Napoleon Church Of The Nazarene

We end our Christmas series, "Behold" teaching on the last Advent theme, LOVE. Pastor Chip teaches on lowly shepherds, and how they care for their sheep. Jesus is the ultimate shepherd in how he takes care and nurtures us, His sheep. This season, we are reminded of God's love for us, and how much Jesus, the Son of God, Emmanuel, the Spotless Lamb, the Good Shepherd, loves us! Merry Christmas!

Our third theme of Advent that Pastor Chip teaches on is, "Joy"! Pastor Chip teaches on the difference between happiness and joy and what true joy that can only come from God looks like. He references Luke 1:46-55 (Mary's Song) and uses Mary as an example of someone who has pure joy even through her life's difficult circumstances.

In the second week of our Christmas series, "Behold", pastor Chip talks about the second theme of Advent, Peace. Pastor Chip walks us through the scriptures to show how we can have peace with God, peace from God, and the peace of God.

We are starting a new series for the Christmas season called, "Behold", where we walk through the themes of Advent. Our first week starts us off with 'Hope'. Pastor Chip teaches on the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth found in Luke 1:5-27. He brings us to the point of how hope creates faithfulness to the promise and plan of God! We hope you join us for the next couple of weeks as we continue to teach through the rest of the themes of Advent!

We end our four week series, "Be Lifted High", with the last two words for praise, 'Halal and Shabach'. Passionately teaching on these words is our very own, Justin Braun; a young man from our church who has been called into the ministry of preaching! Everything that Jesus is and what He has done and continues to do for us, calls for an action of praise! Praise shouted out from the rooftops and living in exclamaiton out of all that He is to us. We are to be a light, an example of God's glory; to make known of His good works and shout it out so the next generations will hear and know!

We have been going through the seven words of praise in this series called, "Be Lifted High". This week, Pastor Chip teaches on the two words for praise, 'Zamar' and 'Tehillah'. Zamar means to make music with an instrument and Tehillah means to make spontaneous music before the Lord. Chip teaches on why music was created, how it helps us in our relationship to Christ, and how it lifts us the soul.

Our second week of the series, "Be Lifted High", focuses on the words 'Yadah' and 'Towdah', which means, to extend out the hands or hold out hands. In our giving praise to God, we should be compelled to lift our hands in adoration and thankfulness to Him. It's an outward expression that is so natural yet sometimes we are afraid to do so in corporate worship. Are you free to worship the Lord in this way?

This sermon series called, Be Lifted High, will take a look at the seven different words used for 'praise' in the book of Psalms. Each word used for praising the Lord, brings with it a different response of praise. Pastor Chip Bullock teaches this week on the word, "Barak", which means to kneel, bow down, or salute. He reads from Psalm 95, 100, and heavily through Psalm 103, where this form of the word praise, Barak, is used to describe how to praise the Lord in this context.

Pastor Chip teaches on the miraculous account recorded in all four of the gospels; the feeding of the five thousand. In this lesson, we take a look at the question Jesus asked the disciples when they were confronted with feeding the five thousand people; "How many loaves do you have?" Jesus knew the answer already but had a plan to reveal to all that He is in fact the God who provides. We can surely find peace and rest in Him!

Welcome to our new series, "Questions Jesus Asks". Pastor Ken Behrens introduces the sermon series with the account from John 8, when the woman was getting ready to be stoned for committing adultery. Jesus asks more questions than gives direct answers, allowing us to really process and think about who He is and how we should be. In this portion of scripture, we see that Jesus loves fully yet loves completely!

Since 1968, the Church of the Nazarene has been growing and impacting lives all over Napoleon and surrounding areas. It all started with a call, a vision, and a love for people to know Jesus Christ! We are truly blessed to be celebrating 50 years of God's provision, providence, and faithfulness to His church!

We end our sermon series ,Synced Up, with the church of Laodicea. Pastor Chip gives some insight to the time period and how Jesus related the culture to the church. He told them, I know your deeds and that you are neither hot nor cold but luke warm. But Jesus reassured us that He rebukes those who He loves. He who has an ear them hear what the Spirit is saying.!

Pastor Ken Behrens teaches on the letter to the church of Philadelphia. Jesus had nothing to say against them. In fact, He encourages them to hold fast to the promises of God and to keep doing what they are doing. They were a church who didn't compromise, wasn't about the number of attenders, but truly loved Jesus and sharing the gospel message. God would open doors for them to continue to share the gospel and be their strength even during times of trials.

WAKE UP! In this week's message of the series, SYNCED UP, Pastor Chip teaches on the church of Sardis. They did many good deeds and even had a good reputation or were, "known" so to speak. But yet, they were dead inside. Jesus warns us about our churches becoming like this and ourselves even becoming dead inside. We can look alive on the outside all we want, but are we allowing the Holy Spirit to work in us and use us to bring life from the inside out? Or are we in a period of our lives where were are coasting by?

This week's message in our series, "Synced Up", we look at two of the seven churches; Pergamum and Thyatira. Jesus commended them on their faith, love, and perseverance. But yet, they still clung on to some of the beliefs of the world and fell into acts of sin. This makes us think about our own ives and if we are falling into the trap of being conformed to this world instead of being like Christ.

We are so blessed to have Pastor Mark Bane, Evangelism Ministry & New Church Development Director with the Nazarene Church, come and share his heart on evangelism and spreading the truth of the gospel to the lost.

In our second week of, "Synced Up", Pastor Chip Bullock teaches on the church of Smyrna. This church was a persecuted church, faced with poverty, trails, and afflictions; but they remained faithful. Jesus encouraged them to hold on to their hope and faith; having an eternal perspective that they would receive the victor's crown.!

Welcome to our new series called, "Synced Up" a look at the seven churches found in the book of Revelation. Pastor Chip starts off the series taking a closer look at the first church mentioned in Revelation, the church of Ephesus. Here we see that Jesus praises the church for working hard, having perseverance, and standing up against the wicked, however; they had lost one important thing in the midsts of all of their good deeds. They had lost the love they once had, the very catalyst for why they do what they do. They became a "going through the motions" type of church. Pastor Chip takes a hard look and reflection of own lives in this and talks about what Jesus says we need to do if this is where are hearts are at.

We conclude our Portraits and Profiles series with the life of Paul. Paul, once a persecutor of Christians himself, had a dramatic encounter with the risen Jesus and his life has never been then same since then. Pastor Chip teaches through Paul's messages to the church out of 2 Corinthians. Through Paul's life and testimony we see that your past doesn't determine your future. God uses people of all different kinds of backgrounds. Through Him, we have the strength and endurance to do whatever His will is for us. Chip continues to highlight Paul's life and bring out some serious life applications through this message. We hope you have enjoyed this series. Stay connected for our next series to come!

Pastor Chip Bullock teaches on the life of David in this week's sermon series of Portraits and Profiles. David's life has God's handprint all over it and there are so many events in his life that we can relate to. Pastor Chip really highlights the part of David's younger adult life in where he is fleeing from King Saul. He reads from 1 Samuel 27 where he points out that even David, a man after God's own heart, still had regular humanistic views like everyone else, but later in his life, we see that even in tough circumstances he still had faith in God.