it's Friday night Grace Chapel family it's so good to be here with you hi
everyone well we are in for a fun night tonight
we're gonna spend a few minutes with you and in fact we're gonna show some of
your pictures that you sent in from last week of you with your dogs and so we've
got a lot of great pictures can't show them all so many came in but we're gonna
show a number of them we also have our fun trivia night tonight we're gonna
have a laugh out loud moment with Tim Hawkins we're gonna we're gonna spend a
little bit of time in Philippians chapter 4 what are we gonna talk about
tonight contentment w're gonna talk about contentment tonight we also are gonna
have a little bit of worship we're gonna sing Christ is Enough together and we
also have our musician of the week but we thought it would be fun tonight to go
Hawaiian style and to go to the beach and so tonight we're actually going to
take a trip with you to Maui and we're gonna go to the beach together so I
think we're gonna have a lot of fun this evening and we pray that you would be
full of joy in your homes - not in your homes tonight but we wanted to show you
first some pictures from that were sent in from this week from the church family
and so we have some pictures of you with your dogs let's take a look at some of
them like I think this first one is here we go pet picture time yes this first
one is of Sam DeVore with her dog who's shy that's that's that's the dog's name
weird how much people start looking like their dogs because Josh looks a lot like
their dog doesn't he that's perfect thank you for sending that in does that mean you look a
lot like Lucy moving on okay we also got one from the Hasdale family I think we
got there oh there they are what a great picture Melody and Lilly and Melody's
one of our Jr highers so welcome to you young ladies that's awesome I
think the Marshals sent a picture in as well Heather Marshall there she is with
her three dogs I'm pretty sure that the two big dogs on the left are probably
hers and that baby little poodles probably Zach's dog yes yes that fits
him mm-hmm I think we have another one from the Stevens oh there it is wow that
dog looks cozy in that spot yes indeed yeah it kind of reminds me of
Phil Roberts in the way his done yes it does a little more hair in the top and
hey we love you anyhow Aaron I don't have any to talk brag about the Cocks
isn't Jessica sent a picture of her dog in oh that's a great picture back in the snow that was a fun day can you
believe it snowed so much twice that was really a treat great to see your face I
love it and then we also I think Brooke Jones sent one in oh that's cute she's
dressed up isn't that a beautiful what a sweet girl picture beautiful picture lighting like
she loves her dog that's awesome thank you Brooke for sending that in I
love it I think we have one from the Hefflebaurers tonight oh there it is
that's a little one have you ever seen a family that has kids that look more like
each other than the Hefflebauer family I mean there is only one Hefflebauer mold
they all look exactly alike you everyone thanks for sending that in Lindley sent a
picture in oh that's a pretty picture look at the fall leaves doesn't that
look good yeah I love it little he always has a great smile on
yes she does always pull enjoy and then Kerry Sanchez sent one in this is a
funny picture that's her baby that's her baby that I think thinks it's a lap dog
it is probably bigger than her yes and who is Kerry Sanchez oh that's my sister
yes it is she comes and visits a lot so so are you ready for some trivia tonight
you ready because here's what you got to do hmm if
you have the ability you can go to another device you can email in your
answers and we're gonna do our best job to sort through the correct answers and
then award winners and every winner is gonna get a $10 gift card to Amazon so
here we go I think Kristin you're gonna ask the questions tonight okay it's okay
sounds good how many hearts does an octopus have how many does an octopus
yeah I was thinking about the math on this so we as you
means we have four limbs or tentacles and an octopus has eight and so since we
have one heart I think the math might be two I'm gonna guess - okay good guess
this is a sports one number two what NFL quarterback has been in the most Super
Bowls that's the easiest one ever Clayton Kershaw
did he play football I think so okay that's your hope now number three what
does the term pee or piano mean in music theory I'm going with my same
answer I gave last time about music and the answer is accordion
that's just my music answer are you having a desire to learn how to play
that I'm gonna play the accordion some day in heaven okay number four what
is the first element on the periodic table you know I know that they sell the
brand Element at Tilly's so I think it has something to do with Tilly's and I
didn't do very good chemistry so I'm gonna go with that oh no I didn't either
who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel okay this I feel the most
confident in it's Miguel Rice yes thank you for all your work
around our campus by the way I didn't know he was an artist yeah he's fantastic in
