TOMORROW - Sunday, July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August Special Snacks - Veggie Straws, Water, and Italian Ice CHECK ALLERGIES NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. NEXT SUNDAY! August 6th
PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him
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NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. VBS Missions Backpack Drive final week! ENDS JULY 30th! We are raising school supplies and backpacks in partnership with Stonebriar Church and Cornerstone Baptist Church to pass out school supplies at Cornerstone Baptist Church in August. So join us in our missions effort to shine Jesus' light by helping meet some of the needs of inner city children in the Dallas area. Items to bring:
July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
I’m sure you’ve been there: That moment of decision when you weigh the risk versus the reward or the cost versus the benefit to determine what you will do. These moments may come in regard to something simple like whether to eat one more helping of mashed potatoes, if it is worth it to take a detour to try and avoid traffic on your way to the grocery store, or if it is the right time to buy that new pair of shoes. We may also face moments of discernment on much more significant questions: Do you take the new job opportunity that would relocate you and your family? Should you laugh at a colleague’s derogatory joke? Should you obey God even if it is costly or uncommon among the culture? These major points of decision require a degree of confidence and conviction. The question is not if we have confidence or conviction, but what our confidence is in and where our conviction comes from. In Daniel 1, Daniel has a deep confidence in the Lord and a conviction derived from the same. Psalm 71:4-5 models the pattern that I imagine Daniel progressed through in determining what to do in this moment of decision: “Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive. For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.” The psalmist displays a deep confidence in the Lord to rescue and a deep conviction to remain hopeful and faithful. This confidence and conviction propel him toward a God-honoring response to his circumstances and direction in his decision making. May this be our mode of decision making as well in all things, where our confidence in the Lord propels us forward and our conviction from the Lord steers our direction for His glory and our joy Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Daniel Served God (Daniel 5) TOMORROW - THIS SUNDAY - July 16th Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Get ready to throw away & pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] VBS Missions Backpack Drive continues! We are raising school supplies and backpacks in partnership with Stonebriar Church and Cornerstone Baptist Church to pass out school supplies at Cornerstone Baptist Church in August. During VBS children, youth, and adults helped bring in lots of school supplies. Thank you to all those who sent school school supplies. We will continue collecting supplies in the Education Lobby until the end of July. So join us in our missions effort to shine Jesus' light by helping meet some of the needs of inner city children in the Dallas area. Items to bring:
NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Our spaces are filling up! Thank you to those who have already registered their child/ren for the new school year 2023-2024! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entering is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY During 1st Service (9:30AM to 10:45AM) Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August Looking forward to an Awesome 2023 - 2024! August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Dear families,
I’m sure you’ve been there: That moment of decision when you weigh the risk versus the reward or the cost versus the benefit to determine what you will do. These moments may come in regard to something simple like whether to eat one more helping of mashed potatoes, if it is worth it to take a detour to try and avoid traffic on your way to the grocery store, or if it is the right time to buy that new pair of shoes. We may also face moments of discernment on much more significant questions: Do you take the new job opportunity that would relocate you and your family? Should you laugh at a colleague’s derogatory joke? Should you obey God even if it is costly or uncommon among the culture? These major points of decision require a degree of confidence and conviction. The question is not if we have confidence or conviction, but what our confidence is in and where our conviction comes from. In Daniel 1, Daniel has a deep confidence in the Lord and a conviction derived from the same. Psalm 71:4-5 models the pattern that I imagine Daniel progressed through in determining what to do in this moment of decision: “Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive. For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.” The psalmist displays a deep confidence in the Lord to rescue and a deep conviction to remain hopeful and faithful. This confidence and conviction propel him toward a God-honoring response to his circumstances and direction in his decision making. May this be our mode of decision making as well in all things, where our confidence in the Lord propels us forward and our conviction from the Lord steers our direction for His glory and our joy Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Daniel Served God (Daniel 5) NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 16th - Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Bring ladders and get ready to pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. July 23rd and July 30th - Decorating and Prepping NPM for Promotion Sunday & the new school year! Meet after 2nd Service - 1pm to 3pm each Sunday Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
