2008-03-30-1030 Dr. Raymond Culpepper , First Assistant Overseer for the  Church of God is the guest speaker for 10:30 Sunday morning March 30th, 2008.

Scripture Ref: John 5:2-15

Topic: Change

Notes:
- Some things in life we consider unchangeable, thorn in the flesh
- Spiritual, emotional, relational, personal, physical, mental
- Man ill for 38 years at pool of Bethesda
- Change happens in times of duty, desperation, and discovery
- Jesus came to make you more than a conqueror
- Mercy and Grace
- Jesus confronts the need for change when we do not ask
- The human will is not enough to change
- Rise and do something you've never done; we only risk when we have hope: desire, expectation, patience
- If you have no hope, faith is lost

2008-03-30-0830 Dr. Raymond Culpepper , First Assistant Overseer for the  Church of God is the guest speaker for 8:30 Sunday morning March 30th, 2008.

Scripture Ref: John 5:2-15

Topic: Change

Notes:
- Some things in life we consider unchangeable, thorn in the flesh
- Spiritual, emotional, relational, personal, physical, mental
- Man ill for 38 years at pool of Bethesda
- Change happens in times of duty, desperation, and discovery
- Jesus came to make you more than a conqueror
- Mercy and Grace
- Jesus confronts the need for change when we do not ask
- The human will is not enough to change
- Rise and do something you've never done; we only risk when we have hope: desire, expectation, patience
- If you have no hope, faith is lost

2006-08-27-1030 Dr. Raymond Culpepper , First Assistant Overseer for the  Church of God is the guest speaker for 10:30 Sunday morning August 27th, 2006

Scripture Ref: I Chronicles 14:8-17

Topic: Breakthrough

Notes:
- If you’re in a rut, depression, illness, lack of ambition; you need a breakthrough, intervention of God
- David focused on getting everything out of life possible (intentionality), had influence, left inheritance to those who followed
- Philistines: denial, destruction, distraction
- Determined by God, Embraced by us, Secured by faith, Taught by challenges, Intensified by holy spirit, Negated by disobedience, Yes to God no to Devil
- The spirit of the Philistines is still alive and is after you
- Believe in a big God. Do you serve a genie in a bottle god, sweet grandfather god, CEO god, busy dad god?
- Astronomer in Chile saw supernova 170,000 light years away. God present 170,000 years ago and still today.
- Abram in tent, God told him to go out to count the stars. Sometimes you have to get out of circumstance to see how big God is.
- Cast down imaginations (story of voice in his spirit threatening destruction).

2006-08-27-0830 Dr. Raymond Culpepper , First Assistant Overseer for the  Church of God is the guest speaker for 8:30 Sunday morning August 27th, 2006

Scripture Ref: I Chronicles 14:8-17

Topic: Breakthrough

Notes:
- If you’re in a rut, depression, illness, lack of ambition; you need a breakthrough, intervention of God
- David focused on getting everything out of life possible (intentionality), had influence, left inheritance to those who followed
- Philistines: denial, destruction, distraction
- Determined by God, Embraced by us, Secured by faith, Taught by challenges, Intensified by holy spirit, Negated by disobedience, Yes to God no to Devil
- The spirit of the Philistines is still alive and is after you
- Believe in a big God. Do you serve a genie in a bottle god, sweet grandfather god, CEO god, busy dad god?
- Astronomer in Chile saw supernova 170,000 light years away. God present 170,000 years ago and still today.
- Abram in tent, God told him to go out to count the stars. Sometimes you have to get out of circumstance to see how big God is.
- Cast down imaginations (story of voice in his spirit threatening destruction).

2006-07-16-0830 Dr. Raymond Culpepper , First Assistant Overseer for the  Church of God is the guest speaker for 8:30 Sunday morning July 16th, 2006

Scripture Ref: Exodus 13:17-18, 14:1-3

Topic: Hard Times

Notes:
- Trouble is transition, leads to transformation then triumph
- 4 principles: 1. God has a plan (Israel led to Red Sea, God to defeat enemy). 2. I have a propensity to panic 3. I need to set my posture (get  your act together). 4. God’s plan will prevail.
- 5 postures: Emotional, Spiritual, Visual, Verbal, Go Forth
- God’s plan will require my partnership
- God is working in the darkness where you cannot see.