40 Days In the Word - How to Be Blessed

James 1:21-27
•Learn
•Love
•Lean

Ephesians 6:12
Spiritual
Battle

Learn
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17

Love
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40

Lean
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6

James 1:25
....you will be blessed

Sermon preached by Pastor Ron Pierce

40 Days In The Word - Principles

Principles - Continuing the 40-day journey

Integrating God’s Word into Every Area of Your Life

Build On It
Build Your Life on the Bible
Four Unreliable Foundations for Your Life
•popular culture
•tradition
•reason
•emotion

Feed On It
The Bible is often referred to as spiritual food

Live By It
Use the Bible to help you every moment of the day

Grow Through It
Continue to grow in your faith

Act On It
Applying God’s Word to every aspect of your life

Trust In It
God’s Word will always guide you in the right direction

Notes from Pastor Greg Hooper's 10:30am Sermon

Pastor's Pick for March

The Pastor's Pick for March is Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality by Ravi Zacharias. Ravi Zacharias believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a "perfect storm" to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ. In Why Jesus, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this "storm."

Spiritual Gifts bookstore will have these books available for purchase during March. Their telephone number is 605-1775. They have been gracious, once again, in agreeing to handling the books for us and making them available at a discount to our members. Don't forget to let them know you are an FBC member and you are purchasing the book as a Pastor's Pick.

I look forward to our next discussion on Sunday, April 1st.

40 Days In The Word - Paraphrase It!

A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning

Purpose: Devotional tool to help you connect personally with a verse or passage so you will better know how it applies to your life

Biblical example:
Nehemiah 8:1-8
“sense of the meaning”

Paraphrase it:
•Repeat the passage
•Key words that jump out
•What are the illustrations trying to picture?
•Re-write it into your own statement – 50 words or less

Using this app – paraphrase it.

Are you engaging with God through His Word?