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Aug. 25, 2013
Sign up today in the lobby and receive two
(2) tickets for the drawings!
Door Prizes  Free Admission
Aug. 26 6 p.m. CMC Gym
In the Church lobby after Sunday Services
Wed., Sept. 4
6 p.m. Wed. Night Fellowship Dinner*
7 p.m. AWANA begins*
Sun., Sept. 15
Speaker: Archeologist Bob Cornuke
In the church lobby after
the 11 a.m. and the 6 p.m.
services. Be a part of a
ministry. Draw closer to God
and other women!
Pick up a copy
of the Fall 2013
Women's Bible Study
Schedule! Ten (10)
Bible study groups * We are in need of volunteers to help serve
both of these ministries. Please read the
offered this Autumn! in
information in the upper left section black
Offering Admonition
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and white page on the back of the Sunday
Morning News.
e put God first in giving; therefore, our pockets have no holes
and the wind doesn’t blow away our blessing.
This isn’t Gay
W
ar is horrible. In 2003,
we sent Americans
to Iraq to remove
Saddam Hussein
from power. Unlike the Persian
Gulf War, our soldiers would be
occupying territory and in constant
danger of attacks. However, even
with the war before us, Americans were treated to a little
comic relief. Mohammed Saïd al-Sahaf, affectionately
known as “Baghdad Bob,” would have constant updates
from his perspective of the war. These observations were
so outrageously fictitious, that they were funny. His last
appearance was on April 8, 2003 where he declared, “The
Americans are going to surrender..!”
We can laugh at Baghdad Bob and his perspective of
the Iraq War, but the concept of having a totally fictitious
perspective of God is not comical. This is represented
in Paul’s opening thesis in Romans; Man rejects God.
“Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God.”
The digression rolls like a rock down a hill. They became
futile in their thoughts (v.21). They chose their own reality
(v.22). They exchanged the incorruptible God for their own
standards (v.23).
From wrong thinking and wrong standards come wrong
actions. They “dishonor their bodies among themselves”
(v.24). Wrong actions breed wrong justifications;
“exchanged the truth of God for the lie” (v.25).
Without God’s direction or standards, people are left to
their own discretions. To this, God gives them over to their
vile passions (v.26) and the outcome is homosexuality
(v.26-27).
It is important to note that many believe that God
will judge the homosexual. Paul is far more direct;
homosexuality IS God’s judgment; “committing what is
shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their
error which was due” v.27.
Paul states that it is “shameful to even speak of things
that are done by them in secret” but let it suffice us to
say that homosexuality is not primarily a lifestyle; it’s
a condemnation. The world attempts to make them
indistinguishable from any other lifestyle, but as a group,
their high rates of suicides, drug use, STD’s, illnesses, and
early death rates tell a different story. It is no wonder one
researcher describes them as “angry, bitter people with
low feelings of responsibility.” This is their status quo; this
is their true perspective.
We talk about 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 that “no
homosexual… will inherit the Kingdom
of Heaven.” However, by their very
passions and activities, they are already
experiencing the penalty that is due.
This isn’t comical; this isn’t gay: this is tragic.
Children's Christmas Program
ABT Children's Choir
Rehearsals start
Sunday, Sept. 8.
Sign up in the lobby.
Ages K - Sixth Grades
Men Leading Following Christ
Men’s Bible Study Begins
Saturday, September 14, 2013 in
Room 110 at 7:30 a.m. This fall
we will be studying a video series
by Ray Vander Laan titled “Faith
Lessons on the Promised Land –
Crossroads of the World.” Join us
for some great fellowship and an
exciting study of God’s Word. Cost
for the workbook is $10. For more information,
contact Pastor Tony Smith at 333-6535 or
[email protected].
Drive-in
Parents!
up
Help you child invite
friends to Sunday School
and their class can win a
"CerealFest!"
Details to come!
Anchorage C hristian Schools
Enrolling Now for
2013-2014 school
year!
A safe, caring environment
for your child!
Anchorage Christian Schools
(907) 337-9575
Preschool, K-12
“Where God reigns
in the entire
educational
process.”
Ages 3 - High School
Child Care Workers Needed!
