Be Bold! Why is that we are not more often courageous in our witness for Jesus? A lot of reasons. One reason (perhaps the biggest) is that we may be afraid—afraid we don’t know enough. If we start to share our faith in Christ and someone asks us a question, we’re like, “ah, I got […]
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(Jonah 1:1)The word of the LORD came to Jonah: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” Nineveh was the most powerful city on earth at this time. A sight to behold! It was an awesome city—but it was also an awful city. To […]
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Jacob was a giant of the faith—but what if I told you that you probably wouldn’t have wanted to be his friend for the greater part of his adult life? That’s right—because Jacob very much lived up to his name (Jacob means, ‘grabber’). Jacob lied, manipulated and deceived his way through the first half of […]
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Hi Summitiers! I just wanted to take a moment and celebrate the many ways the Summit family has touched the lives of others through their generosity! I know we’ve mentioned a lot of them already (so some of this might be a bit of a recap) but there are several I didn’t have a chance […]
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First, a brief reminder of who we are and what God has called us to do at Summit… Our Mission as a church is based off of two key scriptures in which Jesus Christ Himself told his followers not only WHAT to do, but HOW to do it. First the What: Matthew 28:19-20 contains what has […]
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Jesus is __________. No other figure in history has been so greatly admired, sought after, studied, emulated and loved as Jesus Christ. At the same time, none other has also stirred up such opposing feelings. Jesus is the most controversial, polarizing, and misunderstood figure in all of history. I feel strongly convicted that a very important part […]
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I confess, I haven’t always taken the week before Easter to talk about Palm Sunday and the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. A lot of the time we’re either wrapping up a series or kicking off a new one on that day so Palm Sunday has been sort of forgotten, while Easter takes a […]
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If you are just catching up on this, see part 1 and part 2 My previous examples were from the Old Testament. What about the New? As you probably imagined, there are many. I’ll pick one for today and one for the next post. The first is found in Acts 8:9-24 “9Now for some time […]
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If you missed part one of this, go here. The second biblical example of this phenomenon actually happened many, many times. I will just pick one at random for us to take a look at. I’m talking about the ‘high places‘ of false worship that became an ongoing struggle for God’s chosen people throughout the entire Old Testament. […]
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On the one hand, there has never been a day like today for getting out the good news of the gospel message. On the other hand, there has never been a day like today when fewer people are interested in the real Gospel message. Once again, it’s 4:30 am and the Holy Spirit won’t let […]
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