Senior Adult and Education Ministries
You can go to heaven without wealth, fame, great name, learning, or friends but not without christ.
We are collecting food items for the family waiting rooms at the Children's Hospital of Mississippi. I have met some moms and dads who have spent weeks and even months at the hospital caring for their children who are seriously ill. Some may leave their child only to bathe. This is a great way to show the love of Christ to others. Pick up some items that will minister to their needs. Jesus words to us are "Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, you have done it unto me." We are saved and called unto good works which the Lord has prepared in advance that we should do when we were saved.
NEW! SUNDAY SCHOOL LITERATURE SERIES BEGINNING NEXT QUARTER - BIBLE BOOK BY BOOK SERIES. The literature has been ordered. We will let you know when it gets here.
We are two weeks into the 2025 year. Have you pondered the past year and to see how your relationship with the Lord has fared? What was recorded in your life's book in 2024? I bet like me you have had plenty of opportunities to serve our wonderful Lord. Did you take advantage of them? Did your faith in the Lord follow with acts of grace and kindness? Did you leave opportunities unmet?
I recently read a devotional book by the late W.A. Criswell who shared testimonies of seemingly ruined lives that were changed by the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He shared - "at a national meeting of prison chaplains in Arlington, Virginia, some years ago, the chairman of the board was as fine looking a man as you could ever see. Earlier he had been convicted of embezzling from a bank and was sent to prison, but there the grace of God changed his life. Now he is not only a fine businessman but also a deacon and the treasurer of his church. Another man had been convicted of writing $40,000 in bogus checks. He is now a fine officer in a national corporation. Another speaker had been a murderer, but in prison, God's grace had so changed his heart that the governor gave him a full pardon." Through the saving and unlimited grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, people are coming to life-changing faith in Jesus Christ. Christ can heal a man's soul and make him a new man. God still saves and changes lives today. 2 Corinthians 5:17 - "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
It is almost unimaginable how this can be! Ephesians 3:20-21 says "unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages." He can do anything... far above our thinking or asking! Nothing is impossible with God.
Revelation 21:5 "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." God is giving us a new page in our life's book, to write of experiences that he gives us in this new year. What will you write on the pages of your life in 2025?!
