Frank's message focused on "Abiding in God." The message started out by mentioning a Disney/Pixar film called "Up!" a cartoon with a theme of faithfulness.
Up! is about a husband who promises to take his wife to South America. After she dies, he has an unusual way of keeping his promise.
Trailers are available here:
http://www.pixar.com/theater/trailers/up/index.html
Some faith-based movie reviews
http://www.crosswalk.com/movies/11604054/
http://kidstvmovies.about.com/od/up/fr/uprev.htm
The following reviews remind parents that the story may not be suitable for very young children, especially if they are not ready to deal with death:
http://www.parentpreviews.com/movie-reviews/up/
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/up
Wikipedia gives us more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_%282009_film%29
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Frank's message touched on the following Bible verses:
1st John 2: 27-29
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him. And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
How great is the love that he has showered upon us ...
John 15:
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. Every branch that does bear fruit
No branch may bear fruit unless ... If you remain in me, and I remain in you ...
As the father has remained in me, so have I loved you
Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Psalm 94:12-14
Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law; you grant him relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked. For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.
The Christian life is not an easy life. It involves a process of pruning
Proverbs 3:11-12
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline. Rejoice in trials of various kinds.
The Lord is training us.
Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest and repent.
Psalm 119 [about the cleansing that the Word does in our life]
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
10 I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
12 Praise be to you, O LORD; teach me your decrees.
13 With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth.
14 I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches.
15 I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
16 I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
John 17:13, 19
I am coming to you now. ... that they may too be sanctified.
sanctify = set apart. The word cleanses us. Reading God's word daily cleaned us.
Ephesians 5:
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
If you neglect his word, you will not be ready when He comes.
Abiding in fellowship with God and others. We need each other. Staying at home or doing something else won't do the job. That's why it's important to come to church.
James 4:4-10
4You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
The things of this world are temporary. A by-product of abiding in the Lord is having joy, peace that comes from Him.
Psalm 29:11
The Lord gives strength to his people. The Lord blesses his people with peace.
Psalm 119:
that they who love your law, that nothing can make them stumble.
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 48:17
17 This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea.