Fall Creek Community Church RSS Feed http://fallcreek.org/ This is an RSS feed available from Fall Creek Community Church. Fishers, IN Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:33:40 GMT 15 Updated Page: Welcome http://fallcreek.org/content.cfm?id=135 Join us Sunday at 10:15 a.m.

Knowing & honoring Jesus Christ is our aim, and we would love to come alongside you in that great adventure! We believe the message of Jesus is good news for everyone and all of life. Come this Sunday & you're guaranteed a warm welcome, uplifting music, and clear Bible teaching.

Our music is contemporary, & messages are anchored to the Bible & applied to 21st century life. Fun & safe children's ministry is provided for preschoolers throughout the Sunday service. During the school year, 1st - 6th graders join adults for singing and then go to their own area for age-appropriate ministry during the message. Because we want to support families in raising not just good kids but kids who love God, during the summer we typically engage in a series where families with 1st-6th graders get to worship & learn together. 

Outside of Sunday mornings, we offer several kinds of small groups--calling them growth groups--and a great youth group on Sunday evenings throughout the school year.

If you have questions after taking a spin through the website, feel free to contact us via the Contact Us button up top or by phone at (317) 595-8558. We're easy to find, just a mile East of I-69 on 116th Street in Fishers, IN. You can find detailed directions under the About Us menu above.

Feel free to check out Pastor Ken's blog under the Resources section. You can also stream or download his messages in the Resources section by clicking on Sermons, or click on the "listen to Sermons" button on the left on this page. You can also follow Pastor Ken on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/kencav.

Hope to see you at 10:15 this coming Sunday!
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I'm not a huge fan of "Lost," but can appreciate the way the story's complexities have attracted a sizeable and devout following. This is the final season, they say. So how on earth will they pull together all the puzzle pieces? At a friend's birthday party last week, a "Lost" fan said the writers started with the end clearly in mind, and then wrote the entire series with that end in mind. No matter how far afield they seem to go, he said, they'll be able to reconcile everything in the end--because they started already knowing the end.

Can't help but make the connection in my mind to what God has revealed in the Bible: knowing how human history will end, he has been and is weaving together a googol (sic) of seemingly random and disconnected events, choices, and acts so that they all come together at the end to bring about the end he has always had in mind.

Biblical prophecy gives perhaps the clearest example of how this plays out. So many times already in biblical prophecy, God has predicted something long before it happened. To the surprise of many, what God predicts comes about precisely as he had said--human attempts to block him or speed his timeline along not withstanding. The most dramatic examples surround the coming of his Son, Jesus Christ.

Chapter 53 of the Old Testament prophetic book of Isaiah was written some 700 years before Jesus was born. Check it out here: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%2053&version=NIV.

God's prediction pre-dates crucifixion. It involves events and choices which were completely out of the control of Jesus and anyone who might have wanted to conspire to force the seeming fulfillment of prophecy.

Begin with the end in mind. Shrewd businessmen, investors and students do it. We'll soon see how the writers of "Lost" do it. And God apparently does it. Without removing freedom of choice and the consequences of our choices, he knows the end, knew the end before time began, and is right now working all things together for the good of those who love him. Amazing.
]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:24:27 GMT Blogs PastorKen@fallcreek.org (Ken Cavanagh) http://fallcreek.org/content.cfm?id=151&content_id=34 Blog: Leading Straight in Crooked Times http://fallcreek.org/content.cfm?id=151&blog_id=33
Tourists love the Tower of Pisa: 16,000 tons of marble leaning precariously enough that you might think twice before walking beneath its shadow. The good news is that since 2008, those in the know have declared that the tower has stopped shifting for the first time in its history, thanks to years of stabilization work.

A life that's bent is not quite so amusing. I've been chewing on this as we prepare for our next teaching series, this one through the apostle Paul's leader coaching letter to Titus. Titus was called to lead God's people on the Mediterranean island nation of Crete. Crete was a bent place. Its residents were legendary for their immorality, dishonesty, laziness and gluttony. Bent.

They needed leaders who were straight and true. Titus was just such a man, and in turn was called to find and appoint leaders of similarly straight character to lead well. They would be challenged for sure. But it was through them, tried and true leaders, that God's stabilization work would advance.

If you are a leader or aspire to leadership, I hope you join us for this dig into what it looks like and how great the need is for those who will lead straight in crooked times.
]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:38:34 GMT Blogs PastorKen@fallcreek.org (Ken Cavanagh) http://fallcreek.org/content.cfm?id=151&content_id=33 Download: An Anchor for the Soul http://fallcreek.org/content.cfm?id=213&content_id=44 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:11:02 GMT Downloads http://fallcreek.org/content.cfm?id=213&content_id=44