14 Mar

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  Forty-three years ago, I was an alcoholic checking IDs at a bar. I got radically saved. I did not know too much about Christianity, but I did know I needed to find a local church so I could get plugged in and grow as a new believer. I had no idea what to look for in a church, but eventually I connected with a church in Knoxville, Tennessee. My first job at that church was mowing the lawn. I did that so well I graduated to taking out the garbage! Now I don’t mean for pay, I mean this was my area of service in...

21 Feb

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    “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things.  I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou in the joy of the Lord.” (Matthew 25:21) This is a fabulous scripture in context of truly being faithful with the gifts God has given us!  It should be the heart cry of every believer to hear “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”  …not “Well?” Last week we began to dive into just how to do that on a consistent basis.  Let’s review the “Four Facets of Faithfulness”: Every sinner is...

14 Feb

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    When we first moved to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee we were embarking on quite the faith adventure!  We knew absolutely no one!  I remember we finally located a building for Joy church to begin.  There was another church just leaving this building.  I will never forget just how unfaithful the pastor of this other church was to the people he served.  This church had grown quite large to about 700 and they had labored for years in building a new building.  Just as the church building was close to being finished, this pastor “heard from God” and just up and moved...

07 Feb

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    The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips Did you know that you can receive an encouraging message directly sent to your phone each morning? When you download the Joy Church APP you will receive daily wisdom notifications like these...

24 Jan

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  God wants us to be reliable children that He can count on particularly in tough times! Let’s look at our key scripture from Matthew 25:21: “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” This is a very familiar scripture and is in context of being faithful and reliable with gifts that God has given us to use for His glory here on the earth! It should be the heart cry of every believer to hear “Well done, thou...

17 Jan

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  It should be the heart cry of every believer to hear “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”…not just, “Well?” Now it is my desire in this series to truly cause a paradigm shift in your thinking! Let me illustrate. Did you hear about the recent story where a man who worked for the bus company was fired simply because he gave up his seat on the bus to a blind man? He was the bus driver! Now do you see what a paradigm shift is in your thinking? Until that very last sentence, you were thinking one way and immediately you shifted your thinking entirely....

10 Jan

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  Have you ever had people who you thought you could count on simply abandon you in the midst of a difficult time? I remember when I was just a teenager long before I gave my life to Jesus. We had a rival high school called Copley High. I would go to the football games not to watch football, but to look for fights. I remember one such game when my five so called buddies and I were roaming around the stadium grounds looking for Copley boys to fight. We came upon another group of six guys of our rivals. Since I was the leader of our...