Church notes - 18th November 2018

18th November
Psalm 23

'Still': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD2VZqNjiUw
'Broken Vessels': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxKLnySMbYM

Communion
Isaiah 53

'How Marvelous, How Wonderful': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVyeV5irvqc
History of 'It is Well': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrya00iY34
'It is Well': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY5o9mP22V0

Sermon - Building Margins
Exodus 20:8 - 11

Margin
Time
Emotional
Financial

Not Busyness per se, It's busyness that stops us doing what we want to do.

Does how we spend our time reflect our core values?

Will doing more make you happy?

Social Media - it is not the whole of anyone's life.
Facebook isn't the world.
Philippians 4:11 - 14

Learn to say no.
To the right things
We need a 'don't do' list
And a 'what matters most' list
A schedule diet

Titus 2:1 -12

Take a weekly day of rest.

Leviticus 23:3
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Mark 2:27
The Pharisees had made the Sabbath a legalistic nightmare completely opposite to what God intended.

Rest your body
Recharge your emotions
 - Go outside, the great outdoors
 - Connect with people
 - Refocus your spirit

Refocus your spirit

Sabbath Principle  - not Sabbath Law
What does it actually mean?

Jeremiah 17:7, 8
Psalm 1

If you don't have roots deep in God, you will not withstand the droughts of life.
Eliminate weeds in your life.
Luke 8:14
Weeds are anything that chokes our relationship with Jesus. These need to pulled out by the

Cooperate with God's pruning in your life.
John 15:1, 2
God puts us through pruning for a purpose.

'In Christ Alone': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ch6eXkQWU8