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Resources For "Surprise! You Belong!" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Aaron VanderVeen - WaterShed Preacher Luke For Everyone - NT Wright -  "The story thus opens up in a practical way some of what the sermon of the previous chapter had highlighted. There was no need for Jesus’ fellow-Jews to protect themselves from a Gentile like this, by drawing tighter and tighter circles of holiness around themselves. For all his lack of appropriate religious background, he had grasped the very center of the Jewish faith: that the one true God, the God of Israel, was the sovereign one, the Lord of heaven and earth. And he had grasped it in its shocking new form: this one true God was personally present and active in Jesus of Nazareth. Luke presents this Gentile as a model for all those who will come in by faith from outside God’s ancient people, to share the blessings of healing and salvation." Luke: NIV Application Commentary - Darrell Bock -   "These remarks a...

Resources For "Surprise! You Belong!" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration & Fusion Preacher As preparation for our prayer time in Celebration this morning, I mentioned two events that are associated with this particular Sunday each January: Sanctity of Life Sunday and the Martin Luther King holiday. Sanctity of Life Sunday - I am thankful for the "Beginning-to-Ending" all-of-life commitment that Harderwyk Ministries lives out in our life together.  We could do a "Sanctity of Life Month"!  For more information on organizations I could only mention in passing, CLICK HERE to learn more about Lakeshore Pregnancy Services and CLICK HERE for Young Lives, CLICK HERE for Kid's Hope and CLICK HERE for Harderwyk GriefShare. Martin Luther King Holiday - CLICK HERE for my personal blog post "Marching With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." which includes all ten commitments from the Commitment Card signed by every pers...

Resources For "Surprise! You Belong!" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration & Fusion Preacher Our City Is Dying - Youtube - CLICK HERE OK - so the city in this video is Seattle.  As I said though, I suspect it could be produced from any significant urban American city.  And my point was not so much the situation, as the visual of the sufferer in the text, as well as those in the video. A Prayer of Lament, Repentance, and Hope by Scotty Smith - CLICK HERE This is Scotty's prayer from Thursday, January 7 that I used in the Celebration Service this morning.  Note the "Subscribe to Scotty's Blog" box on the right of the page,  This lets you receive his daily prayer email which I highly recommend.  CLICK HERE for instructions for this process and for adding the PrayerMate app for your smartphone or tablet. Pastor Aaron VanDerVeen - Watershed Preacher From NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible: 5:13 into the lake . Mark does n...