"Enter to Worship-Depart to Serve"
Remember our Vacation Bible School starts August 3rd – 5th and will be here at Laurel Hill. We look forward to the Polar Blast of sharing just how cool the love of Jesus can be!
Please continue to pray for our pastor for the continued visitation among our members.
To keep up with everything else, please read our August newsletter and view our church Calendar.
The song said, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” And the song is right. Why is this the most wonderful time? Because Love is revealed from heaven. Salvation has come. God is with us – Emmanuel! We can open the pages of the book and go to Bethlehem and see this One who is born King of the Jews and Lord of the Nations.
Best of all, we can worship Him! We can humble ourselves before Him, adore Him, set our hearts to follow Him and let His goodness and mercy follow us all the rest of our days.
Come, let us adore Christ the Lord together. Don’t miss a single opportunity this Advent season presents. Here is our Calendar.12.15 and our Newsletter12.15.
We look forward to celebrating the Advent season and you can help us be ready. We are decorating the church the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 29th at 10:00 AM. Let us adorn our sanctuary in every way we can to show the joy of the season.
Don’t miss a single thing in the month ahead. Here is the December Calendar and Newsletter. The blessings of Jesus the Christ be upon you and your family!
I didn’t get to preach Sunday morning because of the icy conditions but I did want to share an outline of what I learned about having contagious peace. All I share comes from meditating on Isaiah 9: 6. God promises us “a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder.” Understand this and you are on the threshold of peace. This is why I celebrate Advent and Christmas. The coming of Jesus marks the coming of peace and the coming of the sword upon the earth. Every heart, every soul is weighed in the light of the coming of Jesus.
Jesus is the giver of peace and without him we are living outside the rule of peace. “His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” This is where my sermon starts. When we think of what contagious peace is not we are thinking on these four names. When we focus upon what contagious peace is, again we are thinking on these names. Finally, I give you 10 ways we get peace. Make sure all ten apply to you! Click on the pdf Contagious Peace and I look forward to your comments.
January 2013 – How will you move in simplicity and repentance to have a more intimate relationship with God in this new year? How will you incorporate faith and prayer into the daily activities that mark your routine? How will your heart be “strangely warmed” by the assurance of forgiveness and salvation?
Let this be the year where your spirit grows in the grace and knowledge of Jesus! Let this be the year when your soul is renewed after the image of Jesus! Let this be the year when your mortal body is quickened and made more alive by the discipline of the Holy Spirit!
Let this first month mark your way as someone who is in love with Jesus and in love with your neighbor. Invite your friends to church this month. The Oxendines’ Gospel Singing Group will be our special guests on Sunday, January 27th. A love offering will be received for their ministry that day and we ask everyone to come and bring food for our potluck lunch together following the service.