fact during this time off he's painting the ceiling at the church okay here we
go number six how many cards in a deck of
cards how many cards our deck of cards the answers are gonna come at the end
but I'm gonna give you a heads up also at the end tonight we're gonna ask you
to take a picture with yourself or your family whoever you're with with your
favorite game that you've been playing during this time at home and you can
email that live@GCLancaster as well so email your answers in we'll take some
pictures of you and your family with games that would be great we'll show
some of those tonight and maybe next week as well last question here it is
what is the only fruit with seeds on the outside that's got to be pineapple it
has all those pokey things on the outside of the pineapple it's just gotta
be a pineapple I'm sure of it is a pineapple a fruit or vegetable I believe it's a
fruit okay I'm obviously just a genius which is appropriate since we're headed
to Maui tonight yeah I think that's great so we have a special little you
know sort of comedy moment for you we're just calling it our Laugh Out Loud and
and this is one of our favorite comedians Tim Hawkins and this is just a
little clip he puts on I would encourage you to check out his website and maybe
catch some of his videos but let's go to Tim now this is a clip that he had done a
while ago oh that's right and it's kind of just a little funny because of what
we're going through right now so it's especially relevant and what we're going
through right now with all the hand sanitizer that we're using and he just
makes some funny observations about church which probably are are much more
applicable today than ever yes so here we go Tim Hawkins there's a lot of hand
sanitizer in church anybody noticed that I don't know at my church they have
these two hand sanitizer stations right by the front door greeters that is not a
good message people come in on Sunday how you doing nice to see y'all it's
good to see you thanks for coming visit you're gonna love it here
we just love people you can just be yourself you can just be yourself we
don't care we don't judge you we just love you sit back and whatever questions
you have you let us know we'll let you know whatever we can do for you okay
y'all newly married you got four kids for kids that is amazing
that we love kids here kids are like a little gift from God is what they are
they're just wonderful little creatures that God gives us mm-hmm
yeah where y'all from Arkansas okay
I just think everybody's gonna come back so in need of being sanitized I just
want you to know I am NOT gonna be paranoid at all when everybody gets back
to church so anyhow yeah so we were thinking tonight for a little devotion
time just with the family our family whether you're home alone right now or
if you're with your family and we just were thinking for family devotions we
could maybe go to the beach would you guys want to go on a flight to the beach
with us let's let's take a trip together why should we stay here that's all in
our imagination right now that sounds wonderful here we go you know really
cheap flight we were the only ones on it I didn't know we were gonna have to ride on the wing though yeah the bummer is it messed up my hair
yeah it messed up my hair too yeah by the way speaking of messed up hair that was Micth Brill that was there
his dog I I recognize that head Mitch my bad so hello to you guys and we
wanted to share with you tonight for just a few minutes and I'm gonna ask you
even if you have your Bibles to grab them or you can open up a device
Philippians chapter 4 and and you're probably familiar with this passage but
I just love what the Apostle Paul says and we're gonna just talk about this a
little bit tonight but but he just says this I know what it is to be brought low
and I know what it is to have plenty he goes I have learned in whatever
situation to be content and we're going to show you that on the screen in just a
moment but but we want to just talk about tonight is just the importance of
contentment even during this season and and maybe a few ways that we can have it
because you'll notice he says you have to learn contentment so how is it that
we can learn contentment through this season we really could come out of this
stronger spiritually if we choose to in contentment an area that I think we
could all grow in and we're going to talk about that tonight as well it's so
contentments been defined this way it means to be pleased it means to be
satisfied Spurgeon said this a man's contentment is what's in his mind and
not his material possessions I like what Max Lucado says he says this
the good life be not with circumstances not with certain when circumstances
change but when our attitude toward them does so it really is an attitude of the
mind and so often we engage in in wishful thinking that when I get this or
when this you know when these restrictions are over when the safe at
home ends then I'll learn to be content and I'll get it then and what I would
say to all of us tonight is we don't have to wait till then we can actually
have contentment now our circumstances don't have to change I was thinking
Chris when we went to Hawaii a couple years ago we had somebody fly us out
