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August 10, 2016 - Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church invites everyone to its Annual Homecoming Revival Sunday, August 14, 2015 at 2:30 pm, Pastor Joseph Hall Jr. along Union Springs & 1st Baptist Church of Grand Cane & Shreveport, La. will be our special guest . Revival services will be August 16-19th at 7:30 pm with a different speaker each night.
Tuesday (8-16) Rev. Leonard White
Wednesday (8-17)-Minister Barrington (BJ) Gibson
Thursday (8-18)-Rev. Denzell Hughes
Friday (8-19)-Apostle Juanita Tave
Come and bless the Lord with us!! Bennett Chapel Church Family Bishop W. C. Martin, Pastor
August 9, 2016 - "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:31-32)
These words of Jesus sound like He is talking to people who are in bondage, telling them what they must do to be freed from captivity.
Yet, the Old Testament Jews were a group of people whose claim of superiority is that they are "children of Abraham" and were never in bondage to anyone.
Of course they had to get permission from the Roman Governor anytime they were to do anything and they carried Roman money in their pockets.
These people were in spiritual bondage. They were bound by their own sins and many more of them by their rejection of Jesus.
Jesus is assuring the people He is addressing in this scripture, who do believe in Him, that they have received, both truth and freedom. The truth of His words and freedom from their own sinful ways.
He exhorts all to "abide in My word" (abide, means - to have one's abode, to reside or dwell within) We see here that if we are to be useful vessels for the Lord that we must truly "live in and by, the Word of God".
Fruit-bearing is the mark of a true disciple as Jesus said; "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35)
So if one is a "true" disciple then one will live the truth he has learned by abiding in God's Word and doing the Lord's work.
A false disciple, on the other hand, is one who only professes to be a Christian.
He loudly claims that he is living in Christ, but his actions tell the real truth, he does not know the truth he professes, and is living in the world, and not in Christ.
He has a name of one who lives, but he is dead in sin, in bondage to his sin.
Peter and John, while they were at Antioch were the first to be called "Christian".
Did they give themselves this name, no, they were called Christians because the non-believing Jews could tell by the lives they were living that they had indeed spent time with Christ.
They had been transformed, freed by the power of the Word of God in their lives and the others could readily see the difference in them. By the lives we live each day we too shall be known.
I would suggest that living as false disciples, professing Christ with one's mouth, but denying Him with one's deeds is the greatest obstacle to spreading the Word of God to the world.
If one sees another professing Christ, but living "of the world" then the false disciple has forever made an impression, a bad impression, upon that lost person and has made salvation much, much harder for that person to ever obtain. He has become a stumbling block and not a stepping stone for Christ.
Let us, each and every one, be stepping stones each day for the Lord, let us lead others to Christ by our own lives by being true disciples. Amen...
August 8, 2016 - "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" 1 Corinthians 6:19
When I was fifteen, I awakened one morning at 3:00, grabbed my .410 shotgun, and walked four miles down the railroad tracks from Center, Texas to Mill Creek. It was one of those beautiful fall mornings…a little cool…no wind.. perfect weather for squirrel hunting. I had hidden a pack of Chesterfields in my coat and smoked on my way to the creek.
Suddenly squirrels appeared everywhere. I shot… and shot…and shot… at point blank ranges …but they all ran off unscathed. Figuring that my smoking (forbidden by my parents) must have brought my bad luck, I placed the pack on a stump and blasted them with my shotgun. Afterwards I killed two wood ducks with one shot and nabbed two fox squirrels.
I’m not saying that success at hunting will always improve if we quit smoking.
But our success at living definitely will.
August 5, 2016 - On behalf of Pastor George Cartwright and the Mt. Horeb Baptist Church family we would like to invite everyone to our annual Homecoming and Revival. Our Homecoming services will start Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at the Mt. Horeb Baptist Church in the Bland Lake Community. Rev. Amos Horton and the Reed Chapel Baptist Church will be our special Guests for the evening. Our revival services will start Monday, August 8, 2016 through Friday, August 12, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. each night. The Evangelist for the week will be the Rev. Christopher Moore, pastor of the New Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Houston, Texas please join us and be blessed.
August 4, 2016 - The St. John Missionary Baptist Church will be hosting a Musician Appreciation honoring Sis. Cindy Gatlin Saturday, September 10th at 7:00pm. The St. John Missionary Baptist Church family humbly requests your choir or praise dance team to render an A & B selection. Upon accepting our invitation to participate, please contact Sis. Sandrel at 936-598-4189.
August 4, 2016 - Old Home Church will be having the annual Back 2 School Bash, Saturday, August 6th @ 6:00 PM. There will be water slides, pony rides, sno cones and snacks. There will be dominoes and board games in fellowship hall for adults. Everyone invited to come out and join the fun! Call or text for details 936-332-9293
August 3, 2016 - Center Learning Academy at First Baptist Church, Center, TX is looking to enroll children ages 2, 3, and 4. Center Learning Academy is a Christian-based childcare center that provides a loving learning environment for you little one.
Come by the daycare at First Baptist, 117 Cora St., Center, TX to pick up a packet or call 936-598-3708 for more information.
August 3, 2016 - It is that time of year again, North Jericho (FM 699) Homecoming. It will happen Sunday, August 7th at 12pm at North Jericho Church. Please join us for food and fellowship.
August 2, 2016 - Project String Power registration for violin, viola, cello, upright bass, harp, guitar (all styles) and banjo lessons is Saturday, August 13, 10:30-12 noon at St. John's Episcopal Church in Naylor Hall. Scholarships available. Choose the instrument you want to play and set a time for lessons.
August 2, 2016 - The Spirit of overcoming:
"These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33
Our Lord Jesus tells us all we need to know to help us through the hard times we may have.
In this world, all persons will find themselves overcome with tribulations, they will be attacked from time to time from many directions.
Yet, the born again Christian, has an advantage over those who are lost, struggling in darkness. He has the Lord.
Jesus' death on the cross reconciled every believer to the Father God. As long as he stays strong in his faith in Christ, nothing can mar his relationship with God.
Yes, the Christian will have tribulations, but as our scripture says; "but, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
Jesus tells us not to worry for even though we will suffer through tribulations. the dictionary calls them; (grievous troubles, severe trials or sufferings) we can take heart that Jesus has already paved the way for us. We can have joy knowing that He has defeated the world and He is at home in heaven preparing a place for each of us.
A lost person may overcome habits and addictions, he can even hold off the devil for a time, but, he has no one to help him and eventually he will fall back into his worldly habits and addictions and sooner or later the devil will claim him for his own, if he does not first accept Jesus as his Lord.
While the lost have no support, the saved receive the the free gift of the Holy Spirit when they accept Jesus as Lord and Master.
It is much easier for the believer to overcome temptation, for he has the "comforter" the Holy Spirit indwelling him.
Warfare between the Spirit and the flesh will last as long as the believer lives on earth and he will find himself doing things he ought not to do and failing to do things that he should. However, with each victory over the lusts of the flesh it becomes easier to overcome the next one.
All believers must face an unfriendly world, and will find that the closer one lives with the Lord, the less friendly the world becomes.
We must learn to overcome the world through our faith, as Jesus overcame the world, so too can we, through Him.
Let us be steadfast in our faith, unmovable, always busy in the work of the Lord.
For by our faith we will know that our labor is not in vain, and one day we will be able to personally thank the Lord for the victory over the world gained through the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen...
Please feel welcome to join us on Wednesday evenings at 6:00PM for our Bible study and learn with us how we are to live as Christians in America today. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee" (Hosea 4:6) Come and learn what the Bible says, don't let this be you in Hosea 4:6.
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