Candlewood Lincoln

Thank you, Alex. Would you buy your heads in prayer with me? Oh, good and heavenly gracious father. We are so thankful that you are wise and almighty. Even now, Lord, all of your plans are being unfolded in history on the earth and at the very center of it is your people. You have called us to play a part. God. I thank you for your people here in the city, your church here in Lincoln where the gospel

Amen Herbert Dow, who is pictured here Uh is founded a company in 1895 called the Dow Chemical Company. And what he had done was he had invented a way that you could cheaply produce a chemical called bromine. And so he would sell it for 36 cents a pound around the US. He couldn't sell it in Germany because there was a company there that also produced bromine and they had a monopoly on the market. And they uh

Two things I regularly pray for my Children, my wife and I have five Children and two things that I regularly pray for them is first that they would know the Lord that they would know the love of God, that they would know it in such a way that it would change them, that it would ruin them for anything else other than a life committed to the Lord, jesus christ. And then the second thing that I'm constantly

Thank you bro. Thank you, john, good morning, welcome. My name is Mike, one of the pastors on staff here at sewer church. It's an honor to be with you this morning and I'm excited to look at this passage. I just disclaimer, I spent my childhood with sheep, my dad had market lambs at the Adams County fair, we would show market lambs sheep in colorado and and I spent many summers of a bad teenage attitude grumbling and

Thank you Chloe, thank you for coming this morning. My name is mike when the pastors on staff here at church, it's honor to be with you this morning. It's my honor to be able to spend some time looking at the word of God with you. I've spent some time this last week studying and praying preparing some thoughts for this passage and I just really do think it seems like if you think of the messaging of Christianity

Thank you Alex. Hello, Good morning. Um, if you are someone who's brand new to seller, you might not know me. Um, but I would still love to meet you after the service. If you're around. My name is Sam, I am the church plant resident here, which means I'm never here. So, so if you recently star start attending, you probably haven't met, but I've been tasked to help to plant a church with a great cooperating church located

Let's pray father. We thank you for this day. You've gifted it to us. We thank you for this word that you've given to us. This is your word. It reveals who you are. It reveals what your character is like. It reveals your will for us and God, we are thankful for this revelation. And so Father, we ask that in the moment that we have together this morning on the day that you've gifted to us with the

Good morning sir Church. So good to be with you all this morning. Want to start by asking a question, Z one here have any idea what it's like to live in an earthly kingdom under the rule of an earthly king, anybody have any clue what that's like. You grew up, you were a citizen of an earthly kingdom and you had an actual earthly king that you had to be subject to anybody. And the first service we

Thank you Faith. Well, happy new year, good morning to everyone. Um, so glad you're here. If this is your first new year service with us, I just want to state from the beginning today, we're gonna lay out 23 principles for how you can have a successful year 2023. Amen you guys are laughing because you know, as in the words of that fictional king from Wakanda, we don't do that here. You know, we get into the word.

Good morning everyone merry christmas, we're so excited to have you all here to get to worship. Um and just praise um our God together. Um on this christmas morning we're gonna do something a little bit different this morning. I'm going to read through our passage for the day. So if everyone would please stand if you are able to um as we read um our christmas passage will be in Isaiah 53. So if you would open there

I'm gonna read the passage, pray and then we're gonna get into the teaching. So well you stand your feet, I'm gonna read this passage for us this morning again. This is closing out paul's letter to the colossians Church, It'll be verses 10 through 18 I'm sorry. Um yeah 10 through 18 to close out this letter um by the way, if you're uh young and married and thinking about having kids here are some great names that you

now that ties into our teaching this morning in colossians chapter four verses two through nine. You can go ahead and open your bible there, but this Sam being one of our community group leaders. We gather monthly with our community group leaders and we do some teaching there. It's a little bit of iron sharpening iron. We want to help equip those guys to be more effective leaders within their community groups. But we're also looking for guys who

