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Being True | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 4/7/24

Being True in this context has to do with being dedicated, constant, loyal, devoted, no matter what happens.
There are two times your Trueness gets tested in your faith: 
1. When things are bad. 
2. When things finally go your way.
We talk a lot about what we do when things go bad. When things do finally go your way, BE TRUE. 

It’s Because He is Good - Easter 2024 | Pastor John Eaton | 3/31/24

Our culture is continually telling us that we must find ways to feel like we deserve, to feel like we are great and powerful. 
The truth is, you can survive a self-help seminar, you can survive walking on hot coals, being boiled alive, and walk out of that seminar weekend feeling like you are the most powerful person in the world, ready to grab life by the tail and tell it where to go, but suddenly you simply fall and your leg is severely broken and you are in bed for 6 months. 
God teaches us something completely different when it comes to the path to power in our lives. 
What God offers is so much more powerful, so much more freeing, so much more sane.

Drag Your Feet | Pastor John Eaton | 3/24/24

There are times in your relationships that you don’t need to run, you don’t need to jog, you don’t even need to walk, you need to Drag Your Feet.
Jesus riding into town on a donkey is one of the funniest stories in the history of mankind.
He wasn’t coming to rule. He was coming to relate.
Jesus wasn’t coming to look powerful. Instead, He used His power to heal people, to help people. He could have used His power and authority for so many other things. Instead, He helped people with their problems and needs.

Be Firm | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 3/17/24

Being firm, resolved, set, made-up in your mind, makes you faithful.
What’s interesting about faithfulness is that What God says about faithfulness is so different than what we have embraced as a culture. Our culture is so bent on letting our feelings guide us when it comes to love and faithfulness.
o We are so afraid something better is going to come along.
o We have been trained in so many ways to think in terms of buyers remorse, that every commitment we make could have been better.
o And our decision to be faithful is so connected to how we feel.
God is looking for people who are FIRM IN THEIR FAITH.

The Blessing | Guest Speaker Harvey Neatherlin | 3/10/24

How many of you came to church today hoping to receive a blessing? 
In my 48 years of ministry, I’ve found that almost everyone in attendance came hoping to receive a blessing from God! Now, if you are one of those people, I have some good news for you. God wants to bless you! But, some of you need to understand a little more about blessings The Hebrew language uses the word BARUCH to mean BLESSING. Notably it’s a word that means to INCREASE. 
So, when you and I ask God for a blessing we are saying, “God, increase us”. We want to receive more of You and we want to give more of You.

Be Steady | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 3/3/24

God takes no shortcuts…not even one. He does things perfect. He does things right.
God provides paths to freedom. Paths to healing. Paths to wealth. Paths to good relationships. A path to life. 
Anything worth having is worth the steady path it takes to have it.

Being Stable | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 2/25/24

How God operates in His relationships: He remains faithful even when we aren’t; and He shows Himself faithful to the faithful.
Don’t base your faithfulness on whether or not others are. Be the stable one.
And surround yourself with the faithful. Be faithful to the faithful. Show yourself to be stable to those who are faithful and stable in your life. Don’t let them down. Do whatever it takes to protect those relationships.

God is Faithful | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 2/18/24

To be faithful, you have to start with faith. The Scripture tells us what faith is: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Heb. 11:1 NIV).
Faith is knowing that something right and good is going to happen and doing something right and good because of that.

 

Listen | Pastor John Eaton | Getting Your Mojo Back | 2/11/24

You have the ability to listen to and understand properly what God is saying. You don’t have to live in the dark, like everything God has said is in code, too hard to understand.
There are times that people don’t want to hear what I am actually saying, trying to teach God’s principles, so they will not only not actually hear what I am saying, but they will make up words that I never said to justify their not listening. I know exactly what Jesus was talking about when He looked at the disciples and people around Him and said, “Are you listening? Really listening?”

Remember You Love | Pastor John Eaton | Getting Your Mojo Back | 2/4/24

To start this series, I want to talk with you about Remember You Love.
This is one of the things that God has a big problem with, people forget they love Him. 
In Revelation, listen to what God said to His church: “But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first” (Rev. 2:4 GNT).