April 24 ^th, 2016

9:30 am Bible Study--------------------------------------- To Titus, Mine Own Son – Titus 1:1-4

10:00 am Service ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- Blessed– Psalm 1

Nursery Today: Second Service: Robin , Alt. Aimee P.

Cleaning Schedule: This week - Sheesleys , Next Week: Hudsons

Birthdays: April 30^th – Red Huff, May 4^th – Teresa Patterson, 9^th – John Davis, 16^th – Melanie Hudson

F Thanks for your help getting our building ready for the meeting. Please give generously for the extra expenses.

We need to be continually reminded that our life is but a vapor, which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth away. If not we will walk carelessly. We will let worldliness eat away at us like a cancer. This is not our rest, so we should take no comfort in it. Nothing of this world is worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. We must trim our lamps for the time when the Bridegroom comes. We are told to stand always ready, waiting for the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, or for the call that it is time for the body to return to the earth.

George Whitfield used to say when he went to bed at night, "I have not left even a pair of gloves out of their place: if I die tonight, all my affairs, for time and eternity, are in order." -- Milton Howard

Laying Aside All Malice

“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings” 1 Peter 2:1

Usually when we think of malice we confine it to hatred or a deliberate desire to do harm to another as "with malice aforethought." But malice in a believer can take other directions. It might be a continual unfriendly feeling or attitude toward another person, or another race! It might be an unforgiving spirit that wishes no harm but holds a long-time grudge over past mistakes. It might be a secret desire to see another fail or to get what is coming to him. It might be an unwillingness to speak to another or to show common courtesy. It might be a spirit of pride which enjoys cutting another or humbling another to show our superior intelligence, courage or strength. It might be a gossips tongue which enjoys relating the weaknesses, infirmities and failures of others. Call this what you will — but it all boils down to malice and ill-will which is unbecoming to those who are the objects of mercy. How can I have anything but pity and compassion for a fellow-worm? - H.M

Some Quotes by William Tiptaft(1803-1864), Pastor in England (close friend of J.C. Philpot)

“ I stand before you this evening as the servant of Christ, or the servant of the devil.”

“ ‘ The preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness.’ If what I preach is not foolishness to the natural man, know assuredly that I preach not the gospel. The gospel troubles exceedingly the Pharisees; they are very unwilling to cast away their false idols.”

“ The more you know of the truth in a spiritual way, the humbler you will be.”

“ The gospel is a fan that will separate the chaff from the wheat. The Pharisees and philosophers get but little hope from me, and will, therefore, seek more flattering preaching elsewhere.”