Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Women’s Bible Study: Thursday 10:00 AM
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday 7:00 AM
SAFETY MEETING, TOMORROW @ OUR CHURCH AT 3:30 PM
WHITE MOUNTAIN COALITION AGAINST HOMELESSNESS TUESDAY IN OUR CHURCH AT 4:00 PM
The Jail Ministry
We're happy and blessed for the new people who have committed to our NHCF jail ministry. Thank you, Chris Popke, Kara Fawley, Teressa Sanchez and Janet Gallup. And, thanks to those who still want to join us. There will be a new training on a Saturday in June to renew existing badges and qualify those who still want to visit.
Our men hold a Saturday morning breakfast, prayer and Bible study at 7:00 am in our church, and our women hold a Bible study and fellowship time on Thursday mornings at 10:00 am in our church. If you cannot attend these Bible study times, we have Wednesday Shepherding Groups: Pas-tor Tom at 6:00 pm in our church; Roger Brown / Pastor Jim at 5:30 pm in their homes, and Lee Copeland at 5:00 pm
The new church addition is going up. PTL! And, as it goes up so do the costs of construction. You may have noticed the "Giving Thermometer" in our entryway. Thanks so much for all that you've given to this point. We as a church are grateful. Now, each of us need to prayerfully consider raising the thermometer with our contributions.
God bless.
There's a large water bottle change collector at the back of our church where anyone can contribute to our building program. No gift is too small. Let's fill the bottle, and the next one, and the one after that. Your pocket change will make a difference. Thanks.
The Resurrection
Our salvation depends on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yes, the Cross is the critical factor in the forgiveness of our sins, and the blood of Jesus washes us clean, but without the resurrection as a validation for Jesus' atoning act at Calvary, we are without hope.
We read in Romans: "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved" (Rom.10.9). The resurrection is critical.
We believe that Jesus Christ was bodily raised from the dead. It was not a spiritual resurrection. The tomb was empty. We also believe that Jesus is the "first fruits" of those to come, who will like Him inherit a resurrection body.
Remember, after His resurrection, Jesus came and went as He pleased, even when doors were closed and locked, but He proved that He was still physical when He showed the wounds of the crucifixion. He said, "Reach here your finger and see My hands, and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing" and again, when He asked them if they had anything to eat (John 21.27; Luke 24.41).
There is "power" in the resurrection. Paul reminds us, "...that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection; and the fellowship of His suffering; being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead" (Phil.3.10).
Now, the hard thing for us is to know that there's no resurrection without a death. We are called to be "crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me..." (Gal.2.20). Can we say that?
Can we share in Christ's dynamic and life-changing example to be crucified in the flesh and to be resurrected again to eternal life in Him?
Pastor Tom
April 16, 2023
Secretary’s Corner Lora Slater 406-868-2144
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/ Worship leader, Elder Lee Copeland
Bill Bujnowski, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown, Lee Larson and Matt Greenwood
Lora Slater – Secretary ♥
John Greer – Media
