A Father's Love | Ephesians 6:1-4

This Father's Day message reflects on the love of our Heavenly Father and how that same love calls us to raise, discipline, and cherish our children well.

KEY POINTS:

* Raising a child is a tremendous challenge

* Let your children know that they are loved

* God is with us, Emmanuel, in every season

* Children, obey your parents, the first commandment with a promise

* Practical principles for fathers, drawn from the example of Pastor Matt's own dad

SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 6:1-4

Pastor Matt shares the moving story of a Cherokee rite of passage, a blindfolded boy alone in the woods all night, who discovers at sunrise that his father had been watching over him the entire time, a picture of how God never leaves our side.

From First Methodist Church Wetumpka

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Do NOT Drift Away! | Hebrews 2:1-4

Departure from the faith rarely happens all at once. It usually comes from slow drifting. In this message from First Methodist Church Wetumpka, Pastor Matt opens the letter to the Hebrews and reminds us to pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from the great salvation God has given us in Jesus.

KEY POINTS:

* Hold fast to the truth we have heard

* Be anchored to the Lord Jesus

* Speak the truth in love

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 2:1-4

Pastor Matt shares Tammy's testimony of being a church bus kid, picked up each week by a driver named Happy Jack who told the children that "walking with Jesus gets gooder and gooder and sweeter and sweeter every day."

From First Methodist Church Wetumpka

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You Are NOT Alone! | 2 Chronicles 20:1-4

When King Jehoshaphat learned a great army was already in his backyard, he was afraid -- but he set his face to seek the Lord. This message looks at what to do when the battles of life catch us off guard, and the promise that the battle is not ours, but God's.

KEY POINTS:

* Remember God is for YOU.

* Give the battle over to God.

* Start praying and believing that God will act.

* Go into the battle with Thanksgiving and Praise.

* Never forget that God is not only with us, but He is IN us.

SCRIPTURE: 2 Chronicles 20:1-4

Jehoshaphat sent the praise team out in front of the army, and God caused the enemy to turn on themselves -- the same way He used Gideon's 300. When we do it God's way, He gets the glory.

From First Methodist Church Wetumpka

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