The Miracle That Changes Everything (Easter)
Join us on Easter Sunday, April 4th, 2010 as we celebrate "The Miracle that Changes Everything". This year we will be having two morning services with a free continental breakfast before both services. Times and details are listed below. Invite your friends and family. Hope to see you then!
First Service Breakfast - 8:00am
First Service - 9:00am
Second Service Breakfast - 10:15am
Second Service - 10:45am
No Evening Activities
If you are coming to the breakfast, please come to the one before the service you will be attending. This will help us with parking, space and overall flow.
Parking Information. Due to weather and parking issues we will be shuttling people from other parking lots. These include Woodland Hills East Parking Lot & the VFW's West Parking Lot. Please see the map below for more details. We want to make parking as easy and simple as possible. We will have many volunteers to help you park and direct you to the breakfast and worship time. Parking for seniors and guests will be available in all our main lots.
Parking Map
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The Life and Letters of Paul
Taught by Pastor of Evangelism, Chuck De Cleene. This modules starts March 14th and will be held in the Coffee Cove on Sunday nights at 5:30. Check back here for resources such as books, class handouts and PowerPoints.
What Did You Expect?
This modules starts March 14th and will be held in the Main Auditorium on Sunday nights at 5:30. Check back here for resources such as books, class handouts and PowerPoints.
Matthews - March 2010
Caroline’s Heart Update
Thank you to all our family and friends who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers this past month. We rejoice in telling you we had an excellent doctor’s visit, with a great prognosis for Caroline.
Her actual condition is called sub-aeortic membrane. It is very, very mild at this time and is in no way dangerous or threatening and therefore there is no need to do any procedures any time soon. She will need to have once or twice yearly heart checks to make sure the condition hasn’t worsened. There is no time frame on how quickly this could change, but based on the fact that it has only progressed very slowly in her almost 5 years, we don’t foresee sudden changes occurring. This most likely will need to be dealt with at some point in her life, and the only way to deal with this is through open heart surgery. But the good news is, this is one of the simplest and easiest procedures that is done.
So that sums up today’s doctor’s appointment. Again, we thank you so much for keeping us and especially Caroline in your thoughts and prayers. We will definitely let you know of any future changes or needs in this specific area.
I’ll finish with a beautiful Bible passage that really blessed me:
“For You formed my inward pars; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.” Psalm 139:13-14
Rejoicing,
Cathy for all
Recommended Commentaries
Looking for help in your personal Bible study? A commentary is a book designed to help you as a reader to become more familiar with the message of a book of the Bible. But with so many options out there, how can you choose? After all, not all commentaries are created equal and many aren't very helpful at all.
To help you in buying a commentary with wisdom, consult Best Commentaries (www.bestcommentaries.com) .
This wonderful website has compiled commentary recommendations from trusted sources such as Desiring God, Denver Seminary, and Dr. Don Carson and placed those recommendation online for your help. You can search by book of the Bible and sort commentaries by type, avoiding the highly original language technical commentaries and focusing on a particular type of commentary.
The Gospel for Real Life
Jerry Bridges
Why do so many believers live in quiet desperation?
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the most explosive news of freedom the world has ever heard. Yet, why do so many of His followers experience so little of the gospel’s liberating power? Regrets over our past haunt us, fear and anxiety clutch at us, subtle legalism oppresses us, outright sin entangles us, and we spend much of the day without even thinking of God.
Jerry Bridges maintains that the poverty of actual Christian experience is the result of an impoverished understanding of the depths of the gospel itself. The key is not to try a little harder, but to know more fully the incredible work of Christ on the cross—and to live in a more vital awareness of that grace day by day.
Jerry does not flinch from the hard facts of human sin and God’s wrath—not exactly popular concepts today. But understanding them is absolutely crucial. For without a knowledge of the depth of our sin, we cannot experience "the unsearchable riches of Christ" that are available to us in the gospel. And when we know those riches, we are empowered to live every day "glorying in a sense of acceptance and the experience of grace."
This gospel is not just for the afterlife, but for today—it is the gospel for real life.
