Updated July 15, 2024
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Jesus Christ was crucified... he shed His blood and died on a Roman cross in Jerusalem witnessed by hundreds, perhaps thousands. BUT THREE DAYS LATER, HE AROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND WALKED ON THE EARTH FOR FORTY DAYS BEING SEEN BY HUNDREDS. He was the Sacrificial Lamb, making a way for us to be right with God by paying the debt for our sins on that old wooden cross.
Jesus promised that one day he's coming back! He will come back for you if you will believe in your heart that Jesus Christ came to earth as God in the flesh... taking on the form of a man... that He died a sacrificial, substitute death on the cross for your sins and mine, was raised from the dead. If you will confess with your mouth that you accept him as Lord of your life; then on the authority of the Word of God, the Holy Bible, you can avoid the punishment of sin, you can inherit eternal life, and you can begin a new life with God... a life that will never end. You can do that today right where you are. If you truly mean it - and He will know if you are serious about Him - then He will come into your life and give you a new life, a new hope, a new purpose, and a new commitment to live a selfless life, surrendered only to Him.
My dear friend, all my sins are forgiven because I have put my faith and trust in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is preparing a place for me in heaven and for all those who will receive Him as Savior and Lord.
Praise God... Jesus took our place on the cross so we could have a place in heaven!
His grace is sufficient for you. He still saves all those who will come to him. Romans 10:13... "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Revelation 3:10... "Behold I(Jesus) stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him." You must open the door from the inside. Jesus will not force himself into your life.
"A Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge." A.W. Tozer
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
BIBLE STUDY CLASSES - 10:00 AM
The Ladies Sunday School class is meeting in the Fellowship Hall.
Del Slone's Class is meeting in the old chapel.
The Men’s class is meeting downstairs in the (formerly)conference room near the church office.
WORSHIP - 11:00 AM
WEDNESDAY
PRAYER MEETING - 11:AM
NO PRAYER MEETING THIS WEEK, JULY 10
(Wednesday morning prayer meeting, 11:00 am)
Blessed is the man who gives and remembers not and receives and forgets not.
Brother Steve's Sermon Topics
PREACHING FROM THE PSALMS
JULY
July 21 - Draw Me a Christian: Psalm 15
July 28 - God's Works and God's Words: Psalm 19
AUGUST
August 4 - A Faith for All Seasons: Psalm 23
August 11 - Pastor in Revival - Rex Yancey preaching
August 18 - The God of the Storm: Psalm 29
August 25 - Forgiveness: Psalm 32
SEPTEMBER
September 1 - The Gifts of God: Psalm 40
September 8 - The Strength of God: Psalm 46
September 15 - Confession Before God: Psalm 51
September 22 - I Am Satisfied: Psalm 63
September 29 - God Is Good: Psalm 145
JULY - MISSION PROJECT - FOOD ITEMS FOR FAMILY WAITING AREAS AT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI
Church Business meeting Report, May 29, 11:00 am
Church moderator Del Slone and his wife Janie were involved in a car accident Sunday on their way to church. In his absence, Debbie James, church clerk, presided.
* Members present voted to have quarterly business meetings rather than the bimonthly meetings we have been having.
* Budget report summary - Year to date receipts have exceeded expenses by $15,638. Thank you church for your faithfulness in supporting the Lord's work with your tithes and offerings.
I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
Eight or nine of us went to share the love of Christ in song with the people of Brookdale. Rick James brother, Bryan, has become a resident there in recent weeks, transferring from California.
Daniel Hall, MBCB Foundation Director, organizer of the Rally
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Livi Cate Osborne is a Freshman at Mississippi College this fall, 2023. She has been awarded the AWBC Scholarship for the year. We were so pleased to meet her and hear the calling of the Lord on her life. We pledge to pray for her as the Lord opens His will for her in the future.
Here is a copy of God's call on her life.
"In the months before my junior year in high school began, I had been praying to God asking for guidance. I was starting to consider colleges, and I had no idea what I wanted my major to be or what I wanted to do after college. Then, on August 22, 2021, I felt God calling me to be a missionary. I was at a Youth Retreat when the speaker asked us to bow our heads and pray for just a few minutes in silence as a way to reflect on what God had taught us that weekend.During that prayer, God answered my questions about my future by calling me to be a missionary. God called me through the Great Commission. Soon after I realized I happened to be wearing a pair of pants I had gotten during a mission trip to Ecuador. It was a beautiful coincidence that also solidified my wandering thoughts. It confirmed that I had just spoken the words to myself, but that they were divinely placed in my mind.
The year that followed this calling was filled with many reminders of the calling of God in my life, along with instances that I did not then realize were going to be as impactful as they were. I happened to meet new people who were either current missionaries or were on the track to becoming missionaries. I became more devoted to Christ than I was before. For the first time in my life, I had a disciplined devotional in the mornings. Through this I realized that the beginning my day with God brought and still brings me so much joy.
After my junior year of high school, I was just beginning to explore the calling God
had asked me to live my life in accordance with. The summer before my senior year, i started to apply to Mississippi College. During the application process, I had a chance to speak with my head pastor, David Ethridge. I explained how I felt God working in my life, and he asked me the following question, 'At this point in your life, do you feel as if following any other path would be almost disobedient to God?' This opened my mind to how deeply I felt this calling, and I agreed to the question he asked.
After this ultimatum, I decided to make a public commitment to full-time vocational ministry. On August 24th, 2022, I shared this with my church. The purpose of this was to share with them how God was working in my life, and to ask them to join me in prayer as I follow where God leads. I am pursuing a major in Christian ministry, specifically missions. Now that I am in college at Mississippi College, I am studying Christian Studies with a concentration in Missions. I cannot wait to see what God has in store for me, but for now I am simply following where He leads."
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Steve Davis with Gifts Coordinators, Amber and Pepper
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Mary Ann Cooper, daughter of 3rd Pastor, Percy Cooper
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