B ECAUSE
KIDS MATTER TO
G OD
Register in the Lobby  Starts Sept. 4
WATCH YOUR STEP AND CAUTION YOUR
CHILDREN! We are progressing with some
flooring upgrades throughout our facility. The
work has begun in the high school lobby and
will proceed down the halls to the auditorium
rollup doors. Some of these spaces will be
receiving new floor tile and some will have
new carpet installed. We
appreciate your patience
as we proceed with these
renovations. Please use
caution as you walk from
one area of the building
to another.
CENTURION MINISTRY
Helping Veterans and
active duty personnel
and their families of our
community find peace,
contentment, and
healing from the trials
and difficulties of the Military service..
We are in need of child care workers for our
ladies' Bible studies on Tuesday mornings
beginning Sept. 3. The times needed are
from 9:45 a.m till 12:15 p.m. These are
paid postions. Please contact Debbie Clary
at [email protected] or come to the
Bible Study table in the lobby.
MOPS will be hosting
an Open House
Friday, Aug.30 from
10 a.m. - noon in the
VIP Room for moms
interested in joining. MOPS leadership team
members will be available for a tour of the child
care rooms and to answer any questions.
Classes are Mon., Tues., and Thur.
starting at 6:30 p.m.
Contact Master Scott Martin
6th degree black belt
Kukkiwon
Certified
Master
Instructors!
727-4426
Christ-Centered
Register Sept. 9 for Fall Classes
Multi-purpose room - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
ABT Taekwondo/Hapkido
21 YEARS of Ministry
Contact Pastor Tony Smith for
more information at 333-6535 or
[email protected].
Thursdays 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Nursery Needs
For our regular weekly services
ADULTS NEEDED!
Sign up to serve our kids at this year's
Sunday
10 a.m. Sunday
11 a.m.
Wednesday
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Please contact Pastor Tony Smith at
333-6535 or [email protected].
Rick Reinhart
Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Room 110
Pastor’s Class
Auditorium
Sunday - 10 a.m.
Congratulations
to those adults who are celebrating birthdays
and anniversaries this week!
ANNIVERSARIES
08/25 Robert & Geri Williams
Robert & Aesuk Taylor
08/26
08/28
Jeremiah & Camie Stephen
Gary & Kristine Bennett
Bruce & Marlene Fulton
Ed & Gail Schubert
08/25
08/26
08/27
08/28
Walter Analoak
Audra Bettis
Brenda Dobbins
Rick Elsik
Charles Howard
Dave Williams
Maria Frost
Dan Hayes
Carl Smith
Kim Baginski
Joseph Butler
Terri Crawford
Bob Giroux
Melissa Lopes
David Thomas
Shyla Wells
Mary Chumley
Maria Hudson
08/30 Joe & Dana Beal
Ronald & Beverly Rodrigues
08/31 Steve & Debbie Gilbert
BIRTHDAYS
Ben Mitchell
08/29
08/30
08/31
Sandra Moncovich
Teresa Olorunlowo
Virginia Shipton
Loura Busse
Pat Cox
Yars Dovba
Loretta Gump
Lois Morton
Robert Taylor
Darla Chatfield
William Elfstrom
Jim Perkins
Stephen Shangin
Jennifer Smith
Nancy Tinney
Betty Butcher
Serge Duchatellier
GOD gives the increase.
Total Saved 2013............................ 520
Total Baptized 2013......................... 97
Total Joined 2013........................... 159
Joined by Statement
Darren Utz
Four Services
All with Different Music and Messages
This Week’s Services
Sunday
Sunday School.......10:00 a.m.
Worship Service..... 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service........6:00 p.m.
Wednesday
Service ....................7:30 p.m.
Anchorage baptist temple
6401 E. Northern Lights Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99504
T: 907.333.6535 • F: 907.929.9851
www.ancbt.org • Dr. Jerry Prevo, Pastor
For Women:
• Drug and Alcoholism
• Eating Disorders
• Sexual Addiction
For Men:
• Drug and Alcoholism
• Sexual Addiction
For Men and Women:
• DivorceCare
• Depression
• GriefShare
• Anger Resolution
Thursdays, Rm. 207 (7 - 9 p.m.) Contact
Pastor Tony Smith at 333-6535 or
[email protected]
www.recoveryabt.org
Child care volunteer needed on Thursday nights.
