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SixTen Drama Team Update

February 16, 2011 By 1 Comment

From Mary Lee Shade:

If you are not familiar with the SixTen drama team, we are a small group from within Sixten who do dramatic interpretations of the Bible.  Our script is literally the Bible—word for word.  Then, we add emotion, movement, and props to bring Scripture alive!  It is a reminder that Scripture is not just words on a page, it’s something you experience—something you live!!  We have performed during the main worship services, special prayer services, for our disabilities ministry, and most recently for the children’s ministry.

In January the SixTen drama team did an interpretative reading for the Worship Adventure children’s ministry program. We were teaching the children about putting our hope in God, and we chose to present Psalm 33.  It was a success!  The children really enjoyed it.  You could see their eyes light up with excitement as we blew star dust into the audience and had a sword fight!  When you get a chance, take a moment and read through Psalm 33, especially reflect on the last verse, and pray about putting your own hope in the Lord.  That’s part of what we do in the SixTen drama group.  Not only do we memorize, interpret, and perform Scripture, we also hold each other accountable to apply the Scripture and live it out in our own lives.

The children enjoyed our last drama so much that we have been invited back in April. This time the theme of our program will be Christ as our Savior.  We are looking for new members.  Does this sound like something you would be interested in participating in?  Please contact either Kim Winters at garlandhouse1@verizon.net or Mary Lee Shade at maryleeshade@gmail.com.   We would be happy to talk with you about it.

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Perseverance Notes – 8/16/2010

August 16, 2010 By 1 Comment

SixTen:

See below for the notes from the perseverance teaching this past Sunday.  If you have any questions, feel free to email Dan (dk1188@gmail.com) or Sean (scochran1@gmail.com).

Perseverance

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Notes from Election Series: Week 2

June 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

SixTen:

Again, Tyler has provided the outline from this Sunday’s teaching.  Continue to meditate on these scriptures as we proceed into the third Sunday on this topic.  Keep in mind the major themes that we’ve been discussing:

1.  God’s heart is that everyone would come to the knowledge of his/her own sin, repent, and come into a loving relationship with him.

2.  Human beings are inherently (from birth) evil and corrupt.  We are happy sinners, in that we do not delight in the things of God, but in our own sinful desires and ways.  Scripture describes us as walking dead people (Ephesians 2).

3.  There is hope!  Focus on Ephesians 2:4-10.  There is a greater love described in these verses than in the initial invite God extends to everyone.  This is his electing love he bestows upon his adopted children.  We will get into this next week…

Election Teaching – Week 2

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SixTen Unplugged & Worship Night

June 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

SixTen:

Just as a reminder, Sunday night is the worship night at the church.  Here are the details:

When:  Sunday, June 6

Time:  6:30 p.m.

Where:  WSEFC Lobby

Join us for this night of worship to praise our God who’s been so good to us!  Feel free to bring a friend or just yourself.  This event will be pretty low-key,  but there will be opportunities to share if you feel led.  See you out there!

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Psalm 105:1-3

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Notes from Election Series: Week 1

May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

SixTen,

Tyler has provided the outline from the first week in this series on election.  Take the time to study these verses and let Scripture do the teaching.  I once heard that we should come to the Bible and let it judge our thoughts, instead of the other way around.  Prayerfully remember that this week.

Election Teaching – May 30th Outline

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Notes from Sunday’s lesson on Angels & Demons

March 16, 2010 By 1 Comment

SixTen:  Below are Nate’s notes from this past Sunday’s (3/14/10) lesson:

  1. Angels: the created, morally discerning, strong spirit-hosts of heaven
    1. Created to worship God (Hebrews 1:6, Revelation 4:6bff, 5:11-12)
    2. Created to serve God (Psalm 103:20-21)
    3. Created to minister to us (Psalm 91:11-12, Hebrews 1:14)
    4. Angels long to look into our salvation (1 Peter 1:10-12)
    5. Angels may sometimes visit us (Hebrews 13:2) but should never be worshipped by us (Revelation 19:10)
    6. Angels will accompany Jesus in His judgment (Matthew 25:31-33)
    7. Angels can be terrifying (Luke 2:9)
    8. “Angels” are in the hand of Jesus (Revelation 1:20, 22:16)
    9. Angels are given enormous tasks (Genesis 19:1, Luke 1:26ff, 2:10, Matthew 13:40-43, Revelation 5:2, Luke 22:43, etc.)

Has the Lord opened your eyes to an angel (Numbers 22:31)?

