Summit Church Garden City

New Year 2024 - Pastor Ovi

1. Help me see more of You than ever before

2. Reveal to me just how little I know of You

- Whose sin are you focused on?

- Who is the first to be served?

3. Make what I do know of You more alive in my life

Advent - Love - Pastor Lucas

The Love of God is:
1. The Light and Life of mankind
2. Rejected by the darkness
3. Reproduced in us by God

Advent - Joy - Pastor Ovi

1. Jesus is the Savior

2. Jesus is the Lord

 

2 Practices:
- Find your joy in Jesus
- Spread joy by sharing the Gospel

Advent - Peace - Pastor Lucas

1. Does the peace of Christ produce perseverance in your life?
2. Do we have peace with God or peace with the world?
3. Allow the Gospel of Peace to remind us of who we are and who Jesus is.

Advent - Hope - Pastor Ovi

1. Look backward to examples of faith

2. Look forward to our heavenly home

3. Look upward to Christ

1st Samuel - Keeping Your Heart for God - Pastor Lucas

1. Look for comfort from God and not from the world
2. Hatred and anger, when unchecked will lead to murder
3. God uses the weak to supplant the strong

1st Samuel - Total Problem with Partial Obedience - Pastor Ovi

1. Partial obedience is still disobedience
- God’s commands are not always easy to obey
- God’s commands are to be fully obeyed

2. Pride goes before a fall

3. Sin is Deceptive

- don’t try to justify your sin
- God’s kindness should prompt us to obedience

4. To obey is better than sacrifice

1st Samuel - The Seed of Self-Destruction - Pastor Ovi

1. Making foolish decisions will always cost you

2. Learn to not waver back and forth on decisions
- don’t make promises you can’t keep
- be willing to admit when you’re wrong
- don’t lose trust with people
- don’t become weary and give up

3. Who’s estimate is more important to you, man’s estimate or God’s estimate?

1st Samuel - How Big of an Army Does God Need - Pastor Ovi

1. Do not fight like the world fights

- we fight a spiritual battle
- we fight with spiritual weapons

2. Move forward with faith

- the church should be on the offensive
- nothing can hinder the Lord from saving
- true faith always results in action

3. Victory comes from the Lord

- the battle is not yours but God’s
- your faith will encourage others to follow Christ

1st Samuel - What God Wants From You - Pastor Lucas

1. It is impossible to obey the commands of God without the heart of God

2. God desires a life dedicated to Him instead of a life dedicated to ritual.