Bethany First Church Of The Nazarene

who do you have conversations with regarding your faith journey? Who prays with you? Who shares God's word with you? Who walks with you through difficult times?

"To Pray is to Change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to Transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer." - Richard Foster  

Choices you have made regarding practices in your relationship with God will lead you to a predictable destination.

God loves you just the way you are but he refuses to leave you that way because he wants you to be just like Jesus. - Max Lucado

Master sculpter, Scott Stearman, inspires us through sculpture and and through word, in preparation for the upcoming sermon series "Transformed" 

It is the desire of God to transform you and me to become more like Jesus. 

The living water provides the love, presence, friendship, grace, pardon of Jesus Christ. Everything we need to live well. 

Sometimes our faith is mixed with fear and doubt. 

We bring what ever we have to God. However inadequate it maybe, and he takes it, he breaks it, and he blesses it. He gives it back to you and he says “give it away.” What he does with it is mysterious, powerful, and is almost impossible to explain.

Practices become a means of grace through which God transforms us to become more like Jesus. 

Jesus and his followers created a culture of invitation everywhere they went--they lived their lives with open arms.

How important is it to you -- that you become more like Jesus?

When we fully grasp what it means to bear God's image, we are at once struck with the grandeur of our possibilities and the tragedy of our unrealized potential. Our true identity is to live life with the same character and nature of God.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.”  —C.S. Lewis

Culture says if you want to have life--you need more; more money, more stuff. In the kingdom of God we find another narrative; if you want to have life--give your money and your stuff away.

Follower of Jesus are called to pursue godliness. 

Most of use are not completely convinced that money is not the recipe for contentment.

What does it mean to be the people of God? It means to be really good neighbors.

It is never okay for a follower of Jesus to turn their backs on hurting people.

God's will for us is not to survive the world but through the power of the Holy Spirit, He wants to change the world through us.