Gathered Around the Fire

Download QuickTime Player Good Morning Mr. Phelps...(Download mp3 Audio) M I S S I O N     I M P O S S I B L E ? “Good morning Mr. Phelps… Your mission, should you choose to except it, ”is to... ...hear God speak, and adjust your life to obey his voice. In order to accomplish this you must be able to distinguish between God’s voice  Your own soul voice (your mind, will, and emotions) and  The voice of the enemy of your soul (the deceiver). The future health of your own life,  the life of your family, your church, your city, and your country and perhaps even the world depends on the success of your mission. SECRET AGENTS IN OPPOSITION The cares of the world   The lust of the eyes The deceitfulness of riches  The lust of the flesh Lusts for other things  The boastful pride of life SECRET AGENTS IN the ALLIANCE GOD SPEAKS using: The Word (of Truth) Prayer (encrypted hot line communiques with headquarters) ...

Download QuickTime Player http://www.cfcmankato.org/Audio/12_24_06%2001c%20David%20Smith.mp3">Your Lot in Life...(Download mp3 Audio) 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called (small) Zoar.) 23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot's wife looked back, (from “small” compromise) and she became a pillar of salt. 27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and ...

Download QuickTime Player Wondering Where the Lions Are...(Download mp3 Audio) Sun’s Up, Uh huh, looks okay The world survives another day And I’m thinking about eternity, Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me I had another dream about lions at the door They weren’t half as frightening as they were before But I’m thinking about eternity, Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me We talked last week about faith as expectation. We talked about setting an empty chair in our midst in expectation of Jesus coming. Without taking action, faith is dead. If we don’t set a place for Jesus to show up, He is probably not going to show up. This week I want to talk about what happens once we have we set that chair in place. Once we have waited patiently like the Hebrew people. When year after year the appointed times come and the festivals go. And still there’s no Messiah, sitting in the chair. This is where the test of our faith begins. Because, if the chair stays empty, past t...

Download QuickTime Player The Empty Chair...(Download mp3 Audio) Jesus got in trouble for the thing I am going to talk about this morning. They tried to kill Him for this.  I am going to leave a little mystery hanging there. I am going to talk about expectation. You’ve probably got a five minute drive or a fifteen minute drive here. What is it you expect to get from God this morning?  Think about that… Ask yourself the question, what is it that I expected this morning? Some of you, came expecting donuts. Can we be honest?  How many people came expecting donuts this morning?  And your expectations were met. How many people were expecting a warm cup of coffee and warm fellowship? Who forgot it was donut morning like me this morning? I wasn’t expecting donuts. What were you guys expecting if you didn’t come for donuts and warm fellowship? Did you coming for the same old, same old? Did you come to see friends, family? Did you come to hear a cou...

Somewhere In Time...(Download mp3 Audio) This morning I want to talk about the timelessness of Prayer. Can we cross over a threshold in prayer and reach into a Heavenly reality? Can we cross over to a place where time ceases to exist? There is a threshold in our minds, that divides time from eternity. Can we cross in prayer to a place that transcends time? Can we cross over from world consciousness into Heavenly Consciousness? Did you know that as a culture, we are very interested in transcending time to touch timelessness? In the last several years at least 556 movies have been made with time travel as the central plot. Hollywood has experimented with every aspect of traveling to a different time. Including how one can change history by going back in time and changing what was done in the past. Well prayer also changes things , prayer for forgiveness and for deliverance remove the power of things done in the past and can change the future. In the movie “Somewhe...

Download QuickTime Player Song Of Ascents...(Download mp3 Audio) Hallelujah! How many of you know it is a little bit of a rush, to get here on Sunday morning? It is like you get up and you have so much to do. How many things do you think of, other than thinking about coming into the presence of God on a Sunday Morning? Quite a few! If you remember it was about two weeks ago when we talked last time and I read an article about Jesus chasing us through our busy schedules. I don’t know how much you remember of that but, T his morning I want turn the tables and I want to talk about how we can chase God. There is a Scripture that says, That Jesus was following the Israelites through the wilderness. Because they weren't following Him, God ended up following them. We don’t want God following us, because His ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts above our thoughts. And how many of you want the God of the universe following you like you are the deal. It doesn't...

In God’s perfect world, it was not an office, not a factory, not a sports arena, but a garden where God placed man , his most cherished creation. God’s ideal setting for a pursuing a love relationship with man, was a garden. He created man naked and unashamed. Intimacy comes, when we know we are loved, just as we are, there is no shame, no need to perform, no need to hide, (no fig leaves required). In the cool of the day God would come down to be with Adam, where Adam was, the garden, and walk with him. God comes again, one day but this day Adam and Eve have sinned and they are hiding. God said, “Adam where are you?” Since that day of separation, when man was removed from the garden, man now says, "God, where are you?” In our post modern, post industrial, information age, we have trouble seeing God as the Divine suitor in a sacred romance. Ohh! We can see him as a boss, a judge, an absentee landlord, a policeman, some can see Him as a teacher, a doctor, maybe othe...