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Showing Courageous at HPBC! |
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Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. These law enforcement officers are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood.
While they consistently give their best on the job, good enough seems to be all they can muster as dads. But they’re quickly discovering that their standard is missing the mark.
When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God ...and to their children?
Protecting the streets is second nature to these men. Raising their children in a God-honoring way? That’s courageous.
Join us Friday, February 24, at 7:00 p.m. for our first showing of Courageous!
Invite friends, too. If you can’t attend this one, we are making plans to show it again.
• If you are a HPCS regular or occasional nursery worker who has seen the film or who wants to make it easy for parents with young children to come, please volunteer to help staff the nursery that evening by emailing serve@hamptonpark.org or by leaving your contact information at the reception desk. |
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Jesus Loves the Little Children |
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Matthew 19:13-15
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I. Parental Initiative: Parents who love Jesus bring their children to Him for His blessing on them. (13)
Jesus laid his hands on them to bless them. It was much like Jacob laying his hands on Joseph’s sons Ephraim and Manasseh to confer a blessing on them. It was common for a father, a prophet, or a rabbi to show such personal interest, and highly desired by parents who cared about their children.
Can you imagine what it would be like if as you grew up your mother or father were to remind you that Jesus himself had laid His hands on you and prayed over you?
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Pastor Chris Barney
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Very often, “What is heaven?” is a dismissed question. The short answer is, “I have no idea, but I know it’s going to be good.” Is that really all the information we have? Did God not reveal more than that? In fact He did, but we haven’t been all that diligent in explaining it clearly. As a result there are some false ideas about heaven. Like what?
Would it be like floating about in the midst of clouds in uncomfortable flowing robes plucking at a harp?  We become angels that don’t even get to do the exciting stuff that we read of angels doing throughout the Bible. Gary Larson, the artist of the Far Side cartoon, drew a picture of a man with angel wings and a halo sitting on a cloud, doing nothing, with no one nearby. He has the expression of someone marooned on a desert island with absolutely nothing to do. A caption shows his inner thoughts: “Wish I’d brought a magazine.” Is that it? We are caught in endless tedium. We float around in the clouds with nothing to do but strum a harp?
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