January 2021 – Colona Community Church

Opposites

January 25, 2021 by Laurin, posted in Sunday Message

Hello there! Yesterday morning we heard another message from Terry, this time regarding how being Christ-like means the doing the opposite of what the world sees as success. To listen to this message, simply click play on the audio player below. Also included is the Call to Worship and a list of the verses Terry references in the message with links to view those verses at Bible Gateway.

Call to Worship
Matthew 16:21-27
Jesus Predicts His Death
²¹From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
²²Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
²³Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. ²⁵For whoever wants to save their life^[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. ²⁶What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? ²⁷For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

Scripture References

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Praying you are blessed this week, resting in the Lord and trusting in His promises! 🙂

A Shelter in the Time of Storm

January 17, 2021 by Laurin, posted in Sunday Message

Pastor Steve could not be in church today, so we were blessed to have Terry give our message this morning. He taught from Matthew, chapter 11, about finding rest in the Lord. To hear this message, simply click play on the audio player below. I have also included our Call to Worship, along with links to the verses Terry references in his teaching. (*A quick note: Terry used a different mic from Pastor Steve, so there may be moments of feedback. Sorry!)

Call to Worship
Acts 17:24-31
²⁴“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. ²⁵And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ²⁶From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. ²⁷God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
²⁹“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. ³⁰In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. ³¹For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

Scripture References

Hebrews 3:11-12, 18-19

Hebrews 4:10

Praying that you find your rest, your shelter in these times of storm, in Christ this week and always!

The Light of the World

January 10, 2021 by Laurin, posted in Sunday Message

Here is today’s message from Pastor Steve about the Light of the World. To listen to the message, simply click play on the audio player below. I’ve also included the Call to Worship and a list of verses he references in his message.

Call to Worship
Ephesians 5:8-14
⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light ⁹(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness,
righteousness and truth) ¹⁰and find out what pleases the Lord. ¹¹Have
nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
¹²It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. ¹³But
everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is
illuminated becomes a light. ¹⁴This is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
    rise from the dead,
    and Christ will shine on you.”

Scripture References

Praying your week ahead is blessed indeed!

Be of Good Cheer

January 10, 2021 by Laurin, posted in Sunday Message

Here is the message from January 3, 2021. I must apologize that I did not post this last Sunday. I simply forgot to do what I’m supposed to and have no other excuse. Sorry. 😦 But it is a beautiful message from Pastor Steve about having a cheerful heart, and I pray that it brings you joy. This Sunday’s message will be posted as soon as I get it ready. 🙂

To listen to the message, simply click play on the audio player below. I’ve also included the Call to Worship and Scripture References for you.

Call to Worship
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
Praise to the God of All Comfort
³Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴who
comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those
in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from
God. ⁵For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of
Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. ⁶If we
are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are
comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you
patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. ⁷And
our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you
share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

Scripture References

Psalm 23
   The Lord the Shepherd of His People
   A Psalm of David.
23 The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
²He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
³He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
⁴Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
⁶Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord
Forever.