Saturday & Sunday, October 19 and 20

These are always special services in the life of our church fellowship.

Notes from Saturday afternoon worship with visiting ministers – Marvin Negley and Glenn Miller.

Preacher: Marvin Negley – Make Purity Your Goal

Our standard to live by is the Bible.

Be diligent – there is an enemy lurking nearby.

Identify the enemy – the one waiting to do you harm – Satan will try anything to capture your soul.

Do we detect the arrival or attack of the enemy?

Our reaction to sin must be sorrow. Do we have godly sorrow for sin?

Sin that is not put away will eventually be promoted.

Bad company corrupts morals.

We must have a zero tolerance to sin in our lives

There are some attacks from Satan for which we must stand and fight. There are other attacks from which we must run. Do not even stand close to sin or you will be devoured by Satan.

Preacher: Glenn Miller – Search me O, God and know my heart.

Can people pick up on your life and know that you are following Jesus?

Do not argue with God in what He calls sin. He is the One with authority to decide what is sin and what is not.

We are each of equal worth to God no matter where we are in church authority.

You will find fulfillment by living under God’s authority.

We find a great treasure when we find peace in living under God’s authority.

Photos from evening Love Feast and Communion

We arrived early enough to see the ladies filling bowls with rice/beef soup for the tables.

A table before the soup bowl has been added.

Visiting minister Glenn Miller and our moderating minister Dave Wenger preparing the unleavened bread trays.

A “chain of men” passed bowls of soup from the fellowship hall to the tables.

The tubs on the floor are for the feet washing service – a reminder to us to spend our days serving people.

The evening was a great reminder of what Jesus did for us on the cross.

Notes from Sunday Morning Worship

Sunday School – Teacher: Marvin Negley. Humble Faith – Luke 7:1-10

Humble faith? Is there any other kind?

Who am I that God would love me?

Who am I that God would call me?

Who am I that God would use me?

Humility is a result of pursuing God – the Holy One – realizing that He is God and I am not.

What thoughts would go through your mind if Jesus was waiting for you when you got home today or if He was at your door when you responded to the door bell.

What is your greatest need today? What would you ask of Jesus?

Have you told Jesus about your crisis – your problem – or are you trying to handle it yourself?

What promises in God’s Word do you not believe? Is that your problem or God’s?

What steps can I take to increase my faith in God to solve my crisis.

Morning Worship. Preacher: Glenn Miller. Christian Virtues – (in other words Moral Excellence) 2 Peter 1:1-21

It is far more valuable to be searching for God’s riches in Heaven than to be searching for gold or other treasures in earth.

Where is your faith today – in government, insurance, money – or in God?

How are grace and truth multiplied? They are multiplied by having Jesus and His divine power in us.

When we trust in Him we have: forgiveness of sin, peace and joy, exceeding great and precious promises, strength during pain or crisis

Grow with diligence

Add virtue – don’t add things that eat away at your soul.

Add knowledge. We cannot grow in faith without growing in the knowledge of God.

Add temperance. Be wise. Be under control.

Add patience. Have a long view of life. You can count on God because He loves your soul. Peace and patience is not the absence of storms

Add godliness. Become more godlike

Add brotherly kindness. Remember – Christians are all traveling to the same “country”.

Add charity. There should be no racism. We are all one blood.

These virtues build on each other and give us fullness of life and zeal for God.

There is a promise from God if you disobey Him: spiritual bareness, unfruitfulness and blindness

The promise from God when you obey Him daily: joy, peace, and an abundant entry into Heaven.

Remember to stay awake spiritually.