Category: Messages

New Approach

05/7/17 11:32 AM admin

What if you had the most amazing news ever, would you share it or keep it to yourself? What if you had the best news ever but nobody wanted to hear it?   The fact is Jesus had and IS the most amazing message ever!  The message was so good that His followers were willing to risk their lives in order to share it.   The message was so good that that the people that they shared it with, came to follow Jesus in droves.

 

In the 3rd installment in the series, “Totally Different”, RefreshYouth student ministries leader , Jonathan Wallace, talks about a new approach to sharing the message of Jesus so that we can have the same impact that the early followers of Jesus had.

 

Video of the service is located on Periscope @PCCPines, and on our Youtube channel: Pioneer Community Church PCCPPines

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New Rule

04/30/17 11:58 AM admin

One of the biggest criticism of Christianity is that there are too many rules… too many do’s and don’ts.   We agree.   What if there was only one rule to live by?      Jesus taught that if only follow one rule, we wouldn’t have to worry about the other rules.

 

This message is the 2nd in the series, “Totally Different”, where we are having a 5 week conversation on the question:  “If the message of Jesus is so irresistible, why are so many in today’s culture finding it so resistible?”

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New Movement

04/23/17 11:20 AM admin

What if we resisted the things that made church so resistible?   The fact is that when Jesus came on the scene, he started a movement that brought droves of people to His message.   However, for the past two decades, there has been an increasing decline in people embracing this movement in the United States.  For the next few weeks, we are discussing and answering this question in a series, entitled “Totally Different”.

 

In the first message in the series, Pastor Gary introduces the series in a message called “New Movement”.

 

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Not So Great Expectations

04/16/17 11:14 AM admin

What would it take for you to be convinced that a person you knew came back to life after being in a grave for two nights?  The fact is we all know that it is perfectly normal and rational to believe that Jesus would stay dead.  …because everyone knows that is what dead people do. …they stay dead.

In this message, Pastor Gary looks at this question from the perspective of the people closest to Jesus.  In doing so, we realize that there was nothing special about these people and there is a little bit of them in all of us.  More importantly, how do we handle those times when it appears that Jesus is dead and there is no resolution for our personal situation,

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WIIFM

03/26/17 11:51 AM admin

One of our favorite “go to” statements and one of the things we like to tell people is to “trust God”.    It is so easy to say that, but so hard to do.   The reality is that far too many times, we find that so hard to do because it conflicts with WIIFM (What’s In It For Me).   What we really desire most of all is for God to line up with our agenda.  So, what do we do when God does not seem to want what we want, or do what we believe He should do?

 

In this new series, titled “In Control”, leading up to Easter, we will be talking about 4 characters in the Easter story and how their lives intersected with Jesus’ in bringing to fruition the reason why we celebrate.

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