SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

April 5, 2009

Bible Study 10:00-10:30 A.M.

Morning Service 10:45 A.M.

Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.

Call to Worship

Come, Thou Almighty Comforter
And bring upon Thy wing
Sweet consolation to each soul
That we may praise and sing.

We want to hear, we want to see
We want to know Christ more
We want sweet foretastes of His love
As we have had before.

And shall we come in vain to God?
O Lord, that cannot be
Thy promise stands engaged to come
And bless e'vn two or three.

Lord, give more love, more sincere faith
More confidence in Thee
Break off our legal chains, O God
And let our souls go free.

(Tune: "Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove")

Regeneration makes no alteration on the flesh, but the Spirit. There is nothing in the flesh made holy. And there is nothing in the spirit left unholy. - Robert Hawker

BIRTHDAYS

Wayne Kinnel April 6^th

Tara Kinnel April 8^th

This Week's Nursery Schedule

Today, Sunday School: Nancy Hogsten, Earlein Meadows

Worship Service: Tammi & Joanna Holbrook, Sandy Thornbury

Wednesday, April 8^th : Tara Kinnel

Next Sunday School: Sabrina Keesee and Gay Armstrong

Next Sunday AM: Debbie Bartram and Judy Sanders

Church Cleaning: Wayne and Tara Kinnel

There is an Advocate and Intercessor waiting to present the prayers of those who come to God through Him. That Advocate is the Lord Jesus Christ. He mingles our prayers with the incense of His own almighty intercession. Our prayers, as poor as they are in themselves, are mighty and powerful in the hands of our High Priest and Elder Brother. The bank note without a signature is nothing but a worthless piece of paper. The stroke of the pen gives it all its value. The prayer of a poor child of Adam is a poor, feeble thing in itself, but once indorsed by the hand of the Lord Jesus, it availeth much.
- Pastor Scott Richardson

The pardon which God gives us is not a smothering-up of our sins, nor a blinding of justice. God is as just in His pardons as in His punishments. It shall be seen at the last, when believers enter into their glory, that they rise there by law, just as surely as the lost sink down to hell by law: that is to say that the Lord Jesus hath rendered to the law such recompense by His perfect obedience, and His matchless atonement, that it shall be just on God's part to save His elect as to condemn the unbelieving world. - C. H. Spurgeon

Matthew 15:12 "Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?"

Truth always offends liars, for it always exposes them for who and what they are: hypocrites. Truth will not allow a lie to stand by its side and take part in the glory that belongs to truth alone. Truth and only truth can set men free; then how can I know the truth? Truth is known by a revelation of Christ in the heart. He is the Truth. John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." To know Christ is to know the Truth.

From our perspective, it generally looks as though the moon has a light of its own. But during an eclipse - when the moon comes between Earth and the sun - the moon is shown for what it is: a dark and dead body. Rather than adding light to the sun, it actually diminishes the sunlight that reaches us. So it is with doctrine. While in its proper position, it shines with a brilliant light or glory. But, just as with the moon, the glory of doctrine is not its own, it is Christ. The proof of this is simple. Let any doctrine occupy a place between Christ and us, and it will "eclipse" the glory of Christ and become a dead and darkening thing to our souls.

Election is a glorious and wonderful doctrine. But its glory is wholly borrowed from Christ. There is no glory in election apart from the fact the "we are chosen in Him..." Predestination has no glory apart from the fact that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ. Redemption viewed by itself becomes nothing more than a point of contention and pride. Arguments arise over its extent and scope. But, when we understand that we have redemption in Christ, even more, that Christ IS our redemption, then all arguments over its extent and scope are silenced and a glorious, God-honoring, soul-comforting truth appears: that every blood-bought sinner IS redeemed by a redemption that cannot be undone. And so the principle applies to every truth: until truth is seen in its proper relation to Christ, it is a dead and dark thing. But when it is viewed in proper relation to Christ, it shines with His glory and reveals His glory to us. - Pastor Joe Terrell

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GRACE CHURCH

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in him."

2 Corinthians 5:21

April 5, 2009

John Chapman, Pastor

PO Box 1507

Ashland KY 41105

Home: (606) 324-8002

Church: (606) 326-1619