there so you could do their wedding yes it was such a joy it was so much fun and
I remember snorkeling and my favorite part was the turtles yes that was so fun
but I also would think back on when we were first married and when we lived in
our little tiny mobile home we were so we enjoyed that so much and I was
thinking about the time that we were we had driven out to Indiana when we were
we were 19 20 21 and where you were going to school full-time and then
decided to go to seminary so our money was tight we did not have much at all we
went to seminary we didn't really have much money to get back home back in the
Chevette we did in that Chevette and we had it so full and packed remember we
could we just barely could feed Briana she was 11 months old through the holes
but anyways we we were tight on money it was a hard it was hard but I remember
once we needed new tires on our Chevette and it came to $59.99 exactly where
we're praying and asking the Lord how we were gonna come up with that and that
evening our old pastor had come knocking on the door and said to us I think that
the Lord just laid this on my heart but I just want to give you guys $60 yeah -
I don't know why but he's just saying I want to give you $60 and we just saw
God's provision so we had a penny to spare we had a penny
yes and and the reason why I share that is we had so much joy and so much fun
even though we did not have much material possession but we saw God
provide we had so much joy there as much as we had the same amount of joy we're
in Hawaii let's be honest we've all been in situations to where we've been really
blessed then we're on a vacation in Hawaii and we get in fights and we
complain or we say it's too hot or I didn't really like that dinner so Paul
the Apostle Paul saying he learned how to be content in any and every situation
whether well fed or whether hungry in fact look at at Philippians chapter 4
verses 11 and 12 have it for you on the screen it says this not that I was ever
in need for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have I know how
to live on almost nothing or with everything I have learned the secret of
living in every situation whether it is with a full stomach or an empty with
plenty or little and so what Paul was saying was this is that while he was
under house arrest he was still content they were still joy in his heart when he
maybe lived a life where he had a lot and he was a Pharisee he would have been
at a time in his life where he had plenty he knew what plenty meant but
what he knew is this is that really contentment was a state of his mind and
not based on his material possessions or his current situation so what I wanted
to do is just briefly share with you kind of just bit world at gratitude
place in contentment the necessity for growth in the area of contentment I
certainly have not arrived in that I can't say that I haven't complained at
all the last couple of weeks or coveted a different circumstance there's been
those moments maybe you've had them too and then I want you to see the world at
God place and we'll just do that briefly but I just want you to see first the
world that gratitude plays and Philippians 4 it says rejoice in the
Lord always I will say it again rejoice Greg Laurie has said this came in a pill
form gratitude would be a miracle cure so if you can learn to be thankful for
what you we already have instead of what we think we need it could make us happy
did you catch that if we could learn to be grateful with what we have
instead of desiring what we think we need we could be happy that could make
us happy and I believe God desires that we would have that contentment that that
is his will for us I was thinking when you said the pill form it reminded me of
as a mom and having to do take our kids to the doctor's or give them medicine
that they didn't want but it was really for their benefit
when Brianna and CJ were about three and four years old
Brianna would come out of the room sometimes and say CJ stuck his tongue
out at me and I said no that's not even possible of course he couldn't he's
loving this story right yes and she would say that mommy really he is
sticking his tongue out at me well short time later we're in the doctor's office
probably getting shots or something and the doctor said did you know that CJ had
the little thing that attaches the tongue to the bottom I don't remember
what it was and so it turns out he was sticking his tongue out at his sister
but it just did to get it out of his mouth but what was hard about that is
that caused a little bit of pain for him to get that clipped to get it
clipped yes and in the end it was really what was best for him otherwise he could
have had a speech impediment that's exactly right so here's the point
sometimes we have to do things for our kids that hurt them but we know in the
long run it's good for them mm-hmm here's the point sometimes God puts us
through the school of hard knocks and we learn contentment through trials through
tribulations you see he said he had to learn contentment that it was something
that did not come naturally how many of us really honestly are naturally content
