PazNaz Update from First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena, California, United States: Tuesday, 7 June 2016
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Sunday's Sermon, June 5, 2016
Pastor Tara Beth Leach
Acts 2:1-41Acts 2:1 The festival of Shavu‘ot arrived, and the believers all gathered together in one place. 2 Suddenly there came a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them. 4 They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
Wired For Mission
A Sermon Series from Pastor Tara Beth Leach
"It is not so much that God has a mission for his church in this world, but God has a church for his mission in this world." - Christopher Wright
The missional identity of the people of God has been a common thread and theme through the rolling narrative of the Bible. The early church did not exist simply for itself, but for the world. It was a living example and a living testimony of the work God had done in King Jesus; it was a messianic and Spirit-empowered community who lived into the Jesus mission to the ends of the earth.
You are called and empowered to participate in God’s mission in this world. God redeems you from slavery, brokenness, and idolatry, and then empowers you to live in this freedom visibly before the nations and before the world.
This mission before you is boundless. Mission is who the Church is. It’s who the Church has always been. You are wired for this.
New Friends Lunch
Sunday, June 12, at 12:15 pmAre you relatively new to PazNaz? On Sunday, June 12, at 12:15 pm in Gilmore Hall enjoy a delicious lunch, meet the pastoral staff and new friends, and receive your gift bag as a way of saying “thanks for being here!” RSVP to Stacey Maljian at626.351.2421.
Contact Stacey Maljian
District Assembly
Coming to PazNaz from June 15-17 The Los Angeles District Church of the Nazarene will hold its annual District Assembly and Nazarene Missions International Convention on June 15-17 here at PazNaz. You are invited to attend any or all of the sessions beginning Wednesday evening, June 15, with the NMI Convention's opening service at 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary. NMI general sessions continue throughout the day on Thursday. Thursday evening, the Los Angeles District Assembly begins with the Ordination Service at 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary. Business sessions for the assembly will continue throughout the day on Friday with the assembly adjourning Friday afternoon. If you are unable to attend, please be in prayer for these important meetings.
Prescott Prayer Chapel Fundraiser Dinner
Saturday, June 18, at 5:30 pmCome for dinner and an evening of stories and reflection with Dr. Ruben Welch, Dr. Ron Benefiel, and Dan Royer on Saturday, June 18, at 5:30 pm in Gilmore Hall. Tickets are $40 each with $15 from each ticket going towards a gift for the Prescott Prayer Chapel at Point Loma Nazarene University. For more information, contact Debbie Ernst at 213.718.8189.
To purchase tickets or make a donations, please go to:
Special Needs Ministries
S.O.S. (Save Our Sanity) on Saturday, June 25The next S.O.S. respite day will be Saturday, June 25, from 10:00 am-2:00 pm. To register your child with special needs and their siblings, go to: www.paznaz.org/online-forms/sos. For more information or to volunteer for S.O.S. contact Krys Strong at 626.482.6725.
Women's Ministries
Summer Study
Tuesdays at 9:30 am, July 5-26All women are invited to Women’s Ministries Summer Study on Tuesdays, July 5-26, from 9:30-11:30 am in Gilmore Hall. Enjoy worship, prayer, and PazNaz’s Debbie Wong teaching Seeing God in Your Journey: Life Lessons from Numbers 22. Each week will include a stand-alone lesson: What do you desire? What is your character? What is blocking you from seeing God? What are the blessings in your life? This study is free and there is no homework. Free children’s programming is available with RSVP to Pastor Faith Romasco at 626.351.2469 or fromasco@paznaz.org. For more information, contact Megan Marsh at 626.351.2429.
Locations
First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena
3700 East Sierra Madre Boulevard
Pasadena, California 91107, United States
Valley Center: A Campus of PazNaz
5119 North Valley Center Avenue
Covina, California 91724, United States
Service Times
Sundays
8:00 am - PazNaz's Lee Chapel
9:00 am - Valley Center Sanctuary
10:30 am - PazNaz Sanctuary
Wednesdays
6:30 pm - PazNaz Campus
Contact PazNaz
Phone: 626.351.9631
Email: info@paznaz.org
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5 Now there were staying in Yerushalayim religious Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd gathered; they were confused, because each one heard the believers speaking in his own language. 7 Totally amazed, they asked, “How is this possible? Aren’t all these people who are speaking from the Galil? 8 How is it that we hear them speaking in our native languages? 9 We are Parthians, Medes, Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Y’hudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome; 11 Jews by birth and proselytes; Jews from Crete and from Arabia. . . ! How is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things God has done?” 12 Amazed and confused, they all went on asking each other, “What can this mean?” 13 But others made fun of them and said, “They’ve just had too much wine!”
14 Then Kefa stood up with the Eleven and raised his voice to address them: “You Judeans, and all of you staying here in Yerushalayim! Let me tell you what this means! Listen carefully to me!
15 “These people ar en’t drunk, as you suppose — it’s only nine in the morning. 16 No, this is what was spoken about through the prophet Yo’el:
17 ‘Adonai says:
“In the Last Days,
I will pour out from my Spirit upon everyone.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
18 Even on my slaves, both men and women,
will I pour out from my Spirit in those days;
and they will prophesy.
19 I will perform miracles in the sky above
and signs on the earth below —
blood, fire and thick smoke.
20 The sun will become dark
and the moon blood
before the great and fearful Day of Adonai comes.
