Come join us for a brief excursion into fatherhood. Together we’ll take a look at a few of the key ideas and practices that can help every dad love and lead his children well.
We will meet right after our Wonderful Wednesday Fellowship Dinner (6pm – 7pm). Bring your family for dinner and stay for the study.
This is for any and all fathers, soon-to-be fathers, guys thinking-about-becoming fathers, and grandfathers. This study will last for six weeks (April 3rd – May 8th).
If you have any questions about this study, please contact me at 396-2676 or DaleTedder@yahoo.com.
Where do you look for direction, security, peace, purpose, confidence, and eternal life? With all of the competing voices in our culture, there’s a lot of confusion for men today. The world in which we live offers many options for where men might find such things. The Bible offers one: Jesus Christ.
Beginning the first week in April, our men’s discipleship ministry will start a new study entitled, I Am: Discovering Who Jesus Is. This 8-Lesson study will look at our basic needs from the perspective of the great “I AM” statements of Jesus, found in the Gospel of John.
Please come and join us for this new study. Not only will you get to know Jesus better, you will also have the opportunity to get to know other men who are on the same journey as you.
Starting Dates
Monday, April 1st (7:00 – 8:30pm, Family Life Center)
Wednesday, April 3rd (6:30 – 7:30am, Family Life Center)
If you have any questions about this new study or our men’s ministry, please don’t hesitate to call me at 396-2676 or email me at DaleTedder@yahoo.com.
Beginning this Fall, our Sunday Evening Bible Studywill be studying the Gospel of John. This book of the Bible is much loved throughout the Church and has been such a blessing to so many over the centuries. Here’s how the Life Application BibleCommentary describes John’s Gospel…
He spoke, and galaxies whirled into place, stars burned the heavens, and planets began orbiting their suns – words of awesome, unlimited, unleashing power.
He spoke again, and the waters and lands were filled with plants and creatures, running, swimming, growing, and multiplying – words of animating, breathing, pulsing life.
Again, he spoke, and man and woman were formed, thinking, speaking, and loving – words of personal and creative glory.
Eternal, infinite, unlimted – he was, is, and always will be the Maker and Lord of all that exists.
And then he came in the flesh to a tiny spot in the universe called planet Earth – the mighty Creator becoming part of his creation, limited by time and space and susceptible to age, sickness, and death. Propelled by love, he came to rescue and save, offering forgiveness and life.
He is the Word: he is Jesus Christ.
It is this truth that the apostle John presents in this book. John’s Gospel is not a life of Christ; it is a powerful argument for the incarnation, a conclusive demonstration that Jesus was, and is, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.”
I can’t wait to dig into such a mind-renewing and life-transforming book to learn about our Lord and what it means to have life in his name.
We will meet at 6pm and have dinner together. Then, at 6:30, we will begin our study, concluding at 7:30pm. As part of this study, we will also watch clips from the movie, The Gospel of John. Here’s a clip…
Our new study will begin on Sunday, September 9th, at 6pm in the Family Life Center. We would love for you to join us.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
As I was reading God’s Word a couple of years ago, God reminded me about how awesome he truly is. I was also reminded that I have never regretted reading Scripture early in the morning, but I have absolutely regretted not reading it. Just think what I would have missed out on if I had slept in. Thanks be to God… he woke me up and encountered me in his Word. Here’s the text…
Psalm 99:1-9
The Lord reigns,
let the nations tremble;
he sits enthroned between the cherubim,
let the earth shake.
[2] Great is the Lord in Zion;
he is exalted over all the nations.
[3] Let them praise your great and awesome name–
he is holy.
[4] The King is mighty, he loves justice–
you have established equity;
in Jacob you have done
what is just and right.
[5] Exalt the Lord our God
and worship at his footstool;
he is holy.
[6] Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
Samuel was among those who called on his name;
they called on the Lord
and he answered them.
[7] He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;
they kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.
[8] O Lord our God,
you answered them;
you were to Israel a forgiving God,
though you punished their misdeeds.
