SUNDAY - Communion Sunday
10:00 AM Worship & Teaching - Pastor Bob Lawrenz
Message: Revelation 10:1-11 - "The Lion of Judah Roars"
Scripture Reading: Hosea 5:10-15
How many people through the years have asked why God allows sin to run wild, why God allows sinners to prosper and succeed, why God allows Satan and his demons to deceive and to destroy. If God is there and He is holy, why doesn’t He stop all the carnage, all the corruption, all the confusion? If God loves His people, why does He allow them to suffer?
When will God destroy the wicked? When will God halt Satan’s enterprise? When will Jesus come and make the world the way He wants it? When will the righteous be avenged and the wicked punished? To put it in the words of the prophet, “How long, O Lord, how long?”
These are age-old questions, and they've asked since the very beginning.
Men have been crying and crying and crying for God to intervene. All the pain and all the horror and all the disease, the destruction, the lies, the deceptions of the world; and they accumulate and they get worse and worse and worse; and we continually ask, “When will God speak? When will God break His seeming silence?”
Well, the Lord has promised that the day will come when the mystery of His silence will be broken; and that day is connected to the seventh trumpet.
There is coming a day, and that day is in the time of the seventh angel blowing the seventh trumpet, that the great mystery of a supposedly silent God will end. All the counsels and all the purposes of God concerning men and the world will be consummated. Christ will come. The kingdom will be established on earth. Satan will be halted, bound in chains, and delivered to a prison; and with him, his demons. Righteousness will rule, knowledge will fill the earth, Christ will be King, and God will speak.
But before that seventh trumpet is blown, an interlude takes place, and that interlude is chapter 10. It’s an interlude for John to grasp what is being revealed to him, and for us as well. There is coming a day when the seventh angel blows; a moment will come when there will be no more delay. Jesus Christ will come. But before the blowing of that last trumpet – by the way, which incorporates more judgments – John is given this interlude.
TUESDAY
10:00 AM Ladies Prayer & Bible Study - Norine Lawrenz
We are beginning a new Bible study this week called, "Giving God Your All."
We invite you to join us as we study God's Word and draw closer to Him.
Paul wrote in Romans 12:1, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
This verse is undoubtedly one of the most difficult verses in the Bible. Giving our all is not always the desire of our hearts. Yet God desires that we give our all to Him: our body, our thoughts, our plans, our desires, our will, our actions, our service, our word. All that we have, we give to You, Lord.
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." Romans 11:33-36
It is in knowing Him intimately that we are willing to trust Him completely, in everything.
Come join us for a spiritually uplifting time of worship, prayer, Bible study and fellowship.
Men's Prayer is a time for men to come together in fellowship, and pray for those in need, though all are welcome. If you are in need of prayer and would like the men of this church to do as James 5:14 says, please do come!
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord."
10:00 AM Church Workday - All Are Welcome!
Church workdays are scheduled on the FIRST and THIRD Saturdays of every month, from 10 AM through lunchtime.
As
a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, Micah prophesied during the
momentous years surrounding the tragic fall of Israel to the Assyrian
Empire (722 BC), an event he also predicted (Micah 1:6).
Micah stated in his introduction to the book that he prophesied during
the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah in Judah, failing to mention
the simultaneous string of dishonorable kings that closed out the
northern kingdom of Israel.
During this period, while Israel was imploding from the effects of evil and unfaithful leadership, Judah seemed on a roller-coaster ride—ascending to the heights of its destiny in one generation, only to fall into the doldrums in another. In Judah at this time, good kings and evil kings alternated with each other, a pattern seen in the reigns of Jotham (good, 2 Kings 15:32–34); Ahaz (evil, 2 Kings 16:1–4); and Hezekiah (good, 2 Kings 18:1–7).
- See more at: http://www.insight.org/resources/bible/micah.html#sthash.i25F9AvV.dpuf
During this period, while Israel was imploding from the effects of evil and unfaithful leadership, Judah seemed on a roller-coaster ride—ascending to the heights of its destiny in one generation, only to fall into the doldrums in another. In Judah at this time, good kings and evil kings alternated with each other, a pattern seen in the reigns of Jotham (good, 2 Kings 15:32–34); Ahaz (evil, 2 Kings 16:1–4); and Hezekiah (good, 2 Kings 18:1–7).
- See more at: http://www.insight.org/resources/bible/micah.html#sthash.i25F9AvV.dpuf
As
a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, Micah prophesied during the
momentous years surrounding the tragic fall of Israel to the Assyrian
Empire (722 BC), an event he also predicted (Micah 1:6).
Micah stated in his introduction to the book that he prophesied during
the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah in Judah, failing to mention
the simultaneous string of dishonorable kings that closed out the
northern kingdom of Israel.
During this period, while Israel was imploding from the effects of evil and unfaithful leadership, Judah seemed on a roller-coaster ride—ascending to the heights of its destiny in one generation, only to fall into the doldrums in another. In Judah at this time, good kings and evil kings alternated with each other, a pattern seen in the reigns of Jotham (good, 2 Kings 15:32–34); Ahaz (evil, 2 Kings 16:1–4); and Hezekiah (good, 2 Kings 18:1–7).
- See more at: http://www.insight.org/resources/bible/micah.html#sthash.i25F9AvV.dpuf
During this period, while Israel was imploding from the effects of evil and unfaithful leadership, Judah seemed on a roller-coaster ride—ascending to the heights of its destiny in one generation, only to fall into the doldrums in another. In Judah at this time, good kings and evil kings alternated with each other, a pattern seen in the reigns of Jotham (good, 2 Kings 15:32–34); Ahaz (evil, 2 Kings 16:1–4); and Hezekiah (good, 2 Kings 18:1–7).
- See more at: http://www.insight.org/resources/bible/micah.html#sthash.i25F9AvV.dpuf
SATURDAY
9:00 AM Men's Prayer - All Are Welcome!
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord."
10:00 AM Church Workday - All Are Welcome!
Lend a Helping Hand!
Church workdays are scheduled on the FIRST and THIRD Saturdays of every month, from 10 AM through lunchtime.
Our next Church Workday is scheduled for this Saturday, October 7th. Join us as we work around the building, both inside and outside! Every "skill level" welcome!
Please consider helping to keep the building up. Maintaining this 1856 building is a service to the Lord. It was built before the Civil War!
