Sunday, May 24, 2009

Pastors allowed, entrusted and tried of God

Paradise Church Of God In Christ
24th Pastoral Appreciation
Bishop Paul L. Fortson, Pastor
2009-26

Guset Speaker: Supt. Walter Fleming, Pastor of Faith Temple

Subject: Pastors Allowed, Entrusted and tried of God

Thessalonians 2:4, St. Matthew 4:1-2
2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

St. Matthew 4:1-2
4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.


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Lord, renewing of your mind?

Faith Tempel Church Of God In Christ
1500 Highway 29, North
Athens, GA
Superintendent Walter Fleming, Pastor
2009-25

This week's Bible reading: Ezekiel 1-5

Thought for the week:
Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attiude determines how well you do it.

Subject: Lord, renewing of your mind

Romans 12:1-2
12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye many prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

* what is mind? Refer to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, pereption, memory, emotions

Nine things show made up mind
1. Body
2. A living sacrifice
3. Live holy
4. Reasonable, service
5. Be not conformed to the world
6. Transformed your mind
7. Prove
8. Acceptable and perfect
9. Grace given unto me

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