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Order of Worship

Posted in: Worship

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Sermon: AM & PM Jay Don Poindexter

Song Leader: AM & PM Greg Chaney

Opening Prayers: AM- Lou David Allen PM- Jim Goldsmith

Closing Prayers: AM- Lane Boyd PM- Joel Owens

Lord’s Table: -Jimmy Bellah, Jim Jacobs, Billy Jones, Ronnie Hobbs, Jason Myers, & Ray Juarez

PM- Jimmy Bellah

Pick-up Cards: Jordan Luckie & Preston Jackson

Worship Helpers: Jay Luckie & Odell Walker

Nursing Home: Logan Cravens

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Devo: Lou David Allen

Song Leader: Joel Owens

Prayers: Opening- Billy Lucas Closing- Jerry Russell

How are we supposed to deal with the ups and downs of life? Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. People can support us or turn against us. Circumstances can be in our favor or become adverse. Our own desires and emotions can motivate us or hinder us in faithfulness and devotion. We may face sickness, or we may face health.

We often long for consistency in this life; we just want dependable circumstances and to be dependable ourselves. However, like the apostles, at the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus, we can find ourselves lacking in faithfulness, dependability and commitment.

³¹Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written:

“ ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will

be scattered.’ ^{Zech 13:7}

³²But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

³³Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.”

³⁴“I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”

³⁵But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the other disciples said the same (Matt 26:31-35 NIV)

God calls us by His gospel to the obedience that comes from faith (Rom 1:5), to be sure, but He never promises us that our relationships, circumstances, emotions, or our own performance will never let us down. We will in this life face troubles, trials, persecutions, and sin (John 16:33; James 1:2-4; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 John 1:7-9).

What God promises us is that in this life He will never leave, nor forsake us (Matt 28:20; Heb 13:5-6) and what God requires of us is faith in Him to keep His promises (Rom 4:21; Heb 11:6).

I want to encourage us this week to stop mourning the failure to find perfect people, relationships, circumstances, emotional states of being, and behavior and remember the sure and certain (assurance and conviction) aspect of faith – Jesus Christ, Himself!

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever – Heb 13:8.

Peace,

Jay Don

Order of Worship

Posted in: Worship

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Sermon: AM & PM Jay Don Poindexter

Song Leader: AM & PM Shelton Boyd

Opening Prayers: AM- Jim Jacobs PM- Jerry Russell

Closing Prayers: AM- Burl McCoy PM- Jimmy Bellah

Lord’s Table: -Jim Goldsmith, Billy Lucas, Joel Owens, Zach Owens, Mark Rogers, & Jason Myers

PM- Jim Goldsmith

Pick-up Cards: Conner Barnett & Preston Jackson

Worship Helpers: Cody Buczyna & Canyon Jarrett

Nursing Home: Jim Goldsmith

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Devo: Stan Burge

Song Leader: Shelton Boyd

Prayers: Opening- Burl McCoy Closing- Billy Lucas

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Recognition

Posted in: Youth

Two of our young men received Academic All State Football recognition, congratulation to Cody Buczyna was placed on the first team and Russ Russell on the second team. Qualifications include having a minimum grade average of 92, must be a senior, and be of good moral character. We are so proud of these two guys.

West Point Nomination

Posted in: Youth

Cody Buczyna received a letter yesterday from Congressman Randy Neugebaugher nominating him for a position at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Cody had already received a fully qualified letter from the Academy, but they could not make an offer without a nomination; now that he has the nomination an official offer from the Academy should be made within the next several weeks.

God’s Desire for Us in 2012

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When we want to know God’s will and purpose for us in this new year, we must turn to the truth of God’s word that sets us apart or sanctifies us (John 17:17). The message of scripture is clear: Submit yourselves then to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you, draw near to God and He will draw near to you (James 4:7-8a).

Paul spoke to the philosophers of his day, who taught that happiness within self is the ultimate goal of man, reminding them that the God who made the world is in fact the judge of all the world and wants all men to repent and seek Him (Acts 17:24–31).

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. ²⁵And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. ²⁶From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. ²⁷God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

²⁹“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill. ³⁰In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. ³¹For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” (NIV)

The point here again for us is that God who made us has given us this time and place, in the world and in our lives (17:26) that we should repent (lit. meta/change + noias/mind) and seek Him and perhaps find Him (17:27).

2012 is the year of “drawing near to God” so that He can draw near to us. God wants even to death on a cross that we should draw near to Him. The question for us is: do we want to draw near to Him? God bless you in 2012 to draw near to God through worship, study, and prayer.

Peace to you in finding Him,

Jay Don