Good morning. So our church merry christmas, you guys awake this morning? Good, good. You're awake, You're awake. Glad you're here. Name's dan, if I haven't met you, um we're gonna continue looking at Paul's letter to the colossians Church. So go ahead and open your bible, your bibles to colossians. Chapter three, We're gonna finish the whole rest of chapter three, verses 12 through 25 then we're going to read the first verse of chapter four. You might be

Welcome, thank you for coming. My name is Mike one of the pastors here on staff at our church were in that wall between Thanksgiving and the Christmas season. So next week there's gonna be uh christmas stuff around here, christmas songs are rolling. I don't think we're doing mistletoe this year due to budget cuts, but there's, there's a lot of christmas festivities about to start cooking at our church. So thank you for coming. It's an honor to

is that better? Yeah. All right. So again, quote from john Calvin, the pastor must have two voices, one for gathering the sheet and another for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves and the scripture supplies him with the means of doing both. Uh, in this letter to the colossians, we see paul doing just that. He's using scripture to comfort the believers in colossi while simultaneously exposing the wolves and the thieves who seek to destroy this

the check there, make sure sometimes I forget sometimes they, they just mute my mic for me cause I'll just sing loudly during worship and stuff. So I think that's probably to the benefit of the whole church that they mute my mic. But my name is dan, I'm glad you're here this morning. Um one of the pastors here and we're gonna continue studying paul's letter to the colossians. So if you have a bible, go ahead and open

Good morning. So a church. Good morning. So good to be with you guys. If you're new here, my name is dan, I'm one of the elders, so glad you're here. Hopefully we get to connect with you at some point. Um while you guys are here, we are going to continue in colossians. So go ahead and open your bibles to the letter to the colossians Church, we're gonna be looking at chapter one, verses 24 through 29. While

you ever in your life, come to the point yet where you feel like you just you just hit that wall mentally, emotionally, physically relational e you're just out of gas, you hit that wall and you want to sit down because that last hit took it out of you and you've not stood up yet in your walk of God, you your christian walk of God has gone from a sprint, a mad sprint to a walk to a

hope you guys are doing well. My name is dan. If I haven't met you, one of the elders here, as you should be aware of by now, um still thankful for the church and the gifts and the letters man, what a joy it is to be a part of the body of christ. Amen. Well this morning we are going to kick off a new series. Looking at paul's letter to the colossians and we're gonna look at

week in our rooted series. And we're looking at the final rhythm of rooted, um, we're gonna be talking about worship and this may be the final rhythm of the series, but it's arguably the most important rhythm to get worship. And I was thinking about this from the context of my own family and experiences. This thing is kind of doing a little, little dance on me. Um, it's distracting me a bit, but hold on to it by

well, good morning. Once again I want you to think about this almost everyone as someone they know or maybe someone in their family who is I mean pretty much crazy or insane, right? Um Maybe it's the crazy uncle, maybe it's the wacko mother in law. Um But these are the these are the people that when you gather at a family gathering, you're just like oh no they're here, right? And uh and you know they kind of

All right, good morning everyone. Good morning. So good to be with you all this morning. My name is Alex. If I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you yet, I am on staff here at sewer. I serve as the co director of our college ministry christian challenge. So, so excited to be with you all this morning. I'm really looking forward to getting into the word together. If you would open up your bibles to mark 12 versus

All right, good morning, good morning everyone. My name is Shane and one of the pastors here, I haven't had a chance to meet you welcome and hopefully I can meet you to talk to you and greet you afterwards. We are working through a series called rooted and if you're familiar with that, there's some workbooks, there's a book back there. A lot of our community groups are working through that, but if not, uh, it's no problem jumping

Good morning, good morning, my name is dan. I'm one of the four elders here. If I haven't met you, welcome to Sword Church, we're glad you're here. You hope that you connect with us and give us a chance to get to know you maybe hear your story, you learn a little bit about our story and we figure out how we can help you to know christ, more encourage you and your walk with christ and help you

Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. Come on in. Hey, my name is mike, one of the pastors on staff here at, so a church, It's great to be with you. We, uh, I'm excited about our content today, what we're gonna look at, I like to open up a short story. So I have a wife and my wife makes me go to the doctor and I go to the doctor once a year and they take blood, they check my

there we go, got to flip that on, I was worried earlier that my breathing into the mic was causing that sensation of static that you guys heard it was either my breathing or my beard one of the two. Um but good morning, if I haven't met you, my name is dan one of the elders here, four of us here and um so glad that you're here, so good to be in the house of the Lord, so

it's great to spend the morning. A few I know we live in a world that lacks leaders with values. We live in a world where we are jobs might not have value, we have friendships that might not have value and purpose and worth and and we can struggle, we can struggle to find meaning in our life purpose to live for. There's quiet quitting happening in our world of mental health on the rise speaking as uh one

well, good morning. So our church family, my name is dan if I haven't met you and for those of you who know me so good to see you, it's been three months Yeah, it's good to be back with you guys, I was on a short sabbatical, some of you forgot who I was, I forgive you, still love you but my family and I blessed tremendously by that sabbatical break, really refreshing the Lord and also encouraged by

come on in, Let's start here. What's your what's your self narrative? Getting out of bed this morning, the alarm clock, you're like here we go again, or you're like here we go again. I mean, what's your self narrative? Are you just constantly thinking like fearful thoughts? Are you like scared? The sky is falling self narrative? Are you uneasy, shaken, nervous about what's gonna happen if uncertainty about your past or the future? Is that yourself narrative? You're

Hey, good morning, Good morning church. It's good to be here with you. Um, I got through my whole message for service and I didn't tell anybody who I was or introduced myself at all. So Ryan levy came up to me afterwards. They're like, hey man, you really blew it. No, it's like you didn't tell anybody who we are. So, um, my name is Zane, if you have not met me, Hello, I'd love to, to meet you.

come on in. Thank you. Um, I see uh, you all had to come and see what your friends are up to because the instagram and algorithms were showing you a bunch of ads and people that weren't even your friends. No, no, the joke flopped. Well there's difficult times in being a pastor and humor is a difficult topic for me. I never tend to figure it out. But there's good times and difficult times and there's times of

All right, good morning, welcome. You guys make your way in. My name is Shane. I'm one of the pastors here, one of the bi vocational guys. Uh today we are continuing in our psalm series and usually we're working through a book of the bible chapter by chapter uh today though is not like that, our recent series is not like that. So if you're new and you're just hopping in, we're on psalm 14, so it's kind of

Good morning, Good morning, Welcome. It's great to see you. My name is mike, one of the pastors on staff here at Solar Church. I'm just a little distracted, a little flustered this morning and no one ever get that way at times. You're like, I'm, my pregame ritual is not there right now. And so you're just kind of trying to find your sea legs as you go into this thing. I was under the impression that our, our

Amen Amen. Well, good morning church, let's uh let's bring it on in. I love how friendly everyone is. Um it's a great joy to be with you all this morning, my name is Alex if I haven't met you yet, I'm on staff here at our church. I lead or co lead the college ministry christian challenge here at sewer. The pastors Mike, Shayne, Ben and dan have asked me this morning uh, to preach, they've given me and

Happy fourth of july weekend. Good morning. I'm thankful for the opportunity to spend a few moments of you looking at God's word, I'm gonna share a short story and if I do my job right, I'll tie it together here. Later in the sermon, this passage today reminded me of my trash this week. I have a have a street I live on and the lady that lives behind me, she's this retired, sweet dear ex teacher of music

Good morning, Welcome on this beautiful, amazing summer morning. My name's Ben Nandor Pastor here at our church. We're finishing the last commandments In our 10 commandments series. So today we're looking at the 10th commandment which is do not covet. Do not covet coveting happens when someone really wants something and wants that thing that somebody else has. Okay, so it relates to a desire, a desire for something. And most often this happens in our hearts. As we

commandments. This is commandment number nine this morning. It will be addressing the topic of lying. Lying, lying. Ah this is good. That's a good one. So let's pray before we jump into this. This topic this morning just helped collect our thoughts. Lord, I thank you for the word of God and how it's alive and active. Sharper than any double edged sword. Lord, I thank you that it's able to do business in the heart of the believer

