Hello all, and welcome to another Agape e-newsletter. Hope you are staying dry today!  

Here’s what’s on tap for this week: 

6. David’s article on the name of Jesus: www.Pinsonchurch.com/blog

Cindy needs help for Angel food tomorrow morning! Here’s how: Anyone who can help with angel food tomorrow please be at New Generation at 8:15am. If you need directions let me know. If you know someone who would help please forward this to them.  If you ordered food pick up between 9:30-10:30  If you don’t know how to get to New Generation, you can email Cindy (cindynunderwood@charter.net), but the church is quite easy to find - it’s straight up Highway 79, passed Agape, in Trafford. 

This Sunday we are launching into an important new series of teaching at Agape. The series will focus on Spiritual Gifts - those supernatural abilities or talents that God has given to every member of the Body of Christ. This Sunday will be an encouragement to be a light in the world, as Jesus said to let our light shine before all people. How do we do this, and what difference does it make? Those are some of the questions that we will be answering this Sunday. Over the next few weeks, we will go deeper into the Spiritual Gifts, and explore what the Bible says about each one. We’ll look at some of the seemingly mundane gifts like service, helps and craftsmanship(which aren’t actually mundane or boring at all!). We’ll also look at the very controversial gifts like tongues, healing, miracles and discerning of Spirits. My hope is the series will be interesting and edifying, but beyond that, that it will help equip us at Agape in walking out our calling and destiny, being a light to the world, and ministering to people in supernatural power! The message Sunday will be an introduction to this series, as stated above, and it will be slightly shortened to make room for our parents meeting. 

Speaking of the parents meeting, I want to invite and urge all parents, and anybody interested in working with our precious children to come and meet with us. The meeting will take place immediately after our morning gathering, and it is my plan, as stated above, to make the message shorter than normal in order to make room for our meeting. This is a very important meeting, that all parents of kids from infancy up until 6th grade need to come. We will try to have the meeting as short as possible, but we do have several very important things to discuss with parents and interested parties. 

Did you notice the word “snow” in the title of this message? I mention it because some forecasters are saying that it is possible that we might have some snow on the ground by Sunday morning. Chances don’t look very high right now that we will have any issues, and I’ll be surprised to even see a snowflake,  but if we do, here is the contingency plan: If there is a significant enough snow that we will need to cancel our normal Sunday meeting, we will send the word out to you in the following ways: 1. Via email. 2. Via an announcement on our blog: www.pinsonchurch.com/blog  3. Via an announcement on ABC 33/40 and Fox 6 news. 4. Via an announcement on WDJC 93.7 FM. If in doubt, check your email Sunday morning. You can also text me at: 568-6836. 

If you are a member of our home school covering Agape Academy, we are having a dessert and games fellowship tonight at Agape. The fun begins at 6:30, and goes until 9:30. 

Finally, allow me to commend to you David’s recent blog article on the power of the name of Jesus (and the current hesitation to utter His name) CLICK HERE 

Here’s our links for the week: 

*****     A short challenge from J. Vernon Mcgee on churchianity vs following Jesus: CLICK HERE 

*****     Horatius Bonar on nine marks that distinguished the men that God has used in past revivals. CLICK HERE 

*****     A farmer has spent 30 years working on a scale model of Herod’s temple - amazing pictures. CLICK HERE 

*****     Modern day re-telling of the story of King David coming to NBC (I doubt it will be particularly Biblical, but it is interesting) CLICK HERE 

See you Sunday!

Chase

Hello all, all and welcome to the third week in October edition of the Agape newsletter. Among our highlights this week: A missions yard sale Saturday at 8:00am, A message on the Economy this Sunday morning at 10:45am, and a Crossroads message Sunday night on how the sacrifice of Jesus saved us from our sins. Read below for more details:

This Week’s Schedule:

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18 at 8:00 AM: Don’t forget that the missions team is having a yard sale at Agape tomorrow (Saturday) morning, beginning at 8:00am. Come one, come all - find some great bargains AND help our missions outreach fulfill the calling of Jesus (Matthew 25:31-46) and love our community.

Sunday, October 19 - 8:30 - Corporate prayer. Prayer is so critical in the life of the church, so please join us in the back of the sanctuary to lift up our hearts to God.

Sunday 9:45 - Small groups

Sunday 10:45 - Morning worship and word. This week I will be bringing a message that is centered on all of the issues raised by our volatile economy. What is going on? Why is the stock market struggling so much? What does it mean to you and me? And, most importantly, where is God in all of this, and what should our response be as the people of God?! Come join us and have a listen to this very unusual message, as well as seek God and bless His name in worship and prayer. If you know somebody who has been effected by the economic crisis currently, or has been interested in it, then please forward them this email and invite them to come join us this Sunday!

Sunday night: 5 pm - Crossroads. Most of us know that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for us to enter heaven, right? But HOW does that work? Why did it work? Here’s David’s summary of what he will be teaching on this Sunday night at Crossroads: The Cup Christ came to secure our eternal redemption from the rebellion of Genesis chapter 3. But how did He do it? Was it the nails? The crown of thorns? A beaten and bloodied trip up an ancient hillside? How did the sacrifice of Christ secure forgiveness of all sins, for all times for those who would believe? Would we be surprised to hear that it was not what was seen on that day that saves us, but what was unseen? Please Join us October 19th at 5pm.

Wednesday night, October 22nd - Back to Matthew this week, as we’ll be tackling the 10th chapter of Matthew - a most challenging, yet refreshing passage of scripture. We will also have food pantry that night, beginning at 6:00.

Friday night - Family Movie Night with fun and games and much more!

Well, normally, I would try and type something interesting, funny, spiritual, inspiring, or antagonizing to Auburn fans in this space, but alas, I’m babysitting Kassidy while Janet is taking Chloe and John Caedmon to the doctor (they have bronchitis - pray for them please!), so I’m not able to concentrate enough to type much of anything worth reading, so I guess I’ll just close out with some hopefully high quality linkst.

This Week’s Links:

*****     Thinking about World Hunger Month….Did you eat breakfast today? (I did: 1 bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats, one bowl of Rice Chex): http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/10/how_hungry_are.html

*****     Deep Truths of the Bible for Children (good children’s books with a deep Christian message): http://www.ligonier.org/blog/2008/10/deep-truths-of-the-bible-for-c.html

*****     This will be a bit controversial, I imagine. I am posting it less for it’s political content, and more for it’s incisive commentary on the importance of being pro-life: http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=2630

*****     Fireproof 1, Religulous 0 http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/10/religulous.html

*****     Real Preachers of Genius; Mr. Mega Church Seeker Sensitivity Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9DF16Fx8k&feature=related (Please note - this video lampoons seeker sensitive churches and touches on the Emergent movement. I’m including it here only because of it’s amusement value, not because I necessarily agree with some of the issues the video raises. For me, it’s a mixed bag)

I look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday!

Chase