Outreach Opportunities
Hey PVC’ers, we’ve got some great opportunities to make an impact for Christ in the coming weeks. I would particularly ask you to pray about the Vegas opportunity, as we will be helping Verve Church launch! email Pastor Brent at bhodges@palmvalley.org about serving in one of these…
Verve Church Plant (Las Vegas) – March 25th – 28th
Join us as we help Pastor Vince Anotnucci pass out doorhangers and spread the word about Verve Church.
Haiti Relief Trip – April 8th – 17th
This trip will focus on construction and medical relief efforts, but anyone is welcome to attend. If interested, the first equipping is February 21st at 10:00 am Desert Edge High School, room C15.
Local Haiti Relief Work – March 27th (10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
Palm Valley Church has partnered with the Haitian Disaster Relief of Arizona to help pack up relief supplies to send to Haiti. We ask that you commit to serve for at least
2 hrs, but are free to stay for all 5.
Weekend Reflections
Loving the feel of this series, “The End of the World As We Know It”, one of my favorites we’ve done…
- Keeping the end times simple is harder that I thought it would be going in
- Bummer not having Saturday night services this week due to a dance at the school. Numbers remind us (once again) that we really do reach a different crowd on Saturday night.
- Preached with bronchitis. Thankful for a great doctor and good drugs.
- On the way to church I asked my son Jake, “what’s the best part about the tribulation?”. His answer is my favorite quote of the week… “we won’t be here”. Glad my son’s pre-trib
- Getting tons of interest in our Israel/Rome trip this December. I’m pumped because it’s going to be an awesome trip! for info email my assistant Kathleen at kflanagan@palmvalley.org .
- Loving the song “Glory to God”. The team nailed it this week and the crowd was singing off the hook on that one.
- Loving how eager people are to learn about the end times stuff.
- Big props to Sean Smith, Creative Pastor, whom I called at midnight Saturday to make changes for the morning. He jumped right on it and got it done, with a smile.
- Our Small Group had baptism during our meeting last night. Awesome to baptize 7 members of our group declaring publicly their faith in Christ. That’s 10 members in my small group I’ve had the privilege of baptizing in the last year.
- If you’re a Christ-follower and you’ve not gone public in baptism, what are you waiting for? It’s the first step of obedience, take it!
- Pray for my bronchitis to go away, I want to be done with it.
- Make sure you don’t miss the last week of this series this weekend, I promise it’s going to be awesome!!
End Of Days Timelines
This weekend we talked through the last days as they are outlined in Revelation. Here are the timelines we used this week:
Bring Your Bible To Church
A few weeks ago I shared some thoughts after my message about bringing your Bibles to church with you. Here is the video:
Weekend Reflections
Man, what a great weekend…
- All 3 of my boys teams won their basketball games Saturday. I coach an 8-10 year old team, the Suns, and we won 6-5. Exciting stuff!
- Loving the end times series; keeping it simple though: when God makes a promise, He will keep it!
- Loved seeing so many people bringing their Bibles. I’ll post video of the talk I gave last week about this.
- Talked about the rapture of the church this week, the “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) of believers.
- The rapture reminds us to “pack our bags” and be ready to go.
- How?…live in purity, live with urgency!
- Next weekend we’re covering the tribulation through the second coming of Christ. It’s going to be awesome!
- This has been one of my favorite teaching series I’ve done, really enjoying making a subject so simple we can all understand it.
- Had an awesome talk on the way to church with my oldest son, Jake. He feels called to be a leader, and he’s trying to figure out what that means in his life. Yes, I’m a proud dad
- My youngest son gave me a “thank you” card yesterday, telling me I’m the best dad ever. He also gave me a dollar from his savings. I told him I was going to use it to buy him ice cream. He was very happy, so was I. It’s a win-win!
- Love the development of our “Community Pastors”. These are men in are church who volunteer 10-20 hours a week to connect, care for and shepherd the flock at Palm Valley. They are strengthening the body in incredible ways!
- Met a family who was hear with their jr high son. Told me they asked around, and everyone they asked in the community told them “if you’re looking for a youth group, you HAVE to go to Palm Valley”. Love hearing that Huge “shout-out” to Darius, Jeremiah, Christina and the army of volunteers in Student Ministries! Over 300 students per week are beginning a revolution in our community!
- Can’t wait to move our children’s ministry into permanent space in the new building, it’s going to be “off the hook”. Over 750 kids each week in a portable setting, what’s God going to do through this new tool? I’m excited to see!
- PVC’ers, let’s fulfill the Great Commission in our lives, making the name and love of Jesus known to all!
- I love our church, love being a part of it, love leading it, and can’t wait to be with you again this weekend
Amazing Grace
Sitting here at nearly 1:00 am, blown away by the amazing grace of God. I’ve been reading and studying tonight more about the tribulation/second coming/millenial kingdom/new heaven and earth, and it’s like I’m reading it with a whole new understanding. I see that Revelation is simply God completing His work in “human history”, redeeming mankind back to His original intent.
I’m struck by the grace of God…
…that He’s patient, not wanting any to perish;
…that He’s forgiving, even though I sin so often;
…that He loves me, even when I fail to love Him in return;
…that He chose me, way before I chose Him;
…that He remembers every tear I’ve shed, and promises to heal all hurts;
…that He called me to serve Him, even though I often feel like a failure.
God’s grace really is amazing! My desire is to live as a child of the King today, to make an impact on the world with HIs love, and to help His Kingdom come!
Study Bibles
I mentioned this weekend that I would post some examples of Study Bibles, here are a few examples of good study resources.
Haiti Team Pictures
It has been a difficult but incredible day for us here in Haiti. We visited the church in Valu where we met with Pastor Emmanuel and distributed some food, we visited Julienne and spent time with pastor Lezianou and distributed more food. We also spent time visiting some of the areas most affected by the earthquake. Pictures cannot even begin to tell the story of what we have seen, but they are a start.
This first picture was taken in November when we were here. It shows the building we stayed in during that trip. The next picture shows that same building today.
Study Help for “The End of the World”
If you want to study more on the timing/events of Daniel’s 70 weeks, here’s a great explanation of the subject that you can download.
End OF The World Timelines
This weekend we looked at a couple of timelines. You can view copies of the timelines here:
Greg Rohlinger is the Senior Pastor of Palm Valley Church in Goodyear, Arizona. These are his thoughts on faith and leadership, as well as being a husband, father and pastor.