HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!

REMEMBER: FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!

BE SAFE!

GOD ONLY NEEDS A FEW GOOD MEN.

INVITE SOMEONE TO CHURCH WITH YOU TOMORROW!

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Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Colossians 2:19, “And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.”

If I am not holding fast to Christ, my Head, if He is not my point of reference in relating to all things, then nothing “works” in my Christian life. 

Christ’s work in me–His living and operating–comes to a halt. 

There is no growth, no sanctification, no conformation to the image of His Son, and no way to proceed in the Christian life. 

If I am not interacting with Christ, then I am interacting with the law, or what is formed in my mind. 

I am interacting with my feelings of discouragement or the reasonings of my mind. 

My point of reference when I go through things is not Christ, but something else. 

My point of reference is my feelings, the outward circumstances, the situation, the law, what I am supposed to be, or even what I am not–all these mental gyrations that go on within us. 

The principle is that I interact with whatever is formed in me. 

If Christ is formed in me crying “Abba, Father,” I interact with Him. 

If something else is formed in me, I interact with that.

Christ formed in me does not mean that I am perfect, that I am a finished product. 

It means that my point of reference is always Christ–that He would have the first place in everything. 

So I do not know how to handle myself. 

I do not know how to handle sin. 

I do not know how to handle my reactions to my environment. 

But Christ has already handled all these things. 

By taking Him as my point of reference in all these things, I remain in fellowship with Him.

Until Tomorrow,

With a Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Donna Gourley in the passing of her husband

Don Slate – Angela Bryan’s Dad – Hospice 

Brandon’s Dad & Grandmother – Surgery

Bill Lawhead  – Prayer Needed

Debra Roberts – Home in need of prayer
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace

Amy Garner’s Mother  
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family 
Bill Moody 
Charlie Sessom –Waiting  
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom 
Doug Fritzel 
Greg & Keith Payne – Lisa’s Brothers

James Garner’s G’Son  

John Burnette 
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter 
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister  
Larry Stanley – Home

Larry Barker – Hip replacement 

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah  
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter  
Mary Sims  
Mary Williams Son – Mike – Accident 

Michael Stanley 
Nancy Brown’s G’Daughter  
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom  
Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend 
Ricky Stubbs  
Roseleigh Osborn  
Scott Lanier – Lisa’s Cousin 
Sharon Blalock  
Sherry Yoachum – Recovering
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin  
Todd Bailey 

Todd Roberts 
Tom Witcher 
Wanda Galanti