Thank you for all who will be praying during this weekend. We are embarking not on a moment of prayer but a life time of serving the King of kings and Lord of lords together. He has great plans for you and His church. We begin the adventure of community. WOW! What would God do if our priorities and lives were in step with him. Is there something deep inside of you that longs to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for the real deal, a faith that makes a difference in our world's problems (even our community's)? God is calling us to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer is not to work harder at a list of do's and don'ts - THE ANSWER is FALL in LOVE with Jesus!! When you are wildly in love with someone, it changes everything. I will be praying that each of us hear God's passionate invitation to be in love with HIM during our time of prayer.

"Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings!" Phillips Brooks.

He must alter our lives. If we are not willing to change direction can we really expect to walk with God. "We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."William Law

Attached is a list of verses to assist your prayer time today. If you are not going to the church for your prayer time you might want to print. Prayer is not just talking to God but listening!

Prayer Needs:
Help us to fall in love with Jesus - Discover Jesus all over again. Read the prayer below before you go any further. Stop praying for a few minutes and just take a long look at God!
Leadership Team developing a faith budget for 2011

Business meeting this SundayCell group ministry - the growth plan of our church is knit to the vision of self-replicating small groups.
Pray for our church to follow the Lord.
Each group to follow the model set forth in Basic Training and Scripture.
5x5 prayer ministry, pray for every member and regular attended will start praying regularly for 5 people, 5 times each week. Open our eyes to see You, Lord!

Each of us must pray that God will use us in the lives of our neighbors and friends.
New believers

Vision for Church Starting in our area (Kimball ministry, Terrytown church)Youth and Children ministries.

Health and healing (Pablo Jimenez, Don Pfenning and Jeff Warfield)

Members of church who are unable to attend church or do not attend anymore.
Visitation ministry

Taking the Church outside of the walls of our church thru Cell Ministry.

Children's ministry, Jam City, Outreach ministries - Kids Clubs

Youth ministry - mission trip, super summer, leaders energy and strength.

Discipleship ministries beginning this Summer

Unity of Church, following JesusPray for your Pastor to be a good communicator and energy.

Heavenly Father, thank you for Your Amazing Grace. Your forgiveness is So good tha I struggle with believing it at times. Thank you for rescuing me from myself over and over again and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, ther words to the ends of the world. -- Psalm 19:1-4

Thank you Bill and Stacy for your help with our prayer ministry event and Brian and Andrea for the this DL and keeping us informed. I took the day off today to pray call if you need any help. I will be posting on my FB share what God is saying by posting.
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Dallas PowellBethel Baptist Church308 225-3450

Let Us Pray!

This Sunday, the Church without Walls will be having a prayer service. Come and share in a time of prayer. Seeking God's direction and blessing for the city of Gering.

What is Calvinism?

That was asked today. We need to talk about that more indepth.

Historical Background
John Calvin, the famous theologian and pastor of Geneva, died in 1564. Along with Martin Luther in Germany, he was one of the most influential force of the Protestant Reformation. His Commentaries and Institutes of the Christian Religion are still exerting tremendous influence on the Christian Church worldwide.
The churches which have inherited the teachings of Calvin are usually called Reformed. While not all Baptist churches hold to a reformed theology, there is a significant Baptist tradition which grew out of and still cherishes the central doctrines inherited from the reformed branch of the Reformation.
The controversy between Arminianism and Calvinism arose in Holland in the early 1600's. The founder of the Arminian party was Jacob Arminius (1560-1609). He studied under the strict Calvinist Theodore Beza at Geneva and became a professor of theology at the University of Leyden in 1603.
Gradually Arminius came to reject certain Calvinist teachings. The controversy spread all over Holland, where the Reformed Church was the overwhelming majority. The Arminians drew up their creed in Five Articles (written by Uytenbogaert), and laid them before the state authorities of Holland in 1610 under the name Remonstrance, signed by forty-six ministers. (These Five Articles can be read in Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom, vol. 3, pp. 545-547.)
The Calvinists responded with a Counter-Remonstrance. But the official Calvinistic response came from the Synod of Dort which was held to consider the Five Articles from November 13, 1618 to May 9, 1619. There were eighty-four members and eighteen secular commissioners. The Synod wrote what has come to be known as the Canons of Dort. These are still part of the church confession of the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church. They state the Five Points of Calvinism in response to the Five Articles of the Arminian Remonstrants. (See Schaff, vol. 3, pp. 581-596).

Worship

Great day of worship. Spent the morning with Calvary Baptist Church in Sidney, NE. Some really nice people. Sunday night spent with my family at Church without Walls. Love the fellowship and connection in the group. Pray for excitement to spread.

Pray for Youth of SCB and Gering, NE

Saw three teens trust Jesus last weekend. Pray for follow up and needs. May God bless them and may they grow in new walk. Heaven Rejoicing!!! HEY!!

Welcome

Welcome Jim and Becky Boni to Church without Walls blog.

PacMan is a great game!!!!

Play pacman at my blog and learn about new church started in Gering. Enjoy the fun!!!