Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/31/13 - What Counts is Who We Are
"So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." John 13:34-35
One of the big problems in both recovery and in Christianity is that we sometimes place to much emphasis on the wrong things. We put our identity into our material possessions, our jobs, our education, our relationship status, the success of our children and spend little time on our spiritual growth. We become obsessed with a different type of more. We are still looking for something on the outside of us to validate and fix the inside of us. But the point of recovery and a relationship with God is to work on who we are on the inside. The text tells us that folk will know that we are who we say we are not by our accumulation of stuff but by our love for each other. We are supposed to love others like God has loved us. Whether in Christ or in recovery or both the best demonstration of change and the best way to attract others to this way of life is not by what we have but who we are. As Dr. King so eloquently put it, "by the content of their character." We can only prove who we are and Who's we are by the love we share. The bling might catch their attention for a moment but the love will keep their attention for a lifetime.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
For my baby!!!
I know I don't say it enough but I am so grateful for the woman God has placed in my life, my wife, my lover, my best friend, and my RIB! I love you, Paula, to life with all my heart and soul. Next to God you are my everything. I am proud of you and who you are and that you stand next to me. I am also excited about what God is doing in our lives, our family, our recovery, and in our ministry. So to all you that are reading this come help RCC West and RCC Kensington celebrate all of that at the Rescheduled Ordination & Installation of Co Pastor Paula Burnett-Kimmenez on Saturday, November 9. Diner is at 3:30pm and Service will begin at 5pm at Recovery Christian Center West 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/24/13 - God Isn't Through With Us Yet!
***We wanna see ur face in da place this weekend @ Recovery Christian Center! Come get a LIFE CHANGING message on the power of forgiveness from our series on the 12 Steps for Christian Recovery "Why Are You Looking For A Natural Solution to a Spiritual Problem?" Friday at 7pm @ RCC Kensington @ SKA, 2418 Kensington Ave in Philly, PA and Saturday at 5pm @ 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly! We are Radical Ministry for Radical Brokenness!***
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/24/13 - God Isn't Through With Us Yet!
"And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns." Philippians 1:6 NLT
One of the most important principles in our ongoing recovery and growing relationship with Christ is perseverance. God values our ability to press through even under what appears to be the most adverse circumstances. The reality of our humanness is that we aren't always going to perfectly serve God and that life will show up with the enemy doing his level best to throw us off our game. We will at times fall short but when we do perseverance tells us to get back up and not to ever stay down. We keep getting up. We keep pressing. We keep walking because we know that regardless of our present circumstances God's Word has promised us, " And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them." Romans 8:28 NLT. It doesn't say that all things are going to be good or feel good, but simply that God will work them out for our good. All we have to do is trust Him and keep it moving because He's not through with us yet!
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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/24/13 - God Isn't Through With Us Yet!
"And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns." Philippians 1:6 NLT
One of the most important principles in our ongoing recovery and growing relationship with Christ is perseverance. God values our ability to press through even under what appears to be the most adverse circumstances. The reality of our humanness is that we aren't always going to perfectly serve God and that life will show up with the enemy doing his level best to throw us off our game. We will at times fall short but when we do perseverance tells us to get back up and not to ever stay down. We keep getting up. We keep pressing. We keep walking because we know that regardless of our present circumstances God's Word has promised us, " And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them." Romans 8:28 NLT. It doesn't say that all things are going to be good or feel good, but simply that God will work them out for our good. All we have to do is trust Him and keep it moving because He's not through with us yet!
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
Who RCC Serves
Somebody asked me today if Recovery Christian Center is just for folks in recovery. I had to tell them "no". We don't just want the addicts, alcoholics, food addicts, gamblers and sex addicts. We also want the sex workers, the corner boys, the folks with behavioral health issues, the disabled (including the intellectually disabled), folks with HIV or Hep, the at risk youth, the teen moms, the veterans with PTSD, the homeless, the abuse and domestic violence survivors and anybody else that other churches don't want. We also want those who are just beat up by life and want a place to heal and those who are just tired of church as usual. So if don't feel like you fit in anywhere else then join us at the place where misfits fit.
We have two locations in Philly to serve you:
RCC Kensington @ SKA, 2418 Kensington Ave, Every Friday @ 7pm.
RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave, Every Saturday @ 5pm.
We are Radical Ministry for Radical Brokenness!
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We have two locations in Philly to serve you:
RCC Kensington @ SKA, 2418 Kensington Ave, Every Friday @ 7pm.
RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave, Every Saturday @ 5pm.
We are Radical Ministry for Radical Brokenness!
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Welcome to the Recovery Christian Centers!
We had a awesome weekend of worship at both locations. God is really moving at Recovery Christian Center! If you're not there ur missing out on an awesome, powerful and impacting alternative worship experience that WILL CHANGE UR LIFE! If you:
1. are in recovery and looking for a place that will accept, support, and encourage ur ongoing recovery,
2. are or used to be involved in the drug lifestyle, a sex worker, corner boy, teen mom, at risk youth, homeless, struggling veteran, have or had behavioral health issues or intellectual disabilities, or are just being beat up by life and sick ad tired of being sick and tired,
3. work on Sundays or if you just don't feel like you fit in at traditional churches,
The RCC is the place for you!