or do we naturally complain you know it's kind of like if you have kids and
they played just fine with their toys until another kid comes in the room and
it's time to share we tend to hoard we tend to want what we want and
sometimes God has to take things from us in order to cause us to learn to be
content in him and I love what Paul says in Philippians chapter 3 verse 12
not that I've already obtained this or that I'm our
be perfect but I press on to make it my own because Christ has made me his own
so really the question I have is this is am i of myself am i growing in
contentment I'm not perfect yet but am I getting better at it and this could be a
time and a season for all of us that we could actually exponentially grow in
contentment you know every kid likes to see how they're growing we've had growth
charts before right on our wall we still have one and we have it of all of our
kids and now we have one of Ellie it's this little but I'm like growth charts
less and less because I I just seem like I'm going down but nonetheless that's
okay but I hope that none of us go down in
terms of our growth in contentment that like are we that's one thing never last
week we talked about how we could still sow seeds even in the time of difficulty
and it will reap a harvest in the future that's one thing that we could all be
doing right now is we could be sowing seeds of growth in this area of
contentment haven't already attained it but we're pressing on and then the third
point that I wanted to share was this the third word I wanted to use is the
word God it's the word God and so so so we recognize that we must grow in
contentment that that contentment really comes as we grow in gratitude but also
we recognize that contentment is there only because we have God and we also
know that we can never attain anything unless we have his strength listen to
what it says in Hebrews chapter 13 verses five and six Hebrews 13 and six
as this keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what
you have because God has said never will I leave you never will I forsake you and
the the New King James Version says it this way let your conduct to be without
covetousness be content because you have God he's ultimately the one who
satisfies our souls Greg Laurie said this because Christ will never leave me
I can be content it's not about what I have it's about who has me it's not
about what I have but it's about who has me Chris you always share that quote -
from John Piper that says God is most glorified in us when we are most
satisfied and there's nothing more satisfied
satisfying than our relationship with God and so I love Philippians 4:13 it
says this and this is from the Phillips translation I am ready for anything
through the strength of the one who lives within me or as you probably
recognize it I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me did you know
that the content context of that is contentment but Paul is saying is you
know I can be imprisoned as he was when he wrote the book of Philippians I could
I could have plenty and have my bank account full I could have the freedom to
go wherever I wanted I could be sitting on the beach in Maui right now it
doesn't matter that isn't what determines contentment I
can have contentment because I have God and I can be content because of the
strength of Christ that lives within me so in a real way we have to practice
contentment through gratitude but also we need to ask the lord lord help me to
grow in this contentment help me to be thankful today so I just want to ask you
for a moment what are you thankful for tonight can you look around your room
can you consider your own spiritual life your relationship with God your faith in
Jesus apart from me Jesus said you can do nothing about in me that is where we
find satisfaction I started with that Spurgeon quote that's went like this a
man's contentment is in his mind and not in his material possessions I want to
just change that a little bit and I know that's risky how could you ever mess
with a Spurgeon quote it sounds arrogant to even consider that as a possibility
but I'm going to try what I would say is this I might change a little bit instead
of a man's contentment is not in his material possessions in his mind and not
this particular material possessions I'm gonna say it this way a man's
contentment is in his maker and not in his material possessions but
it's really when we seek him it's not just talking about him but it's knowing
him it's praying it's being in the word together and so tonight can I just
encourage you and challenge you all of us lord help us to grow in our
contentment let me let me just pray for all of us lord thank you for your word
the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want you're all that we need and you're the
strength that we need to learn how to grow in contentment so help us Lord help
each one in their homes tonight we love you we bless your name be glorified now
as we worship together we've chosen a song tonight a song of worship that we
think will be helpful in helping us grow in contentment let's sing together now
maybe you can just even sing out loud in your homes or just close your eyes and
enjoy this song
