CCD celebrated its first Church Family Day, combining all three services as one, at the Macias Sports Complex. Watch and enjoy the slideshow presentation.

Watch the slideshow presentation of the H4U Praise & Worship Seminar and Night of Psalms in Dipolog City held last Aug. 29-30, 2009.

Intimacy

Jesus desires to have a very meaningful loving relationship with you. He loves you more than you will ever know. As Paul was praying for the Ephesian church, he prayed that they might know the length, the breadth, depth, the height of the love of Christ which he said, “passes knowledge”. The love of Christ is so great, so intense, so deep and so rich you’ll never know the full depth of His love. Jesus said to his disciples, “Greater love has no man than this that a man will lay down his life for his friends.”

Jesus loves you more than you will ever know and He desires that His love for you will spark a responsive love in your own heart as it did with His disciples. John wrote, “we love him because he first loved us”. As we come to understand His love for us, it strikes within our hearts a responsive cord. I find my heart responding to His tremendous love for me. As my heart responds to His love, I’m drawn unto Him in this deep loving relationship. As the Lord said to the Nation of Israel through the Old Testament prophet, “I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn you with loving-kindness”.

You remember His message to the church of Ephesus? It was a church that had all kinds of commendation. They were a working church, they were a discerning church. Yes, they even have their theology right. And yet the Lord said, “I have this against you in that you have left your first love. Repent and go back and do the things you did at first”. The Lord is calling the church to come back to that first love, to come back to that deep, intimate loving relationship.

There are many people who have not yet experienced this loving relationship with God. They go to church as sort of a performance kind of an activity or sometimes out of obligation. They have a sense of obligation to be moral and to be community pillars and to live a proper life and it’s proper to go to church, it’s accepted culturally. Church to them is an obligation, a duty. They don’t really know the intimacy of a relationship with Jesus – that glorious loving relationship where you are just caught up in rapture with His glory, with His beauty, with the wonder of His love for you. Where you just sit at times just letting your cup overflow with the consciousness of His love and of His presence and of His goodness, where you pour out your heart and soul to Him and your expressions of love. So when you come into this loving relationship with the Lord, you know the joy. You know the glory, you know the excitement of His presence, the excitement of your heart being so filled with love and the one that you love is there, He’s with you.

This is the theme of our Night of Psalms tonight. Come out and let’s express our love and devotion to the Lord together. But don’t wait for tonight. Let’s do it this morning as we come to worship Him!

In 1965, Pastor Chuck Smith began his ministry at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Only twenty-five people attended. What began as a small chapel has now grown into a church that seats over 2000 and is filled almost nightly. From the beginning, Pastor Chuck welcomed all, young and old, without judgment, placing his emphasis on the teaching of the Word of God. His simple, yet sound, biblical approach draws 25,000 people weekly.









With a sincere concern for the lost, Pastor Chuck made room in his heart and his home for a generation of hippies and surfers; generating a movement of the Holy Spirit that spread from the West Coast to the East Coast, bringing thousands of young people to Jesus Christ. Included among this generation of new believers were Greg Laurie, Mike MacIntosh, Raul Ries, and Skip Heitzig, as well as hundreds of others who now have ministries of their own.

Source: http://www.calvarychapelcostamesa.com



CALVARY CHAPEL PASTORS & WORKERS CONFERENCE on October 20-22 at EcoTech, Lahug, Cebu. Theme:“Occupy Till I Come” Luke 19:13Luke 19:13
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. pounds: mina, here translated a pound, is twelve ounces and an half: which according to five shillings the ounce is three pounds two shillings and sixpence  

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· P1,400 per person for those staying at Eco-Tech

· P900 per person for those staying outside EcoTech

· P700 per child for children sleeping in their parents’ bed but eating @ Eco-Tech

If you desire to attend, please sign up at the back after the service.

MISSIONS TRAINING COURSE in KAIROS starts this October 3. It will be for 8 Saturdays, 1:30 pm—5 pm. Registration fee is P500. Sign up sheet will be at the back.

The CORE College Ministry will host a CHURCH RUMMAGE SALE to raise funds for their Missions Outreach to Davao in October.

