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Are your Kids Ready for a VBS Adventure?

2010-04-28T06:36:00.000-07:00

Are you ready for an adventure? Come join us as we explore The Egypt File. We will be investigating how God has wonderfully made us in His image to love and serve Him. Get ready for the journey and prepare to laugh, pray, sing, learn, create, play and eat!!! If you think you can handle all the fun, then register today!

Dates: Sunday, June 27 - Thursday, July 1st
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Ages: 4 years old through 5th grade (completed)
Place: Christian Life Assembly
307 NC Hwy 100
Gibsonville, NC 27249
336.449.7011

Click the link to learn more about the curriculum. It's also linked in the website for registering.

http://answersvbs.com/2010/

Meet CLA's New Worship Pastor, Kim Farmer

2010-03-04T06:34:00.001-08:00

Christian Life Assembly is pleased to introduce and welcome our new Worship Pastor, Kim Farmer. Kim is a resident of Gibsonville with his wife, Cynthia, and daughter, Eva. Kim has a wealth of experience in leading and developing worship ministries in the local church. His first Sunday with Christian Life Assembly will be Sunday, March 7 at 10:45 AM.

The Grand Finale

2010-01-29T07:21:00.001-08:00

The world is rapidly changing before our eyes. Could the Bible have information that relates to what we see happening day after day? Pastor Bruce points to the signs of the times and shows us the Lord's return could be close at hand! It id a wake up call for Christ-followers and unbelievers alike. Join us for this 6 part series, entitled, The Grand Finale! Together, we will discover what the Bible uncovers about Israel and the Middle East, the Rapture, and the rise of the anti-Christ. The series begins Sunday, January 31st at 10:45 AM. You can find directions and more about Christian Life Center here.

2010 Spiritual Life Covenant

2009-12-16T04:36:00.001-08:00

The coming of a new year presents us with a new opportunity to improve our spiritual health and vitality. Everyone at CLC is invited to participate in our 2010 Spiritual Life Covenant, which includes:

Private Devotions for 4 days a week.
Read through the Bible during 2010.
Participate in at least one small group Bible Study, such as a Sunday morning Bible Fellowship.
Practice Fasting and Prayer for 1 meal a week.

I continue to recommend the Discipleship Journal One-Year Plan, which we have adapted for our congregation. This Bible Reading Plan offers special features that will aid you in you journey through the Bible:

By reading from four separate places in the Scripture every day you should be able to better grasp the unity of the Scriptures, as well as enjoy the variety of seeing four different viewpoints.
You can begin at any point of the year
To prevent the frustration of falling behind, which most of us tend to do when following a Bible reading plan, each month of this plan gives you only 25 readings. Since you'll have several "free days" each month, you could set aside Sunday to either not read at all or to catch up on any readings you may have missed in the past week.
If you finish the month's readings by the 25th, you could use the final days of the month to study passages that challenged or intrigued you.
If reading through the entire Bible in one year looms as too large a task, you can alter the plan to meet your needs. For example, you could read the gospels and the wisdom books this year, and the other two categories next year.
In the year ahead, ask God each day to speak directly to you from the Scripture portions you read. Be expectant, and let your continual exposure to God's Word reshape your attitudes and behavior as you gain a better understanding of every part of His written testimony to us.

In addition, bookmarks have been created to aid you in your commitment to read through the Bible each year. Each day you'll read from four sections of Scripture, so four sets of bookmarks have been created to help you. You may download your own bookmark and print it for yourself or pick one up in the church foyer.

Imagine Yourself Debt Free

2009-11-25T08:50:00.000-08:00

Christian Life Center is hosting Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. A class orientation and preview will take place January 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM. Class Begins: January 26, 2010. Classes will meet on Tuesdays 7:00 PM

Register here.

Coordinator:
Heather Conklin. Contact Heather with a question.

