Ocala First Connection

Pastor Anne gave a wonderful introduction and explanation of spiritual gifts on Sunday! Below you can watch her sermon from the 9:00 am service. Her slides are also posted below. We invite you all to take our Spiritual Gifts Assessment and share your results with us.    Go to the   Greater Gifts page   on our website. There you will find two links.  The first link is to a   Spiritual Gifts Assessment .   The second link is to an  online survey  where you can share your results.

As we moved into the New Year and a new worship series, we decided it was time to resurrect the blog after a year's break. Our Greater Gifts Series is all about the ways God has gifted you to love and to serve.  So we invite you to go to the Greater Gifts page on our website. There you will find two links.  The first link is to a   Spiritual Gifts Assessment .   The second link is to an online survey where you can share your results. Sunday's Message: This past Sunday, we talked a lot about gifts and the three-fold pattern of gift-giving:  Expecting, Receiving and Sharing .   And then we ask the critical question: What do you expect from God?  We can expect God to be faithful to all God has promised! And what has God promised?  The gifts we received in our baptism - the  gifts of forgiveness, grace, love, salvation and new birth in Jesus Christ.   All this is God’s gift offered to us without price.  Baptism is a moment when we clearly see a