Denver First Church of the Nazarene

December 27, 2009 - Totals

Attendance
Adult Education Committee Main Campus: West Campus:
The next meeting of the Adult Education Committee is TODAY at Sunday School: 643 Sunday School: 46
4:30 pm in the Community Room. Bible Studies & Small Groups: 5 AM Worship: 90
AM Worship: 1312
Christmas Eve: 1106

Combined:
Sunday School & Groups: 694
Family Worship TODAY - No Children’s Church Main Services: 1402
The Children’s Department is encouraging families to worship
together today. There will be no Children’s Church for 1st - 4th Giving
grade. Please pick up your children from their classrooms at This Week’s Need: $ 113,302 Received Last Week: $ 64,900
10:00 following the Sunday School hour.
December Tithe
Monthly Goal: $ 453,209 To Date: $ 258,097

December World Evangelism Fund

Evening Service Tonight
Monthly Goal: $ 20,375 To Date: $ 11,091
Tonight in our Traditions Service we will receive a report on our
recent Nicaragua Mission trip. Please join us at 6:00 pm tonight YTD Tithe
in the Diehl Chapel. YTD Goal: $ 2,006,221 To Date: $ 1,439,639

YTD World Evangelism Fund

YTD Goal: $ 137,479 To Date: $ 156,371

Christmas Eve Offering (Tending)

Women of the Word December 24: $6,230
The Women of the Word Bible Study will resume meeting this
Tuesday, January 5th and Wednesday, January 6th. DFC (Main Campus) Ministerial Staff
Stephen Abbott Mike Hull
Young Adult & Family Pastor Student Ministries Pastor

Rich Cantwell Scott Nauman

Business Administrator Pastor of Worship & Arts

Celebration Choir & Orchestra Bud Curry

Hospital Chaplain
Jerry Nelson
Minister of Instrumental Music
The CC&O new season begins this week. You can still register
at www.DenverFirstChurch.com, at the Worship & Arts booth or Tina Hayhurst Randy Smith
Pastor Christian Education Pastor
by calling 303/806-2609. Rehearsals begin Wednesday at 6:30
pm for choir and Thursday at 7:00 pm for orchestra and choir.

Children’s Schedule
The Children’s Department will be resuming their Wednesday
night programming for Nursery - 6th grade this Wednesday,
January 6th at 6:30 pm. Please call the Children’s Office at
303/806-2612 with any questions.

“Don’t you remember what you did?” “Remember how you
acted!” “You really messed up, didn’t you?” These are words that
make us cringe. They are reminders of our sinful past, words of
the accuser. He does everything he can to bring our past to mind.
He uses people and situations to remind us of how we hurt others
and ourselves. The good news is that these are not the words of
the Savior!
We will see today how Jesus deals with sinful people. In
our text in John 8, Jesus dramatically stands on the side of the
sinful women that was caught in the act and condemned to die. He
does not stand with the religious or even on the side of the law. He
stands in between the accused and those religious, self-righteous
accusers. The question is, where do we stand? Where would you
and I be in this scene?
All of us have a past! Some of us would rather not
remember those days of willful, carnal sin. Those embarrassing
moments when sin ruled in our life. What we see is that Jesus
takes our side. Not when we are cleaned up and living for Him. He
takes our side in the middle of that sinful life. He stands in
between us and those who hurl the insults and accuse us. He
says, “I do not condemn,” and “This one is mine!” He pardons and
He cleanses!
As we arrive today, we will be reminded of how good and
holy our Savior is. Even though He is holy, He stoops down in our
mess and picks us up and reminds us and the world, “Though our
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Halleluiah,
what a Savior!
I am so glad you are here!
Amazed by His Grace!
Ladies Book Club
The DFC Ladies Book Club will meet on Thursday, January 7th at 6:30
pm in the Community Room. For more info, please call Judy Corder at
303/591-4501 or Merrilee Thomas at 303/761-1312.
Waves & Rock Parents
All Waves (7th - 9th grade) and Rock (10th - 12th grade) parents: join
us in the Rock Room from 12:00 - 12:30 pm on Sunday, January 10th,
for a short informational meeting and a question and answer session
with Mike Hull, our new Student Ministries Pastor.
Adult Sunday School Teachers Meeting
All Adult Sunday School teachers will meet next Sunday, January 10th
at 4:30 pm in Room 201.
Tennyson Center Ministry
Come join us as we continue to share the gospel with and minister to
the kids at the Tennyson Center for Children on Sunday, January 10 at
1:15 pm. We will meet in the Breezeway. We have activities planned
to do with the kids and then will join another church for worship with the
children there. Call or email Jon Tinniswood with questions: 720/273-
0028 or jtinnis@hotmail.com.
Fresh Flood Winter Retreat
Wanted: You and your friends! The Fresh Flood (Youth) Winter Retreat
is January 15-17 at Ponderosa Camp. Register now in the Student
Ministries Office or online at www.freshflood.com.
“Symphony of Love” Choir Rehearsals
February 14 is not only Valentine’s Day, it’s also Jerry Nelson’s last day
on staff before beginning a full time concert ministry. He would like
anyone who has ever sung in a choir to join him and Scott Nauman in
this grand finale. Rehearsals are Tue, Jan 5 at 7:00 pm and Sat, Jan 9
at 8:30 am. Open to anyone in the Front Range who enjoys singing in
a large group setting. We are hoping for a choir of 400 voices. If you
wish to sing in the “Symphony of Love” concert on February 14, please
register at www.JerryNelson.com.
January 3, 2010 John 8:1-11
Letting Go of Our Past
“
The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman
caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and
said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of
adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.
Now what do you say?’ They were using this question as a trap,
in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his
finger.”
John 8:3-
8:3-6
♦ People that throw ______________.
∗ Some people throw stones of _____________________!
∗ We are _______________ than you.
∗ This is an example of ______________ religion.
Galatians 3:24-25; Matthew 23:2-4; Matthew 23:15; Matthew
23:23-26
“Jesus straightened up and asked her, ‘Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?’
‘No one, sir,’ she said.”
John 8:10-
8:10-11a
♦ The _______________ that does not condemn!
∗ Jesus was communicating what His Kingdom would
__________ like.
John 8:7-9; Romans 3:23; John 3:17
∗ Jesus wants all of us to be _____________ of
condemnation.
∗ The Savior says, for those __________, I died!
"Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin."‘
John 8:11b
♦ Leave your ______________ behind you!
∗ The problem is not our past, it’s our __________________.
∗ Only Christ can truly set us ___________!
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:36
∗ We have the opportunity to walk in this ___________ life!
∗ “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free
at last.” Martin Luther King, Jr.