The Business of Christmas

my prayer for you all this year is that the Business of Christmas does not squeeze out the opportunity to strengthen your relationship with those you are closeest to and with the Lord. Let's keep the source of our experiences this year in Jesus Christ. Be encouraged by these words from Chambers.

My experience is not what makes redemption real—redemption is reality. Redemption has no real meaning for me until it is worked out through my conscious life. When I am born again, the Spirit of God takes me beyond myself and my experiences, and identifies me with Jesus Christ. If I am left only with my personal experiences, I am left with something not produced by redemption. But experiences produced by redemption prove themselves by leading me beyond myself, to the point of no longer paying any attention to experiences as the basis of reality. Instead, I see that only the reality itself produced the experiences. My experiences are not worth anything unless they keep me at the Source of truth—Jesus Christ.
From Chambers December 21st

Jesus Christ the Messiah

He is the only Messiah and th eonly one who ever could be. We've seen this through the many prophecies of the Old Testament and we've also see this because of the lineage of Jesus Christ on the past two Sundays. There just would be too many coincidences for the Messiah to be any other than Jesus Christ, son of Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit and adopted by the legal heir to David's throne. It is a truly amazing thought. It is a miracle from the Lord. Jesus is the Messiah, He is the Savior of the world, He is Lord. Is He Lord of your life today? Put your trust in Christ this Christmas. Put him first! Be there on Wednesday as we remember the Lord and Sunday as we look back at the Christmas season and think on what we need to in the new year to serve our Savior.

Looking Forward to Christmas

Christmas Caroling, Friday, December 18th-meet at the Evins house at 5:30 pm. Call us is you'd like to be caroled at.

Special Christmas Program and Service-This Sunday at 11:00 am

Great Advice from Chambers

Today's words from Oswald Chambers are particlarly challenging as he exhorts us to study the Word of God and be able to put it into our own Words. This will make us effective communicators to others.

“Approved to God”

“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).

If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don’t, other people may miss out on the blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to re-express a truth of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and God will use that same explanation when you share it with someone else. But you must be willing to go through God’s winepress where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to express God’s truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very expression will become God’s wine of strength to someone else. But if you are not diligent and say, “I’m not going to study and struggle to express this truth in my own words; I’ll just borrow my words from someone else,” then the words will be of no value to you or to others. Try to state to yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of God, and you will be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through you to someone else.

Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.