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“Reconciliation!”

by • on 9:33 PM • in Exhortation, Sunday Teaser, Topical Sermons

Dear brothers and sisters,

 

The Lord has put on my heart a message for this Easter season and for whatever reason, I feel compelled to share it tonight. Maybe you can’t sleep and you ‘just happen to be checking your email?’ Well, I believe the Lord has a word for you, and I believe that the Lord wants to do a great work in all our hearts tomorrow! The single word that God has put on my heart is the word ‘Reconciliation’ and the message of Reconciliation. Remember what Paul said in -

 

Romans 5:1-11 (NKJV)
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;
4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

 

We have been reconciled to God through the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ! And it is through His reconciliation that we have been reconciled to one another. I don’t know what the Lord desires to do tomorrow morning as we see the sunrise and enter into His courts with thanksgiving, but I believe He desires reconciliation. How? Maybe our hearts back to Him – to love Him like we did when we first fell in love with Him. Maybe God desires to reconcile a marriage? Or a prodigal son or daughter? Or maybe you’ve just drifted from the Lord and are wondering if the Lord could ever use you again? Well look at the Apostle Peter…didn’t the angel say in Mark 16, “Go tell the disciples…and Peter?!” Christ reconciled Peter back to Himself on the day of His resurrection. Nobody is too far gone, no sin is too great that we can’t be reconciled back to God! Let the Lord heal your wounds. Let the Lord restore your 1st love. Let Jesus take all your burdens and exchange your sorrows for joy! For behold HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED!

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Sunday 1/2/11

by • on 2:21 PM • in Announcements, Exhortation, Sunday Teaser

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Just a reminder that we will be celebrating the Lord’s table tomorrow during our regular worship service. All believers are welcome and invited to participate. Also just a reminder that there will be no children’s worship tomorrow, as we will all be worshipping together in our sanctuary.

As you probably know, tomorrow will be our (Friese family) last Sunday before we take our 30 day Sabbatical rest. Come out and worship the Lord with us, who knows…it may be our last time before our precious Lord returns!

As we begin our new year, the Lord has truly impressed upon my heart today this scripture:

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

2010, in many ways was a hard year for many of us – but it’s done now…old things have passed away, and behold our Lord has made all things new. A new year, new blessings, new Hopes, a new future.

As we begin the new year of 2011, I pray this prayer of the Apostle Paul upon our lives –

Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

May the grace of God abound upon your life in the year of 2011. Trust Him, call upon Him, and expect great and mighty things.

Pressing on,

Pastor Pete

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Saturday Night Prep for Sunday’s Worship!

by • on 2:14 AM • in Sunday Teaser

Dear Church Family, just a couple of quick reminders for tomorrow:

First of all, due to all the extra church events in December, there will be no Pot luck fellowship dinner following tomorrows’ service (12/5/10).

Also remember that all of our activities in the morning are for the entire church – everyone in our church family is invited, not just for the special elite. Here’s our schedule:

9:00 am –  men and women corporate prayer time (Come join us as we lift up the morning service – ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’)

9:30 am – Coffee, treats & fellowship in the Coffee nook

10:00 am – Morning worship service

10:30 am – Communion (Ask the Lord to prepare your heart beginning tonight)

Also, KSLW live feed if you are not able to make it to church 99.5 fm, Buffalo; and we have both our web sites that stream the live internet feed:

http://www.calvarychapelbuffalo.com/radio_player.htm

Or on our new web site:

http://www.preachthewordradio.com/listen-online/

It’s a blessing to have 2 live radio feeds, if one’s down, often the other will be up and functioning.

On a note of exhortation:

   * Tonight I’d like to encourage you to begin to prepare your heart for tomorrow’s service, here’s some thoughts:

          1) Guard your mind tonight (what you watch, think about, talk about)

          2) Guard your activities (TV programs, fellowship, Activities)

          3) Ask the Lord to begin to prepare you to receive from Him during tomorrow’s service (Prayer; Meditation; Bible reading; wholesome fellowship)

The biblical principle stands true “We will get out of it what we put into it”. How you prepare yourself tonight to receive from the Lord tomorrow, will play a key role in how God ministers to you personally during worship.

Do you desire to be truly blessed? Truly filled by the Holy Spirit during our time of corporate worship? Then follow these 3 basic principles, and I guarantee that  God will do a great and mighty work w/in your heart tomorrow. If you follow these principles tonight, then you will come to church tomorrow morning, expectantly, open and ready to receive from our Lord Jesus Christ.

The reason I know that these principles work is because Celeste and I have live by them for the past 12 years. There has never been a single Saturday night in the history of our ministry that we have not zealously guarded our hearts and minds so that we did not hinder God’s ability to use us the following morning. If you want to be used and blessed by God, you must guard yourself, especially every Saturday night. So much junk on TV; the internet is calling; the world is full of problems, but do not give into it. Fill your hearts and minds with the Holy Spirit. (Phi. 4:8-9). God promises that if you will seek Him tonight w/ all your heart and soul and mind, that you will find Him, and He will minister in and through you tomorrow.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (NKJV)
29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Have you ever left church after a Sunday morning service and felt ‘unsatisfied’? More often than not, it is due to lack of preparing our hearts to be in fellowship with the body of Christ.

“Prone to wander, prone to leave the God I love…” It’s just in our old natures, we must battle our flesh to prepare our spirits for the things of the Lord.

Lastly, men:

  • I really want to challenge you tonight to be the man of your house, the spiritual head/pastor that God has called you to be. Paul says in – Galatians 6:7-9
    7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. 9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

One day as parents (especially fathers) we will all reap what we’ve sown into the lives of our children. It’s a biblical principal…no way around it, good or bad…it will happen. The biblical principles: 1) We will always reap later than we’ve sown 2) We will always reap more than we’ve sown; and we will always 3) reap of the same ‘kind’ that we’ve sown.

If we sow spiritually into the lives of our families (children & wives), we are promised to reap the rewards…guaranteed by God Himself; 1) Later 2) More 3) Same kind. Be diligent men to be the man that God has called you to be. God has blessed you with a ‘Spiritual mantel’ , you have been given the spiritual authority over your home by God Himself. Be the ‘pastor’ of your family. Nobody else can do it for you, you must be the leader. Nobody else can lead your wife. Nobody else can lead your children. Only you can do it; set the example; get your family to church every week; be given to prayer; be given to love and mercy and grace, and let it begin within your own home first.

May the love and peace of God our Father abide upon your homes tonight, as He is given preeminence over every activity.

For His glory,

Pastor Pete

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1 John 2:7 “Love One Another”

by • on 12:57 AM • in Sunday Teaser

Join us tomorrow for our Sunday morning worship service @ 10 am. Tomorrow we will be continuing our study from the book of 1 John 2, as we begin a study on this topic of ‘Love’.

Dr. John MacArthur states: “Love is the preeminent mark of a genuine believer. Love for God is the benchmark of one’s relationship to Him, and love for other people is the epitome of human relationships. Because love is the saint’s highest moral duty toward others, it is not only the ultimate mark of genuine salvation, but also provides the supreme assurance of that reality.”  

So far in 1 John 2, we have studied the law of 1) Keeping God’s Commandments 2) Abiding in Christ 3) Walking in Christ, and tomorrow we will study God’s commandment to 4) Love one another.

I pray that as we continue our study through this wonderful book of 1 John, that we will all grow in the grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ!

If you are unable to join us in our sanctuary tomorrow morning, you may still listen in on our live Sunday morning service via our live streaming feed on our ‘KSLW’ listen live player (10 am,).

For His glory,

Pastor Pete

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Fellowship!

by • on 12:41 AM • in Sunday Teaser

Just a quick invite to join us here at Calvary Chapel Buffalo tomorrow morning at 10 am as we begin the book of 1 John 1.

Last week we finished 1 & 2 Timothy, and what wonderful changes the Lord has brought about (and is bringing about) in all of our lives as we have studies these two wonderful letters to Timothy.

It’s never easy to see what the Lord will cause to surface in our hearts as we study His Word. Nobody likes to see their old nature, but it is critical that we ‘remain under’ God’s Word as He exposes the areas of lives that He is in the process of conforming into Christ’s image. Truly the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:12-13 (NKJV) 

I am excited to see what new work the Lord has planned for each of our lives as we begin this new venture through the wonderful books of 1, 2, 3, John. Join us for an awesome time as we ‘Simply teach the Word, simply’!

May the Lord richly bless you as you study His precious Word!

Pastor Pete

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Sunday’s Teaser!

by • on 7:27 PM • in Sunday Teaser

Praise God! Come out and join us tomorrow morning at 10 am, here at CCB, 40 N DeSmet, Buffalo Wyoming. It’s going to be another awesome day of praise and celebration as we gather togehter through Worship and the Word!

Tomorrow, I’ll be continuing our series through the book of 2 Timothy 3:14-17, as we study the process of being made complete and throughly equipped for every good work. Praise God, He’s not done with us yet, and He will complete the work that He has begun in us! If for any reason you won’t be able to join us in our sanctuary, please join us live right here on Preach the Word Radio at 10 am mountain time. God bless!

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