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Pastors Corner 6-3-12

I recently read this from 2000 + bible illustrations and thought that it to be appropriate for today.
“Man Overboard!”
“There is a story of an Atlantic passenger lying in his bunk in a storm, deathly sick-seasick. A cry of “Man overboard!” was heard. The passenger thought, “God help the poor fellow. There is nothing I can do.” Then he thought at least he could put his lantern in the porthole, which he did. The man was rescued, and recounting the story the next day, he said, “I was going down in the darkness for the last time when someone put a light in a porthole. It shone on my hand, and a sailor in a lifeboat grabbed my hand and pulled me in.” Weakness is no excuse for our not putting forth all the little strength we have, and who can tell how God will use it?”
We are also attempting this week to rescue lost souls who are drowning in a sea of sin. It is vital that we put forth every effort to get people to attend the revival to hear the word of God and be saved. Who knows, it may be your witness and invitation that may be the light that helps a precious soul be saved. May God bless the church and the revival.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 5-27-12

Next week is the start of our revival services. My hope and prayers are that we will see many people saved and they will draw closer to God. The church has a message and it can change the community one person at a time. Paul tells us in Acts 20:21 that he preaches faith and repentance everywhere and to everyone. That was the message that changed peoples lives two thousand years ago and it is the same thing that our people need to hear today. We can have the best speaker God has ever ordained to speak, and we have a very good one in Allen, but unless people hear the word their lives will not be changed. Paul also tells us in Romans chapter 10 how important it is for lost people to hear the preaching of Gods word. Without hearing the word of God they can never be saved because it takes preaching to build faith and without a portion of faith it is impossible for anyone to be saved. Preaching, or the hearing of the word, is the single most important thing in the road to salvation. Knowing what is at stake (people being lost forever) and how important it is (only way lost can build faith) makes it imperative that we get our people out to church.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 5-13-2012

It seems like only a few days ago that we were celebrating Mother’s Day and I wish I had the words to tell each of the women in the church how important you are to your family and to the church. Like your immediate family the church does not always tell you how much we appreciate your service and dedication to the church. No matter how the church honors you today, I do not think that it will express the true gratitude we feel for you in our hearts. It will just plainly not be enough recognition for your service to your family and the church. God has honored you with one of the greatest gifts given to mankind, the ability to bear children in the image of God. This gift is closely behind the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ or even the gift of life itself. God himself tells us the price on your service to your husband, family, and fellow man is far greater than precious jewels. With all this said, I would like to make a feeble attempt to thank you on behalf of the church for your love and service to everyone. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 4-29-2012

I was thinking about the revival when I started to write this pastor’s corner. I began by looking up the word revival in the dictionary. The definitions were technically correct and had words like “reviving” and “awakening” but did not convey a personal meaning of a revival. If you look for the word revival in the Bible you will not find it or I cannot find it. You can find were there were different places where revivals occurred (Acts chapter 2 and 8 are only two examples) and in those events it changed the lives of people. Those two events were only part of the greatest revival to ever occur and that revival is still going on today. What I am talking about is the grace/love of God delivered by His son Jesus Christ which changed the world. When you have been saved or revived by the hand of God (Holy Spirit) through his word there are no dictionary definition to fully describe the changes it makes in people’s lives. God bless and pray hard for the revival.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 4-15-2012

This week I want to follow-up on a Pastor’s Corner that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. It was about Making God’s Word a Priority in your life for forty days. If you have not started I encourage you to start and if you have started I want to encourage you to continue. There have been a few days that it has been late and we were tired and it was a challenge to continue. The easy thing would have been to say we will skip tonight because it is late and pick it up tomorrow, but commitment does not work that way. If you are committed to doing something you do it when ever possible or reasonable. The benefits of spending time with God’s word and the family will be far greater that a little extra rest. I will leave you with a funny picture that has happen several times when we are reading God’s word. It seems that Rusty (Sherlene’s cat) thinks that it is the best time in the world to cuddle. He gets up in my lap, purrs loudly and watches and listens to everything. To someone looking in the window, knowing about Making God’s Word a Priority might think, “WOW” they must be serious because they even read to the cat. Continue reading and God bless.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors corner 4-8-2012