Good morning, Welcome to our church. My name is Mike, one of the four pastors here at this church. It's an honor to be a few. Today. We're looking at the eighth commandment. You've probably heard your mom with the eighth commandment. You remember your mom? She would say in the second book of Mom, chapter 24 verse seven, Thou shalt not try me was your mom? That was that was another woman. Um, okay. But today, seriously, we look

All right. Good morning. Good to see everybody here today. It sounds like you like each other except mostly true. Anyone here that doesn't like anyone else in the room. Don't admit that. Um, if I haven't met you, my name is john, I am not one of the pastors here at sewer, but I love our pastors. Um, I love the standard they've set for God's word and how they care for us and provide spiritual leadership for us

Good morning. My name is Shane and one of the pastors here. If you are new with us this weekend. Thanks for joining us. Uh, it's been a beautiful weekend. And so hopefully you've had Fun with friends and family. We have been working through the 10 commandments. And so today we're on commandment six and I tell you to flip open your bibles and we would read through it. But I bet I can tell you it before we

Good morning. My name is Ben Lander, one of the pastors here. So glad to see you all this morning. And we are indeed working through the 10 commandments. So for those of you parents, especially the parents who have kids in the room Today, today is the commandment you've been waiting for. Right? Honor your father and mother. So give them a nudge, tell him, Hey, listen up, Pay attention. This is this is the good one, right? I

Hey, welcome. Hello. Hello. Hello. My name is Mike. I'm on the four elders here at our church. Thank you for coming. Uh, it's a joy to be a few. It's a fun to watch babies getting dedicated kids are a blast. It's honor to spend some time for this morning and look at God's word. My uh, I have the honor of speaking through the fourth commandment this morning with you in exodus 20. We're spending 10 weeks looking

well, good morning, good morning and Happy Mother's Day to all of you. My name is dan, if I haven't met you yet, I'm one of the elders here at sewer church and I was just trying to take in some of what mike was saying there. I mean that's pretty awesome. All those class awards man. I, I don't think I won that many class awards. I think I was more known for being kind of a troublemaker class

Landon Patrick. Your your first job might not be in Lincoln, but your second job is in Lincoln. We'll leave the light on for you. Welcome back if you guys want to come back. But we sure love students. Thank you for doing that guys. I was smart. Um, let's let me share a quick story. I was driving back from church last week and I was asking one of my sons like, what do you think of church? It

Well, good morning, Good morning. So our church family so good to be with you guys this morning. Good morning to you. If you're new here, my name is dan, I'm excited that you're here. It's good to be with the people of God worshiping God right on the day of the Lord, the day that the Lord has made the day of salvation. That's what today is. Right. Amen. Amen. Well today we're kicking off a new series on

Well, good morning, sore Church, Good morning. Friends, Family. I hope you guys are doing well this morning. Um, I'm really excited to Share the word with you this morning, we're gonna be talking about empty expectations. We're gonna be looking at John chapter 20 I'm gonna walk you through those 1st 10 verses there. Um, but before we do, I think it's customary right to say he is risen and you he is risen. Indeed. Amen to that. Amen

Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for coming to church. It's a, it's an exciting time. Palm sunday easter sunday and the christian calendar is key hallmark passages and moments in the life and calendar of a church and the people next week, we're giving out candy to your kids. I think this week parents, we have a bunch of baby chicks that they have upstairs that they're giving to your kids, so don't, don't mind the mess. First service said

Good morning. Good morning. It was a good morning for you, right, Wasn't it? Maybe it wasn't, well, even if it wasn't God is so good and we're glad that you're here with us. Um, if I haven't met you, my name is dan and I'm one of the elders here. There's five of us, four of us now. We sent one out and he's planning a church, so there's four of us now. Um, so glad that you're here

it's good to be with you and uh if you haven't met me, I'm derek rim, p one of the things that we've been believing for is for the gospel to continue to go out and to send out church planters and and God has been leading me in that direction and uh we're gonna be, I'm gonna share a little bit about my heart and what, what guys doing um in in a second charlie is gonna be coming