FIRST PRESBYTERIAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH
MONTEZUMA, IOWA
9:30 AM SUNDAY SERVICE
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OUR BELIEFS
Our church is served by a board of elders and deacons, and is theologically built upon strong reformed principals.
OUR STORY
In 1856, the First Presbyterian Church began to serve God in the community of Montezuma.
9:30AM WORSHIP—
We exist to glorify God at First Presbyterian Evangelical Church (FPEC). Join us as the scriptures are opened each Sunday morning and the infallible Word of God is preached with a full children’s program during service. Praise and worship include a mix of hymns and newer songs.
THIS IS US—
We are a simple church with a simple message:
Know Jesus and Make Jesus Known!
Outline for Tomorrow’s message
THE LIGHT SHINES!
JOHN 1:1-18
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
Jesus Christ is the light who reveals the path that God would have us take through the darkness of this world.
Proverbs 4: 20-27 My son, pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings.
21 Don’t lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to one’s whole body.
23 Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
24 Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly, and don’t let your lips talk deviously.
25 Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
26 Carefully consider the path for your feet, and all your ways will be established.
27 Don’t turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
Isaiah 9:2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
a light has dawned on those living in the land of darkness.
Jesus Christ is the light that shines in the darkness John 1:1-5
Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and by him all things hold together.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.” (CSB)
Good News Translation 29 This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.
Acts 17:22-31 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “People of Athens! I see that you are extremely religious in every respect. 23 For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it—he is Lord of heaven and earth—does not live in shrines made by hands. 25 Neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives everyone life and breath and all things. 26 From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. 27 He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ 29 Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination. 30 “Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
We are called to be witnesses as we testify about the light that comes from God! John 1:6-13
II Corinthians 4: 6 For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2:12-16 Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose. 14 Do everything without grumbling and arguing, 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world, 16 by holding firm to the word of life.
Are you following the light that Jesus Christ has shined upon your life?
Are you tired of bouncing back and forth from one empty pursuit to another; never finding a place to land in this life?
Are you trying to live your life apart from following the word of God who created you for His glory?
Do your words and your deeds reflect the light of the life of Christ who shines within and through you?
Your words and deeds are evidence that you are a child of God!
Matthew 5:14-16 “You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
