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March 11, 2025 - New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church in Timpson, Texas will be having Choir and Usher Anniversary on Sunday March 16, 2025 at 2:30pm. Guest Speaker is Pastor Kevin Boyer, Sweet Union Baptist Church, Garrison, Texas. Everyone is invited to attend.
March 10, 2025 - The Annual Cemetery Clean up at Mt. Gillion Cemetery, is on Saturday, March 15 from 8am to 12 noon. Bring your yard tools and let's make our ancestors proud.
The Cemetery is located on CR 1612 off Hwy 87 North.
March 10, 2025 - The McWilliams-Rather Cemetery Association invites you to attend and participate in our Fundraising Drive and Annual meeting. This will be held on Sunday, March 23rd at 3pm at Todd Spring Baptist Church.
March 10, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, March 10.
We wake this morning to a world filled with division, to a culture characterized by the drawing of battle lines instead of the search for common ground. People with different views or backgrounds are too often reduced to negative stereotypes, turned into caricatures that can easily be derided and dismissed. It is a culture that threatens to consume us.
This depiction of our present world would also aptly describe the world of the New Testament. But in those pages we find a different point of view, a different way to live, and we get a glimpse of that philosophy when we look at the men that Christ chose to be His disciples. I turn the spotlight on two of those men - Matthew the tax collector and Simon the Zealot. In the Jewish culture of the 1st Century you would have been hard pressed to find two people more different, more disconnected, more in opposition.
As much as the Romans were hated by the Jews, the Jewish tax collectors were hated even more. They were seen as self serving bureaucrats. They were seen as traitors. And what group in that culture would have hated the tax collectors the most? The Zealots. They actively conspired to overthrow the Romans, and often used violence as a tool. If a Zealot and a tax collector entered a dark alley, it was quite probable that only one man would exit.
How amazing it is that Jesus would choose these two men, choose them to live and walk and work together for three years, choose them to be a team. The methods and the philosophy of Christ must have seemed ridiculous to his contemporaries, must have seemed idealistic, foolish, and naive. But these two men, these twelve disciples, would go on to change the world.
A different point of view. A different way to live. Two thousand years ago... and today.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
March 7, 2025 - Abundant Love Ministries celebrates our 16th Annual Church's Anniversary and 4th Annual Minister Mike Sparks Day on Sunday, March 23rd at 2pm. Pastor Norris Cloudy of Divine Faith Tabernacle, Houston Texas will be our guest minister. ALM regularly scheduled noonday services are cancelled for the day.
You are welcomed and invited to join us in celebration of this joyous anniversary, in addition to any of our other regularly scheduled weekly services.
Abundant Love Ministries is located at 1426 Shelbyville Street, Center, Texas 75935. Pastor Marlin Cloudy is the Senior Pastor and Founder.
March 7, 2025 - Still Waters Cowboy Church is hosting Spring Playday in the Arena on Sunday, March 9, 2025 after 2nd service.
Activities for all ages. Free to the Public. Concessions available. Sign up for events begins at 1pm. Activities begin at 2pm.
Still Waters Cowboy Church is located at 1699 TX-315, Carthage, Texas.
March 6, 2025 - Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (Pastor Johnny R. Jones) at Hwy 96N., CR 4356, Center Texas 75935 is hosting their Annual Family and Friends Day program, Sunday, March 30, 2025, at 11am. Guest speaker will be Pastor Winston Kibbles, St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Center, Tx.
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly, as you reach and admonish one another with wisdom. Colossians 3:16
March 3, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, March 3.
What’s the last word in the Bible? Did you guess “amen”? That’s right! In Revelation 22:21, the Apostle John writes, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen”. How appropriate that the Bible ends with that word, since, in the Bible, it’s most often seen at the ends of prayers and proclamations of praise - the same way we typically use it today. “So be it.” “It is true.” “Amen!”
But one person in the Bible uses this word not at the ends of statements, but at the beginning. That person is Jesus. The King James Version translates it as “verily, verily”, but it’s the same word. And when Christ uses it, He is claiming not only truth, but also authority and ownership and power. “Verily, verily. I say unto you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall move mountains”. Matthew 17:20
And then, in Revelation 3:14, the word is found not at the end, not at the beginning, but in the middle of a sentence. “These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation”. And so, in the end, the Lord Himself . . . has become the Amen.
Hope you enjoyed today’s devotion. Can I get an amen!!
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
March 3, 2025 (Calendar) - Wallace Chapel Baptist Church 2025 Annual Programs and Dates
- March 9 - Pastor and Wife's Appreciation - Sunday, 3pm
- March 30 - Fifth Sunday Fellowship - Sunday, TBA
- April 6 - Family and Friends Day - Sunday, 2:30pm
- July 6 - Homecoming - Sunday, 12:30pm
- July 7 - Annual Revival - Monday night, 7:30pm
- July 8 - Annual Revival - Tuesday night, 7:30pm
- July 9 - Annual Revival - Wednesday night, 7:30pm
- September 7 - Church Anniversary - Sunday, 3pm
Wallace Chapel Baptist Church is located at 108 South Marcus Street Timpson, Texas, 75975. Rev. Derrick Rhodes, Pastor, and Sister Shaneeta Rhodes, First Lady.
"And we know that all thinks work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose," Romans 8:28.
Past Events:
- January 25 - Musicians Appreciation Day - Saturday, 7pm
February 27, 2025 - The cross on Calvary’s hill was already casting its shadow over Jesus and he had just finished eating the Passover with the twelve. Sitting there at the table, he told them that one of them was going to betray him. He told them he was only going to be with them a little while and then he told them how they were to love. He said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
Yet, even though Jesus tells us to love one another, if we are honest, most of us don’t really want to love. We would much rather be loved. We are always looking for someone we can go to in times of trouble. Someone who will listen to us, someone who will care and comfort us. We want to be loved.
We like to go to other people, but when they come to us do we find them to be something of a nuisance? We like for others to care for us and comfort us in times of trouble but do we find it a bother when others want us to care and comfort them in times of trial?
If we are honest, most of us will have to admit that we like the privilege of being loved but find the duty of loving others to be disturbing. If we want to please the Lord, we must learn to love as Jesus did. It’s not optional.
It’s something to think about... tbp
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