Good Morning, Bethesda!
I do hope those of you who were home yesterday due to illness are recovering and will be back with us soon. Please do not hesitate to contact the pastor if I can be of any assistance or if you would like me to stop by and have prayer with you.
Urgent Prayer Requests
- Pete & Brenda Koelling & her father
- Tom’s mom, Alene, in hospital
- Brida Lovett
- Muellers, illness
- Brazel family
- Bunch family, especially Sandy’s mom and dad
- Rachelle Brandel in Japan.
- Marilynn Norvell
- Cynthia Wordlaw
- Gene & Lois Schulze at home.
- Caroline, Anne Overton’s sister-in-law, fight with cancer.
- Our church and need for revival
Upcoming Activities
1. Bible Study (1 Peter) and Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 7p.m.
2. Ladies Fellowship, Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Walkers’ home.
3. Sunday School, Sunday, 9:15 a.m.
4. Worship Service, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. including the Lord’s Supper.
5. CHILI COOK-OFF after the service.
6. JANUARY BIBLE STUDY, Sunday, 5p.m.
January Bible Study
“The Greatest Week in History”, every Sunday evening at 5 p.m.
Fellowships this Week
* LADIES ONLY will meet at the Walkers on Thursday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m. Bring a snack, if you like, and some “crafty” things to make Valentines for nursing home members.
* CHILI COOK-OFF, Sunday, January 27 following the morning worship service. If you want to be a contestant, bring a big pot of your best chili. All will join together after worship service and enjoy the various offerings as well as fellowship!
A Devotion from Spurgeon
“And so all Israel shall be saved.”—Romans 11:26.
THEN Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy to know that all Israel were safe. Not a drop of spray fell from that solid wall until the last of God’s Israel had safely planted his foot on the other side the flood. That done, immediately the floods dissolved into their proper place again, but not till then. Part of that song was, “Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed.” In the last time, when the elect shall sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and of the Lamb, it shall be the boast of Jesus, “Of all whom thou hast given me, I have lost none.” In heaven there shall not be a vacant throne.
“For all the chosen race
Shall meet around the throne,
Shall bless the conduct of His grace,
And make His glories known.”
As many as God hath chosen, as many as Christ hath redeemed, as many as the Spirit hath called, as many as believe in Jesus, shall safely cross the dividing sea. We are not all safely landed yet:
“Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.”
The vanguard of the army has already reached the shore. We are marching through the depths; we are at this day following hard after our Leader into the heart of the sea. Let us be of good cheer: the rear-guard shall soon be where the vanguard already is; the last of the chosen ones shall soon have crossed the sea, and then shall be heard the song of triumph, when all are secure. But oh! if one were absent—oh! if one of His chosen family should be cast away—it would make an everlasting discord in the song of the redeemed, and cut the strings of the harps of paradise, so that music could never be extorted from them.
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon was pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London from 1854-1892. Crowds would fill the building, which could seat 7000, for Sunday morning worship.)
Pastor’s Postscripts
Next Sunday is our annual chili cook-off fellowship. That means a good time with good eats! I encourage you to plan on staying after our morning worship service.
Health-wise, Debbie and I are much better but still not quite 100%. We appreciate your prayers and ask that you continue to pray for many in our fellowship who have been fighting illness for some time.
May the Lord grant you a great week! I look forward to seeing you next Sunday with your Bible in hand and ready for worship!
Pastor Bruce
636-233-0645
TheSaxonHus@hotmail.com
Church phone: 636-447-2121
Church web site: www.bethesdabc.org