G Notes

The mission of Anthem Church is to fill Angier and the world with love-filled, faith-filled, hope-filled followers of Jesus. In other words, our desire is for people to daily display love of God, faith in Jesus, and hope of the gospel. That is what spiritual freedom looks like. Freedom in Christ is a life of love, faith, and hope.  It is a life characterized by LOVE - gratitude to God and generosity toward others. It is a life characterized by FAITH - integrity and wisdom in our daily decisions. And it is a life characterized by hope - joy in the gospel and boldness for the gospel. That's freedom! But we live in a world that is anti-freedom. Our world is chaos. It's a mad scramble for power and identity. It's a frantic pursuit for security, luxury, and comfort. It's a rat-race. The degree of busyness this world demands is dizzying. This world isn't happy unless we're living like chickens with our heads cut off.  So many times over the past se...

We live in a world of pessimism, negativity, and doom and gloom. This world preaches despair and hopelessness. The prevalent worldview is fatalism. The philosophy of the world is that this world, and life itself is awful. Are you familiar with the nove   Don Quixote , or its musical version   Man of La Mancha ? In the story Alonso Quijano loses his mind. He goes insane, and the lines between reality and fiction become blurred to the point that he believes that he is a knight. He changes his name to Don Quixote of La Mancha. The, he declares a neighboring farm girl, Aldonza Lorenzo, to be his lady love, and renames Dulcinea del Toboso. He does this without her knowing anything about it. He goes out on a knight's adventure, ends up at an inn he thinks is a castle. He gets into a fight because someone insulted his dear Dulcinea. The fights results in Don being severely beaten and left by the side of the road. Most famously, he gets into fights with windmills becaus...