Unlocking the Mystery of Life
DVD Resource
In 1859, Charles Darwin published, On the Origin of Species . In it, he argued that all of life on earth was the product of undirected natural processes. Time, chance, and natural selection. Since Darwin, biologists have relied on such processes to account for the origin of living things. Yet today, this approach is being challenged as never before. "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" is the story of top-notch, contemporary scientists who are advancing a powerful idea -- "the theory of intelligent design." Using state-of-the-art computer animation, "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" transports you into the interior of the living cell to explore systems and machines that bear the unmistakable hallmarks of design. Discover the intricacy of a microscopic bacterial rotary motor, which spins at 100,000 rpm. Within the nucleus explore the wonder of DNA, a thread-like molecule that stores instructions to build the essential components of every living organism. It is part of a biological information processing system more complex and more powerful than any computer network. This compelling documentary examines an idea with the power to revolutionize our understanding of life... and to unlock the mystery of its origin.
The Privileged Planet
DVD Resource
Today, most scientists and philosophers claim that Earth is an ordinary speck of dust adrift, without purpose or significance, in a vast cosmic sea. This idea (popularized by the late astronomer, Carl Sagan) is an outgrowth of the naturalistic philosophy that has dominated science for the past 150 years. Yet, remarkable evidence--unveiled by contemporary astronomy and physics-may now tell a very different story. Building upon the overwhelming success of Unlocking the Mystery of Life (widely acclaimed as the most effective refutation of Darwinian theory, ever produced), Illustra Media presents The Privileged Planet. This hour-long documentary explores the scientific evidence for intelligent design and purpose in the universe. In the process, Earth is revealed as far more than the product of time, chance, and random natural processes. We now know that a rare and finely tuned array of factors makes Earth suitable for complex life. We depend on our planet's oxygen-rich atmosphere, its large moon, its planetary neighbors, and its precise location within the solar system and Milky Way galaxy. But the story does not end here. For, the same factors that make a planet like Earth hospitable to life also provide the best conditions for scientific discovery. Is this correlation merely a coincidence? Or does it point to a deeper truth about the purpose of the cosmos and the reality of a transcendent designer? The answer could dramatically affect 21st century science. Through stunning computer animation, interviews with leading scientists, and spectacular images of Earth and the cosmos, The Privileged Planet explores a startling connection between our capacity to survive and our ability to observe and understand the universe. A connection that points directly to the work of a creative mind and plan. This extraordinary documentary will be a focal point in the escalating debate between evolution and design.
Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God
C.J. Mahaney
Sex is a gift from God to his people. It is to be enjoyed within marriage. This book teaches a husband how to cultivate the intimacy with his wife that God intends for him.
Scripture illuminates the path of marital intimacy. The Song of Solomon shines brightly, showing us the way to the best sex we can possibly experience.
The Peasant Princess
As mentioned by Pastor Kevin in our recent module, Real Men, the Peasant Princess is a video series by Pastor Mark Driscoll that walks you through the book of Song of Solomon. This material is intended for married couples and singles adults as the content, while not crude, is frank and honest.
Go to the Peasant Princess website.
Pastor Heading to Shepherds' Conference
Pastor Pat Nemmers & his wife Marilyn along with Pastor Dave Heisterkamp and his wife Deb are heading to the Shepherds' Conference in California today. This is a great time for them to get away and be challenged and taught to instead of the ones doing the teaching. Please be praying for them as they travel.
Lisa Pedersen, our Office Manager and Children's Director, will also be heading to California (strangely on the same flight sitting right behind pastor) to visit Amalie Parmerlee's family with Amalie. She will be gone all this week and Judy Thorson will be covering the office for her.
Also, Hannah De Cleene, student at FBBC and Daughter of our Evangelism Pastor, Chuck De Cleene, flew out this morning to Spain where she will be teaching for the next two months. 
Please be in prayer for her safety and ministry that she has during this time away. If you'd like to keep up with her while she is in Spain, here is a link to her blog that she will be writing on regularly www.hannahdecleene.blogspot.com.