Church Calendar

THIS WEEKS EVENTS

TODAY

7:00 a.m. Mens Growth Group

8:15 a.m. Prayer, Room 205

9:00 a.m. Worship Service

11:00 a.m. Worship Service

MON

9:00 a.m. VBS

7:00 p.m. The Most Excellent Way

TUE

9:00 a.m. VBS

6:00 p.m. Cause Park Night

WED

9:00 a.m. VBS

12:00 p.m. Mens Growth Group

6:45 p.m. Worship Team Practice

THUR

6:00 a.m. Mens Growth Group

9:00 a.m. VBS

FRI

9:00 a.m. VBS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mexico Mission Trip Departs

July 16

Lords Supper with Phil Howard

July 19

Canyonview Day Camp

July 27-31

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Info & News

Summer Series - Family Matters

Justin Greene - July 12

Phil Howard - July 19

Donald Whitney - July 26

F a m i l y M a t t e r s

Canyonview Day Camp

Registration is open online for kids entering first grade through

entering sixth grade. Check the church website for more info.

Cause Men Of God Backpacking Trip

Fun trip for father and son! Interested? There will be a meeting

July 26 @ 10:35 a.m. in the chapel. Trip dates are August 5-8.

Patrick & Becky Patterson

The Pattersons will be back in the U.S. for a visit from July 10 -

August 6. If you want to hear an update about the work in East

Asia, contact them to arrange a meet up!

Tim & Mary Dady

The Dadys are fully funded! They leave for Latvia this

month. You are invited to a send off celebration July 19 at

Salem Heights Church from 4-6pm. See you there!

The ministry of SHC is funded entirely by the generous giving of Gods people. You will notice that we do not pass the offering plate; however, there are offering boxes in the back of the auditorium. We believe from the Word of God that the Spirit of God will lead people towards giving back to God of their first fruits. ...God loves a cheerful giver, (2 Cor. 9:7). Please prayerfully consider what the Lord would have you do.

Monthly Budget Needed $107,000 Monthly Giving To Date $35,604 Fiscal Year to Date +/- -$16,505 Building Fund $25,892

SHC Staff

Pastors

Justin Greene

Senior Pastor Carl Chica

Pastor of Family Life Matt MacCollin

Pastor of Mens/College

Lay Elders

Chuck Moore

Ted Ferry

Administration

Ron Groves

Administrator Russ Libby

Director of Ministries Scott Hunter

Facilities Manager AJ Acker

Music Ministry Tim Saffeels

Director of Student Ministries Pete Potloff

Director of Family Life Ed Reister

Community Connection Jay Duffus

Mens Biblical Counseling Laura Chica Womens Biblical Counseling Julie Bernard Womens Ministry

Giving Update

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Our Purpose To reach people with the love of Jesus Christ,

provide a safe and supportive environment,

proclaim the standards of Gods truth,

duplicate the Christian life in others, and

celebrate the majesty and works of our Great

God.

FAMILY MATTERS SUMMER SERIES PART 2

How to Build the Fire Genesis 2; Ephesians 5

Presented by

Pastor Justin Greene July 12, 2015

A man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound

mystery... Ephesians 5:31-32

In 1947, Dr. Carle Zimmerman, a professor of sociology at Harvard University, published a book titled Family and Civilization. In this very technical work, he established an unmistakable correlation between the strength of the family and the strength of the culture. As the teeth of one gear mesh with another, the attitudes that undermine a family will ultimately bring down a nation.

Dr. Zimmerman identified three types of families, the last of which he called atomistic. After a careful study of the worlds great empires, he found that a nation of predominantly atomistic families rarely escapes extinction. I find his description of this type of family eerily prophetic:

This type of family arises first as an extension of the ideas of freedom of the individual ... Thus the individual is left more and more alone to do as he

wishes. At first the freedom becomes an incentive to economic gain ... But sooner or later the meaning of this freedom changes. The individual, having no guiding moral principles, changes the meaning of freedom from opportunity to license. Having no internal or external guides to discipline him, he becomes a gambler with life, always seeking greener pastures. When he comes to inevitable difficulty, he is alone in his misery. He wishes to pass his difficulties and his misery on to others. Consequently he continually helps to build up institutions to remedy his misery. He willingly follows any prophet (and they are mostly false ones) who comes along with a sure-cure nostrum for the diseases of the social system.1

Thus we witness the peculiar anomaly in that atomistic people, who seem to have given all for this freedom, are the ones who create the most violent and bloodthirsty dictatorships.2

Here are six of the particular attitudes that Zimmerman states are typical of a society nearing its last days. Most of them have to do with marriage.

Increased and rapid, easy, causeless divorce. [Guilty-and-innocent party theory became a pure fiction.]

Elimination of the real meaning of the marriage ceremony.

Rise of theories that companionate marriage or looser family forms would solve social ills. [A companionate marriage is one in which the couple agrees to just be companions, not to have children, not to commingle their finances, and divorce by mutual consent.]

The refusal of many other people married under the older family form to maintain their traditions while other people escape these obligations. [The Greek and Roman mothers refused to stay home and bear children.]

Breaking down of most inhibitions against adultery.

Common acceptance of all forms of sex perversions.3,4

Studies like these reveal the tracks left behind by others. Failure is NOT inevitable, but it is more probable if we do not build our home fires right.

KEY

Q: Why is our perception of marriage (and family) so bleak when the stats on marriage remain positive?

A: Our Me Generation does not like the materials used to build a good relationship.

BUILDING THE FIRE RIGHT

Not the same ... but ONE.

You were designed different ... change is inevitable.

The goal is not he needs to change or she needs to change, but Lord, change me so that we can change.

Not self satisfied ... but serving.

Not just happy ... but holy.

Not gooey but gospel (confession and repentance are important).

Not your good ... but Gods glory.

Not picture perfect ... but protected.

HOW IS YOUR FIRE?

1Carle C. Zimmerman, Family and Civilization (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947), 161. 2Ibid., 760-61. 3Ibid., 776-77. 4Charles R. Swindoll, Marriage from Surviving to Thriving (Nashville: W Publishing Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.), 25-27.