Contact Pastor Tony Smith
333-6535 or [email protected].
Women's Group Facilitators Needed
Recovery Alaska is looking for two group
facilitators for our women’s Drug & Alcohol group.
If you have found healing and are familiar with the
12 Step model, contact Pastor Tony Smith to set up
an interview.
We are also looking for a women’s group facilitator
to help us with our DivorceCare group. Contact
Pastor Tony Smith to set up an interview.
Contact information above
Seniors
For ages 50+ onthe Move
Join us for a walk
Starts Sept. 4
313 RIDERS!
Top FIVE Bus Routes out of 15
August 18, 2013
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Congratulations Team for doing an
outstanding job!
Opportunities to minister!
We have needs on
Sunday!
What can you do?
• 4th Grade Boys' Helper - 10 a.m.
• Bus Driver (Need CDL) - if you don't have a
CDL, we will help you attain one.
Contact Pastor Chris at 333-6535
or [email protected]
Wednesday Nights Fellowship
Dinner Crew
Volunteers Needed!
We are building a volunteer crew for our
Wednesday night dinner kitchen team.
If you like to cook, prep, serve, and clean, we
need your help. Our Wednesday night dinner
fellowship is a very important ministry for our
ABT church family. It is a blessing to those who
do not have enough time to rush home after
they get off work, feed the family, and make it
to church on time. Many others enjoy the great
fellowship around a great meal just before our
Wednesday service. If you can help with this
vital ministry, contact Pastor Clary or the church
office at 333-6535. Let's talk about how
you can be involved and how you can use your
spiritual gift in this area. Those serving in this
ministry will be finished in time to attend our
Wednesday night service.
Dinners Start Sept. 4
11 a.m. Sunday school subs
We need volunteers to help with our bus
ministry Sunday School classes during
the 11 a.m. hour. This is a minimal
commitment (at maximum, 10 days/yr).
We are in need of 5 or 6 adults who
have a love for children and want to be
instrumental in discipling them for Christ.
Teachers and Mentors
Needed!
MOPS is looking for a few Sunday School
teacher-types to minister to children ages
6 weeks through elementary-age homeschool
students. The candidate must be available
between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on the second
and last Fridays of each month from
August 30 - May 9. MOPS provides a
preschool curriculum. We are also looking
for moms who have successfully navigated
the preschool years and are interested
in mentoring an assigned table group of
preschool moms. If you are interested in
either opportunity,
contact
Sheri Pankion at
[email protected].
Awana Starts Sept 4
Register in the lobby after services.
NEEDS:
T&T Girls' Director – 2
Cubbies' Leader – 4
Games' Director – 2
T&T Girls' Leader – 4
Be an Answer to Prayer
“Woman2Woman is in need of an organizational
coordinator to assist the ministry leader in the
mentor/disciple program. For more information,
see Sue at the W2W table today or call
830-9292 or email [email protected].
Sundays 10 a.m.
Rm. 208
Pastor Don Barnhart
[email protected]
Room 202 10 a.m. every Sunday
Pastor Jim Turnbull 333-6535
Men's Basketball Night Fellowship and
Basketball -All adult males are invited.
Mon. 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
ACS Big Gym
Get Acquainted! Get Connected! Get Involved!
ABT’s Sunday Adult Bible Fellowships, 10 a.m.
14 Classes from which to choose!
Pastor’s Auditorium Class
Ambassadors’ Class
Couples’ Class
Faithbuilders’ Class
FIRST Class Kingdom Seekers’ Class
Korean Class
Ladies For Christ Class
Marriage Builders’ Class
Pathfinders’ Class
Real Life
Senior Saints’ Class
Spanish Class
Velocity 180*
*(Starts at 9:45 a.m.)
