SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

May 10, 2009

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

Morning Service 10:45 A.M.

Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.

Call to Worship

Glory be to God the Father
Glory to the blessed Son
Sound aloud the Spirit's praises
Hail the glorious Three in One.

Glory, honor, praise, and power
To the Lamb be ever paid
Let new blessings ev'ry hour
Rest on His exalted head.

May the grace of Christ our Saviour
And the Father's boundless love
With the Holy Spirit's favor
Be upon us from above.

Thus may we abide in union
With each other in the Lord
And possess, in sweet communion
Joy's which earth cannot afford.

(Tune: "Jesus Calls Us")

True prayer is not, ‘It's time to tell Jesus.' True prayer happens when, ‘I must tell Jesus.'

This Week's Nursery Schedule

Today, Sunday School: Sabrina Keesee and Gay Armstrong

Worship Service: Debbie Bartram and Judy Sanders

Wednesday, May 13^th: Tara Kinnel

Next Sunday School: Sue Thacker and Lorelei Holschuh

Next Sunday AM: DeeAnna Mayo and Sarah Williams

Church Cleaning: Shawn and Julie Thornbury

Lamentations 1:12 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger."

When our Lord suffered, He suffered as no man before or since has ever suffered. It is true that there may have been some who suffered more pain in their deaths than did He; but our Lord's suffering was much more than the suffering of the flesh. It is written that His SOUL was made an offering for sin. Even the martyrs of old, for all their agonizing, did not suffer as our Lord did when He "bore our sins in His body on the tree." Another writer put it this way:
"[The martyrs] had the presence of God with them; Christ was under the hidings of His Father's face. They had the love of God shed abroad in them; He had the wrath of God poured out upon Him. Christ's prayer (in Gethsemane) shows Him to be in a condition which neither they, nor any mortal creature, were ever in. The human nature of Christ was now, as it were, swallowed up in sorrow, and intent upon nothing but sufferings and death; had nothing in view but the wrath of God, and the curse of the law." - Pastor Joe Terrell

Psalm 51:17 "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." I pray that the Lord will be gracious unto us and give us this broken and contrite heart.

WHOM SHALL I BE LIKE?

- Pastor Henry Mahan

The moment I try to imitate or copy the life of another human, I lose that which is an honor to me and glory to God - my individuality! I become a copy, and a copy is always inferior. The moment I try to mold my life after another person, I lose that which is a power to me - and that is my personality. God made me as I am to serve in His body, to accomplish His purpose, and to glorify His name. There is not in all the history of our race a single person whom I would bid you to mold your life in his image. There is not a single biography I would have you read and say, "I will relive this man's life." To imitate other men is weakness and will forfeit God's purpose for you. There is but one model. There is but one whom you can imitate, copy, and strive to be like in every jot and tittle - that is our LORD

JESUS CHRIST!

1. THIS IS GOD'S PURPOSE FORYOU. "Whom He did foreknow, He did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son" (Rom. 8:29).
2. THIS IS THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU. "We are changed into the same image from glory to glory even by the Sprit of

the Lord" (II Cor. 3:18).

3. THIS IS THE DESIRE OF EVERY BELIEVER. "I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness" (Psalm 17:15).

4. THIS IS AN INWARD WORK. "Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:5). Changing my mode of dress, my speech to say "thee" and "thou", my living quarters, or my place of worship will not make me like Christ. I must be given a new heart and mind by God's Spirit. Let us get our texts, our messages, our words from God. It is not great talent, great oratory, or great programs that God blesses - BUT HIS WORD. A word spoken by you in the power of the Lord - is worth ten thousand words spoken in the energy of our flesh and the wisdom of the flesh. Oh, for a

message from God in these days.

HURRICANE ROAD

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

May 10, 2009

John Chapman, Pastor

PO Box 1507

Ashland KY 41105

Home: (606) 324-8002

Church: (606) 326-1619