February 5^th 2023

9:30 am ---------------------------------------------------- The Deliverer (Rejected) – Exodus 2:11-25

10:00 am ----------------------------------- Fear Not Daughter, Thy King Cometh – John 12:11-19

Wednesday: 7:00 pm ---------------------------------------------The Burning Bush – Exodus 3:1-6

“I pray that not one here today will leave unaffected by God’s Word. May it pierce your heart and follow you home. May it wake you from your sleep and keep you from sleeping until your only rest is in Christ.” -- Bruce Crabtree

Those who weary of hearing THE GOSPEL, who lose interest in hearing the gospel, and lose their need of hearing the gospel of Christ and His redeeming love and grace, have never REALLY heard the gospel at all. If one can leave Christ, he has never truly met Him! (John 6:65-69). – Maurice Montgomery

The following article was in our bulletin and is on our bulletin board downstairs. I hope you will carefully read it and consider it again.

"The Hearer I Appreciate" -- John Hall

1 - One who has prayed for the preacher and the blessings of the Lord on the congregation which is meeting in that day.

2 - One who is punctually in his pew with his family beside him.

3 - One who has his Bible open and who devoutly follows the scriptures read as hearing God speaking to him.

4 - One who takes a hymnbook and joins in the praise of the Lord as earnestly as does the leader of the singing.

5 - One who in his heart joins in the prayer time.

6 - One who remembers that we are in the presence of God and bears himself with reverence of manner and conversation.

7 - One who looks for Christ and grace in the sermon and not for rhetoric, elocution, and clever statements.

8 - One who listens, takes the message to himself, and has a comment afterward regarding the subject.

9 - One who has a look and a word of Christian greeting for those near him in the church after the service.

Does God Plan or Purpose?

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,

to them who are the called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28

Do all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his PLAN? No, the word used in this wonderful verse is PURPOSE. I hear people talk often about God’s plan of salvation, or, God’s plan for your life. But God has never planned anything, but purposes ALL THINGS. All things work together for the good of God’s people, and it is according to HIS PURPOSE.

Men make plans. But God does everything on purpose. One says, I had a vacation planned but I had to re-schedule because of a death in the family. Another might say, I planned to save a hundred a month, but since I got my hours cut at work, I can only save ten! A couple claims, we plan to have children soon after we are married, only to find out that because of some medical reason, they are not able to do so. The word “PLAN” means a proposal for doing or achieving something. Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. God does not make proposals, He makes PROMISES on PURPOSE and they all always come to pass. – David Eddmenson

REMEMBER THEM NO MORE!