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Prepare Your Soul 3.12.10

Friday, March 12th, 2010

This weekend we will be in week 2 of What If? This series is about more then what we are preaching on the weekend. We are looking at not only the Lewiston/Auburn area, but the whole state, New England and even reaching further. We are asking very simple questions, yet ones that dig deep into what it is we believe. As we prepare for this weekend meditate upon this passage from Matthew.

Matthew 22.37-39 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

What a heart challenge, what a great thing to set our minds, actions and hearts to doing. What if we did this? What would our lives look like?

“Lord, grant that my religion may not be occasional and partial, but universal, influential, effective, and may I always continue in thy words as well as thy works, so that I may reach my end in peace.” Pg 40 Valley of Vision


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Prepare your soul | 2.6.10

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Tomorrow (Saturday, 2.6.10) at 8:00 we, as Atmosphere Park Ave. will be sharing a meal together as we discuss what the Gospel says about our need for community. Please join us in this!

As we prepare to sit down and eat together at Park Ave. tomorrow night, let’s consider the purpose behind the meal together.

We are coming together to:

  • Worship God in Christ by His Spirit and in unity with each other
  • Hear the Word of God proclaimed
  • Fellowship with each other and meet each other’s needs
  • Build our faith

Come, join together with us tomorrow night as we do this and more. Join the community of believers that will be gathered at the Park Ave. Campus. Hear why we need other believers in our lives from the Word of God. Add your thoughts as to how to live in community in light of the Gospel.

May we be united in faith, and meditate on this truth:

I therefore, as a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit– just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call– one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Eph. 4.1-6)

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Prepare Your Soul 12.4.09

Friday, December 4th, 2009

With only 2 weeks left in our 16 week study in the book of Galatians Paul is taking all the theological content that he has been teaching and showing us how they are to work in our lives.  This week as we look at Galatians 6.1-10 we see our desperate need for community. We see our need for one another, for the family of God and for our care of each other’s soul.

Galatians 6.2 - Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

This small verse has some profound impacts on our life. Imagine your life with people holding you up in prayer, supporting you in trials, carrying you in times of need.  This is the way it should be, this is how we are to live our Christian lives.

How are you doing? Are you doing this alone? Are you bearing others burdens? Are you allowing others to bear your burdens?

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Prepare Your Soul – 11.13.09

Friday, November 13th, 2009

As we look this weekend at Gal. 4.21-31 I encourage you to prepare your soul for the message that the Holy Spirit has for our hearts. We are His children [Galatians Week 10- Grow Up (pt. 1): Servant to Son] [Galatians Week 11- Grow Up (pt. 2): Living as Sons] and therefore are free.

Galatians 4.31: So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

What a great encouragment for us who call Jesus Christ as King of our lives. We are not slaves. In Christ we are truly free.

I look forward to seeing you this weekend.

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Prepare Your Soul 11.6.09

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Prepare Your Soul 11.6.09

As Bill Legere prepares to share on Orphans and the oppressed children of the world, I would encourage you to meditate upon these passages in preparation for our hearts to be challenged, as we live out the gospel.

Zechariah 7:10-14 | do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear. 12 They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts. 13 “As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts, 14 “and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”

Matthew 5.34-39 | Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

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Prepare Your Soul – 10.30.09

Friday, October 30th, 2009

In preparation for Atmosphere this week ponder this passage:

Deuteronomy 15.15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.

Just as the people of Israel were brought from slavery, all of us have been brought from Slavery to Sonship, what a blessing!

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Beautiful Passages

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

2 Beautiful Passages–

Meditate on these passages; allow them to change your heart and your actions in life.

Gal. 4.6 & 7 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

To hear the sermon click here.

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Matt Chandler

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Here is a short video from Matt Chandler – Pastor of The Village Church in TX, about soul care.

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