We are relaxed, dress down and come as you are! We are all about Immense Love, Intense Worship, and a Relevant Word! We are the place where misfits fit!
We have 2 locations in Philadelphia, PA to serve you:
1. Every Friday Nite at 7pm RCC Kensington @ SKA, 2418 Kensington Ave for our Recovery Gospel Open Mic Nite!
2. Every Saturday at 5pm RCC West at 4110 Haverford Ave for our Recovery & Deliverance Service!
We are Radical Ministry For Radical Brokenness! We will see YOU at RCC!
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1. are in recovery and looking for a place that will accept, support, and encourage ur ongoing recovery,
2. are or used to be involved in the drug lifestyle, a sex worker, corner boy, teen mom, at risk youth, homeless, struggling veteran, have or had behavioral health issues or intellectual disabilities, or are just being beat up by life and sick ad tired of being sick and tired,
3. work on Sundays or if you just don't feel like you fit in at traditional churches,
The RCC is the place for you!
We are relaxed, dress down and come as you are! We are all about Immense Love, Intense Worship, and a Relevant Word! We are the place where misfits fit!
We have 2 locations in Philadelphia, PA to serve you:
1. Every Friday Nite at 7pm RCC Kensington @ SKA, 2418 Kensington Ave for our Recovery Gospel Open Mic Nite!
2. Every Saturday at 5pm RCC West at 4110 Haverford Ave for our Recovery & Deliverance Service!
We are Radical Ministry For Radical Brokenness! We will see YOU at RCC!
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/12/13 - Hope In The Midst Of The Storm
***I wanna c ur face in da place TODAY & EVERY SATURDAY @ 5PM @ Recovery Christian Center West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly for a LIFE CHANGING MESSAGE! We're coming from the 7th Step from the 12 Steps for Christian Recovery! BE THERE!***
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/12/13 - Hope In The Midst Of The Storm
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." I Peter 1:3-7 NLT
It is easier sometimes in the beginning of our recovery and our walk with Christ to have hope. The dramatic change that has recently happened in our lives has us overwhelmed with joy and peace and hope. We are filled up simply because we're not where we used to be. The challenge is maintaining that hopeful attitude after we have been on the journey a while. The new challenges and burdens of life can be equally overwhelming and not in a good way added to that the regular attacks from the enemy and our own nagging insecurities and it isn't long before we are discouraged and questioning ourselves and God.
The solution to that state is two fold. First we need to look at where we came from and where we're at now. For most of us, as bad as it might seem now, it's nothing compared to the state we were in before we came to Christ and into recovery. Secondly if we simply look to what God has promised us, that He's not through with us yet, and that everything we're going through is designed to grow us spiritually, it becomes easy to find hope. We also ca look forward to our Greatest Hope, that at the end of this journey is Eternal Life in Him.
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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/12/13 - Hope In The Midst Of The Storm
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." I Peter 1:3-7 NLT
It is easier sometimes in the beginning of our recovery and our walk with Christ to have hope. The dramatic change that has recently happened in our lives has us overwhelmed with joy and peace and hope. We are filled up simply because we're not where we used to be. The challenge is maintaining that hopeful attitude after we have been on the journey a while. The new challenges and burdens of life can be equally overwhelming and not in a good way added to that the regular attacks from the enemy and our own nagging insecurities and it isn't long before we are discouraged and questioning ourselves and God.
The solution to that state is two fold. First we need to look at where we came from and where we're at now. For most of us, as bad as it might seem now, it's nothing compared to the state we were in before we came to Christ and into recovery. Secondly if we simply look to what God has promised us, that He's not through with us yet, and that everything we're going through is designed to grow us spiritually, it becomes easy to find hope. We also ca look forward to our Greatest Hope, that at the end of this journey is Eternal Life in Him.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Tonite at RCC Kensington!
I wanna see you tonite and every Friday nite at our Recovery Gospel Open Mic Nite at Recovery Christian Center Kensington at SKA 2418 Kensington Ave in Philly, PA at 7pm! It's a whole new worship experience! Tonight's message is on the 8th Step from the 12 Steps for Christian Recovery!
Saturday, October 5, 2013
2day @ RCC West!
Wanna C U Face In Da Place 2day! Recovery Christian Center West 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly. Every Saturday at 5pm! Join us for a powerful, dynamic, come as you are Worship Experience! Today's message is on the 6th Step from the 12 Steps for Christian Recovery!
Thanks For Ur Prayers
I want to formally thank everyone for their prayers and well wishes after Saturday's assault on our home and family. Aside from being shaken up, my wife, Co PastorPaula Burnett-Kimmenez is unharmed as are our grandchildren. I suffered a broken nose and my daughter had to have knee surgery which she has come through well. The young man who perpetrated the assault is in police custody and is facing a slew of charges. Please continue to pray for us, our family and even this young man and his family. In addition this incident caused us to postpone Co Pastor Paula's ordination which we will announce the rescheduling of very soon.
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