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SFNAZ Newsletter 12/23/2020
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEKLY PASTORAL DEVOTIONAL CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE: Thursday, December 24th – 4pm Join us in a celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior with music & a candlelight service. If you would rather join us online, you’ll connect the same way you have in the past via both Facebook and YouTube (Be sure to follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube Channel – SFNAZ Media to know when we are live).…
Advent in the Year 2020: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love
As we approach Christmas day this year many of us have experienced more loss, heartache, distress, and confusion than any other year. As we head into the Advent season it is revealed that we as Christians can simply rest in the truth of the Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love that Christ’s birth provides us. It is comforting to know that even though the world can fall apart around us we know that these things are already provided for us. As…
SFNAZ Newsletter 12/17/2020
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEKLY PASTORAL DEVOTIONAL Sunday, December 20, 2020 4th Sunday of Advent – LOVE We are excited to continue the Advent series “Let Earth Receive Her King”. This week Pastor Bill will be teaching “Love”. Join us for either online worship or for in-person worship in the gym at 9:30am. For online worship, you’ll connect the same way you have in the past via both Facebook and YouTube (Be sure to follow us on Facebook…
Biblical Obedience: Love + Trust + Action
“If you love me, you will obey what I command.” John 14:15 (NIV) Let’s pause and think back to the first Christmas. Have you ever stopped to put yourself in Joseph’s shoes? Here was a guy who found out his fiancé was pregnant, claiming she was visited by an angel and it’s God’s baby. And she wanted him to believe her! In an instant, Joseph’s whole world was turned upside down. This was not the way his life was supposed…
SFNAZ Newsletter 12/10/2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020 3rd Sunday of Advent – JOY We are excited to continue the Advent series “Let Earth Receive Her King”. This week Pastor Bill will be teaching “Joy”. Join us for either online worship or for in-person worship in the gym at 9:30am. For online worship, you’ll connect the same way you have in the past via both Facebook and YouTube (Be sure to follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our YouTube Channel – SFNAZ Media…
SFNAZ Newsletter 12/03/2020
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEKLY PASTORAL DEVOTIONAL Sunday, December 6, 2020 2nd Sunday of Advent – Peace We are excited to continue the Advent series “Let Earth Receive Her King”. This week Pastor Bill will be teaching “Peace”. Join us for either online worship or for in-person worship in the gym at 9:30am. For online worship, you’ll connect the same way you have in the past via both Facebook and YouTube (Be sure to follow us on Facebook or…
The Middle Way
34 “I give you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other. 35 This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other.” (John 13:34-35 CEB) John Wesley was a pastor and theologian who lived in the 1700s. Many affirm that the Church of the Nazarene grew out of the evangelistic movement originally started by Wesley. In Wesley’s teachings, he often emphasized the idea of…
SFNAZ Newsletter 11/25/2020
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEKLY PASTORAL DEVOTIONAL Sunday, November 22, 2020 1st Sunday of Advent – HOPE We are excited to begin the Advent series “Let Earth Receive Her King”. This week Pastor Bill will be teaching “Hope”. Join us online this Sunday, November 29th and watch the service LIVE at 9:30am via Facebook or YouTube. For online worship, you’ll connect the same way you have in the past via both Facebook and YouTube (Be sure to follow us on…
Tracing the Hope We Spread
With information at our fingertips, it is so easy to feel like we are well informed, we have the answers, and we are all a part of the bigger picture. While we are certainly a part of the larger story of what happens in our larger world, wouldn’t it be great to simply look to our left and right and make a difference for Christ in our own small world? In a time when our world is tracking who we…
SFNAZ Newsletter 11/19/2020
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEKLY PASTORAL DEVOTIONAL SFNAZ Happenings All-Church Family Bingo Night (via Zoom) – Friday, November 20th – 6:30pm All church bingo night! Due to the updated Covid guidelines, we have moved Bingo Night online. Join us for some fun and if your card wins…..pick from the prize table and we will send your prize to you! See invitation below. SFNAZ Host is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: All Church Virtual Bingo Night Time:…
Devotional – 11/19/20
“I will thank you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done. I will be filled with joy because of you. I will sing praises to your name, O Most High.” Psalm 9:1-2 This particular year requires that I cook a turkey. It won’t be pretty. It may not be ugly, but I can promise you that it will not look like any turkey advertisement you may have seen in the last…
SFNAZ Newsletter 11/12/20
2020 fall collections Thanksgiving Baskets This year, we are partnering with Evergreen Elementary School to help bless families in need with a Thanksgiving meal. We have gotten off to a great start! We are still in need of the following items: Cranberry Sauce Stuffing Gravy Canned Fruit All donations can be dropped off on Sunday morning (in the shopping cart), or during church office hours. If you would rather make a monetary donation, please mark your check “Thanksgiving Basket.” Thank…