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Last Update - July 1, 2025 Children's Church (Sunday School) On the remaining Sundays the children are generally dismissed to Children's Church at "Hug and Howdy" time, which is right after Communion. NOTE: For the next few weeks the children will dismiss to class at the beginning of the service for a special VBS style class, since our original VBS plans got rained out.
We are Studying I Timothy on Sunday Mornings Come join us for a blessed time drawing closer to God and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Studying Galatians on Sunday Evenings July 6th & 13th The next two Sunday evenings, July 6th and 13th, we will go back to our study of Galatians, and cover chapters 4 and 5. Dick and Rita plan to be here with some good Bluegrass Gospel music as well. On Sunday evening, July 20th, we plan to resume watching "The Chosen" with Season 5, Episode 3.
Adult Bible Study on Wednesday Evenings
Bride of Christ Fellowship Ladies
Guidelines for Church Service Cancellations In addition, we will attempt to get them posted to this web page and the Bride of Christ Ladies Facebook page.
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June 29, 2025 Paul's Testimony "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief." Only God would choose such a one who made himself the biggest enemy of the church to become a chief pillar inside of the very church he persecuted! Not only that but God used Saul's (Paul) persecution of The Way to "scatter" the church making it grow bigger and stronger. Paul truly found out who God was through his conversion. "And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life." In Paul's testimony, a great leader of the church, we see three distinct characteristics of the God we serve. We see His grace (unmerited favor) given to the least deserving person on earth at the time. Paul explained to the Ephesian church that: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." There is no one who can live a perfect life to "earn" their salvation, they need the grace of God. Nor is there one who has lived a life so terrible that they cannot be covered in the grace of God and saved. God chose Paul to be that example for us all on both of those fronts. God's grace is greater than all of our sin. Next we see the characteristic of longsuffering our God shows towards us. Peter wrote this about God's patience with us: "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." Finally, we see that God is able to transform lives and hearts. He can take a man who proclaims himself to be the "chief of sinners" and make him one who now testifies this: "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." With love and gratitude, let's endeavor together to be all that God has prepared us to be. May our testimony proclaim how we have seen God's grace, longsuffering and transforming power displayed in our life.
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