March 28, 2010

Bible Study 10:00-10:30 A.M.
Morning Service 10:45 A.M.
Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.
Saturday FM Radio 9:00 A.M.
WEMM 107.9
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Call To Worship
Dear Lord, to us assembled here
Reveal Thy glorious face
While we by faith, with love and fear
Approach Thy Throne of Grace.

Thy house is called the house of prayer
A solemn, sacred place
O, let us now Thy presence share
While at Thy Throne of Grace.

With holy boldness may we come
Though of a sinful race
Thankful to find in Christ there's room
Before Thy Throne of Grace.

We bless Thee for Thy love and grace
We bless Thee for Thy peace
And we do bless Thee, Lord, because
There is a Throne of Grace.

(Tune: "Jesus, The Very Thought")________________________________________
John 14:2-3 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
BIRTHDAYS
Susan Hogsten March 29th Kathy Faulkner March 30th
Joanna Holbrook March 30th Tomie Thompson March 30th
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This Week's Nursery Schedule
Today, Sunday School: Julie Thornbury and Kathy Faulkner
AM Worship Service: Savannah Tate and Lee Tate
Wednesday Service: Sabrina Keesee
Next Sunday School: Nancy Hogsten and Earlein Meadows
Next Sunday AM: Tammi and Joanna Holbrook, Julie Thornbury
Church Cleaning: Frank and Janet Tate________________________________________
Had half the time spent in councils and controversies been given to praising the Lord, the church would have been far sounder and stronger than she is at this day. - C. H. Spurgeon
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The "Preaching of Christ" is much more than making frequent use of His name in our discourses, or even talking of His wondrous love and work for sinners. The "Preaching of Jesus Christ" is first and foremost the magnifying of His unique person, and making known of who He is - the God-man. Second, it is the opening up of His mediatorial office in which He serves as Prophet, Priest and Potentate. Third, it is the proclamation of His wondrous redemption. Fourth, it is the enforcing of His claims and the holding up of the perfect example He left us.
- A. W. Pink
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1 John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman."

It is through union with a person, Jesus Christ, not a system or a doctrine but the Living Lord that a sinner has life. The evidence of that union is the fruit of the Spirit. (Gal 5:22-23)

Psalm 130:3 "If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?"

Our Lord does not mark our iniquity. He does not keep a record of our sins as a reminder for the Day of Judgment, nor does He take note of them that He may exact from us a penalty now. No, the Lord does not mark our iniquities. But oh! How our iniquities marked the Lord! There was never a stain upon Him but that which our sin put there. There was never a stripe of judgment on Him but what was laid there for our sins. And it is by these very marks that our Lord is known, for when Thomas' doubts demanded proof that this man was really "this same Jesus," the Lord showed him the marks created by the nails and spear - marks made in Him by our sin. In the heavenly chorus of Revelation 5, Christ is described as the Lamb "looking as if it had been slain." There, in the appearance of the Lord, were the marks our sin laid upon Him.
These marks both humble and encourage us. Forever they shall testify that we were sinners in need of Redemption. There can be no self-righteous pride in the presence of Him who bears the marks of our sin. Shall a man boast of self-good while staring at those wounds? Can we look for a deserved crown bestowed by the hand scarred with the punishment of our sin? I think not.
Yet those awful marks of our sin also testify a most wonderful truth to our hearts: those wicked sins are paid for. Even as we are humbled at the sight of the marks, we are emboldened by them to come to the One Who bears those marks and find complete forgiveness for the sins that made those marks. Because our sins marked the Lord, the Lord shall never mark our sins!
- Pastor Joe Terrell
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One day a little know preacher named Burns was seen standing on a crowded sidewalk in Glasgow, tears streaming down his face. When asked why, he said, "The thud of Christless feet on the road to hell is breaking my heart." May our great and gracious God give us a heart that weeps for perishing sinners! - Pastor Maurice Montgomery

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