James 3 shows that the tongue has power 🔥 — it can bless 💖 or destroy 💔. Though no one can tame it alone, the Holy Spirit can transform our hearts so our words bring life 💧. Before you speak, pause and pray: “Come, Holy Spirit.” 🙏 Let’s be people whose words bless others 🌿✨ […]
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✈️ Lost passport, lost faith? Pastor Ellis reminds us it’s possible to think we have faith—but find it missing when it matters most. 🌳 Faith = Tree | Works = Fruit Real faith shows up in action. A tree without fruit is dead; so is faith without works. 🍑 🔤 The ABCs of Dead Faith: […]
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What happens when our vision of people is clouded by favoritism, prejudice, or partiality? In James 2, the early church is confronted with this very issue, and the same challenge applies to us today. In this sermon, Pastor Julie Hawkins unpacks James’ call to “show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord […]
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James 1:19–27 reminds us: don’t just hear 👂 God’s Word — do it 🏃. 🙏 Revere — Humbly place yourself under Scripture. 🪞 Retain — Keep it before you, don’t forget it. ⚡ Respond — Watch your words 🗣️, lift the lowly 🤝, stay spotless 🤍. Let’s move from informed ➝ transformed ✝️💪. […]
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🌊⛈️ — Life brings trials and storms 🤔🙏 — We ask “why?” and “how?” 📖✝️ — James says trials test faith → build perseverance 🏃♂️💪 — Like Ironman training, endurance transforms us 😀➡️💔➡️💪 — Trials: not to make us bitter, but better 4 Keys for Facing Trials: 1️⃣ 👆📖 — Look Up: ask God for […]
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😔🌍 Troubling week: assassination, school shooting, missile attack ✈️🇹🇿 Trip to Tanzania with pastors + World Vision 🚰👩👩👧 Women once walked 6 hrs for water ➝ now water nearby = dignity, safety, income 🙌 Hope restored, families transformed 👶📸 Children chose sponsors from photos ➝ reminder we all long to be chosen 💔➡️💖 God says: […]
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🏃♂️➡️🏁 Finishing the Acts series like a runner crossing the line ⛵⚡🐍 Paul’s wild journey to Rome — yet God’s promise still fulfilled 🙌 ✝️💪 #1 Confidence in God’s purposes (Romans 8:28) 🔥🙌 #2 Enthusiasm for Christ + His Kingdom 🤝❤️ #3 Genuine love for people right in front of us 📖 Acts ends “unfinished” […]
Read More… from What’s Next? | Acts 28:11-31 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor
⛵🐍 Shipwrecks & Snakebites Life doesn’t go as planned—but like Paul, we can be: ✝️ Calm in Crisis 🛡️ Confident with Critics ❤️ Compassionate to Community All because we’re Committed to the Cross. […]
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🌊 Faith is the anchor in life’s storms—hold on, take heart, have hope. ⚓️❤️🌟 ⛵️ Paul faced a hurricane 🌪️ but found peace in God’s promise. 🙏✨ 💔 Storms come—loss, doubt, fear—but Jesus brings hope. ✝️🌈 🤝 Sometimes we cling, sometimes we encourage—either way, God is with us. ❤️ 🙌 It’s never too late to […]
Read More… from Hope in the Hurricane | Acts 27:1-26 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor