Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Shepherding Groups: Wednesday evenings
Women’s Bible Study: 10:00 AM
Men’s Saturday Breakfast: 7:00 AM TUESDAY, 8/24 Church Growth meeting, 3:30, at the church
This Sunday, is a fifth Sunday, and our church is hosting the regular "Singspiration." This is a great time for our various churches to get together, sing, share and have fellowship. We need the Christian community to pull together and love one another.
Our security team is requesting any of our congregation that may have medical issues that we need to be aware of for emergency purposes please fill out a medical card to be put on file and kept confidential with our medical personnel. Thank you.
Everyone is in need of prayer, and there are times when nothing else will bring comfort. Our church has put in place two "prayer rooms" off the chapel platform at the prompting of the Spirit. At the end of our church service, as the Spirit leads you, come forward for prayer. We're here as a family to pray and care for you.
Attend a Shepherding Group. There are three: Terry and Pastor Tom's, at our church; Roger Brown's, in his home, and Chris Lewis's in his home. Right now, Terry and Tom's group is reviewing "The Life of David"; Roger's is reviewing the book of James, and, Chris's group is studying through the scriptures to discern what a disciple does.
Faith is a gift of God’s grace. It enables believers to look away from human terrors and gives courage and boldness by enabling us to trust in God our Father, though we see him not.
In other words, faith prevails over fear. I do not mean that believers know nothing of fear. It is a sad fact – but a fact nonetheless – that we are all, at times, fearful.
But faith prevails over fear and says with David: ‘What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me’ (
Psalm 56:3-4).
We see this faith exemplified in Hebrews 11:23, where the Holy Spirit holds before us the faith of Moses’ parents. Theirs is an instructive, encouraging example for us to follow.
‘By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents.’ The Apostle mentions the faith of both Moses’ parents. In his own account in Exodus 2, Moses mentions only his mother. Stephen, speaking before the Sanhedrin, mentions only his father. The writer to the Hebrews thus combines two inspired narratives. Happy is that home where husband and wife, mother and father, walk together in faith and in the fear of God! Blessed beyond anything words can express are children born into such a home!
‘It is a happy thing’, wrote Matthew Henry, ‘when yoke-fellows draw together in the yoke of faith, as heirs of the grace of God; and when they do this in a religious concern for the good of their children, to preserve them not only from those who would destroy their lives, but corrupt their minds’.
Moses’ parents show us many things concerning faith.
First, faith fears God. Pharaoh had given orders that every male child born among the Jews should be thrown immediately into the Nile and drowned.
We have a higher authority than any earthly monarch – our God is our king – and we ought to obey God rather than men.
Pastor Jim
Pulpit Greeter: Mike Monk
Pastor Jim Powell
"By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three
months by his parents,… "
(Hebrews 11:23a).