Schedule:

Jan 26, 2010 Super Saving
Feb 2, 2010 Relating With Money
Feb 9, 2010 Cash Flow Planning
Feb 16, 2010 Dumping Debt
Feb 23, 2010 Credit Sharks In Suits
Mar 2, 2010 Buyer Beware
Mar 9, 2010 Clause and Effect
Mar 16, 2010 That's Not Good Enough
Mar 23, 2010 Of Mice and Mutual Funds
Mar 30, 2010 From Fruition To Tuition
Apr 6, 2010 Working In Your Strengths
Apr 13, 2010 Real Estate and Mortgages
Apr 20, 2010 The Great Misunderstanding

God's Word for Today

2009-11-25T08:49:00.002-08:00

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Welcome to the Community

2009-11-25T08:49:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the community! We hope you have had a smooth transition to the community and we’d love to help you settle in by giving you a place to belong.

Christian Life Center can help you fit right in. We offer many opportunities for all ages to connect with new people and discover friendships. Christian Life Center is a great place to meet new friends, find needed encouragement and discover God’s plan for you. Be our guest and connect with us in “Faith, Hope, and Love!” We promise not to knock you over (or lick you in the face). You can find us here.

Welcome to the Community

2009-11-04T10:39:00.001-08:00

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Life through the Lens of Jesus

2009-08-28T07:19:00.002-07:00

Life through the Lens of Jesus is the title of our new study through the Gospel of Luke. Luke is, perhaps, the most prolific historian of the New Testament. His proximity within the community of first century Christ-followers allows him both to experience and chronicle the Life of Jesus in History and the Life of Jesus within His body, in The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts, respectively. Both serve as a well-versed and thorough witness for a Roman friend, named Theophilus.
Luke captures 3 dimensions of Jesus’ life and ministry to persuade others to follow Christ.

His Eternal Character
His Historical Reality
His Present Activity

Zechariah's Moment

2009-08-25T07:24:00.000-07:00

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Luke 1.5-25

The story begins in the Temple, the Holy of Holies, where a priest named Zechariah had been called upon to minister. The temple priesthood was organized into 24 divisions, with each division serving twice a year. Zechariah had received the honor. Because of the large number of priests, most would never be chosen for such a duty, and no one was permitted to serve in this capacity twice. Zechariah no doubt regarded this as the supreme moment in a lifetime of priestly service. The incense was kept burning perpetually, just in front of the veil that divided the holy place from the most holy place. The lone priest would offer the incense every morning and every evening, while the rest of the priests and worshipers stood outside the holy place in prayer.
Zechariah dutifully ministered, but he stood there in bittersweet emotion. A divine encounter would come to frustration because he was stuck. “Stuck" is when I can't get beyond what brought me to this point and I’m no longer living for what can lie ahead of me.

Summer Series: The Healing

2009-08-19T07:58:00.000-07:00

The Sun of Righteousness is rising over us with healing in His wings for the sick, the wounded, and the broken. Join us in this summer-long study of the healing ministry of Jesus and how He is releasing that work in the local church. God has set Christian Life Center apart as a healing place. I believe that in all we do to fulfill the Great Commission of winning the lost to Jesus and making disciples for Him - our ministry together will be marked by the sick being healed, the broken being lovingly mended, and the wounded being cleansed.

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Life through the Lens of Jesus

2009-08-15T21:37:00.000-07:00

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Luke 1.1-4

Luke is, perhaps, the most prolific historian of the New Testament. His proximity within the community of first century Christ-followers allows him both to experience and chronicle the Life of Jesus in History and the Life of Jesus within His body, in The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts, respectively. Both serve as a well-versed and thorough witness for a Roman friend, named Theophilus.
Luke captures 3 dimensions of Jesus’ life and ministry to persuade others to follow Christ.

His Eternal Character
His Historical Reality
His Present Activity

The Healing part 9

2009-08-08T21:37:00.000-07:00

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James 5.14-18

While we have referenced this text many times over the course of this series, which we began the last Sunday of May, we have yet to mine it and it is a very weighty and necessary passage of scripture to the practice of healing. Let me set the table for you so James 5 can be as tasty and as satisfying nourishment for our souls as it needs to be.
The body of Christ becomes the place, where the realities of suffering and disease and wounds collide with the loving compassion of Christ and His provision for healing.
There are three kinds of healing prayer - 3 kinds of asking anything in His Name - that take place in James 5, which the Bible instructs us to keep alive in Christian Life Center. All three of them are ways of praying for people who are sick or suffering in some way. You can’t use this text to say there is just one biblical way to pray for the sick. There is a great deal of flexibility possible here. These include...

