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God is Good!
Hey TC Family! Good Friday Good Friday, this year, falls on March 29. We are planning a prayer/worship service beginning at 7 PM that night. I highly encourage you to come. We will spend an extended time in worship, with a time for serious reflection in the middle. Good Friday is often associated with despair and heaviness. It was the night Jesus was crucified; Jesus' followers were dejected, sombre, and disillusioned. They did not yet understand the significance of Jesus' death or that He truly would rise from the dead. When we gather on Good Friday, we are going to take some time to reflect on the things that cause us to feel despair. We are going to bring those before God in light of the hope of the resurrection of Jesus. It will be a meaningful night where we anticipate a special sense of God's presence. Thursday Prayer Pastor Gene leads a prayer time on Zoom every Thursday night. Beginning on April 4 he is going to lead the prayer group through a series of video teachings called "Intercessory Prayer the Lightning of God" by Dutch Sheets. If you are not already involved in a life group or a prayer group I would encourage you to get involved in this. If you are interested, please contact Gene asap so he can be sure to get you a copy of the study guide. You can email Gene at: eaglewings@tbaytel.net Pastor Nathan |
Be a BereanCelebration Richard Foster, in his book Celebration of Discipline, maintains that celebration is a spiritual discipline. This weekend, we will be thinking about "celebration" as a discipline! Sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? It doesn't sound like a party at all... Some questions we might ponder as we come to this weekend are:
In order to celebrate, what must first precede?
How do our lives come to a place where we feel like celebrating and being joyful?
If joy is important, how do we get it?
Why might discipline be a word we connect with celebration?
What good comes from celebration in a world broken by sin?
Genesis 1-2 tells a story of perfect celebration, and Genesis 3 is a story in which that celebration is abruptly halted.
Take a read through all three chapters.
What do you learn about God's heart for us in joyful celebration?
What interrupts this?
What now is the way forward to restore joyful celebration?
Perhaps those answers seem obvious, but I believe there's much here for our hearts and minds to absorb.
Finally, come ready to celebrate your faith in Christ and don't worry about what anyone thinks. Since this Sunday is Palm Sunday, it is the perfect day to come ready for celebration! Hosanna!! We might get you dancing yet...(it will take a lot to get me dancing.)
Pastor Jeremy
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GuidanceSpiritual Formation - Sunday, March 17, 2024 For more infomation visit: http://transformationchurchtbay.com/media/2024-03-17-guidance
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