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Living Under the Influence of the Holy Spirit!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Last week we learned that you can live under the influence of the Holy Spirit as you consistently 1) Imitate Christ, 2) Put away the deeds of darkness, 3) Live in the light, 4) Be careful how you live, 5) Live thankfully and 6) Submit to the Christ in one another. I think this sermon shook things up more than usual for our body. I have received much more feedback on last week’s message than I have on any other in a long time.

DID YOU MISS IT? I want to encourage you to listen to it if you did indeed miss it…and then join the conversation regarding what God is speaking to us from His Word.

You can listen to it on our website at: http://www.risenking.org/_blog/Risen_King_Podcasts/post/Under_the_Influence/

This Sunday (Aug 30) Jill and I will be presenting Paul’s exhortation to husbands and wives regarding what marriage is intended to be like under the influence of the Holy Spirit. It is going to be good, and it will be a relevant message for singles as well as those married in our fellowship.

Join the conversation!

Respond with a comment regarding what God is speaking to you from this “Sit, Walk, Stand” series.

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Becky Grover commented on 30-Aug-2009 10:05 PM

Dear"BillJill",
Just want to say thank you so much for todays sermon and thank you for sharing so much of you with all of us. Your sermon reminded me how truly thankful I am for my Husband and our church and everyone on staff and especially our loving Father. Thank you for all you do in showing us how to live a joyful life and what it means to imitate Christ.
Love you Guys and God Bless

Bill Randall commented on 31-Aug-2009 08:11 PM

Thanks Becky. Jill and I love serving together like that, and we felt like God was graciously moving in the services this Sunday. God is good. May the Lord continue to bless our church family as we continue to look and listen to Him - and then live it out in the real world! Have a great week, Bill

Robin Tompkins commented on 02-Sep-2009 08:36 AM

Bill and Jill, the message was very powerful, especially because it included both of your insights. Thanks for your faithfulness in bringing God's message to the people of Risen King.

Bill Randall commented on 04-Sep-2009 12:38 PM

Thanks Robin. Jill and I love ministering together, and I think she is amazing!

Carolyn Murray commented on 04-Sep-2009 03:32 PM

Bill, I found this sermon to be profound and powerful. When you said, "Because sin matters" it sounded a deep note in my soul. It does matter. Jesus suffered because of it! I find this so easy to lose sight of. Grace, grace, mercy, God loves you...all true but it is also true that we prevent Him from blessing us when we sin! [I know you know this I am only recording what happened in my soul]I reflected on your phrase of giving God a landing strip in one's life. This makes sense to me as a teacher. I want to bless all of my students and even like almost all of them but I can't give them all "A"s with any integrity. I want them to give me the landing strip of a good essay! I will still like them if they don't but no credit where it isn't earned. The more I think about this metaphor the more I understand the role of obedience.
I think it was courageous of you to speak the truth so clearly and it was compelling to hear that you knew it in your soul and bones not just as the right theological stance. I hear you. I repent.

Bill commented on 05-Sep-2009 10:44 AM

Carolyn - I love your insights and join with you in the desire to offer God everything in my life as a landing strip for His anointing. And so we must embrace a lifestyle of repentance and joyful hope. Bring it, Lord!

Jolene commented on 12-Sep-2009 06:25 AM

Hi Bill, just listened to this message as I take a day of rest over here. Loved it. Friday, with our team here, I led us through a discussion of "Steps to Clarify Understanding" of meaning when there is relational misunderstanding and misinterpretation. The HS was present and at work. I shared a story from a few years ago of how Dad taught me to bring my negative interpretation of another teammate's words to the light and stop wearing my 'sunglasses' when I looked at her. As a result, I was liberated from my negative perception and became determined to live in the light! I love it. Thanks again.

Be Filled With The Holy Spirit!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Hi Friends!

This week we will be looking at Ephesians 5:1-20. I want to encourage you to prayerfully be looking at the text this week. How might God be speaking to you and our church community through this text? Life "under the influence" of the Holy Spirit is the kind of life we were really made for...a life that fills and fulfills...a life that brings God honor and positively impacts other people.

Dear God, please lead our Risen King family radically to Jesus this week and weekend. Grace us to confess, repent and renounce our sin. Grace us to humbly ask to be filled and come strongly under the influence of your Holy Spirit.

See you Sunday!
Bill

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Christians are meant to be a sign and wonder to the world!

Saturday, August 15, 2009

In preparing for my message this week I came across this quote that really highlights the significance of what we are currently studying in Scripture as a church body. Read it prayerfully! And take some time in this season to personally reflect on Paul's letter to the Ephesians.

Hey, I'm praying for you...please pray for me!

Bill

"We have not merely been saved that we might escape hell; we have been saved in order that God may present a people which will astonish the whole world." (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones)

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