Healing Prayer for Your Personal Needs (v. 13)
Healing Prayer embodied in a Shepherd’s Faith (vv. 14-15)
Healing Prayer through Other Believers (vv. 16-18)

What are the implications? It means that preaching and teaching and our speaking to one another in encouragement for the upbuilding of the body should both affirm and practice praying for healing. It means that the Pastor must lead the way in bold, audacious faith by praying for the sick and preparing addition ministry elders, both spiritually and practically, to regularly receive the needs of the broken, the suffering, and the hurting to expectantly pray in faith for the gifts of healing.
But ultimately, it means that we sustain an open invitation for the sick to receive healing prayer from people of faith.

The Healing part 8

2009-07-25T21:37:00.000-07:00

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*The video is mislabled as “The Healing, part 6" on the screen, but it is “part 8."

Acts 3.1-18

Peter and John approached the Temple gates to continue praying. At this early point in the history of the church, the Jewish Christians were still praying in the temple. The ninth hour was about 3:00 P.M. The courts were filling with people, who pressed through the gates of the temple.
This was a clever place to beg, since people on their way to worship were less likely to ignore him. Even so, in such a busy place, the request for money must have become something of an empty repetition. Imagine the endless pleas for pity and money. I imagine a man who has become numb to rejection. He hears it enough.
Luke uses medical terminology to describe a man who was cripple from birth. The word translated “feet" is used only by Luke (Physician), and it’s found nowhere else in all of scripture but here! It is a medical term, which refers to the “base" or “heel" of the foot. Base could also mean that his ankle was deformed and unable to bear any weight. He was unable to stand, to walk. Imagine the throes of people walking into the temple, while he is left unable to lift himself to his feet to do the same.
Yet, this becomes a place for a divine moment, not because it was at the Jewish Temple, but because Peter and John saw life differently now. They were filled with the Holy Spirit. They had heard the words of Jesus and seen His miracles. They knew the Risen Christ. Common places became extraordinary scenes for the miraculous to take place.

The Healing part 7

2009-07-18T21:37:00.000-07:00

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Mark 9.14-21

The seizures are sudden and come at random. When they attack, their son goes rigid and wild; his mouth frothing, his teeth grinding; he sounds like an animal. He loses control and has many times been singed by the kitchen fire and the charcoal fires in the streets.
When the seizures abate, the boy is encircled by worried, scolding eyes. As he gets up, people back away. The other neighborhood children are afraid of him and are told by their parents to stay clear.
His life has been isolated and picked clean of the treasures of friendship and boyhood by a force they cannot see. A cruel spirit lies in wait to torment him like the schoolyard bully, who hides around the corner. It delights in the tyranny; the pushing, the shoving, the brutalizing. This is the way of demonic spirits of darkness. They prey upon the mind and want increasing control of person’s life.
The next day brings the news of Jesus’ disciples convening in their town. Perhaps Jesus, himself, would be present. Perhaps, hope was within their reach. This is where Mark picks up the story and where Jesus demonstrates a healing mission that sets captives free.

The Healing part 6

2009-07-11T21:37:00.000-07:00

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Matthew 12.1-14

For Jesus, the Sabbath was a day for healing. During His earthly life and ministry, He honored the 7th day as a day of worship and took care to demonstrate its original beneficent purpose. After His resurrection, the day of worship began to be observed on the first day of the week. God’s principle of a Sabbath remains for us to apply.
God instituted Sabbath as a day of rest. He declared it to be a day of special blessing for His people and a sacred day to worship Him. Watch the activity of Jesus and you will find that inherent in the principle of Sabbath is the promise of divine healing.

