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In the message for Sunday, February 9, 2020, Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us some principles on how we can grow in our spiritual maturity by emulating the example Jesus who showed us of His complete love through trust, service and communion with one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:12 (NIV)
In the message for Sunday, February 2, 2020, Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us some principles to help maintain and prioritize our focus on Jesus above all things. He is calling to us to simply sit at His feet and listen.
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.
In the message for Sunday, January 19, 2019, Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us some principles to discovering peacefulness and joyfulness when faced with anxiety. To know Jesus is to know joy and by bringing God intimately into our lives, we will find peace.
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
In the message for Sunday, January 12, 2020 Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us some principles on living an anxiety free life. When we run to God and put our trust in Him, our worries and anxieties suddenly seem insignificant. Our Heavenly Father cares for each one of us and asks us to cast our worries onto Him.
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are. In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation.
In the message for Sunday, January 5, 2020 Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us the importance of putting Jesus first and prioritizing His kingdom over our own. Instead of worrying over complicated futures and possibilities, Jesus offers a simple solution to living in the present.
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the unbelievers run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:31-34 (NIV)
In the message for Sunday, December 22, 2019 Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us about the true joy of Christmas. The people had been expecting their Messiah but were not expecting His arrival would be so… ordinary. But that is the message of the Gospel, that God became man and lived a perfect life and sacrificed His life to save our sins. There is nothing we can do to earn this, it is a gift we freely receive.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
In the message for Sunday, December 8, 2019 Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us on the meaning of the name Immanuel and why God is always with us, even when we doubt. Even through the darkness, through the battles and through the grief, Jesus entered into this world to save us and will always be with us.
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”(which means “God with us”)
In the message for Sunday, November 24, 2019 Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us some principles on how we can enjoy the fullness of life by choosing to encourage gratefulness through Jesus rather than giving into the ungrateful sin nature.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
In the message for Sunday, November 10, 2019, Pastor Stuart Nice shares with us some principles to living peaceably with those closest to us by taking a posture of humility for the purpose of restoration, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
Hebrews 12:14-15 (NIV)