[9] Exalt the Lord our God
and worship at his holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy.
And here’s what I learned early one morning about God…
He reigns. (v. 1)
He is the King, for he sits enthroned between angels. (v. 1)
He is great and should be exalted over the nations. (v. 2)
His great and awesome name should be praised. (v. 3)
He is holy. (v. 3)
He is the King who is mighty and loves justice. (v. 4)
He does what is just and right. (v. 4)
He is the God of his covenant people. He is to be worshipped. (v. 5)
He is holy. (v. 5)
He answers those who call on him. (v. 6)
He speaks to his people. (v. 7)
He gives laws that are to be obeyed. (v. 7)
He is a God who forgives. (v.8)
He disciplines his children when they disobey. (v.8)
He should be exalted and worshipped, for he is our God and he is holy. (v. 9)
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press ontoward the goal to win the prizefor which God has calledme heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15 All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17 Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the powerthat enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodiesso that they will be like his glorious body.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again,and it is a safeguard for you.
2 Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal,persecuting the church;as for legalistic righteousness,faultless.
7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrectionfrom the dead.
Beginning Wednesday, July 11, our Wednesday Morning Men’s Study will start a NEW Study… featuring a NEW Teacher… and a NEW Format… just for the Summer(and a smidge of the Fall).
NEW STUDY
Our new study is entitled, Galatians: The Charter of Christian Freedom. It’s called this because in it, Paul proclaims the reality of believers’ liberty in Christ – freedom from the law and the power of sin, and freedom to serve the living Lord. Galatians is also one of the greatest and clearest presentations of the Gospel in all of God’s Word. Lastly, it gives us a glimpse of what living according to the power and direction of God’s Spirit can and does do in the life of those who follow Christ.
This will be a 13-week study.
NEW TEACHER
Our small group leaders have been faithfully leading their men for many, many years now, with very few breaks. Therefore, I thought I would give them this next study off to just be a student and have a chance to relax a little bit. Our ministry is profoundly indebted to these faithful and godly brothers for their leadership and this is the very least I can do to express my appreciation to them.
NEW FORMAT
During the summer months we have historically taken a bit of a dip in our attendance as our kids are home from school, families are taking vacations… (basically the old routine isn’t very routine during these months). Therefore, this summer, on Wednesday mornings, instead of breaking into our small groups for our study-time, we’re going to remain in one big group. I hope at the end of each lesson we’ll have plenty of time for our regular small groups to be able to break off and have some prayer time and care time together.
*** Our Monday Evening Men’s Study will continue to meet, sticking with our regular game-plan.
Here’s the schedule for both:
Lesson
Monday
Evening(7:00 – 8:30pm)
Wednesday
Morning(6:30 – 7:30am)
Lesson
Title
Scripture
1
July 9
July 11
Introduction & Overview
2
July 16
July 18
The True Gospel
1:1-9
3
July 23
July 25
The Source of Truth
1:10-24
4
July 30
August 1
Confirmation of the Truth
2:1-10
5
August 6
August 8
Contending for the Truth
2:11-21
6
August 13
August 15
Living by Faith
3:1-14
7
August 20
August 22
The Priority of the Promise
3:15-25
8
August 27
August 29
The Rights of a Son
3:26-4:11
9
September 10
September 12
A Choice of Allegiance
4:12-31
10
September 17
September 19
Christian Freedom
5:1-15
11
September 24
September 26
Living by the Spirit
5:16-26
12
October 1
October 3
Keeping on Track
6:1-10
13
October 8
October 10
Focusing on the Eternal
6:11-18
Whether you have continued to faithfully attend throughout the year… or whether it’s been quite some time since you were last with us (or somewhere in between), I truly hope you will reconnect with your brothers in Christ at Southside for this exciting new study.
As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Come join us for a brief excursion into fatherhood. Together we’ll take a look at a few of the key ideas and practices that can help every dad love and lead his children well.
