October 11^th , 2015

Today’s Services:

9:30 am Bible Study------------------------------An Old Man Blessing A King – Genesis 47:7-10

10:00 am Worship--------A Lame Man Leaping or: Such As We Have, We Give – Acts 3:1-11

Nursery Today: Second Service: Robin , Alt. Wendy

Cleaning Schedule: This Week: Steven & Mary, Next Week: Debra & Polly

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To Our Congregation: I would like to thank everyone for ‘work of faith and labour of love’. To all who so diligently clean our building and care for the grounds, thank you. To those who lead the singing, read scripture, play the piano and take care of the finances, thank you. To those who type bulletin articles for me and mail them out, thank you. And to all who support this ministry with your prayers and finances, thank you. I thank God for each and every one of you.

I try to post on the bulletin board downstairs, information regarding upcoming bible conferences. There are a few coming up this month and next.

“ A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22

The Day of Small Things-- Zechariah 4:10

God delivered a nation from 400 years of bondage with a shepherd’s staff. He slew a giant and saved that nation with a sling and a stone. He turned the world upside down with eleven simple, plain men – and the illustrations that “Little is great when God is in it” are numberless, but we must not just apply this truth to the instrument God uses, but should apply it also to the task. It is true that God uses humble men to perform great works for His glory – but God also uses His servants to teach the little children, to pastor the small assembly, to witness to one Ethiopian, to offer a prayer, to provide and unrecognized and often an unknown service! Most of us are willing to be “humble men” doing great works, but how many of us “great men” are willing to do humble work?

It is most doubtful that our Lord will trust us with any great responsibility until it has been proven that we are faithful in few things! It has been my understanding from the Scriptures that those whom God trusted with great responsibility were content with where they were and with what they were doing. Examples: Moses, David and Joseph. It would be refreshing, instead of hearing what one used to do or what one plans to do and be, to see one dedicated to being what he is and doing with joy and zeal what is at hand! Christ may come today and I could die today, but I’m not sure that He would accept my explanation that I was preparing myself for great things and would have been a teacher if there had been an opening, or a pastor if there had been a church available, or a martyr if men had still been dying, a deacon, an elder, or a church leader after I had aged a bit. Would He? Or would He ask, “What servant chooses his own task? His own place of labor? His own time of service?” Does not the faithful servant ask, “Lord, what would you have me to do?” Everybody wants to take the floor, few care to sweep it. The returning prodigal did not labor as a hired servant, but he was willing. -- Henry Mahan

I Will Heal Their Backsliding, I Will Love Them Freely . . . – Hosea 14:4