Theme
Multi-generational couples/singles
Multi-generational couples/singles
Multi-generational couples 30's and up
Multi-generational couples/singles
New Christians/New Members
Multi-generational couples/singles
Korean Speaking
Women’s Class
Married/engaged couples (all ages)
Adult couples/singles
Single Adults 30 and up
60’s and up
Spanish Speaking
Young Adults 18-35 Couples/Singles
Auditorium
Rm. 111
VIP Room
Rm. 212
Rm. 119
Rm. 110
Rm. 113
Rm. 118
Cafeteria
Rm. 208
Rm. 202
Rm 117
Rm. 209
Rm. 207
Using God’s Money Is Too Expensive
Using God’s money for ourselves, rather than giving it to the church, would appear to be more money
for us; in truth, however, we would have less money.
Scripture Reading
Haggai 1:3-11 “Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you,
O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough;
ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth
wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and
I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought
it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and
ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the
earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and
upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth
forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.”
Relating to the Scripture
Haggai speaks of the people building their own houses and neglecting the building of God’s house.
Doing this, no matter how much income they had, they were not blessed. Commentators Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown state: “Nothing has prospered while neglecting
your duty to God. They thought to escape poverty by not building, but keeping their money to
themselves:... Instead of cheating God, they had been only cheating themselves.” (Jamieson, Fausset,
and Brown Commentary, Haggai 1:6 notes).
It may seem that we are prospering when we keep our money for ourselves, without putting God’s
house first. The truth is, however, that it will be as though we put our money into pockets with holes,
if we do not put God first. By being a giver who puts God first, we seal up all holes in our pockets.
Offering Admonition and Confession
We put God first in giving; therefore, our pockets have no holes and the wind doesn’t blow away our
blessings.
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BE AN ACTIVE MEMBER IN A LOCAL BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCH
I. YOU ARE CALLED TO _____________, NOT JUST BELIEVE.
Eph. 2:19 “Now you are no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven, but you are members of God's
very own family, citizens of God's country, and you belong in God's household with every other Christian.” (TLB)
1 Tim. 3:14-15 “These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write
so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living
God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (NKJ)
A. Your relationship to Christ is personal; God never intended it to be ___________.
Rom. 12:4 “Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ's body. We are all parts of it, and it
takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other,
and each needs all the others.” (TLB)
B. You discover your role in life through your relationships with ____________.
1. If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on
its own, and neither _____ _______ _____________ _______.
2. The first symptom of spiritual decline is usually inconsistent __________________at
worship services.
II. The _____________ is God's agenda for the world.
Matt.16:18 “I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” (NKJ)
A. The church is indestructible and will exist for _____________.
1. The person who says, "I don't need the church," is either arrogant or _______________ .
2. The church is so significant that Jesus ________ _____ ______ ________ ______ __________.
3. The Bible calls the church "the __________ of Christ" and "the _________ of Christ."
Col. 1:18 “And He is the head of the body, the church.” (NKJ)
4. We ought to _________ the church as much as Jesus does.
Eph. 5:25 “Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.” (NKJ)
III. Why You __________ a Church Family
A. A church family identifies you as a ____________ believer.
1. You are _________ the Body of Christ on your own.
Rom. 12:4 “Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ's body. We are all parts of it, and it
takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other,
and each needs all the others.” (TLB)
B. A church family helps you develop spiritual ___________.
1. You will never grow to maturity just by _____________ worship services.
Eph. 4:15-16 “Instead, we will lovingly follow the truth at all times-- speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly-and so become more and more in every way like Christ who is the Head of his body, the Church. Under his
direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly, and each part in its own special way helps the other parts,
so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.” (TLB)
2. We grow faster and stronger by _____________ from each other and by being
______________ to each other.
C. The church is God's ________________ on earth and He ____________ you to be a
part of it.
1. When Jesus walked the earth, God worked through the physical body of Christ; today He
uses His ______________ body - the church.
D. A church family will help keep you from ________________.
E. Jesus created the church to meet your five deepest needs:
1. A _____________ to live for
2. People to live with
3. ________________ to live by
4. A profession to live out
5. ____________ to live on
You can spend a lifetime searching for the perfect church, but you will never find it.
You are called to love ___________ ____________, just as God does.
Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013
If you’ve been blessed by today’s sermon, visit our Tape Table in the lobby at the end of the service
and order a copy for yourself or a friend. Past services are also available on DVD ($10) or CD ($4).