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2023-24 Preschool Registration
Preschool registration is now open for the 2023-24 school year! You may access the online enrollment form by clicking here. Each enrollment form requires a non-refundable $100 enrollment fee which can be paid via our secure online giving page. For questions, please call Tracey Chesson at 252-264-2254, ext. 208 or contact her by email.
The Fake News
We live in an age of disinformation, a time when nothing can be trusted, when all information is to be treated with suspicion. It is an age marked by rumor, conjecture, opinion, and bias, a time of both conspiracy and theory. Christians have claimed for 2,000 years to know the truth, but what happens when the foundations of the faith entrusted to the church are being compromised from within? How is such a situation identified, and what are we to do in response?
Jude, the servant (and half brother) of Christ, is concerned with these very issues. Within the first generation of churches, peddlers of disinformation had wormed their way into positions of leadership among the people of God. These wolves in shepherd’s clothing claimed to offer the Good News, while offering something else altogether. Jude was not content to allow this to happen, and Christians today must heed his warnings.
The Fake News is a call for the church of today to contend for the faith entrusted to it, to stand guard and defend it, working to strengthen its faith while trusting in the keeping power of God. The greatest threat today is not persecution of the truth from without, but perversion of the truth from within.
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Contending for the Faith
Jan 29, 2023 • 51:17
We live in an age of disinformation. But there is one place that you can go to for Truth—a place that the world, and even many who call themselves Christians, will tell you cannot be trusted. It is the Word of God, for the people of God. Thanks be to…
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Sound the Alarm!
Feb 5, 2023 • 52:51
The greatest threat to the church today is not persecution of the faith from without, but perversion of the faith within. Only belief in the Christ of the Scriptures and perseverance in the truth of the good news of God has the power to save. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Fake…
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The True Gospel
Feb 12, 2023 • 45:38
To turn from the Scriptures is to turn from God himself. Therefore, the place the Bible holds among the hierarchies of authority in your life has very real implications for your eternal destiny. Salvation itself rests upon the integrity of the gospel’s truth and its transforming impact upon your life.…
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The Keeping Power of God
Feb 19, 2023 • 1:04:47
We are living in hard times, but take heart: Jude’s letter may be marked by the presence of passion, but it is also marked by the absence of panic. God is still at work, in control, and He who is in you is greater than he who is in the…
Life Groups
“And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.” (Acts 2:44, NLT)
Human beings were created for relationships. The Bible presents the church as God’s new, redeemed humanity, marked by relationships that give definition to who persons are in Christ. The life of the church has always been expressed through concrete, identifiable, local groups of believers who grow together in faith.
Life Groups is a sermon series exploring the need for and blessings of small group life within the local church. It is in the small group where Christians grow closer to God, closer to one another, and experience real life and real love together best. At EMC, they exist in order for believers to connect, to grow, and to serve. This sermon series will be exploring each of these purposes in turn.
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Connecting
Jan 8, 2023 • 42:04
Connecting has always been an essential component of life for the church of Jesus Christ, and to the author of Hebrews it is a matter of necessity and urgency. We must be very intentional to not give up meeting so that we can actively point one another to the all-sufficiency…
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Growing
Jan 15, 2023 • 46:31
The pathway to attaining unity in faith and maturity in holiness begins with deeper intimacy with the Body of Christ. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Life Groups Scripture: Ephesians 4:11-16
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Serving
Jan 22, 2023 • 42:23
Speaker: Richard Meservey Series: Life Groups Scripture: Isaiah 42
A Voice in the Wilderness
The story of Advent is the story of light and life coming to darkness and death. It is the story of a good, faithful God and his plans to rescue and redeem that which has been lost. After centuries of silence, he speaks. And when he does, what happens is amazing. His word does not come to the halls of power or to the appointed sovereign leaders of the world, but through a voice crying out in the wilderness.
This Advent season, join us as we hear the voice of an obscure, eccentric, outlier of a prophet, who prepared the way for the long anticipated coming of the Son of God, the fulfillment of every promise and the hope of all the nations. Marvel with us as we recall that the word of God landed on the stage of history in the middle of nowhere, and that it continues to come, even still, in the midst of our own wilderness experience.
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Heaven's Light Breaking In
Nov 27, 2022 • 44:16
Advent might begin the church’s liturgical year, but the coming of Christ is the climax of the great salvation of God that began in his own heart from before the beginning of time. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: A Voice in the Wilderness Scripture: Luke 1:67-79
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The Word in the Wild
Dec 4, 2022 • 34:12
God still speaks through his word. It is not some secret truth, reserved for the elite or the privileged. No, it belongs to the public domain, applies to us all, and always comes at just the right time. Hear him speaking into your own wilderness. Not a message of condemnation,…
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The Bad News Good News
Dec 11, 2022 • 53:11
God never bases his forgiveness on the good things that you and I do, but only ever on the completed and all-sufficient work of his Son. But if you have truly turned to him in repentance and faith, in total surrender, what should the fruit of that look like in…
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The Mightier One is Coming
Dec 18, 2022 • 40:14
The people of God are called to live countercultural lifestyles that reflect the values of the Kingdom of God that are incomprehensible to the world. The Mightier One is Coming, and all people will either be immersed into the fullness of his life or the fullness of his wrath. Speaker:…
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