God’s Word is living, active, sharp, powerful, and profitable. (Heb. 4:12; 2 Tim. 3:16-17) The Bible indicates that by the power of the Holy Spirit, God’s words teach, rebuke, correct, and train us so that we are fully put together for the work that God has created us for. The Bible is full of stories, illustrations, commands, warnings, and heart-provoking questions that provide for us everything we need. Yet, throughout our lives, we intentionally disregard God’s words for us. We are guilty of the same thing that Jeremiah 29:19 describes—not listening to God’s words. When we know God’s words and know that God’s words are good for us, why do we continuously neglect them? The answer is simple: we prefer our own way. Throughout the Bible, God warns us by direct command and historical example. We find explicit instructions to obey God’s words and explicit assurances of the pending consequences for refusing to obey His words. We find instances where God executes His justice on those unknowingly ignorant toward His instructions and those blatantly defiant toward Him. God takes His words seriously and expects that we do the same. What is your relationship to God’s words given to us in the Bible? Are you distant, aware, knowledgeable, or in awe? Are you dismissive, forgetful, interested, or obedient? God’s expectation is that we would hear and obey His words, that we would seek His truth and live His truth, and that we would know His instructions and heed them. The reality is that we all will fail to do this, but there is hope because of the One who has the title "The Word.” Jesus, the living Word of God, lived a perfect life in full obedience to God and His words, yet He died the death that we deserve so that in our failure, we might find hope. The answer to our struggle to listen and obey God’s words is not better listening, but a greater love of God, a greater hope in His Son, and a greater trust in His Spirit. His expectations are great, but His mercy is more. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Daniel Was Faithful (Daniel 1) NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 16th - Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Bring ladders and get ready to pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. July 23rd and July 30th - Decorating and Prepping NPM for Promotion Sunday & the new school year! Meet after 2nd Service - 1pm to 3pm each Sunday Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August! August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
From the garden of Eden to the great restoration of the last days, men and women have attempted to hide themselves from God, seeking safety and avoidance of the consequences of sin due to those who think, speak, and act contrary to God’s good design. We first find this in the garden following the initial sin of Adam and Eve. After seeking their own pleasure, satisfaction, and authority, they felt the onset of conviction over their sin. Their solution to this sense of wrongdoing was to hide from the One who made them, loved them, and had given them the instructions they rebelled against. No surprise to us, God knew where they were. He drew them out of their hiding and confronted them in their attempts to hide their sin. Even in the last days, this effort to hide from God won’t be successful. In Revelation 6 as the seals are being opened, verse 15 speaks of kings, nobles, generals, rich, powerful, slaves, and free people hiding in caves and among the rocks as the wrath of God for sin becomes more and more imminent. In an effort to hide from the God, they run for cover hoping they can escape the looming punishment. In the subsequent chapters of this apocalyptic letter, that coming wrath is revealed against the ungodly and their hiding proves to be to no avail. Reading these accounts of people seeking to hide from God brings to light at least two very important truths. First, we cannot hide from God. There is nowhere we can go in His creation that He will not be aware of. Second, God knows not just where we are, but every other detail of who we are as well. In light of this, Psalm 139 provides the most freeing of assurances to our failed attempts to hide, giving the reader a beautiful understanding of the sovereignty of God and the value of every human life. Not only is there no where we can go to hide from God, but every other detail of our lives is known to Him, and even determined and directed by Him. The next time you are tempted to hide from God because of sin, guilt, or shame, remember these central truths. There is nowhere you can go to flee from God. He knows you better than you know yourself. And He wants you to accept that, willingly confess your sin to Him, and trust that He is gracious and merciful to forgive His children because of His Son, Jesus. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
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