December 24

SALVATION IS IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE. SO IT MATTERS WHAT YOU BELIEVE. IT MATTERS WHERE YOU WILL AWAKEN FIVE SECONDS AFTER YOU TAKE YOUR FINAL BREATH. THAT IS TRULY OUR CONCERN FOR YOU. IT'S YOUR CHOICE AND WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS, WE WANT TO HELP YOU MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE!

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IS THERE A BIBLICAL PRESCRIPTION TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? YES! ONE AND ONLY ONE. IT'S FOUND IN 2nd CHRONICLES 7:14; "IF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SINS AND HEAL THEIR LAND." 

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COMMENT FROM AN INTERNET CONTRIBUTOR: "HEY PASTOR BILL, YOU SOUND LIKE YOU HAVE AN AGENDA WHEN YOU PREACH!"  

YOU BET I DO!  (BUT ONLY ONE!) To teach the Truth! To teach that all roads do not lead to Heaven. Only the narrow road, that leads to repentance! Through Obedience to following Jesus Christ as Lord. All other roads lead to hell and destruction (John 8:32).
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WHY REACH OUT AND MINISTER TO MEN?

• When a child is reached for Christ, 3.5% of the family will follow.

• When a mother is reached for Christ, 17% of her family will follow.

• When a father is reached for Christ, 93% of his family will follow.  (Per the Heritage Foundation)

• THE LORD S CALLING FAITHFUL MEN TO LEAD THEIR FAMILIES!

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You know about Christmas, but do you know the One that Christmas is about?

A Supernatural Message!

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PRAYER REQUESTS AND PRAISE REPORTS

PRAY/PRAISE: For Eric. He was in an auto accident, A person ran a red light in a pick up truck, and RAN, totaling Eric;s car, Praise the Lord, he was not hurt. 

PRAY: For Eric's son Chris who is recovering from having his tonsils removed.

PRAISE/PRAY: Jose and Brianna as they attended church this Sunday, we pray they will come back.

PRAY FOR: Pastor Bill and the Leadership team of the Community Christian Church of Valley Farms to maintain a Separation between the Profane and the Pure,the Holy and the Unholy, protecting the Sanctity and Purity of the Pulpit with the TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD!

PRAY FOR: Each of us as we get into the Advent season, that the true Reason for the Season would shine through each of us. 

PRAY FOR: The ones in our church who are caught up in the sin of alcohol (drinking), and tobacco (smoking), that they would be released from Satan's snare.

PRAISE FOR: Kathy and her ear-drum situation, as it  has healed and the infection is almost gone.

PRAISE: For Assistant Pastor Todd, as he has been accepted into the Master's of Divinity program at Seminary.

PRAISE: For Fred, as he has been accepted into the Pastoral Leadership program at Seminary.

PRAY FOR: Wisdom for our President and his joint chiefs as they consider North Korea and their NUCLEAR threat!

PRAISE THE LORD: For the His sure PRESCRIPTION for fixing any discouragement. It is The Lord Jesus, as He acts through our friends and loved ones-Thank you Lord for your love.

PRAY FOR CHUM:   Chum is having trouble with chemo therapy.  The doctors are considering changing his therapy.

PRAISE:  Michele is doing fine.  Praise the Lord!

PRAY FOR: The many in Arizona, in and around Valley Farms who are trapped in the ungodly cult of Mormonism and have turned their back on the true Jesus, and there-fore are not saved, and are on their way to HELL!

PRAISE:  As Eric is doing much better, we thank everyone for their prayers.

PRAY FOR: The True  Church of Jesus Christ (NOT THE MORMONS) TO NOT give in to the pressure from the world for Spiritual Correctness, ( that we would confront the make-believer who claims to be believers with the true Gospel of Jesus Christ). The Lord has not given a License to Sin! 

PRAY FOR:  OUR PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT,  THEY NEED THE LORD'S HELP!!  

PRAY THAT: All who are attending the Community Christian Church, as well as all who have ever attended- The Lord Jesus knows who you are, and He knows your needs. We pray that He will meet your every need. If your need is Salvation, and you have not yet accepted the Lord's invitation to join His family of believers by being born again, I pray that today will be the day you make that decision..