The Healing part 5

2009-07-05T07:24:00.000-07:00

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Matthew 18.23-35

Just like the rings in a cross-section of a tree, our lives have records of our existence. In these “rings" of our thoughts and emotions, the memories are recorded and alive. They deeply affect how we look at life, at others, at ourselves. Most tend to cope with it. Endure it. Survive it. Other’s feel more directly the crushing weight of those burdens of past experiences. Relationships have failed because those events left people broken and hurting and unhealthy.
Healing of the Spirit provides both renewal and restoration of one’s spiritual life in relationship with God. The first and deepest kind of spiritual healing happens in God forgiving our sins, which Christ provided at the cross and that we receive through faith and repentance. Salvation through forgiveness results in the healing of our spirit. The ongoing experience of His forgiveness releases spiritual health.
Another kind of healing for our spirit happens when we give forgiveness. Just as receiving forgiveness releases healing to our spirits, giving forgiveness can release healing to us emotionally, spiritually, and personally.

The Healing part 4

2009-06-28T20:09:00.000-07:00

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Luke 7:35-40

Closely associated with the promise of healing for our bodies is the healing of our infirmities. Infirmities refers to a personal illness or weakness and it is not confined to the body, but implies any illness, whether body or spirit or emotional. Biblical Healing never isolates healing to the physical body, only. Healing is God’s life-giving power for the whole person; body, spirit, soul, and even our relationships. The Bible views a person as an integration of body, soul, and spirit. The story of the woman, who interrupted Jesus’ visit to the home of Simon the Pharisee, powerfully illustrates the healing of the human spirit that comes through Christ’s forgiveness.

The Healing part 4

2009-06-28T16:15:00.000-07:00

Luke 7:35-40

Closely associated with the promise of healing for our bodies is the healing of our infirmities. Infirmities refers to a personal illness or weakness and it is not confined to the body, but implies any illness, whether body or spirit or emotional. Biblical Healing never isolates healing to the physical body, only. Healing is God’s life-giving power for the whole person; body, spirit, soul, and even our relationships. The Bible views a person as an integration of body, soul, and spirit. The story of the woman, who interrupted Jesus’ visit to the home of Simon the Pharisee, powerfully illustrates the healing of the human spirit that comes through Christ’s forgiveness.

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The Healing part 3

2009-06-21T07:00:00.000-07:00

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Luke 5.20-21

Healing remains integral to the mission and Jesus and, therefore, to the Great Commission of His followers. I would even go so far as to say the healing is probably the best one-word definition for His mission that we could use. Many often think of healing only in relation to physical sickness, but Biblical Healing never isolates its meaning to only the physical body. Rather, when referring to Healing, we need to think of it as God’s life-giving power for the total person; body, mind, spirit, conscience, and soul.
In the New Testament, healing encompasses the forgiveness for Sin and restoration from physical suffering. Forgiveness of sin brings release and healing to all dimensions of life affected by sin; the spirit, the conscience, the mind, the body. And it extends into all of life: a person’s relationships, life’s purpose, and more.

The Healing part 2

2009-06-07T19:05:00.001-07:00

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Malachi 4.1-2, Luke 5.15-25

People often think of healing only in relation to physical sickness, but Biblical Healing never isolates its meaning to only the physical body. Rather, when referring to Healing, we need to think of it as God’s life-giving power for the total person; body, mind, spirit, conscience, and the soul.
The Sun of Righteousness is rising over us with healing in His wings for the sick, the wounded, and the broken. Let’s believe and prepare ourselves for the continued healing ministry of Jesus in our midst by welcoming His compassionate character within us.

The Healing part 2

2009-06-07T19:05:00.000-07:00

Malachi 4.1-2, Luke 5.15-25

People often think of healing only in relation to physical sickness, but Biblical Healing never isolates its meaning to only the physical body. Rather, when referring to Healing, we need to think of it as God’s life-giving power for the total person; body, mind, spirit, conscience, and the soul.
The Sun of Righteousness is rising over us with healing in His wings for the sick, the wounded, and the broken. Let’s believe and prepare ourselves for the continued healing ministry of Jesus in our midst by welcoming His compassionate character within us.

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The Healing part 1

2009-05-31T15:02:00.001-07:00

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Malachi 4.1-2

The Sun of Righteousness is rising over us with healing in His wings for the sick, the wounded, and the broken. God has set Christian Life Center apart as a healing place. I believe that in all we do to fulfill the Great Commission of winning the lost to Jesus and making disciples for Him - our ministry together will be marked by the sick being healed, the broken being lovingly mended, and the wounded being cleansed.