  1. Demons: fallen angels
    1. Satan is their Chief: he is a tempter (Luke 4:6-7), an accuser (Job 1:11, 2:4), a murderer, a liar (John 8:44), and a deceiver (2 Cor. 11:3)
    2. Satan blinds humanity (2 Corinthians 4:4)
    3. We can oblige Satan (Ephesians 4:25-28)
    4. We can spot Satan (1 Peter 5:8-9)
    5. We can live without fear of Satan (1 John 4:4)
    6. We can resist Satan (James 4:7)
    7. We can stand against Satan (Ephesians 6:10ff)
    8. Demons were cast out of heaven for having sinned (2 Peter 2:4)
    9. Demons will ultimately be judged and sentenced forever (Jude 6)
  1. God
    1. Disarms all demons by the Cross (Colossians 2:15)
    2. Commands ALL angels (Psalm 103:20-21), even demons (1 Kings 22:19-23) and Satan Himself (Job 1:12, 2:6).
    3. Helps us rather than Angels (Hebrews 2:16)
    4. Damns all angels who compromise His GRACE to us (Galatians 1:6-10)
    5. Binds us to Himself in Christ, no matter the angels (Romans 8:38-39)

Extras:

  1. There is a difference between “the angel of the Lord” (OT) and “an angel of the Lord” (NT).
  2. Our LOVE must supersede “the speech of angels” (1 Corinthians 13:1)
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Where Our Joy Rests

February 16, 2010 By 2 Comments

Becky Stuckey wanted to share the following link with SixTen: http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/


This is Becky’s take on the site:  ”The first entry is VERY challenging. I have not been able to “shake it” since reading it. It corresponds well with what Nate had been teaching on – being willing to give up EVERYTHING for Christ.  It’s is written by a 21 year old girl, Katie, who lives in Uganda. After high school she decided to go overseas for a year and now she has lived there for 2 or 3 years and has adopted 14 girls.  Crazy! Yet Katie’s blog reminds me that not only is Christ worth giving up EVERYTHING for, we will discover incredible joy when we do.”

“Another quote I heard recently was ‘nothing of the flesh brings joy’ (David Wilkerson).  So, no matter where God leads each of us, we must remember that even though He may call us to surrender things that are good or seem good, following Christ will lead us to joy that no thing or person can ever give. My prayer for all of us in SixTen, whether we’re single or married, plan to live in suburbia or some far flung area of the world, is that we pursue Christ with all that is in us that we may attain the wonderful joy that comes from knowing Him and His astounding, breathtaking love for us.”

I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.  Ephesians 3:14-20

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Ask Pastor Nate

February 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Something new we’re starting on the blog is a weekly posting called, “Ask Pastor Nate.”  It will work like this.  On Sunday mornings, people that come into SixTen will be able to write anonymous questions on pieces of paper to be collected by the leaders at the end of class.  These questions will be read by Nate and he will respond to one, which will be posted on the blog.  This will be a way for you to ask questions you normally would not ask in a big group, but that may be on your mind any given Sunday.

This is our first posting and is a recent conversation Nate had with another member at West Shore.  For the purposes of this conversation, I will call him Chuck.  Their conversation is as follows:

Chuck:

“I have a Bible question/comment.   Do you find it weird that Rahab lied in Joshua 2 yet is called righteous in James 2:25?   I understand that if she told the truth she probably would have been killed as well as Joshua’s spies, but it still blows me away that…well, she lied.   What is your take on this?”

Nate:

“On Rahab, my feeling is that she is NOT commended in James 2:25 for telling a lie as much as for offering lodging to the spies and then sending them on their way safely, something that she did by faith, which Hebrews 11:31 praises her for.   She was a product and member of a pagan nation at the time: she was in no way familiar with the Law given to Israel at Mt. Sinai and so how could she have kept it?   Interestingly, once she is welcomed into the community of Israel, she evidently becomes quite an amazing woman rearing Boaz as her son, a man who totally shines in the book of Ruth!   One more piece: both Rahab and Boaz are in the lineage of Jesus (Matthew 1)!”

Chuck:

“I like your take on this.   So would you say that she is still a prostitute at this time, yet she has seen and heard of the great things God has done for the Jews, and has a little godly fear in her?   Then later she repented from her lifestyle and followed God?   A Matthew Henry commentary has a different take on this.   He says that she is no longer a (harlot) at this time.   But yet he also says that her house is a “public house” that welcomes people in.   Now I don’t know enough about the culture back then but that kind of house sounds like a brothel.   So it wouldn’t make sense if she had repented yet still lives in/runs a brothel.   Maybe I am reading too much into this…”

Nate:

“Regardless the culture, the Bible describes her as a harlot; furthermore, whether she was “pre-repentent” or not as to her harlotry, she still “lied.”   My feeling is that the reputation of Israel and its God had preceded the spies, and that the Holy Spirit had made her ripe to express faith –which she is commended for.”

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