Springfield First Church Of The Nazarene Podcast

As required for ordination in the Church of the Nazarene, along with fulfilling all educational requirements, a year of mentoring is required, and Evan is being mentored by Pastor John this year in preparation for ordination in May 2015. Evan has been the youth leader and associate at Crow-Applegate Church of the Nazarene for several years. We are thrilled to have Evan, his wife Jessica, and their 6 year old son Elijah come to Springfield Church!

Many of the entanglements that bind us up are of our own doing. The liberation and freedom from the sin that so easily entangles is solely the Lord’s doing.

One of the greatest entanglements we experience in life is discouragement. And yet by the strength and power of God, we do not have to be defeated (or discouraged)!

Even as Jesus went around liberating those who were paralyzed both physically and spiritually, we find freedom in faith that releases us from bondage.

Although because of our fallenness we are bound to our human frailties and sin, God’s grace is poured out in abundance so that we might know the fullness of his mercy.

The Hebrew word for "honor" is "kabed" which means to glorify; to revere, respect, and reward. Today, in keeping with the 5th commandment, we kabed our mothers.

Just as the apostle Paul was used of God even while in chains, God can use us and our limitations in ways that we could not have been used before!

As we conclude the Case for Christ series, we examine the impact that the resurrection of Jesus had upon the lives of the earliest disciples and the formation of the church.

Three days after Jesus had been crucified and buried, the disciples and the women who visited the burial tomb of Jesus saw and experienced the extraordinary!

As the disciples two thousand years ago asked about Jesus, "Who is this?", as objectively as we know how, we look at the four Gospels and ask the very same question.

The evidence for the existence and ministry of Jesus not only is found in the Bible, but in archeology, as well as in the historical accounts of ancient Jewish and Roman historians.

In understanding the authenticity of the four Gospels, we seek to know the validity of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as they wrote their respective and trustworthy Gospels and why they wrote them.

Who is Jesus? Are the Gospels reliable? We begin this series answering these questions and more supplemented by the book The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, former atheist and award winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune.

We end the Lord’s Prayer with a doxology, an affirmation of praise as our soul sings and proclaims the infinite kingdom, power, and glory of the Lord!

The manifestation of evil in all its various forms in our world compels us to pray, as Jesus taught, that we be rescued and delivered from its grip of devastation.

A critical component of our prayers is for guidance from the Father for wisdom, strength, and discernment to not give into our folly, foolishness, and flesh.

If followers of Jesus could be known for one thing and one thing only, it should be that we are a people who forgive because God in Christ first forgave us.

After 35 years of pastoral ministry in the United States and 21 years at the Newberg, Oregon Church of the Nazarene, the Nichols’ are moving to Bataca, Dominica in the Caribbean the end of this month. They will be pastoring the Church in Bataca along with coordinating Work and Witness teams, the Jesus Film Ministry, starting new churches and training pastors. We are thrilled to have Ed and Carrie with us this morning!

When compared to our typical prayers in which we are always asking God to "give us this" or "give us that," of the 67 words in the Lord’s Prayer (KJV), only once we are to ask God to "give" us something.

In praying and seeking to know, do, and be in the perfect will of God, the New Testament teaches us precisely what God’s will is for us, that we should be entirely sanctified (1 Thessalonians 4:3).