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