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2 Love God Love Others Love the World! February 8, 2015 EVENTS THIS WEEK DAYS TIMES Morning Worship Journey Kidz Baby Zone (Infant - 24 months) Tot Zone (age 2-5) Live! Zone (K-6th grade) Bible Studies Korean Fellowship Jr/Sr High (at the office) Women s Mentoring Information Meeting Prayer Ministry in the Journey office REFUEL Student Ministry at the Pittmans Today Today Today Today Wednesday 9:30 am & 11:15 am 9:30am 12:45 pm 6:30 pm 6:30 pm Ladies Coffee Break Thursday 10:00 am Journey Moms Playgroup at Elise Blakemore s house Life Groups Meet - check out the flyer on the welcome desk for specific days and times Friday 10:00-12:30 Sun - Fri Various times

3 Upcoming Events Thank you for choosing to worship with us today! Please fill out a connection card and note any prayer requests and praises on the back. Thank You. TODAY! SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8: WOMEN S MENTORING INFORMATIONAL MEETING Are you interested in spiritual growth through friendship? The Women's Ministry is hosting an informational meeting on mentoring. Whether you want to be the mentor or be mentored, please go downstairs (in the 5th 6th grade room) for a short half hour information meeting today after the second service (12:45 pm). A light snack and childcare will be provided. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11: REFUEL This Wednesday Refuel is at the Pittmans at 6:30pm. Along with our usual activities, we will be continuing our study on Biblical Doctrines. If you have questions, contact: Adam Schuster schuster.journey@verizon.net FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13: JOURNEY MOMS PLAYGROUP Valentine's Day Party! Friday, February 13th from 10:00am 12:30pm at Elise Blakemore's house (located in Kingstowne). There will be cookie decorating, crafts and lunch provided. Please RSVP to elisevs@gmail.com by February 12th if you plan on attending and to get directions. BEGINNING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14: Sign up continues! Saturdays, 9:00am 10:30am. Married couples of the Journey: Jim & Kathy Smith will be leading a 6 session series to strengthen your marriage and get to the heart of God's design for marriage. Childcare will be provided. Please contact them at or at oceanisland@verizon.net. The Art of Marriage is presented by Family Life.

4 Announcements FRIDAY-SUNDAY, FEBRUARY You can still sign up for the Junior/Senior High Ski Trip! Join Refuel teen ministry as we head into the mountains of Pennsylvania for a weekend of skiing, tubing and learning about how we are all uniquely created by God. Cost is $250 per teen, which covers everything. There are scholarships and assistance available, upon request. Contact Adam Schuster if you are still interested: Schuster.journey@verizon.net I m A Flake! Sounds bad, doesn't it? But did you know that no two snowflakes are the same? God has made each one of us as unique as a snowflake. God has made us all as a one-of-a-kind creation and we each have a purpose. Psalm 139:14 says, I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21: JOURNEY OUTDOORS HIKE The Journey sponsors a monthly hike and this month Steve McDonald is heading it up. As usual, meet at the Journey at 9:00 am to carpool. Look for more info about the hike in next week s bulletin. Contact Steve with other questions at srcardgage@gmail.com. SUNDAY, MARCH 1: CHILI COOK-OFF The Journey s annual Chili Cook-Off is Sunday, March 1 at 5:30 pm in the Key Middle School cafeteria (across the street from The Journey). Everyone is invited to participate! Just bring a big pot of your favorite chili and a dessert to share. The church will provide shredded cheese, sour cream, onions, chips, hot sauce and water to drink. Just sign up in the lobby and be at the school at 5:20 pm with your chili heated and ready to eat. Who knows, the winner may be YOU! PRAYER TEAM AVAILABLE If you would like to pray with someone today, please come to the front immediately after the service ends to pray with one of our prayer team volunteers. They will be waiting in the front for anyone needing prayer. FEBRUARY JOURNEY DEVOTIONALS FOR WOMEN NOW AVAILABLE Need a daily devotional? This monthly women's devotional magazine offers guidance for a growing, personal relationship with God. Each devotion deals with issues and real-life situations. It is provided free by the Journey s Women s Ministry. Pick up your copy in the lobby today!

5 MISSION TRIP TO INDIA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2015, THROUGH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, Please join us in praying for the team we are sending to India. The mission team will attend the new church dedication for the church we helped build and see various CICM ministries (orphanage, hospital, seminary, etc.). They are bringing some requested supplies in their luggage which are not available in India. They are also bringing a gift from the women of The Journey (journals & pens) to the women of the church in India. MISSION TEAM: Gary & Carol Ulrich Pete & Vicki Becker Dave Sleight Dave Breeden Jan Vacca-LeBeouf Shelley Johnson Tonya Mullins PRAYER POINTS: Unity within the team To be an encouragement to the Indian brothers & sisters we meet For our spiritual eyes to be open to see the Lord s work there, and report back to our church To establish a bond of fellowship between the church we built and our church For the Lord to watch over us (health & safety) A FEW PICTURES OF THE CHURCH WE HELPED BUILD IN INDIA

6 Sermon Outline Tough Choices Who Will You Serve part 2 A Defining Moment Mark 8:27-33 (NLT), Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the villages near Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, Who do people say I am? Well, they replied, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other prophets. Then he asked them, But who do you say I am? Peter replied, You are the Messiah, the Christ. But Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him. Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead. As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter. Get away from me, Satan! he said. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God s. " We are all sinners Isaiah 53:6 (NLT), All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. 1 John 1:8 (NCV), If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Romans 3:23 (NLT), For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God s glorious standard. Our sin separates us from our God; in fact, the penalty for sin is spiritual death or separation from God for all eternity.

7 Sermon Outline Romans 6:23 (NLT), For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Ephesians 2:1-3 (NCV), In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God. Yes, in the past you lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God. In the past all of us lived like them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God s anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people. But God, in His awesome love for you and me, sent Jesus, His Son, to be the sacrificial lamb; to take the hit for us and to pay the price for our sin and because of his death burial and resurrection; you and I can have new life. John 3:16, For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 5:8 (NLT), But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Ephesians 2:4-5 (NLT), But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. It is only by God s grace that you have been saved! 1 Timothy 2:5 (NLT), For, there is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity the man Christ Jesus. It begins by believing/having faith in what He has already done for us. Hebrews 11:6 (NLT), And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NLT), God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. Acts 4:12 (NCV), Jesus is the only One who can save people. No one else in the world is able to save us.

8 Sermon Outline Then it continues as we admit that we are sinners in need of a Savior and we repent of our sin and accept Him into our hearts as the Lord and Savior of our lives. Acts 2:37-38 (NLT), Peter s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, Brothers, what should we do? Peter replied, Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Romans 6:1-5(NIV), What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. Once we have completely surrendered our life to Him, then we can begin the process of allowing the transforming power of His Holy Spirit to change us from the inside out because anyone who truly comes in contact with the resurrected Christ is never the same again. 2 Corinthians 5:21, God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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