J.R. Lee

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend!

We have an incredible day planned on Sunday.  It’s going to be a fantastic day!

Bring people with you and we will see you on Sunday at either 9:45 or 11:30!

Freedom Church currently meets at Barber Middle School (right next to Acworth Elementary) in Acworth GA.  

Below are a list of the last five books I have read.  I recommend all of them.

Gospel by Pastor JD Greear

Jesus + Nothing = Everything by Tullian Tchividjian

Holiness by Grace by Bryan Chapell

Sifted by Wayne Cordeiro

Unusually Excellent by John Hamm

We kicked off our new series, The Inheritance, last Sunday.   If you had to miss it you can catch the video on our website or listen via iTunes.

This week we continue with a powerful message called Helpless but not Hopeless.  It’s going to be a fantastic week.

Bring people with you and we will see you on Sunday at either 9:45 or 11:30!

Freedom Church currently meets at Barber Middle School (right next to Acworth Elementary) in Acworth GA.  

It has been a great week.  I love what God is doing and I love the fact that you and I get to be a part!

• Had the privilege of speaking at Exponential last week in Orlando.  It was a great experience and I really enjoyed being able to learn from so many people while we were there.
• In addition to Exponential, I had the opportunity to be part of the Launch Network Board Meeting.  I love those guys and consider it an honor to spend time with them.
• Lexi turned 10 years old this past week.  I couldn’t be more proud of her.
• Freedom Church is in a great season right now.  I am grateful for what God is doing in and through the lives of people.
• I would love for you to join us as we pray for many opportunities that are staring us in the face right now. I’ll tell you more about that in the days ahead.
• We started a new series this past week called The Inheritance.  I challenged the church to be in attendance at least 4 of the next 5 weeks because this series is that important.  It’s Wednesday and I am already ecstatic about this coming week.
• See you then.

We have just started a new series at Freedom Church entitled The Inheritance.  It’s all about the inheritance you receive as a result of becoming a follower of Jesus.

We had a ton to cover and not nearly enough time to make it through.  As a result, I leave you with some of what had to remain unsaid…

You are accepted (we talked through that one) but are also delivered.  Delivered from the slavery of sin through the power of Christ living in you.  Here’s one reason that’s so important.  Jesus dying on the cross destroyed the power of sin in our lives because if we are followers of Christ – we died with Him.  Not only that, we have been given new life just as He was given new life when He rose from the dead.

Hang with me here…

That means that we don’t base our ability to conquer sin on our past success/failure rate.  Instead, we fix our attention on Jesus and the power of His life.  He earned it (righteousness) on our behalf.  Therefore, we have power that we can appropriate in our lives for obedience through faith – not obedience based on our own effort.

We grow in our relationship with God the same way that we began in a relationship with God – by faith.