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March 14, 2025 - You've been drafted! Bright Morning Star Baptist Church is hosting a Youth Revival Boot Camp March 19-21 at 7pm nightly. The revival theme is 'Training Up a Generation for Jesus' Psalms 32:8.
Wednesday, Day 1 - #TRAINUP
Thursday, Day 2 - #SHAPEUP
Friday, Day 3 - #GEARUP
Guest speaker is Minister Deshmond Johnson. Dress code is Army or Military outfit.
Bright Morning Star is located at 623 MLK Drive, Center, Texas and its pastor is Anthony Jackson.
March 13, 2025 - Once upon a time, I thought I might like to take up the game of golf. I played a little for a few years, and then realized, golf was not my game. The men I played with (my grandfather and some of his friends) were guys that believed strongly in the mulligan. Truth be told, none of them was ever going to join the PGA. Now, to those unacquainted with the finer technical points of the game of golf, let’s define what a mulligan is: “You are allowed a second drive, or a do-over on your drive off the first tee if your first drive is not good enough or not to your liking or satisfaction.” That means that “first shot” doesn’t count. You get a “do-over.”
Wouldn’t it be great if we could take a mulligan in life? Wouldn’t it be great if God gave us a do-over?
Well, when we get to Isaiah’s prophecy, we find that our God is the “God of the Mulligan”. The faith and hope of God’s people were at a low point during this period. They needed constant assurance that things would turn around. Isaiah repeats these assurances over and over. When you turn to Isaiah 43:18, you find a beautiful statement. “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old” When we come to God with a penitent heart, when we obey God’s will, when we begin to live God’s kind of life, God gives us a do-over. A mulligan!
It’s something to think about... tbp
Come join us for worship at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com.
March 12, 2025 - First Methodist Church, Center is hosting at Blood Drive this Saturday, March 22 from 10am until 2:30pm. Register online at https://www.commitforlife.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/388506
For more information, visit www.CenterFirst.org. First Methodist Church is located at 211 Porter Street, Center, Texas 75935.
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
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