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
Staff Meeting, Tomorrow at Pastor Tom’s, 4:30 pm
We will have an after church Valentine's Banquet on Sunday, February 13th. (NEXT SUNDAY) It will be a planned potluck. Please sign up on the clipboard in the Commons. Besides the dinner we'll have some party favors and entertainment. Reserve the date and be
Saturday, February 19th @ 10 to package and organize food pantry.
We had the announced meeting with Ken Tutwiler and his partners this past Thursday, February 3rd, in our church. They explained the "Behind the Walls" ministry and outlined the plan forward for Arizona. Their ministry is essentially a gospel evangelism effort to prison inmates. We're part of the Arizona team, and we will receive training as events develop. There were 16 pastors and lay people present.
Winter conditions prevail right now. Our church parking lot and entryways into our building may be icy. Take care. Watch where you step and don't get in a hurry. We add ice melt where necessary, but please report any places needing attention.
Love
I suppose that we've heard all there is to say about "love." Our hearing covers everything from romance to caring and back again. Most believers know that "God is love" (1 John 4.8). We know that the "greatest" of all good things is "love", and we know that without love "(we) become noisy gongs or clanging symbols" (1
Cor.13.1,13).
The question is: "Can you really love others without the infilling of the Holy Spirit?" Probably not.
I had a chance to review this year's offerings of Valentine cards. It was pretty much the same old stuff, scripted by a new crop of card writers. I'm not being critical; I'm just wondering about our cultural understanding of love.
We know that the mark of a Christian in the early church was given by the unsaved, who noted: "See how they love one another." That is, the world at large saw Christians caring for each other. Such caring is found in our church's life verse: Gal.6.2..."Bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ."
Love is a great motivating force, and a constraining force. We read in the Word: "For the love of Christ constrains us..." (2 Cor.5.14a). In Christ, we are "constrained" from doing harm or evil to others. It's Christ's love in us that matters, not our own efforts to be loving. We do what's right and love others because of Jesus.
"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift" (2 Cor.9/15)!
Pastor Tom
"I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you might live, you and your descendants"
(Deut. 30:19).
Pastor Tom Brown
Secretary’s Corner Lora Slater 406-868-2144
CHURCH PASTORS AND ELDERS
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Terry Lowry, Elder
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lee Copeland, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown and Lee Larson
Lora Slater – Secretary
John Greer – Media,
Tami Powell – Nursery, and Kitchen
Cathy Parry– Prayer
