Messages November 2007

  • Connect With Inner Self

    Nov. 11, 2007

    Pastor Kendall Odle continues the "Connect" series by pointing out that each person has a purpose and that no one is an accident. Although we can always strive to improve ourselves, we are accepted and loved by God just as we are. Kendall quotes Jerry Garcia from "The Grateful Dead" regarding being who we are and stresses that God sees us differently than we see ourselves. God sees us as He made us and as we were planned ... unique -- each having something that no one else does. We're each special to God.

  • Connect With Culture

    Nov. 18, 2007

    This message starts in progress ... What Pastor Kendall Odle is addressing is the challenge of stepping outside ourselves -- our own world -- and experiencing people not like ourselves as Jesus sees them. He speaks about the pitfalls of stereotyping others ... and also asks if we have stereotyped Jesus. Are we missing out on what God has for us because of some hurt we experienced in past relating to the church? If so, these walls we have built to protect ourselves keep us in, but they also keep God out. Kendall encourages us to tear them down and experience Jesus like never before.

  • Connect With Others

    Nov. 25, 2007

    The last of the four-part "Connect" series, Pastor Kendall Odle encourages us once again to be people-conscious and people-oriented. He recognizes the human condition that when we do help others, quite often it's on our own terms. This needs to change. Kendall wraps up the series with the simple and profound truth that ... if we want to see people praise God, then we need to help others. Period ... end of story ... end of series ... but just the beginning of a new Turlock Grace ...