SCHEDULE OF SERVICES November 17, 2024
Sunday Worship
Bible Study 10:00 A.M.
Morning Service 10:45 A.M.
Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.
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CALL TO WORSHIP
Great Father of glory, how rich is Thy grace!
What wonderful love is displayed in Thy face!
In Jesus Thy image, with brightness we view
With hope to be formed in that likeness anew.
Oh wonder of wonders! Astonished I gaze
To see in a manger, the Ancient of Days!
From sin to release us, that yoke so long worn
My God, my Creator, of woman was born!
For unworthy sinners, my Lord bowed His head
For unworthy sinners, He suffered and bled
My spirit rejoices; the work is all done!
My soul is redeemed, my salvation is won!
Great Father of glory, how rich is Thy grace!
What wonderful love is displayed in Thy face!
In Him our Beloved, we’re washed in His blood
With confidence come to the throne of our God.
(Tune: “How Firm a Foundation” p. 268)
NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS
4th Nova Baisden 10th Kyndon Keesee
10th Colleen McClay 10th Ron Meadows
11th Carol Cremeans 29th Sandra Dennison
HUMBLED AND LIFTED UP
The gospel of Christ breaks us and removes all confidence in the flesh. The gospel of Christ strips us, humbles us and puts us in the dust before God. Yet at the same time, the gospel of Christ gives a sinner complete confidence to come to God in Christ (Heb 4:16). What a joy to know that God will accept a sinner like me if I come to Him with nothing of my own, but pleading Christ alone!
Pastor
LOOK TO CHRIST
The more my sin troubles me, the more I look to Christ. When I look within, I find no hope because all I see is sin. When I look to the law, I find no hope, only condemnation. When I look to man’s religion, I find no hope, only sentimentality and threats that I need to do better, which cannot give hope to a sinful man. But when I look to Christ I find peace for my soul because “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (I John 1:7).
Pastor
“Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.” Acts 2:36
There are many errors in false religion, but none surpasses the failing to proclaim Jesus as both Lord and Christ. Salvation is all His doing. He is the only one who could have accomplished it as Christ, and because He was successful in His redemptive work, God hath “highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and thing under the earth; and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father!” Phil. 2:9. Failing to declare Him as both Lord and Christ is failing to preach God’s Gospel.
Pastor Caleb Hickman
FOR WHO HATH DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS?
Zech. 4:10
God delivered a nation from 400 years of bondage with a shepherd's staff. He slew a giant and saved that nation with a sling and stone. He turned the world upside down with eleven simple, plain men – and the illustrations that "Little is great when God is in it" are numberless, but we must not just apply this truth to the instrument God uses but should apply it also to the task. It is true that God uses humble men to perform great works for His glory – but God also uses His servants to teach the little children, to pastor the small assembly, to witness to one Ethiopian, to offer a prayer, to provide an unrecognized and often an unknown service! Most of us are willing to be "humble men" doing great works but how many of us "great men" are willing to do humble work. It is most doubtful that our Lord will trust us with any great responsibility until it has been proven that we are faithful in few things! It has been my understanding from the Scriptures that those whom God entrusted with great responsibility were content with where they were and with what they were doing - examples: Moses, David, and Joseph. It would be, refreshing, instead of hearing what one used to do or what one plans to do and be, to see one dedicated to being what he is and doing with joy and zeal what is at hand! Christ may come today and I could die today, but I'm sure that He would accept my explanation that I was preparing myself for great things and would have been a teacher if there had been an opening, or a pastor if there had been a church available, or a martyr if men had still been dying, or a deacon, an elder, a church leader after I had aged a bit. Would He? Or would He ask, "What servant chooses his own task? His own place of labor? His own time of service? Does not the faithful servant ask, 'Lord, what would you have me to do?' Everybody wants to take the floor, few care to sweep it. The returning prodigal did not labor as a hired servant but he was willing!
Henry Mahan
Sin is a noun. It is what I am. Sin is a verb. It is what I do. Sin is an adjective. It describes me. Sin is an adverb. It describes what I do. Thank God for the promise of the Gospel, “Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)
Pastor Todd Nibert
