Ecclesiastes 3:9-11Ecclesiastes 3:9-11 9What do people really get for all their hard work? 10I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.

9What do people really get for all their hard work? 10I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-11Ecclesiastes 3:9-1111Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

11Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

Change is a coming

2012 into 2013

Hardin Valley Church of Christ 2012 Baptisms, New Baby’s

New members

“Open Doors”

Retreats

Festivals/Outreach

Elder selection

HVY growth

Members Healed

Community involvement

Countless others

Hardin Valley Church of Christ 2012 Deaths

People falling away

Family’s we love move

Struggling with sin

Unwanted Diagnoses

Faith struggle

Job up/down

Countless others

Change is always happeningHow we respond will make a huge difference!

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

A Time for Everything

1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under

the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,  

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

A Time for Everything

6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to

throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

God continually wants to be with us!Through all the Highs, Lows, Questions, and Answers HE is our rock!

Maybe 2013 looks like this for someone here?

Ecclesiastes 3:12-14

A Time for Everything

12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil – this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Seasons of life happen

How “I” have relationship with God matters

How “We” as the church have relationship with God matters

I Thessalonians 5:12-24

12 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. 13 Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. 14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. 15 Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

I Thessalonians 5:12-24

16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject every kind of evil.

23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

God is still MightyWe are the BodySaved by the King of Kings

Stay the Same

No One HigherOur father, creator

You hold our hearts togetherThere's no one higher than you

Redeemer, defenderOur great and mighty savior

There's no one higher than you

(Bridge)You are always with usGracious to forgive us

By your power we've been set free

(Chorus)And Lord we stand amazed in your presence

Astounded by your mercy and loveOur hands are lifted high in surrender

Your grace for me is always enoughAnd there is no one higher than our God

There is no one greater than youLet my life forever praiseThe glory of your name

There is no one higher than you

Majestic in wonderYou reign with love forever

There's no one higher than youYour beauty, your splendor

Your glory knows no measureThere's no one higher than you

(Bridge)You are always with usGracious to forgive us

By your power we've been set free

There is no one higher, no one greater, no one like our God

There is none more able, Christ our savior, great and glorious

(X4 louder each time)

Building Chant

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3: 20, 21