DATE: SATURDAY, OCT. 10

TIME: 8:00 am—2:00 pm

VENUE: CCD

You can help support us by donating any clothing, household items, furnitures, etc. that are in good, sellable condition. Please bring donations to the church office before Wednesday, Oct. 7. Also, please pray and invite your friends and neighbors!

The COLLEGE CORE also wishes to THANK YOU for supporting their outreach fundraisers thru yesterday’s rummage sale. Please do pray for the core’s outreach team as they minister in Davao this coming semestral break.

THANK YOU CHURCH for your quick response in helping out our brothers and sisters from CALVARY CHAPEL MANILA and HARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP affected by the flood. Ptr. Lito and Ptr. Juni are extending their thanks to you! You have blessed them tremendously! Let’s continue to pray for them.

The Calvary Chapel Pastors and Workers Conference will be held on October 20-22 at EcoTech, Lahug, Cebu.
Theme is “Occupy Till I Come” Luke 19:13Luke 19:13
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. pounds: mina, here translated a pound, is twelve ounces and an half: which according to five shillings the ounce is three pounds two shillings and sixpence  

WP-Bible plugin (KJV)
Cost:
P1,400 per person for those staying at Eco-Tech
P 900 per person for those staying outside EcoTech
P 700 per child for children sleeping in their parents bed but eating @ Eco-Tech.

We will have a Night of Psalms this coming Sept. 20 at 6 pm. Visayan Service will be moved to 3 pm on this day.

We will have a Night of Psalms this coming Sept. 20 at 6 pm. Visayan Service will be moved to 3 pm on this day.

There will be a Citipoint Concert on Sept. 16, Wednesday, 7 pm at Macias Sports Complex. Tickets are at P250 to P300 and are available at Mart 1, Nerisse Restaurant, Cangs’, and PCBS.

Hospital Ministry will have a meeting after hospital visitation this Sunday, Sept. 13.

We praise God for His moving during the Praise & Worship Seminar and the Night of Psalms in Dipolog. Thank you so much for your prayers!

What a blessing to see God’s people worship in unison…

The H4U Dipolog trip is indeed a success! We have seen how His Word instruct, correct, rebuke, encourage and build up His people in the worship seminar. How hungry indeed are His people for the teaching of His Word. Can you imagine: it’s supposed to be “snack-time” (break time) and yet they didn’t want the snacks, they want “real food” from His Word! So we continued until lunch break! What a joy to serve God’s people in that way.

In the morning of Sunday, we were also given the privilege to lead worship and teach the Word in a church where we held our Night of Psalms. It was sweet and beautiful! And the Night of Psalms? It’s just amazing! It was full packed (overflowed outside the church building), it was hot (there’s no air conditioning, just electric fans), and you can feel the sticky air! But the beautiful thing is…the worshippers didn’t mind all these! The place was just saturated with praises for Jesus, our King!

And that’s what true worship is – “Worship is that adorning attitude of reverence that is lost in the glory and wonder of all that God is and does!” What a blessing to see God’s people worship in unison, with one voice and sound, with one heart and mind, not minding the comforts, setting aside denominational barriers and forgetting about themselves and focusing on who really is the object of worship – Jesus Christ our Lord!

Now do you know what happens when we worship God in spirit and in truth? It results in –
First, It will revitalize our walk with Him – Zech.14:17! Are you here this morning worshiping God in spirit and in truth? Or are you just going through the motions? If you are a Christian, have you lost that wonder and the sense of awe of God? That passionate love for Him? That desire to bless Him, not only to be blessed? That heart that is lost in Him (that you are not always looking at your watch, but you are so lost in Him that you are looking to Him, loving every minute of it?) If not, then God wants to revitalize your relationship with Him? How? You need to begin to worship Him. Go back to your “first love.”

The second thing that happens is that one finds that his conscience is quickened by God’s holiness – thus he lives a sanctified life (or separated life). That’s what happened to Isaiah in the 6th chapter. And thirdly, true worship results in witness and Christian service. Don’t say you are a worshiper of God when you don’t want to share it to anyone! A true worshiper worships God with his/her life. He’s a witness to the One true God who is Jesus Christ!