21 And then, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved.”’[Acts 2:21 Joel 3:1–5(2:28–32)]
22 “Men of Isra’el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this. 23 This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!
24 “But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him. 25 For David says this about him:
‘I saw Adonai always before me,
for he is at my right hand,
so that I will not be shaken.
26 For this reason, my heart was glad;
and my tongue rejoiced;
and now my body too will live on in the certain hope
27 that you will not abandon me to Sh’ol
or let your Holy One see decay.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
you will fill me with joy by your presence.’[Acts 2:28 Psalm 16:8–11]
29 “Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried — his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne, 31 he was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was he who was not abandoned in Sh’ol and whose flesh did not see decay. 32 God raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!
33 “Moreover, he has been exalted to the right hand of God; has received from the Father what he promised, namely, the Ruach HaKodesh; and has poured out this gift, which you are both seeing and hearing. 34 For David did not ascend into heaven. But he says,
35 ‘Adonai said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’[Acts 2:35 Psalm 110:1]
36 Therefore, let the whole house of Isra’el know beyond doubt that God has made him both Lord and Messiah — this Yeshua, whom you executed on a stake!”
37 On hearing this, they were stung in their hearts; and they said to Kefa and the other emissaries, “Brothers, what should we do?” 38 Kefa answered them, “Turn from sin, return to God, and each of you be immersed on the authority of Yeshua the Messiah into forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh! 39 For the promise is for you, for your children, and for those far away — as many as Adonai our God may call!”
40 He pressed his case with many other arguments and kept pleading with them, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”
41 So those who accepted what he said were immersed, and there were added to the group that day about three thousand people.
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Wired For Mission
A Sermon Series from Pastor Tara Beth Leach
"It is not so much that God has a mission for his church in this world, but God has a church for his mission in this world." - Christopher Wright
The missional identity of the people of God has been a common thread and theme through the rolling narrative of the Bible. The early church did not exist simply for itself, but for the world. It was a living example and a living testimony of the work God had done in King Jesus; it was a messianic and Spirit-empowered community who lived into the Jesus mission to the ends of the earth.
You are called and empowered to participate in God’s mission in this world. God redeems you from slavery, brokenness, and idolatry, and then empowers you to live in this freedom visibly before the nations and before the world.
This mission before you is boundless. Mission is who the Church is. It’s who the Church has always been. You are wired for this.
New Friends Lunch
Sunday, June 12, at 12:15 pmAre you relatively new to PazNaz? On Sunday, June 12, at 12:15 pm in Gilmore Hall enjoy a delicious lunch, meet the pastoral staff and new friends, and receive your gift bag as a way of saying “thanks for being here!” RSVP to Stacey Maljian at626.351.2421.
Contact Stacey Maljian
District Assembly
Coming to PazNaz from June 15-17 The Los Angeles District Church of the Nazarene will hold its annual District Assembly and Nazarene Missions International Convention on June 15-17 here at PazNaz. You are invited to attend any or all of the sessions beginning Wednesday evening, June 15, with the NMI Convention's opening service at 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary. NMI general sessions continue throughout the day on Thursday. Thursday evening, the Los Angeles District Assembly begins with the Ordination Service at 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary. Business sessions for the assembly will continue throughout the day on Friday with the assembly adjourning Friday afternoon. If you are unable to attend, please be in prayer for these important meetings.
Prescott Prayer Chapel Fundraiser Dinner
Saturday, June 18, at 5:30 pmCome for dinner and an evening of stories and reflection with Dr. Ruben Welch, Dr. Ron Benefiel, and Dan Royer on Saturday, June 18, at 5:30 pm in Gilmore Hall. Tickets are $40 each with $15 from each ticket going towards a gift for the Prescott Prayer Chapel at Point Loma Nazarene University. For more information, contact Debbie Ernst at 213.718.8189.
To purchase tickets or make a donations, please go to:
Special Needs Ministries
S.O.S. (Save Our Sanity) on Saturday, June 25The next S.O.S. respite day will be Saturday, June 25, from 10:00 am-2:00 pm. To register your child with special needs and their siblings, go to: www.paznaz.org/online-forms/sos. For more information or to volunteer for S.O.S. contact Krys Strong at 626.482.6725.
Women's Ministries
Summer Study
Tuesdays at 9:30 am, July 5-26All women are invited to Women’s Ministries Summer Study on Tuesdays, July 5-26, from 9:30-11:30 am in Gilmore Hall. Enjoy worship, prayer, and PazNaz’s Debbie Wong teaching Seeing God in Your Journey: Life Lessons from Numbers 22. Each week will include a stand-alone lesson: What do you desire? What is your character? What is blocking you from seeing God? What are the blessings in your life? This study is free and there is no homework. Free children’s programming is available with RSVP to Pastor Faith Romasco at 626.351.2469 or fromasco@paznaz.org. For more information, contact Megan Marsh at 626.351.2429.
Locations
First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena
3700 East Sierra Madre Boulevard
Pasadena, California 91107, United States
Valley Center: A Campus of PazNaz
5119 North Valley Center Avenue
Covina, California 91724, United States
Service Times
Sundays
8:00 am - PazNaz's Lee Chapel
9:00 am - Valley Center Sanctuary
10:30 am - PazNaz Sanctuary
Wednesdays
6:30 pm - PazNaz Campus
Contact PazNaz
Phone: 626.351.9631
Email: info@paznaz.org
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