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Last Update - January 28, 2025 Children's Wednesday Bible Study Cancelled During January
Baptism Class Wednesday, January 29th If you are interested in being baptized please get ahold of Pastor Greg Isom and let him know.
Winter Jam is Saturday, February 1st
Putting Away Christmas Decorations Sunday, February 2nd
Children's Church On the remaining Sundays the children will be dismissed to Children's Church at "Hug & Howdy" time, which is right after Communion.
Studying the Gospel of John on Sunday Mornings John's gospel is written intimatley from the perspective of one who considered himself to be Jesus' best friend as you could argue no one knew Him better. He lived a long life following Jesus from perhaps his teens into his 90s. It was a long life, but sometime difficult one often being persecuted for his faith. He was exiled to the island of Patmos later in his life where he was given wonderful visions of heaven and future events which he wrote about in the Book of Revelations. He is the only apostle to die of natural causes. His Gospel differs from the other three in that rather than telling a story in order, he hand picks events to prove a certain point. The point he emphasizes is that Jesus is the Son of God. His close relationship with Jesus empowers his words to have extra special meaning as an insider rather than one observing from the outside. He actually states the purpose for writing this account near the end in chapter 20. "And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name."
Studying the Book of Revelation Sunday Evenings Sunday evening is a wonderful time of digging into God's Word. Also, we are usually blessed with a couple of Bluegrass gospel songs from Dick and Rita on Sunday evenings. Come join us!
Adult Bible Study on Wednesday Evenings
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December 26, 2024 Take Heed Where You Stand "Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." Temptations will come and we must be ready for them. Don't ever begin to relax and take your eyes off of Jesus thinking you are above falling because it is in that instant you will sink just like Peter did when he was walking on the water. He then reveals comfort in this as he reveals to us that we all face the same temptations, "BUT GOD" is faithful and makes an avenue for us to be an overcomer. Know this, that it greatly troubled Jesus as He saw Judas giving into his temptations and it does the same to Him when we give in as well. "My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil." None of us are immune from drifting away from God, but Solomon gives us a way to prevent that from happening. Keep your eyes on Jesus, guard your heart with diligence, stay on the path that leads you to a closer walk not farther away, and let your ways be established. Heavenly Father, we confess to You this morning that we are weak and You are strong. Grant us discernment in our lives to follow Solomon's wise advice to keep our eyes fixed on You.
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near." The author is the Apostle John, the disciple which Jesus loved, the son of Zebedee and the brother to James (the first disciple martyred). He testifies here that these are future events that God's angel revealed to Him through things that he saw. That is what sometimes makes interpretation difficult in that John is trying to describe things that are hard to imagine with his words. I can understand that in saying many times; "it is hard to find the words to describe" something I saw or experienced. Verse 3 is the promise of blessing in simply reading this prophetic book. But again like we said this morning, we need to not only be hearers of the Word, but doers as well. We must look for things we can apply to our lives.
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