One Prayer – New Message Series

What could happen if an entire church came together to pray, fast, learn and rely on God for something?  We want to invite you to do just that.  Join us for the latest message series, entitled “One Prayer”.

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.”  John 17.20,21 NLT

2009 Mission Trip

We are traveling to El Salvador, July 18-25, 2009. For more information  check out the Missions Team Blog. Go to: www.kingswaymissions.blogspot.com. God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God.

Beta Launch

Today is the soft launching of the beta version of the new www.kingswayag.com.

We will be testing features and adding additional content for the next couple weeks.

The site will be fully functional on Sunday, Sept. 13th.

SAVE YOURSELF

This is going to be a huge Sunday at Kingsway!

First, we are launching our Fall Life Group semester (Sept. 13-Nov.21).  Everyone, (and I mean everyone) needs to be in at least one Life Group.  In LG’s we find friendship, accountability, care and encouragement.

Second, I am pumped to begin the new message series titled, “Save Yourself”.  Jesus tells a story to a motley crew of people in Luke 15.  Although this story has been called, “the prodigal son,” the story actually begins with, ” a man had two sons.” (Luke 15.11-16) Jesus begins the story talking about the desires and actions of the younger son, yet as the story progresses the focus quickly turns to the motivations of the elder son.  The fact is that both sons in the story are “prodigals” and both are in desperate need of the fathers love.  Join us Sunday as we unpack the amazing truths in this well known parable!

Life Groups TONIGHT!

Tonight at Kingsway is the start of our Wednesday Night @ Kingsway Life Groups.  Most get under way at 7:30pm (Alpha starts at 6:30pm w/ child care).  Even if you didn’t sign up on Sunday, come out and join us.

Click Here for a current list of Life Groups offered tonight.

Save Yourself – Week#2

This Sunday is the second part in the “Save Yourself” Message Series.

We will examine the reaction of the older brother to his younger brothers return.  Upon hearing the news, the older brother refuses to go into the celebration that the father is hosting.  A very telling conversation ensues when the father leaves the party and comes to plead with his older son to join in.  We will discover much about the lost older brother from his words to his father.

Join us!

Save Yourself Week #3 Tomorrow

We are in a series of message entitled, “Save Yourself”. The big idea is simply: we are completely incapable of saving ourselves. Our behavior or ability to act morally doesn’t impress God nor make Him love us. God will never love you more or less than He does right now. Many, inside and outside the church, try to earn there salvation by living moral lives or being a “good” person, that is the “self-salvation project”. If it were possible to earn our salvation, Jesus would not have come.  The fact is, each of us desperately need a Savior!
Join us as we continue to look at the two lost sons from Luke 15.

TONIGHT! Eat Chicken for Missions!

JOIN US TONIGHT!!!
Mark your calendars and plan to have dinner at the Chick-Fil-A located next to Wegman’s on Route 70 in Cherry Hill.  A percentage of the profits raised that evening will go directly to support Kingsway mission endeavors.

Join us Wednesday, October 14th, 5:00-8:30pm.
All we can say is, “Eat More Chicken” for missions!
Click here for directions.

Installation Service

You are invited to attend our new lead pastors installation service this Sunday at 9am or 11am.  We are looking forward to a great day together as a local church.  The band will be playing, the choir singing, our pastor we lead us in communion and our District Superintendent will be preaching.  Following both services there will be a meal shared in the youth chapel.

Trunk Weather Update

This Saturday is Trunk or Treat.  We are planning on having the event rain or shine.  If between 4-5pm the weather is not cooperating we will make the call to cancel then.  We need ALL of the 150+ workers who have signed up to be there ready to go at 4pm on Saturday.  See you then!

Trunk or Treat is ON!

Trunk or Treat is happening today rain or shine.  The fun starts at 5pm! Come Join Us!

Meet & Chat

This Sunday, Nov. 8th @ 6:30-8pm.
If you are new to the church in the last several months you and your entire family are invited to come and hang with the Pastors, Ministry Directors and Deacons of the church.  We will have time to talk, eat a little and answer any questions you may have. We would love to have you stop in.

Love & Marriage Week 3

Join us this Sunday, November 15th at the 9 or 11.
This is the third week of our series on love and marriage.  Last week we explored the idea from Ephesians 5.33 that wives are commanded to respect their husbands.  Respect is like oxygen to a man in a relationship, he needs to be respected as the warrior and the worker in the relationship.  When he feels respect from his wife, he is a happy man.

This week we will explore the first part of that verse, “each man must love his wife as he loves himself.”   As a man breathes respect, so a women breathes love.  She desires to be loved, nurtured and cared for.  Ladies you want your man to hear this message!

See you Sunday.

Thanksgiving Service

Join us on Tuesday night, Nov. 24th, 7pm for our annual thanksgiving service.  The night will be  focused on giving God thanks for His grace, salvation and provision in our lives.  We will experience worship, hear testimonies, the choir will minister and Pastor Bryon will bring a message entitled, “A Theology of Thanksgiving”.

Advent Conspiracy – Week 4

Tis the season…
Shop till you drop…
Have a holly-jolly Christmas…  What does it all mean?

Advent Conspiracy is a new message series focused on worshipping Christ fully during this season of advent.  The story of advent tells of Immanuel coming into human history, revealing something about the divine to us; coming to a people with great need for Him.  Sadly, in the hustle and bustle of the season, the mystery of the incarnation escapes us. Many wonder, tis the season of what?

Join us this Sunday, Dec. 20th, for the final week in this series.

Snow Storm Update

The 9:ooam service is CANCELED tomorrow.
The 11:00am service is CANCELED tomorrow.