PRAY THAT: All who know Jesus as Lord and Savior would start to live as if they do, and  will be willing to pay the one debt we owe for our Salvation; that is the debt of LOVE (Romans 13:8)! 

PRAY THAT:  All men who are called into the pastorate would see the need to study to gain advanced Training into a deeper and broader  understanding of the LORD JESUS CHRIST & the Holy Bible (2 Timothy 2:15)

PRAY FOR: Pastor Bill as he teaches God's Word (1 Timothy 2:2).  Also that the congregation would encourage him, and continue to love and encourage one another ( John 13:34).

PRAY FOR: Our Church to continue in our Teaching God's Word Without Compromise. 

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FILL IN THE BLANKS!

(Check answers below.)  NOTE! Filling in the blanks each week, could give a serious student of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible, an education equal to a Theological degree within two years.       

“A Christmas Message"

Matthew 1:18-25

1.     Our culture largely _________ any ___________ in God and the possibility of a God caused event.  They reject the Bible’s account of the Christmas message and the Birth of Christ.

2.     The Gospels of ___________ and _________ record the genealogy of the Messiah.

3.     God preserved Christ's lineage for more than 2,000 years.  Guaranteeing the presence of a _________ descendant in ________ generation culminating in the birth of Jesus Christ.

4.     God told the world his Son would be born ___________ of ________ before it happened.

5.     The Almighty God ___________________ in the affairs of men. History unfolds exactly as He had planned from the very beginning.

6.     Mary was a ______________ in every normal sense of the word.  She conceived in a miraculous way.

7.     The purpose of this miraculous conception was to protect Jesus’ __________.

8.     Jesus was conceived by the miraculous working of the Holy Spirit so he would be “A Lamb without blemish and without spot” as the _______ _____ required.

9.     Joseph and Mary knew exactly what Jesus was going to do.  He would be the ________________ (or _______________) of the world.

10. Jesus would not defeat the Roman Army, or deliver the Jewish people from persecution or hardship.  He would deliver his people from their ___________.

11. When nothing existed but God, the ______________ existed. (John 1:1)

12. The Word has a separate identity from God.  The Word was with God. So they are _________________.

13.   The Word and God are the same.  “The Word was God.”  They are _________.

14.  The Word is the __________.  (John 1:2-3)

15.  The ___________ is life.  (John 1:4)

16.   The ___________ is God.  (John 1:14)

17.   God became man.  He took on Himself human nature, a _________ ______, and grew up among us

18.  God came to us by sending ______ __________ to earth.

19.  Christmas is about God’s __________, about what God has done for us that we could never have done for ourselves.  Christmas is about God’s ___________.

20.   Jesus was not part man and part God; He was fully God yet fully human.  That is the mystery of the __________________.

21.  The greatest ___________ ever given is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

 Admit You Are a Sinner in Need of a Savior:

•James 2:10 “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles on one (point), he has become guilty of all.”

•Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

•Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Accept God’s Love through the/Sacrifice in His Son Jesus

•Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Turn to God in Repentance

•Acts 20:21 “I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.”

Trust the Fullness Jesus Christ!

•Romans 10:9 “…if you confess with your mouth Jesus as  Lord,  and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;”

•Romans 10:13 “For whoever calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved.”

•Romans 10:14 “How then shall they call on Him Who they have not believed?  And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard?  And how shall they hear without a preacher?

•Romans 10:17 “So then Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.”

•Jeremiah 29:13 “You will seek Me (God) and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.”

It may not be easy to give up your old sinful ways, and turn in faith to Jesus Christ; but it is the only way to  SALVATION,  AND IT IS WORTH IT! 

 CALL UPON (THE FULLNESS OF) THE NAME OF JESUS AND YOU WILL BE SAVED!

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Pastor’s Corner 

By Pastor Bill Perry

What are the Odds?

I’m forever amazed at the odds of probability on what we believe, teach and do. The underdog victories of David vs. Goliath, Gideon and his 300, Moses against Pharaoh—these all underscore how God’s people have never been your odd’s on favorites to win.

Amidst impossible natural odds, our Father supernaturally overrules all odds.

But none of His otherwise over-the-top deeds can match the incalculable odds of His master plan of salvation. That, above all else, takes the cake; the details defy the possibilities. Here’s what I mean:

• In 700 BC, Micah prophesied that the Savior would be born in Bethlehem. But, what are the odds? Most bets would have the Messiah birthed in Jerusalem, the home of royalty, the Temple and Jewish history. But, setting that aside, there were about 200 different cities and towns in Israel during Christ’s lifetime, any of which Micah could have chosen. So let’s say the odds were one chance in 200.

• In 1000 BC, David said the Savior would be betrayed by a friend. What are the odds? Pretty simple really. Either He would be or He wouldn’t. Odds: one in two.

• In 600 BC, Zechariah said the Savior would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. What are the odds? Judas could have set the price at any amount, but he chose to demean Christ by accepting the going rate for a damaged slave. Conservative odds: one in 50.

• In 1000 BC, the Psalmist described in detail the then-unknown method of execution to be used on the Savior. What are the odds? Very conservative odds: one in 100.

• In 700 BC, Isaiah prophesied the Savior would be born of a virgin. What are the odds?

Now, the likelihood of all of these events happening as prophesied requires that we multiply each of the probabilities with the others to determine the true odds. In other words; 200 x 2 x 50 x 100 = one chance in 2,000,000. And we still haven’t factored in that little matter of the virgin birth. But wait; there are hundreds more just like these. All of which sets our faith completely apart from all others.

But God’s degree of difficulty didn’t stop there. He brought it into ministry too.

What are the odds that Tertullian, a self indulgent pagan and favorite patron of the Roman nightclubs, would convert to Christianity and ultimately become its brightest voice and strongest defender? He chastised the tolerant church for permitting the very sins he had repented of in paganism.

What are the odds that Martin Luther, who graduated 37th in a class of 53 students, would create a church-shattering reformation by nailing 95 topics of conversation to a church door in Wittenberg?

What are the odds that John Knox who, more than once, was burned in effigy—at a church, no less—would rock Scotland with his preaching, becoming Mary Queen of Scot’s worst nightmare?

What are the odds that broken hearted Soren Kierkegaard, whose fiancé married another because of his fear of commitment, would be the one to demand that his heartless church take a “leap of faith”?

What are the odds that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pacifist Lutheran pastor, would break ranks with other pastors and defiantly speak out against the atrocities in Nazi-crazy Germany?

What are the odds that Charles Simeon would survive his first pastorate at Holy Trinity Church at Cambridge University? Church members boycotted because he taught that they were sinners in need of a Savior. Students protested by shouting obscenities during worship. Faculty slandered him. Yet he continued for 54 years. And when God called him home, all classes were suspended and all shops were closed as the city ringed the school to mourn the loss of their beloved pastor.

It’s possible you feel the odds are against your work too. If so, you’re in good company and right on schedule.

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WE LOVE TRUE TEACHERS OF THE WORD!

CHUCK SWINDOLL, JERRY FALWELL, DAVID JEREMIAH, BILL PERRY, TIM LAHAYE, ERWIN LUTZER, SUSIE LARSON, GLENN MOLLETTE, KAY ARTHUR, ADRIAN ROGERS, ALBERT MOHLER, JOHN MACARTHUR, CHARLES STANLEY, ROBERT JEFFRESS...

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AS A PASTOR I AM ADMONISHED BY GOD TO INFORM ALL OF THE DANGERS

BEWARE!     BEWARE!     BEWARE!  DANGER!  

BEWARE OF THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES, 

THE WORD OF FAITH!

          REMEMBER; SATAN MISS-USED SCRIPTURE!

JOEL OSTEEN, KENNETH HAGIN, KENNETH COPLAND, JOYCE MEYER, BENNY HINN, PAT ROBERTSON, FRED K. C. PRICE, ROBERT TILTON, MARILYN HICKLEY, DAVID CHO, DENNIS LEONARD, JERRY SAVELLE, PAUL AND JAN CROUCH, T.D. JAKES, JIMMY SWAGGART, PAULA WHITE...

                   "BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS/TEACHERS" -- MATTHEW 7:13

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Weekly Church Services

We were blessed with a visit from Randy King sitting next to his mom, Carrie.

 

  

Praise the Lord, He continues to build His Church.

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THE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH

TRANSFORMING LIVES 

WITH THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD 

SINCE 1997 

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