozzi) Welcome / Announcements / Prayer with Lord’s Prayer (Logan Ogletree) Hymn: “O Thou Who This Mysterious Bread” Giving of Bibles to Third Graders Apostles’ Creed (Regan, Ashley, and Brad Coppedge) Sacrament of Baptism: Lucille Collier Ezell (Daughter of Clark and Collier Ezell) Reading of Scripture (Nancy, Christopher, Jack, and Brent Wright) Children Sermon (Caroline Green) Anthem: “Because You Are God’s Chosen Ones” (Wayne and Jeanne Martz) Sermon: “Life Disruptions” (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green with Emily Trotter) Hymn: “For the Bread Which You Have Broken” Holy Communion Benediction (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Postlude: “Ayre” (Wayne Martz, Harpsichord & Jeanne Martz, Flute | by G. P. Telemann)
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Scriptures References: Ephesians 3:14-21 | Matthew 28:18-20 | John 20:21 | Acts 1:8 | Isaiah 6:8 | Acts 4:13 | 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 | Colossians 1:17 | Mark 10:21-22 | Acts 1:3 | Acts 1:6 | Acts 1:7-8 | Matthew 5:13-14 | Ephesians 4:1 | John 21:15-19 | Romans 5:1
The proclamation of forgiveness that has already been declared in heaven.
They were not special or dynamic men and women of faith. They were just people who were willing to listen to God.
We claim that what we want is to know what will happen exactly. When we do know, we then try to figure out what to do based upon our own strength. The tension is that when this happens, we tend to have more confidence in ourselves than in God.
The Holy Spirit knows what the future holds. He knows what we get today will be needed for then.
The Holy Spirit is at work within us to empower us to be people who will listen.
The Holy Spirit is all around us and encompassing us.
“Not everything in the Bible is about me. But everything in the Bible is for me.”
First and foremost, the Holy Spirit empowers you to be a witness for Christ — to speak boldly about Him.
Prelude: “Larghetto” (Jeanne Martz, Flute) Welcome / Announcements / Prayer with Lord’s Prayer (Logan Ogletree) Hymn: “Christ Is Alive” Apostles’ Creed (Jason, Ellie, and Jacob Fober) Special Music: “This Is Amazing Grace” (Joy Sloan, Sarah Teel, Jay Davis, Eric Buchanan, Eric Jones, and Ken Posey) Reading of Scripture (Liam and Alex Burgin) Children Sermon (Sally Key Bowden) Anthem: “In Thee is Gladness” (Wayne and Jeanne Martz) Sermon: “Life Path—Tell Your Story” (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Testimony (Avery Ellis) Hymn: “Fairest Lord Jesus” Benediction (Rev. Dr. P. Shane Green) Postlude: “Vivace” (Jeane Martz, Flute)
