THIS WEEK’S OPPORTUNITIES SUNDAY: 9:30 a.m. — Sunday School 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship 12:30 p.m. — Pie Auction to Benefit FOCS 6:00 p.m. — Community Thanksgiving Service at First Baptist Church, 1041 Liberty Street. Pastor Chad will be preaching. TUESDAY: 10: 00 a.m. — FOCS Backpack Ministry – We do need plastic bags now … [Read more…]
Let’s put ourselves into the story here today. A month or so ago we spoke about the Armor of God and how it is armor that is provided by God, that it belongs to God. So, for that Armor to belong to us, we must belong to him. When it comes to leaders in the early church, battles occurred frequently. Timothy is a perfect example of this.
Important meetings coming up and a PIE AUCTION!!
Paused in time is Luke’s record of Paul during his final years. It seems that most Jews are at odds with Paul in Rome. However, the Gentiles, pagans seemed very interested in what he had to say that they went to his rented home to see him under guard. However, as historians dictate, the number of Christians in Rome during this time is very small. They are the smallest of minorities and soon they will be persecuted heavily. Of course, Paul already knew this.
Preparing for Thanksgiving and Christmas. There’s still much to be thankful for, even in these uncertain times!
I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you. You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel! For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
Unbelievably Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner, but let’s not forget the real reasons we celebrate!
So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.
Days are getting cooler, but things are still happening at Fox Street Church of God!
Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.