Salem
Location:
Wesley United Methodist Church
8 North street
Salem MA 01970
Day/Time:
Wednesday, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Group Leader: Tom Petersen
Phone: (978) 500-5233
Email:
Texting: Yes
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Living This Out!
Disarm The Day #1 - What Is Disarm The Day?
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When we Disarm The Day we are learning to come into the Light of Christ (I John 1:7) and receive whatever ministry He has for us. His Word and Spirit have the right to judge us and minister Christ's life to us.
"But if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." - 1 John 1:7
10 to 15 minutes to reset your compass any time of the day. Jesus Christ wants you to live clean, forgiven, and victorious through the Holy Spirit and His Word.
Disarm The Day #2 - God Is Always Ready To Receive You!
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There is NEVER a time or place that the God of Love will not receive you if you turn to Him. Psalm 139 tells us that there is no place we can go to escape His Presence. Turn to Him at every time of need, no matter how sinful or dark and you will find God's love and power at work on your behalf.
Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is [too] high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike [to You]. - Psalms 139:4-12
10 to 15 minutes to reset your compass any time of the day. Jesus Christ wants you to live clean, forgiven, and victorious through the Holy Spirit and His Word.
Disarm The Day #3 - His Commandments Are Not Burdensome
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Our attitude towards the commandments of God are a great, real-time indicator of the condition of our hearts. Victory is found when the commandments of God are not a burden to us. The Holy Spirit will help us as we repent of any resistance we have towards God's Word.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith." - 1 John 5:3-4
10 to 15 minutes to reset your compass any time of the day. Jesus Christ wants you to live clean, forgiven, and victorious through the Holy Spirit and His Word.
Frequently Asked:
What Is Aftercare?
For NBF, aftercare is the spiritual support someone needs upon release from corrections, or as they are coming out of addiction.
Do You Need Volunteers?
We need Titus 2 Brothers and Sisters. We also need leaders willing to launch new groups and provide Children's ministry at NBFW meetings.
What Are Titus 2 Brothers And Sisters?
Based on Titus 2:1-8, these are Christian men and women who attend and participate in Discipleship Groups. Primarily, they focus on building relationships, and become "passive mentors." These men and women do the work of modeling how to follow Christ.
What Is NBFW?
NBFW is New Beginnings For Women. This is branch of the ministry is for the women who love a New Brother: mothers, wives, girlfriends, etc. It also provides aftercare support for women coming our of corrections or addiction.
What Is Your Success Rate?
God's success rate is 100%! Every man who gets connected and stays connected, stays out of jail and out of his lifestyle of addiction and sin. In the past 12 years we have worked on this mission field, this has been true for countless men. It is God's work, and He does it well.
Why Should My Church Get Involved?
7.3 million Americans are in prison, or on parole or probation.–that is one in 31 adults. The Body of Christ cannot ignore these statistics, or the vast mission field in our own backyard.
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From the Blog:
“Why are you always judging me?”
“Jesus said, ‘Don’t judge, lest you be judged.’”
“I just want to be encouraged. You’re always focusing on my sin.”
These are just three out of a myriad of statements I hear in the course of my day, working with a man in a discipleship relationship. In fact, there is a mindset throughout the church in America that believes there is no place for the Christian to judge; everything we say from the pulpit or to one another should be loving encouragement that never highlights sin, erroneous thinking, or plain rebellion to God. I honestly have to ask myself if people are even reading the same Bible. Have they read even one of Paul’s letters, or Proverbs, or the Prophets, or the words of Jesus?
The ministry verse of New Brothers Fellowship is 1 John 1:7, which reads:
Rom. 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
One of the most blatant but casually dismissed strategies of Satan is allowing us to categorize and grade the activities and mindsets of the Flesh.
This means that some places we yield to our flesh we have decided are not really "that bad." It's just a little joke, a little curse word, a little insult, a little appreciation for "her beauty", a little gossip, a little disrespect, a little lie...
Those who categorize their participation with their Flesh this way are deceived and deluded in their understanding of the Flesh, and the Devil. Neither your Flesh or Satan are hindered by quantity or measurement.
INTRODUCTIONAnd today I would like to speak to you from the theme “Ten Shekels and a Shirt”, as we find it here in Judges Chapter 17. I’ll read the chapter and then I will read a portion also from the 18th to the 19th chapter as the background might be clear in our minds. “And their was a man of Mount Ephraim who’s name was Micah”. A little background if you please. There was a situation where the Amorites refused to allow the people of the tribe of Dan to any access to Jerusalem and they crowded them up into Mount Ephraim. It is a sad thing when the people of God allow the world to crowd them into an awkward position. So they were unable to get to Jerusalem and we find, out of this comes the problems that we are about to see.
Satan is a mobster - a hit man - and he wants nothing more fervently than to rub you out. He’s a murderer, a liar, a gangster, and he’s got a contract out on your life. His final days as god of this world system are spent manically battling the angels of God for the souls of men. And if he can’t have your soul, he’ll settle for desecrating your call as an ambassador of the Kingdom of God.
As children of light, we have no business even dabbling in Satan’s kingdom. We have no business sleeping with the enemy in compromise and sin. Everything he lures us with is a lie. It’s darkness. It’s cursed. Church of the living God, we’ve got to wake up and declare, “No more! My life of compromise is over.
Starting in the Middle…
It was the morning of February 24th, 2000 and I had already spent three hours at pornographic web sites, sitting in my cube at work. My stomach was wrenched in knots and I felt nauseous. I hated myself and felt a hopelessness that was beyond words. In desperation, barely knowing what I was doing, I opened a blank document and began to type. Tears streamed down my face as these words poured out:
All I want is to be free from sin.
I read that Jesus did that for me.
So what am I missing that I still struggle everyday?
Is there something I forgot? Am I deceived?
To continue in this manner is going to kill me.
I can’t stand to see myself living a lie.
Lord, I need to understand what I have done wrong.
I feel I love you, but I always turn and run.
St. Frances de Sales once wrote: “All the temptations of hell do not stain the soul who does not love them.” It’s a terrible moment when we discover that we love the things that God hates, and all the more horrible to realize that there’s nothing we can do about it except throw ourselves on the mercy of God. Thus God uses our plight to crucify our flesh. The only way to handle this insufferable condition is to embrace the humiliation of death to self and yield ourselves to God as vessels of God’s Spirit.It begins with receiving freely the grace of God through Christ’s work on our behalf and ends the same way. We never actually become self-contained agents of righteousness, but rather become containers of His righteousness. Galatians 2:20 says it plainly: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Paul later adds in Romans 6:6-7: “
If you attend church at all, you will undoubtedly hear a thousand sermons on “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph. 5:18) for every one sermon you hear preached on “Be ye angry, and sin not” (Eph.4:26). This is a command! It is not a defense for a bad temper. It is not an excuse for an explosion of bitterness from your bruised ego for personal rejection. I am talking here of Holy Anger. God gets angry: “The anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses” (Exodus 4:14); “God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psalm 7:11). (If you must have a bumper sticker, try this last statement for a while -- but be sure that you increase your insurance before you do so.)
The blessed preacher St. Paul walked down Main Street Athens, the intellectual capital of the world of his day.
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