Good Morning
Let us be thankful! Last night we saw two more baptisms. Two more public declarations of faith in Jesus as Lord. Amazing. When you pray ask God to help all of those who have been baptized this year. May they grow in faith and love.
Thank you to everyone who made our fellowship dinner wonderful. If you set up chairs and tables or prepared food or helped clean everything up at the end of the night, thank you!
A thought for your week; we purchase our future with the choices we make today. It's the little choices we make daily that make the biggest difference in our lives of tomorrow.
Financial Peace University
Chad Anderson will begin the next Financial Peace group on August 31. Please sign up in the foyer of the church or contact the church office to be added to the list.
Social Media
Thank you to everyone who made our fellowship dinner wonderful. If you set up chairs and tables or prepared food or helped clean everything up at the end of the night, thank you!
A thought for your week; we purchase our future with the choices we make today. It's the little choices we make daily that make the biggest difference in our lives of tomorrow.
Financial Peace University
Chad Anderson will begin the next Financial Peace group on August 31. Please sign up in the foyer of the church or contact the church office to be added to the list.
Social Media
You know we have a Facebook group page. But did you know we are also on Instagram and Twitter? Get connected and stay informed.
Revelation Study
The Inspiration Group that meets Wednesdays at 6:30 pm in the sanctuary is studying the book of Revelation. This is a great time to get involved.
Breakfast for Students
Each Sunday morning volunteers serve breakfast to our students. A schedule is on the white board in the fellowship hall. See Barbara Rackliff if you would like to provide the breakfast one of the available weeks.
Plug-In To A Group
Ongoing groups are held Sunday mornings at 9:30 and Wednesday nights at 6:30. Other groups are available. A list of all groups is on the table in the foyer of the church. You can find out more about groups by calling the church office or emailing Debbie Bohannon.
Monday Morning 5
1. My Dark Night of the Soul
2. A PASTOR’S GREATEST REGRET AFTER A LIFETIME OF MINISTRY
3. AMERICANS INCREASINGLY SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AMID CONFUSION
4. Bible Verses Prosperity Preachers Wish Didn’t Exist
5. From the Flooded Grounds of Houston
Monday Meditation
Devotions From Time Of Grace
There’s Got to Be More
Do you ever have the feeling that you are chasing something in life that won’t fully satisfy you? Pay attention to that feeling. It’s from God.
We’re not just talking about substance abuse issues, although drinking and pursuing other addictions are certainly ways of chasing something futile. But we’ve also known a lot of “good church people” who sit in a service every week—or who preach from a pulpit to those people—who feel themselves to be far from God. They’re “successful” or “put together” or “righteous” on the outside, but they’re missing God on the inside. They keep busy with religious practices and work, school, or family, but it just isn’t enough. They long for God to feel real to them.
That longing is the first spiritual awakening for all of us finding our way back to God: “There’s got to be more.”
When you long for a love that is deep and satisfying, when you want to give yourself to something that will truly make a difference, or when you seek answers to life’s most difficult questions, you are looking for God. You’ve really got two options: you can keep searching to fill these longings on your own, or you can look to the One who gave you those longings in the first place.
Our longing for real love goes all the way back to how the human race was made in the first place. God intended that we experience his love both directly from him and through others we relate to in a healthy way. What we long for, God doesn’t just have but actually God is. He is love and he pursues us with love.
We’ve heard it said that every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is really looking for God. If you are knocking on the door of some self-destructive behavior or relationship, you might actually have arrived at an important point in your journey back to God. Why? Because the disappointment you inevitably feel in cheap substitutes will make you wonder where you can find real love. Will you open yourself up to letting God fill your longing to love and be loved?
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