Preached at "All in Youth" Camp Saturday

Grace - Love - Freedom

I had the honor of stopping by Victory Foursquare Church in Marysville, WA tonight.  A friend had invited me there to see Georgian Banov.  Georgian was the leader of a band called "Silverwind" back in the day.  I actually remembering going to a silverwind concert when I was in High School.  I got really stirred up tonight as God spoke to me about bringing freedom and Love and Grace back to the church.   God's house was never meant to be a place of restriction but of freedom.  Never a place of demotion but promotion. Never a place of control but freedom and release.  We know God's heart is to bring freedom to the captives, but we find in churches all across America a certain PRISON mentality.  Time for God to break open the prison doors and release his Grace to us.  Have a great Grace day.  - Pastor Terry

"Honoring and Grace" Video by Pastor Terry

Upcoming Prayer Watches and Events

Noon Prayer Watches at Jakes' House Church
Every day this week at noon, people will be gathering to pray.  Join us in the main sanctuary.  This will be the 3rd week of sustained afternoon prayer.

Summer Ablaze Regional Thursday Prayer Night
4 churches will be gathering this summer to pray together.  July and August will be months that we join together.  Each prayer gathering will be from 7-9pm.  Week 1: Jakes' House.......Week 2: Point Church......Week 3: Living Water Church......Week 4: Victory Foursquare Church.  

Coming Soon!  Torch Bearers Morning Prayer Watches
Next week we will be recruiting people to establish morning prayer watches.  We are going to connect Washington, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho and other areas for a week of morning prayer.  Let us know if you can help establish a watch.  Prayer will be at 7:00am

Schedule for Teaching 
June 25th:  "All In" Youth Camp (Miracle Ranch, Port Orchard, WA)
July 2011  Lewiston, Idaho
August 7th: Jake's House Church (Home Church: Arlington, WA)

We would love to come speak at your church, camp or prayer event.  Email pastorterrybonner@gmail.com for more information on Torch Bearers Ministry

What I Know to be True about Freedom: How to Access it

The one thing I have always liked about Jesus is His ability to bring peace, rest and life to people.  When Jesus showed up things changed...people who were depressed found hope.  Those who were sick became healed.  The religious were yanked out of system and brought into freedom.  Jesus always encouraged people to become something better. Of course they could then choose to go back into that old lifestyle....and many did....but at least Jesus showed them that there is something greater than what they were living.  By better, I am not talking about success and being a better person, but being more like Jesus.  maybe we should really take a fresh look at what we do and how we act.  Are we trying to become successful?  Are we trying to become better people in order to say that Christians are superior?  If that is our goal, then we are not really following the Kingdom way...in fact, we are just following the worldly way, the business way.  But I want to follow 'The Way' (The Way was the name that was given to Christians in the New Testament.  You can access this freedom by looking at your life daily and taking a true accounting of what you are doing, and how you are treating people.  Pray that God will show you not a better way but a 'Purer' way.

Jeshu Ram part 1 (Sushi and Prayer)

Does God like us to do other things?

The age old question. When I become a follower of Christ, do I have to quit doing all of the fun things that I like to? Simple answer...you have two options. 1) they can take a backseat so that you can focus on Jesus and what He has for your life or 2) you can re-discover the things that you love in the light of Jesus now being in your life. So rather than putting them aside, you can have more enjoyment in them when you realize that God loves when you are happy and When those things are no longer in control. In other words, the activities that I enjoy outside of Christ, I now bring them my life in Christ and enjoy them even more.