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Join us this Sunday as we begin our new sermon series "Back to School - The Basics of Our Christian Faith. We'll start at the beginning of our new life in Christ with a discussion on Salvation. Our text will be John 3:16-17.

These two verses are probably some of the most well known scriptures in the Bible. You see John 3:16 at every football game but do we truely understand the impact of these words?

We'll break these two verses into 4 parts and see what we can learn about Salvation and then I'll give you 3 ways to apply it in your daily life.

Don't miss out as Parkway goes "Back to School"!

The talk in the Young household the past couple of weeks has revolved around going back to school. Valenda reported for duty this past Wednesday and the kids start back to school on Monday.

As the kids in our community return to reading, writing and arithmetic I thought we would return to the basics of our faith.

This week we begin a new sermon series titled "Back to School - The Basics of our Christian Faith". Join us as we discuss:

· Salvation
· Prayer
· Holiness and Sanctification
· The Authority of Scripture
· One God – Three Persons and
· Living the Spirit Filled Life

In 2 Timothy, Paul encourages Timothy to "Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.”

We'll take Pauls advise over the next six weeks and "remind" one another of the basics of our faith and spur one another on toward spiritual maturity.

Pastor Larry

A few years ago a study was made of 200 people that we would call "very successful." It was discovered that all 200 had one common denominator: each had dared to dream big dreams and set goals, and reach out to achieve those goals.

The apostle Paul dared to dream of a world where all mankind would hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. And even though he was persecuted and beaten, shipwrecked and imprisoned, Paul kept on following his dream.

Martin Luther dared to dream of a church where the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ could be preached freely, and common people could hear and understand the message of the Bible. And before he died, millions of people were able to have the Bible in their own language, to read and study it for themselves.

Daniel Warner dared to dream of a church where there would be no denominational walls, no denominational names or creeds or organizations to separate us from each other, where we could all just be Christians. "Not the only Christians, but Christians only." And we are a result of his dream.

Maybe we need to dream, too. As a congregation we need to see the greatness of our potential, and the possibilities that God sets before us, because little dreams lead to little service. But big dreams lead to big service, and eternal results.

Join us this Sunday as we ask ourselves, "How big are our dreams? And what are we going to do about them?"

Our text for the morning will be Joshua 14:6-12

See ya Sunday!