Sunday, July 28, 2013

Welcome to Dakota Community Church - July 28, 2013

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

This morning we continue our 2013 Summer Series on Building Community with a sermon entitled; “Affirming One Another Through Visible Signs of Affection.

Enjoy the service and please follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Romans 16:1-16; 1 Corinthians 16:19-20; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; 1 Peter 5: 13-14; James 1:19-20; Ephesian 4:31-32    

 

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Sunday Morning Preview - July 28, 2013


This Sunday at Dakota Community Church the plan is to continue our Summer 2013 series, “Building Community” (based on a portion of “Gospel in Life” by Tim Keller) with the third of nine sermons, this one entitled - “Affirming One Another Through Visible Affection.” 

In all honesty I am not a big fan of public displays of affection. 
Big surprise I know!
When it comes to hugs and hand shakes I tend to become uncomfortable, very aware of my personal space and sometimes even, thanks to Howie Mandel I think, a little germaphobic.
The question is - is it okay for me, and for christians like me; to shrug our shoulders and say, “That’s just how I am, if you have a problem with it - get over it?” 
I want to give myself an unqualified “yes - that is okay” answer to that, but the Bible must be considered... 
Hope you’ll join me Sunday morning,

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Welcome - July 21, 2013

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

This morning we continue our 2013 Summer Series on Building Community with a sermon entitled; "Affirming One Another's Equal Importance In Christ".

Enjoy the service and please follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today's sermon:

Galatians 3Romans 15:5-7Acts 9:10-19Galatians 2:11-14James 2:1-6    

 

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Sunday Morning Preview - July 21, 2013


This Sunday at Dakota Community Church we will be continuing our “Building Community”  summer series with Week Two’s sermon entitled - “Affirming One Another’s Equal Importance in Christ.”

In this world most of us face rejection in one form or another for a multitude of terrible reasons. Whether it be the colour of our skin, our national, religious, or economic heritage, our gender, or some other identifying mark that sets us apart from the majority - we know the painful sting and the infuriating sense of injustice that accompanies this kind of rejection. 

That sting rises to entirely new heights when we suffer it at the hands of a fellow Christian.
This should never be - it cannot be allowed to be!

I hope you will join me this Sunday as we build community together at DCC.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Welcome - July 14, 2013

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

This morning we launch our 2013 Summer Series on Building Community with a sermon entitled; “Affirming One Another’s Strengths and Gifts”.

Enjoy the service and please follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 Corinthians 12:12-15; Matthew 5:13-16; Hebrews 10:19-25; Romans 12:9-10; James 5:9-11; Romans 12:3-8             

 

Thursday, July 11, 2013

After the Suffering

After that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1 Peter 5:10

You have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: glorious are its colours, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, alas, it passes away, and lo, it is not. The fair colours give way to the fleecy clouds, and the sky is no longer brilliant with the tints of heaven. It is not established. How can it be? A glorious show made up of transitory sun-beams and passing rain-drops, how can it abide? The graces of the Christian character must not resemble the rainbow in its transitory beauty, but, on the contrary, must be stablished, settled, abiding. Seek, O believer, that every good thing you have may be an abiding thing. May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! May your faith be no baseless fabric of a vision, but may it be builded of material able to endure that awful fire which shall consume the wood, hay, and stubble of the hypocrite. May you be rooted and grounded in love. May your convictions be deep, your love real, your desires earnest. May your whole life be so settled and established, that all the blasts of hell, and all the storms of earth shall never be able to remove you. But notice how this blessing of being stablished in the faith is gained. The apostle's words point us to suffering as the means employed-After that ye have suffered awhile. It is of no use to hope that we shall be well rooted if no rough winds pass over us. Those old gnarlings on the root of the oak tree, and those strange twistings of the branches, all tell of the many storms that have swept over it, and they are also indicators of the depth into which the roots have forced their way. So the Christian is made strong, and firmly rooted by all the trials and storms of life. Shrink not then from the tempestuous winds of trial, but take comfort, believing that by their rough discipline God is fulfilling this benediction to you. 

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Sunday, July 07, 2013

Welcome - July 7, 2013

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

This morning we launch our 2013 Summer Series on Building Community with a sermon entitled; “Affirming One Another’s Strengths and Gifts”.

Enjoy the service and please follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 Corinthians 12:12-15; Matthew 5:13-16; Hebrews 10:19-25; Romans 12:9-10; James 5:9-11; Romans 12:3-8             

 

Thursday, July 04, 2013

Sunday Morning Preview - July 7, 2013


This Sunday at Dakota Community Church we will kick off our exciting, and much needed summer 2013 series; “Building Community” with Week One’s sermon entitled - “Affirming One Another’s Strengths and Gifts.” 

As the DCC Book Club was going through the “Gospel in Life” DVD and Study Guide by Tim Keller last summer, everyone agreed that this material was something that desperately needed to be shared with the whole Dakota congregation and the plan was put in place then to do just that this year!

I hope you will be in prayer for our church body and plan to attend as many of the next nine Sundays as possible (or catch up on-line); as this series has the potential to be pivotal in the life of DCC.

Hope to see you Sunday when the saints gather