what a great blessing our Lord and Savior is to us yes he's all that we
need well as we kind of conclude tonight we want to give you the answers and the
winners to our quiz we also still have our musician of the week that will close
with tonight I'll tell you that is in just a moment
special recordings been made but let's give the answers to our trivia over okay
so number one how many hearts does an octopus have how many three three and
the winner tonight is Joann Brill Joann good job all right
the wife of Mitch by the way who had the dog on his lap okay here we go
second one what NFL quarterback has been in the most Super Bowls and I said
Clayton Kershaw wasn't Clayton Kershaw it was Tom Brady Tom Brady and Martin
Estrada won that tonight good job Martin I'm not surprised that's awesome what
does the term p or piano mean in the music theory well this is a person
that's definitely gonna know soft it means soft and Scott Hefflebauer got
that right our musician in the house tonight
awesome Scott okay number four what is the first element on the periodic table
and it wasn't an outfit and history slash PE teacher had the answer to this
Andy Wilson all right a we love the Wilsons that's fun number five who
painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
well it wasn't Michael Rice it was Michael DeAngelo perfect okay and Audrey
Audrey Weathers got that one right good job
Audrey we love the Weather's family thanks for helping us in in children's
ministry and also with Project Door Drop how many cards are in a deck of cards
the answer is 52 and Ashlyn Stegner got that right good job
Ashland great job and the last one what is the only fruit with seeds on the
outside and it was strawberries it was a strawberry not pineapple and Casey
Boyett won that good job Casey that's awesome well congratulations to all of
our winners and thank you everybody for participating the response is always
tremendous and so it's a race to get those in but we're glad that you all got
those in and I wanted to just for a moment give a little shout-out to Sophia
from Cocoantt we love you it's good to see you
tonight thanks for letting us be in your living room I think we have some
announcements to give you before we close tonight and and you know before I
do that I wanted to invite you if you have a prayer request we would love to
receive it we would love to receive hundreds of prayer requests and you can
do that through our website just go to the website www.gcLancaster.com and
there's a prayer tab right of the front homepage you can also email your prayer
request to live at GCLancaster.com and we will pray for every single one of
those and and and lift you before the Lord that is our delight and we have a
team of pastors who are doing that every single day of the week they meet and
pray and we would love for you to be on that list so maybe even send us a prayer
request now in fact we love hearing from you today I got a sweet FaceTime call
from Brook Jones actually I screenshotted that just for a moment so
I think we might have it for you but Brooke FaceTime me and just was so
excited to tell me everything that her family had been doing and I got a chance
to talk to her mom and her brother who had his Dodger hat on I'm proud of you
for that but we just love hearing from you what a
joy to hear from a young lady in our church and just how the Lord is working
in their family their home I wanted to invite you tomorrow morning to Men's Hour
that's at 9:00 a.m. we are gathering every single day of the week in fact if
you missed any of the live streams this week you can go to our web page and just
click the archive and you can find any of the live streams or you can also go
to the Grace Chapel YouTube channel and some of you might not know how to
maneuver to get there all you would have to do is type in you get Google search
YouTube Grace Chapel Lancaster it will come up you can subscribe to that page
you'll get reminders of what's up there but all of those past archived videos
are on there as well the live streams so enjoy some of those and then Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock we'll gather again for worship as a church family and then
Monday Pastor Brad will start us all over again with walk through the New
Testament and we will have another wonderful week together we love these
times of being able to come together with you I'm just going to pray for you
just briefly and then we're gonna we're going to sign off tonight and I'm going
introduced to our musician of the week Lord bless each one in these homes fill
us with a knowledge of the love that you have for us I pray father that you would
give us contentment in joy even in difficult circumstances Lord but we
thank you tonight that we have you that we have one another and that we've even
had this time together we are content in Christ in Jesus name Amen
so our musician of the week we've been holding this in suspense all night is
Susan Macey playing the cello and you're gonna love this she has recorded this
especially for the church family and with that we will sign off enjoy enjoy
this time with Susannah thank you Susanna for doing that thank you
everybody for joining us tonight