All services and activites for Sunday, Dec. 20th have been canceled.  Please help to spread the word.  Have a great day tomorrow together with friends and family.  Remember that although our building is closed tomorrow, our church can still worship and celebrate Immanuel (‘God is with us’) with great warmth and passion.

This time of year we look to a our God and Savior who came as a baby boy, born of a virgin, who was called Jesus, “for He will save his people from their sins!” Matthew 1.21

My prayer for you tomorrow is that you will worship Christ fully with the full weight of this Advent season in mind.

Merry Christmas to all! Enjoy your time with family, friends and the white stuff!!!

Pastor Bryon

Christmas Eve Service @ 6pm.

Join us Christmas Eve as we celebrate the advent of our Savior.  The service is a little dressier than normal featuring live music, vocal performances, worship and a short word of devotion from Pastor Bryon.  There will be a mixture of modern and classic Christmas music and the service will be candlelit.  The night begins at 6:00pm and will be approximately 75 minutes in length.

Combined Communion Service- Tomorrow

Sunday, Dec. 27th at 10:00am is our combined communion service.  The service will include worship, the receiving of the years final giving (tithe, offerings, Advent Conspiracy and missions), teaching focused around the Lord’s atoning death and communion.  Our children’s ministries will be in swing ages 0-5 years old. KidMo will not be meeting.

Come join us this Sunday!

Church Wide Fast

This Sunday we will begin a 2 week series of messages around the topic of prayer and fasting.  It is my desire to see our local church posture ourselves in this manner as we begin a new year and new decade.  We must always remain dependent on Jesus for He is the head of our church.
The dates of the church wide fast are Monday, Jan. 4th until Wednesday, Jan. 13th.  That evening (Wed. Jan. 13th) we will gather (7:30pm in sanctuary) for a final prayer service to complete our fasting together.  Following that prayer meeting we will go to a diner and break fast together.

Happy Fasting!
Pastor Bryon

2010 Check-up

Here are a couple Sunday afternoon thoughts for you:
The  6 points from our New Year’s Check-Up:

1. Read your Bible everyday.
-New Living Translation for novice or beginning readers
-English Standard Version Study Bible for intermediates and advanced
-Pick up a Journey bookmark and read through the Bible with us.
-www.youversion.com Download reading guide to your iPhone or Blackberry.

2. Pray everyday.  Don’t just go to God with a “to-do” list, worship and listen also.
-Pick a time and place daily to do S.O.A.P.
-(scripture reading, observation, application and prayer)

3. Confess sins everyday.  We should be quick to confess sins before God.
-James 5.16; 1 John 1.9

4. Have no enemies.  Be quick to forgive.
-Matthew 6.14-15

5. Give of yourself.
-Take control of your time and calendar.
-If you don’t control your calendar, it will control you.
-We must live in such a way that we have margin left to love and serve our families and serve in our local church.
-Assess what talents you have to contribute to your church and the kingdom of God.

6. Give of your resources.
-Do you have a financial plan for 2010?  Does it included specific goals about giving.
-If last year you gave 5%, this year plan to give 6% or 7%.  If you gave 8% last year, make a plan to give a true tithe, 10% back to God.
-This will take a plan, discipline and sacrifice, but it is well worth it.

Happy New Year my Kingsway peeps!
Pastor Bryon

Fasting Day 3

Wed. 8:47am
This morning marks the beginning of day 3 in the fast.  I just wanted to encourage you a little today.  You should be through the majority of the headaches caused by lack of caffeine, carbs and sugar.  Be encouraged, you made it through the worst!
Now is the time to begin to focus your heart and mind on the things of the Lord.  Increase your time with Him throughout the day. Spend the time in Bible reading, prayer and quiet meditation/ listening for His voice.  He will speak to you!
Most importantly focus your hungry pains toward Him and say, Lord Jesus, You are the Bread of Life! (John 6.35f) You alone satisfy my life and soul. This much, O God I love you and need you!
Remember to pay close attention to the things that arise in you through the fast.  Durning the fast if you are prone to act out in anger or with pride or are experiencing painful thoughts take note.  Journal those things and begin to ask the Holy Spirit to deal with them in you.  Richard Foster says of fasting, “More than any other discipline, fasting reveals the things that control us.”
Allow God to use this time to make you more like Him

Keep after it, you can do it!  There is no failing in fasting, do your best!
Happy Fasting.
Pastor Bryon

LIFT – Leadership Community

Monday 11:40am
Last night was the 1st meeting of the new LIFT community.  If you don’t know, LIFT is the new leaders community of Kingsway.  It is the place where people come to be trained to enter into leadership/ministry at the church.
I was pumped up to see over 50 people come to be trained as leaders.  I believe as our church continues to grow and expand so to must our leadership base grow.
I also want to thank @scotthodge for inspiring me to begin to gather leaders at our church, he is the man.

Thanks to all who took the time to come and learn more about the mission, vision and strategy of Kingsway.
Pastor Bryon

Prayer Mtg. Tonight

Big Weekend Coming!

Thurs. 8:47am
We have a great weekend coming up at Kingsway!
Sunday is the launch of our Winter Life Groups, which we invest a ton of time and energy into, helping people connect with each other and we want it to be a catalyst for personal spiritual growth.

Also this Sunday, we have guest worship leader Nicholas Petersen coming to lead with our band.  Nicholas hails from Chicago and is a singer, song writer and designer with a huge passion for Jesus and great music.

Finally, I kick off our new sermon series entitled, “Missio Dei.”  Charles Spurgeon said it all with this quote, “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”  The mission of God, His coming for us and the part we each play is the thrust of this series.  Genesis 3.15b, “he shall bruise your head,” has been labeled the “protoevangelium”; the first announcement of the intent of God to rescue His people in scripture.  Our God is a missionary God, coming to save us, as one of us!

Come join us!
Pastor Bryon