August 29, 2010 – Sermon: Dennis Hollandsworth
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We are collecting school supplies for the next few weeks for children at Seaford Elementary and Yorktown Elementary that can’t afford the required supplies. This is a calling to the church to undertake this as a local mission focus.
To review the Seaford Elementary list, you will need to visit their site here. Once you get there, you are looking on the bottom right hand side of the page for the link titled ‘Student Supply Lists 2010-2011′ as seen to the right.
Once you have gone into this link you will find supply lists broken down by grade – Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. In each of these areas you will find various articles you can purchase to assist students at Seaford Elementary who may not be able to obtain many of these supplies as their families struggle in the current economic conditions.
This list is not available on the school’s website. However, you can obtain the PDF of the supplies here (kindergarten through 5th grade).
Add comment July 18th, 2010
Seaford Baptist Church awarded eight $1000.00 scholarships from the Wes Martin Scholarship Fund. This fund was established by Lei and Mel Collins, Wes’ sister, and his brothers. Recipients were chosen for outstanding achievements in both service to the church and academics. The recipients were, left to right: Katie Kimrey, Brianna Keene, Sydney Beasley, Lindsay Barnard, Jonathan Gilson, Karen Riley, and Jake Barnett. Not pictured is Rachel Murray.
Scholarship Recipients 2010
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July 25, 2010 – Sermon: Dennis Hollandsworth
July 18, 2010 – Sermon: Dennis Hollandsworth
July 4, 2010 – Sermon: Dennis Hollandsworth
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Try this fascinating matching game! All figures refer to the United States unless otherwise specified.
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A1. Amount spent on entertainment and recreation A2. Amount spent on state lottery tickets A3. Amount spent on pets A4. Amount spent on jewelry A5. Amount given to all overseas ministries (denominational, interdenominational, independent) A6. Amount required to lift the world’s poorest one billion people out of extreme poverty A7. Additional amount required to supply primary education to every child in the world A8. Amount required to bring clean water to most of the world’s poor A9. Additional amount required to provide basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world |
AA. $65 billion AB. $6 billion AC. $58 billion AD. $65 billion AE. $31 billion AF. $13 billion AG. $705 billion AH. $5 billion AI. $9 billion |
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B1. Percent of American households who tithe B2. Percent of American evangelicals who tith B3. Percent of church revenues sent to overseas missions |
BA. 5% BB. 2% BC. 24% |
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C1. Additional money that would be given if all American churchgoers tithed C2. Total U.S. government foreign assistance budget C3. Amount that would be left over if all American churchgoers tithed; and if that money were used to eliminate the most extreme poverty on the planet for a billion people, provide universal primary education, bring clean water to most of the world, and provide basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world |
CA. $39.5 billion CB. $168 billion CC. $75 billion |
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Wasn’t that fun? Well, maybe not. You don’t have to know anything at all to see that the answer to C3 is at least $39.5 billion. Maybe more. If American churchgoers all tithed, we could do all that completely independent of government. Answers to be provided no later than June 20. Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World by Richard Stearns, pp. 217-218 |
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June 27, 2010 – Sermon: Dennis Hollandsworth
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June 6, 2010 – Sermon: Dennis Hollandsworth
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Why did Jesus come? There are plenty of ways we could ask and answer that question. Recently I looked through the gospels to see where he himself said why he came; where he says things like “I was sent for … ” or “I came to ….” The first one I found is in what may have been his earliest sermon we have on record, a very short one, in Luke 4:16-21:
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Jesus focused much of his ministry on those that the Pharisees (and other respectable types) considered the “wrong sort” of people: captives, the poor, the blind, the oppressed. Apparently (John 9:2) even a physical ailment like blindness was thought to indicate some spiritual fault; Jesus corrected this (John 9:3), and healed the man’s eyes there in the literal sense. In Jesus’ address above, though, there is clearly some figure of speech, because we have no record he even preached to anyone in literal, physical captivity. The closest he came to that was probably when he healed lepers. Law and custom required people with leprosy to isolate themselves “outside the camp,” away from all other people, and to shout a warning “Unclean!” if anyone came close to them.
Jesus released many from that. Besides being a real disease, leprosy is a symbol of the real captivity Jesus came to address: captivity to spiritual uncleanness, which separates us from one another and especially from God. It keeps us outside the camp, outside the place of joy where we can enjoy the fullness of real company with others without masks or pretending, where we can engage in fruitful work together, where we can know and have fellowship with God.
We all need this release. Mark 2:15-17:
And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
He was speaking ironically, as we know from the rest of his ministry. The ones who thought they were spiritually well were not; they were if anything sicker than the “sick,” for they did not see their own illness for what it was. On another occasion he said (Matthew 9:13), “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” He saw right through their religious exterior to their interior mercilessness.
Which brings us back to the “oppressed” that he came liberate. He came to square matters. This, too, certainly refers to the spiritually oppressed, those who are weighed down with their own weakness and failure before God. In view of the Old Testament context from which he was quoting, it appears he is also calling all of us to free others we may be are holding down unjustly, whether it be as employers, neighbors, classmates in school, or whatever. In short, Jesus came to liberate us from our own failings, and to lead us to pass that blessing along by liberating others where we have power to do so.
This is the kind of thing so many people think of when they think of Jesus: he was one who came to help the needy. He certainly was that. I’m still being worn out, as Gene would say, over what it means to follow his example in that.
If, however, that’s all you think of when you think of Jesus, pause a moment and ask yourself this. If that one-dimensional view of him were true, would he have proved to be the single most significant figure in all of human history, as he has? We’ll continue to look at why Jesus came, and we’ll see that the picture is nowhere near that simple. Not even close.
Add comment May 27th, 2010
This link below opens to an imbedded you tube video of a song pointed out to me by Shelly Duffer on her blog. It was performed at the Together for the Gospel conference earlier this year. The style will not necessarily please our webmaster Bryan Dunn, but he will like the theology behind it. I expect that we will hear this soon at Seaford.
All I Have is Christ by Devon Kauflin
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Ok, a real blogger would write an entry discussing the article to which I am referring here, but I can’t seem to find time to write. But this article is too important not to be read, by everyone. The article is titled Why Johnny Can’t Read the Bible in Christianity Today.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/may/25.38.html?start=4
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Men’s Meeting
May 25, 2010
2 Peter 1:12–15 (ESV) 12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, 14 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
Jude 5 (ESV) 5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Psalm 39:4–5 (ESV)
4 “O Lord, make me know my end
and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
5 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Psalm 90:12 (ESV)
12 So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Questions for Discussion
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