Happy, Wonderful, Blessed New Year!

From the Praise Community Fellowship Family, Happy New Year!   Have fun with your friends and family. Bring in the New Year with Peace, Love, Forgiveness, Compassion, and Joy. Say a prayer for someone you love tonight! God will be at the party too and He loves to be acknowledged.

See you next year! Love, pastor kent

Last Sermon of 2014

This Sunday's sermon will be, "What has God been Trying to Tell Me this Past Year?"

This Sunday can be a game changer for your life!

I look forward to seeing all of our regular family plus I invite all of you who have been receiving this blog. Come join us and make this last Sunday of 2014 the Sunday to come and be a part of the wonderful Praise Community Fellowship Family!

We are in for a great exciting year! Lets come together and worship our way into the New Year!

See you Sunday at 6:30PM at the Crystal Garden. Love, pastor kent

PS This will be our last evening service! January 4th we start our noon services!

Merry Christmas

Bonni and I want to wish everyone a very Joyful, Peaceful Christmas.

Love, Kent and Bonni Schuette

An Interesting Bible Passage for Christmas

1 Corinthians 12:3

3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

This passage is not about someone just saying the words, "Jesus is Lord!" It's about meaning and having full acceptance and believe that "Jesus is Lord!" 

Example: I can go to a busy mall somewhere and go up to complete strangers and tell them I used to be a self defense instructor for the Navy Seals. Some of the people will believe me, but that certainly does not make it true any way shape or form. As a matter of fact, if I went around and continued the ruse long enough I may even start to believe it to some degree myself. However, it would become very apparent very quickly just how untrue that statement was if I were to be attacked by a burglar while others watched on. I'm sure those who believed that I really was at one time a Navy Seal self defense instructor would quickly re-evaluate and question who I claimed to be after watching me be assaulted or robbed!

Jesus made it clear that if we really accepted Him  as our savior that we would live our life a certain way. That, and "people are always watching!" Here are some of the ways that we show our genuine belief that Jesus truly is our Lord:

John 13:35 "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (this is one of the BIG TWO commandments that Jesus teaches)

 John 8:31-3231 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (In other words, practice what I have taught you!)

Matthew 7:1-29 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

John 15:55 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 

Our lives are testifying as to who or what our Lord is. If you are like me we all have a lot of work to do.

Plan on closing out 2014 this Sunday with your church family.

See you there! Love, pastor kent

Tonight

The Christmas Story told through scripture and music. I hope you can join us this evening for the Praise Community Fellowship Christmas service. The service starts at 6:30pm at the Crystal Garden located at 1230 University Drive Edwardsville.

The Christmas story as told by 100's of generations of Christians. Behind the story is a living God who has sent His Son and His Holy Spirit here to bring a touch of Gods Kingdom into you life.

Are you stressed by the Holidays? Feeling down? Feeling like you will be glad when it's over? The Holy Spirit has a better plan. Come and worship the newborn King! Come and be part of the table of grace we call communion. Come and be part of Gods family. Praise Community Fellowship welcomes all people with open arms of love!

See you tonight! Love, pastor kent

Question of the Year to write on your heart!

Simplify your Christian life while at the same time deepening your walk with God .
How? Ask yourself this simple question before acting on anything!

The Life Changing Question for all Christians:
"Is what I am about to think, say, or do, going to glorify God?"
If the answer is "No!", then don't do it!
If the answer is "I'm not sure!", then take time to pray about it and wait for the answer!
If the answer is "Yes!", then Amen get on with it and give it all you've got!

See you Sunday, the PCF Christmas service! 6:30PM Crystal Garden. 1230 University Drive, Edwardsville.

Love, pastor kent

Church for Church Sake?

"What do you do there?" someone asked.

Now that to me is a sad question when asked by someone outside of a local church. We must take "the church" outside of the walls and into the world just as God did when He sent His son Jesus to us. God came into the world and became one of us in the fact that He walked with and among us. He interacted with us where we were. In our sins, in our disease, in our despair and in in our brokenness. He brought Hope and Healing "to" the people!

Let's follow the example of what God did for us on Christmas and get outside of the walls of our churches so people don't have to ask, "What do you do there?"

Praise Community Fellowship Christmas service this Sunday at 6:30 at the Crystal Garden, 1230 University Drive Edwardsville. The Christmas story, Music, Communion, and Love! Praise Community Fellowship, a grand experiment of Love!

See you Sunday! Love, pastor kent