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SFNAZ Newsletter – January 2024

Click here to view the weekly devotional. SFNAZ ANNOUNCEMENTS NEW SERMON SERIES ~ Sunday, January 7th – 10:45am Pastor Wes will begin his new sermon series “The Blessed Life”. TITHING ENVELOPES Individual boxes of tithing envelopes are no longer available.  The new tithing envelopes are available in the pew racks and at the information counter.  If you are in need of additional envelopes, please contact the church office.  Thank you for your continued support by the giving of your tithes…

Looking Forward to a Better Way of Living

We are almost to a New Year.  It is exciting to be looking forward to 2024. Before we leave this Christmas Season, I have a new thought for each of us to consider.  My text is Matthew 2:1-6 You are familiar with the story.  It is the story of the birth of Jesus.  The Magi came from the east and stopped in Jerusalem to visit King Herod.  They asked the King where the King of the Jews was born.   Most…

A Christmas Friendship

Ephesians 4:17, So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. Galatians 2:14, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it then, that you force Gentiles…

SFNAZ Newsletter – December 2023

Click here to view the weekly devotional. SFNAZ ANNOUNCEMENTS CHRISTMAS LOVE OFFERING If you would like to bless our pastoral staff with a Christmas Love Offering, mark your gift “Pastors’ Christmas Gifts” and place it in the offering box. LIFE GROUPS Life groups will begin again in January and new groups will be starting. Be sure to watch church center to see which group God may be leading you to join. UPCOMING EVENTS 2023 HOLIDAY SCHEDULE No Midweek Activities December…

Gratitude

Give thanks to the Lord for He is Good Psalm 107:1; 136:1  This Thursday we take time to offer prayers of thanksgiving, before diving into a feast of turkey with all the fixings and a day of football.  The next day we begin the hunt for presents that most people don’t need and exercise our bargain hunting license looking for those extreme deals.  When we were growing up, we always got one toy for Christmas, and you hoped that you…

What Do I Do With My Calendar?

I sit here looking at my November calendar.  It is not getting filled up at this point.  My calendar only has two places that are filled.  Awesome.  Here is where you can see the Holy Spirit actively at work.  My days get busier with soul names on the spaces.  Yes, I write the names down and what time I should be there.  I even write what I’m doing.  Visiting, praying or doing communion.   Actually those are the fun ones to…

Love Your Neighbor

Love your Neighbor After months of the house next door being vacant, we finally got new neighbors.  Only… except… well, to be honest it has been quite a struggle adjusting to them. They brought a lot of clutter with a boat, construction trailer, and multiple trucks and cars that block the sidewalk.  They have many friends/co-workers who spend much of their time on the back deck while they smoke, which we smell in our back yard. Oh, and they love…

DELAYS ARE NOT DENIALS

When [Jesus] heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days. JOHN 11:6 In today’s fast paced world of drive through dining, same-day Amazon delivery and online grocery shopping, we’ve lost the art of waiting. If you ask any child, they rank the words not yet as nearly the most awful in the English language, second only to the word no. Children don’t like to hear the answer, “Not yet.” When our wise, loving heavenly Father deems it best to say,…

Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate recovery is a biblically balanced approach to help bring sustainable recovery and healing to our hurts. Celebrate Recovery is a beautiful community of strugglers that courageously enter this safe and beautiful space to get honest about our pain, and the negative ways we may see ourselves, God and others. Join more than 7 million hurting people across the globe who now walk in freedom through the power of Jesus Christ as we walk through the 8 principles of celebrate recovery…

Our First Desire

25 “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are? 27 Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your…

Our Identity in Christ

Have you ever struggled with knowing who you are? We live in a world where people struggle with identity. Some of which is caused by broken families and troubled childhoods.  Some of which is caused by careless friends and negative people in our lives.  But I believe that who we are is determined by “whose” we are. Where did I come from and who do I belong to? The answers to these questions shape our identity. Psalm 139:13-14 says “For…

Embracing the Great Commission

16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to…