January 22, 2023

Sunday Worship

Bible Study 10:00 A.M.

Morning Service 10:45 A.M.

Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.

Saturday Radio Broadcast WEMM Radio 107.9 FM 8:30 A.M.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Hurricane-Road-Grace-Church

Our messages can be heard on www.hurricaneroadgracechurch.com

It is requested that all children four and under stay in our nursery so there will be no distractions during the preaching of the Gospel.

CALL TO WORSHIP

Approach my soul, the mercy seat,

Where God will hear our prayer;

There humbly fall before His feet,

For none can perish there.

Thy promise is my only plea,

With this I venture nigh;

Thou callest burdened souls to Thee,

And such, O Lord, am I.

O wondrous love to bleed and die,

To bear the cross and shame;

That guilty sinners such as I,

Might plead Thy gracious name.

The hearing ear, the seeing eye,

The contrite heart bestow;

And bless us with Thy precious Word,

That we in grace may grow.

(Tune: “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee” p. 58)

JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

22^nd Chip Holbrook 24^th Janey Hollback

25^th Bob Boyd 26th Lindy Herrell

Nursery Schedule

Sunday School: Michelle Simpson, Clarah Floyd

Sunday Worship Service: Lindy Herrell, Sydney Kinnel

Wednesday Service: Sandy and Lilah Thornbury

Next Week: Debbie Davis, Mikayla Simpson, Earlein Meadows, Chloe Mayo, Abby Floyd

The Lord willing, we will have a church dinner following the service next Sunday morning to celebrate the 20^th birthdays of Kynslee Keesee and Maggie Kinnel and Lee Tate’s 80^th birthday.

THE LONG ARM OF GRACE

“All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.” (Philippians 4:22)

The electing, calling, redeeming, regenerating, preserving grace of our God has no boundaries. God’s grace will find God’s sheep no matter where they may be found. At the time Paul wrote his letter to the church at Philippi, Nero was the Caesar in Rome. I doubt that Rome ever had a more wicked, depraved leader. Yet the grace of God reached into that corrupt, immoral court and saved some objects of God’s mercy and grace. You will find that God saves the most unlikely sinners from the most unlikely places. The evidence of God’s grace in our hearts is that we don’t find it difficult to believe that God would be gracious to someone in Nero’s court. We find it more amazing that God would gracious to us!

Pastor

How often we jeopardize the hope and joy of our salvation, by looking for the work of God done IN us, or BY us, rather than looking to the work of Christ done FOR us.

Pastor Greg Elmquist

This past week has been for me much like all the other weeks of my life: I have experienced many failures in spiritual matters: I have ventured too far into the world, been too little involved with eternal things, read the Scriptures and prayed too little, found myself doubting God's grace and trusting myself. How glad I am, then, that today, I can come to this place and meet with God's people whose experiences are similar to mine. Among the saints, I find it easier to think on things above, easier to pursue matters of eternal life, easier to express the fruit of the Spirit, easier to believe "Christ is all," easier to read and pray. The reason for this is clear, "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20). Let others say they can worship as well in nature as in church. Maybe in their churches this is so: but not in the churches where Christ meets with His people. I have experienced wonderful times of worship alone with God, but I must confess that the large majority of my experiences of worship has occurred in assembly with the saints of God meeting in the name of Christ! What a privilege to be here today!

Pastor Joe Terrell

Faith is not a blind leap. We do not "step out in faith"; we step into Christ. Those who come to Christ do so in knowledge and understanding by the Spirit of God. We know WHAT Christ saved us from–our own sinful self and from sin's curse and condemnation. We know WHO saved us–the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-man, Mediator. We know HOW he saved us–by His perfect obedience and precious blood. We know WHY he saved me–"according to the good pleasure of His own will." And coming to Christ never ends. It is not a one-time act. The believer comes to Christ the rest of our lives (1 Pet 2: 2) for we need Christ to save us every step of the way. "Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us." (2 Cor 1; 10). Let us thank God for giving us faith to trust the Author and Finisher of our faith.