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Series: Creed: 9 Essentials to the Christian Faith
Scott Maze
1 Timothy 1:17
My family and I are humbled to be a part of this church family as this is our first official Sunday with you. Thank you for allowing me to serve as your pastor. And thank you for all the kindness you have shown us. We are settling in and attempting to organize ourselves. As your pastor, I will take this position seriously as I seek to follow Christ. We look forward to the years to come as we pray for God's favor upon this church. We look forward to both loving and serving Christ with you for many years to come. I look forward to getting to know you better in the days, months, and years to come.
Series Overview
Today, I begin a series of messages entitled Creed: 9 Essentials to the Christian Faith. Why is this series relevant? The reason for this series is that beliefs matter. Beliefs fundamentally alter the shape of our lives Beliefs in and around churches go by various names such as doctrine or articles of faith. No matter the name, beliefs fundamentally alter the shape of our lives.
Feng Hiannemi is a 22-year-old Chinese married woman. At seven months pregnant, she recently was dragged out of her relative's home because of China's one child policy. Because she was pregnant with a girl and she was too poor to pay the $6,400 fine that would give her the option to keep her child, Chinese officials aborted her baby in the seventh month of her pregnancy. According to her NBC phone interview: ''She was blindfolded, thrown on a bed, and forced to sign a document that she couldn't read with the blindfold still on her eyes. Then two shots were injected into her belly. Thirty hours later, on the morning June 4, she gave birth to a dead baby girl.'' China's long time Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong originally encouraged women to have as many children as possible during the Cold War-era when human power was believed to be an important fo ...
Series: Creed: 9 Essentials to the Christian Faith
Scott Maze
1 Timothy 1:17
My family and I are humbled to be a part of this church family as this is our first official Sunday with you. Thank you for allowing me to serve as your pastor. And thank you for all the kindness you have shown us. We are settling in and attempting to organize ourselves. As your pastor, I will take this position seriously as I seek to follow Christ. We look forward to the years to come as we pray for God's favor upon this church. We look forward to both loving and serving Christ with you for many years to come. I look forward to getting to know you better in the days, months, and years to come.
Series Overview
Today, I begin a series of messages entitled Creed: 9 Essentials to the Christian Faith. Why is this series relevant? The reason for this series is that beliefs matter. Beliefs fundamentally alter the shape of our lives Beliefs in and around churches go by various names such as doctrine or articles of faith. No matter the name, beliefs fundamentally alter the shape of our lives.
Feng Hiannemi is a 22-year-old Chinese married woman. At seven months pregnant, she recently was dragged out of her relative's home because of China's one child policy. Because she was pregnant with a girl and she was too poor to pay the $6,400 fine that would give her the option to keep her child, Chinese officials aborted her baby in the seventh month of her pregnancy. According to her NBC phone interview: ''She was blindfolded, thrown on a bed, and forced to sign a document that she couldn't read with the blindfold still on her eyes. Then two shots were injected into her belly. Thirty hours later, on the morning June 4, she gave birth to a dead baby girl.'' China's long time Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong originally encouraged women to have as many children as possible during the Cold War-era when human power was believed to be an important fo ...
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