September 30, 2022
by Wayne Veenstra
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Category:
Discipleship
The One:Ten Team exists to develop a culture of discipleship at Harvest Church. We are defining discipleship as the process of learning Christ in faith and repentance so that we are growing like Christ in our actions, attitudes, and life’s agenda. When we say that we want to see a culture of discipleship at Harvest, we mean that we want to see the way we act and talk to ...
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September 23, 2022
by Adrian Crum
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Category:
Faith
| Tags: Anxiety, Gift
Paul can describe anxiousness, or concern, as a good thing when directed toward what God desires. Therefore, we become free from anxiety, not by simply making it stop, but by directing our anxiety toward a focused care to know the grace, acceptance, and love of the Father towards us in Christ....
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September 16, 2022
by Wayne Veenstra
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Category:
Theology
| Tags: Church, family
We believe in the catholic church.
This is what we confess on a regular basis in our worship services when we read together the historic creeds, such as the Nicene and Apostolic. Perhaps you’ve never thought that much about those words; or, maybe, you’ve recited the words but with a bewilderment or confusion, “…but aren’t we presbyterian? Shouldn’t it be, ‘...
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September 9, 2022
by Greg Norfleet
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: transformed, mind, Will of God, Bible
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2)
Ponder this pivotal command and promise with me for a moment.
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September 1, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: Church, prayer, Bride, gratitude, family, saints, gospel
It struck me again this past Sunday that the pastor has the best seat in the house. I wish you could see what I see as I look out over the congregation on a Sunday morning.
What do I see?
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August 26, 2022
by Wayne Veenstra
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Category:
Report
| Tags: Sabbatical
There is a time for everything.
These were the verses from Ecclesiastes 3 that we read together as a family our last night in Providence, Rhode Island. They seemed fitting for together we sensed that this was both a sad moment but also a happy one.
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August 19, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Heaven
| Tags: resurrection, Heaven, joy, home, peace, glory, homesick
I’m reading an excellent book called Pastoral Graces by Lee Eclov, in which he says that God’s children have a Spirit-given homesickness about them.
“God gives his people a homing instinct when the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us.”
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August 12, 2022
by Adrian Crum
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Category:
Suffering
| Tags: suffering, affliction, joy, Eternity, trial, sadness, sorrow, cry out
Perspective is so hard to come by when you’re walking through a trial. Sickness, sin, and all kinds of misery can seem eternal, and heaven can become microscopic in our heart and imagination. In my last sermon from James 1, I was very moved by our confidence that “various trials” should be counted as “all joy” because of what they are producing in us: endurance....
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August 5, 2022
by Greg Norfleet
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Category:
Counseling
| Tags: wisdom, counseling, Wise, James, CCEF, Conference
Clearly, the needs for wise care within the church far exceed the capacity of any pastor, and clearly, the solution is to multiply wise helpers within the church through training. “How?” is the million-dollar question! The Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) is a biblical counseling ministry that God is using worldwide to help pastors like me answer th...
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July 29, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Death
| Tags: Death, Eternity, mortality, conquered
I have been thinking about death lately. Not morbidly. I know death is a conquered foe. But it is still an inevitable reality. And the Bible says that there is something about “numbering our days” that produces wisdom (Ps 90:12).
What is the wisdom of remembering our own mortality?...
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