Starting a New Small Group. Fridays at 12:00pm

We are starting a new small group at my house on Fridays at noon. The small group is focusing on "Empowering your Preaching." basses on the workbook by Frank Damazio. This group will focus on every aspect of preaching. I consider this workbook to be the single greatest resource that I have ever seen for preachers. RSVP if you would like to attend or would like more info

Matthew 5:5-6

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Amplified Version: Blessed (happy, blithesome, joyous, spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the meek (the mild, patient, long-suffering), for they shall inherit the earth!  

Another one of God's opposite statements.  By that i mean that...Jesus uses the phrase "Inherit the earth" which naturally would cause people to think of success and power and conquest.  But Jesus teaches that the way to inherit the earth is to be meek.  The followers of Christ did not expect him to come in a humble manner and they really didn't anticipate that He would call them to live and serve in a humble way.  D Martin Loyd Jones (one of the great preachers) states that it is strange that we imagine that we can fight the enemy with organization and strategy.  It takes meekness...which is really trusting in God

In Love

Pastor Terry Bonner

God is Always there at the end of the Rope!

Matthew 5:3-4

³"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
 ⁴"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

God is always reaching us when we fell most unreachable.  In the times that we feel like all is lost and nothing can be done to change the situation....In those times when we are at the end of our Rope...God arrives and interacts with our lives.  That is why He declares in scripture that He loves it when we are at the end of ourselves cause that is when we will see Him.  That is why the Bible declares, "I must decrease so Christ can increase."  Verse 4 is even better. It deals with those situations where we have actually lost what is most important to us...It is in those times that we realize that God is the most important thing in our lives.    Take time today to pray and make God the center of your life.....
Pastor Terry PT

New Teaching Series: Teachings on the Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5:1-2 "When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions. This is what he said:"


It is interesting that it says that Jesus saw the crowds, yet he taught the disciples.  We read over this and assume that Jesus saw the crowds and then taught the crowds.  The message version says that the ministry of Jesus was drawing huge crowds yet it was to the smaller committed group that He actually taught.  Here is what I see in this passage....

• You have to be willing to climb the mountain in order to hear the deep teaching of the King
• The mountain always represents the glory of God
• The journey up the mountain represents you and i actively pursing 
• Jesus pulled away from the masses to show the disciples that the heart of the Kingdom is not success but life-change
• Not that success s bad or won't come but that success can never be a replacement for true authentic Christianity
• "Those committed to Him climbed the mountain with Him."
• Am I committed to God? To hearing His voice?
• Am I committed to climbing the mountain with God?  To move at His pace and His timing?
• "Arriving at a Quiet Place."
• Jesus is always drawing us out of chaos, confusion, and noise.  
• He calls us into quietness and peace where the still small voice of God is clearly heard

Water Baptism Saturday at Kayak Point

Water Baptism Saturday at Kayak Point

This morning I was contemplating 'Water Baptism."  What is it and why is it important to me?  I have conducted countless baptisms in the last 18 years of ministry and I will tell you this....."Baptism is a great reminder to everyone that our decision to serve God must be taken seriously and soberly.'  I meant that in the sense of being a Christian by DECISION and not be EMOTION.  I am a Christian by decision therefore I don't just walk away when I no longer feel emotionally charged to live for God.  Water Baptism is an act that allows me to make a public declaration that I am deciding to follow Christ.  It also allows me to stop my world, take a time out and make an eternal vow to the master.  I would challenge you to remember your own water baptism and the decision that you made.  Remember the excitement that you felt and the joy that surrounded it.   This Saturday at Kayak Point we (Jakes House Church) are conducting an outdoor baptism service.  Going to be an amazing time.  See you there!

Prophetic Word for Today: "The Lord Lives!"

This afternoon at our noon prayer watch.  God spoke to me this phrase out of the book of Psalms.  "The Lord Lives."  Rumors of God's demise have been greatly exaggerated.  We sometimes live as if God was dead.  We honor Him as we would a dead man at a funeral.  But God is alive.  He lives.  We need to begin living as if God is truly alive and willing to breathe fresh life into our situation.  Begin declaring this phrase "He Lives" into your family, your job, and any situation that needs immediate God help.  I pray today, that God would show himself alive in you.