This week we celebrate Easter and I want to draw your attention to something that should concern everyone. The concern is that some people only have a worldly or superficial view of Easter. They think that it is only about getting things like, Chocolate Easter bunnies, Chocolate Easter eggs, Cadbury eggs, peeps, Easter baskets, new clothes, new hats, etc, you get the point. I think that this view originates from the commercial/business constantly advertising their products. The problem is not that these things are bad, but that people are not being told the true meaning of Easter. Now we can blame business for the commercialization of Easter, but I think that the church must share in the blame because we have failed to counter this view. The only way to counteract this view is for the church to get the biblical truth about the resurrection into society. This truth is that Jesus Christ came down from heaven, born of a virgin, preached unto the world, sacrificed himself for mankind through crucifixion, was buried, and rose the third day as savior of the whole world. People worldwide must believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of the world for the salvation of there souls.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 4-1-2012

Last Sunday I presented the church with a proposal to think about for a week. I’ve had another week to think about it and still think that it is a good idea. The suggestion, I am going to call Making God’s Word a Priority, is intended as a way for the church to get closer to their immediate family while they get closer to God. The proposal asks for a thirty minute daily commitment to reading God’s word for forty days. During this time the family will come together and turn off all distractions (television, phones, computers, back ground music, basically anything that would distract). The family should start out by holding hands and praying before they start reading. Each member of the family should take turns reading out loud. Once you have read for thirty minutes then hold hands again and end in prayer. Depending on your family circumstances your version of Making God’s Word a Priority may be somewhat different. You can start out anywhere in the Bible and do not have to do the books in order. This should give us a way to make God’s Word a priority in our lives and by the end of the forty day I hope that we all look forward to spending these thirty minutes with God and our families.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 3-25-2012

As we go through life we look forward to one milestone after another. Some of the big events in our lives are; being able to go to school, graduating from school, turning 18 or 21, first job, getting married, having children, owning first car or home, getting baptized, retirement, etc. By now you get the point that people look forward to the next great event in their lives and it does not seem to make a difference if we are young or old. Whether or not the events I mentioned above are truly great is up for debate. I do not know what the next event in your life will be because they are different for everyone, but there is an event that we all will experience together and I am going to call it the next great event. That event is the returning of Christ, where we shall meet him in the air during the resurrection (1 Thessalonians 4:17). At that time, Gods people will experience the power of God and that words cannot describe jubilation that we will experience when we see Jesus.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 3-18-2012

Have you ever been outside on a clear winter night and the stars were so clear that it looked like there were more stars than normal and you were taken back by their beauty. Have you wondered how many there were and as a child even tried to count them. Have you wondered why some of the stars are different colors or how vast is the universe. Did it give you the feeling of awe? Well, if you have you are not alone. In Psalms 8, David talks about the greatness of God and in verse 3 he declares that the heavens, including the moon and stars, were but the work of Gods finger. Genesis chapter 1, verses 14-18 tells us that God created everything that we see in the sky, both day and night. Knowing this, it is no wonder we feel small when we look at Gods creation. Romans 1:20 tells us that creation itself testifies of Gods existence, leaving mankind without excuse for not accepting Jesus Christ as the savior of the world.

Pastor Danny

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Pastors Corner 3-5-2012

Last week I gave you some clues to what I thought was the most important thing going on in Heaven. If you followed my clues you should have come up with Jesus setting at the right hand of God making intersession for mankind. The definition of intercessor is one who intercedes on the behalf of another and the bible tells us that Jesus is continually making intercession (Romans 8:34). Now we know that the sacrifice Christ made for us on the cross was for the sins of the whole world (1 Corinthians 15:3) and that another sacrifice will never be needed again (Hebrew 9:27). Some may ask, since Jesus died for our sins, why is it necessary for Christ to continually make intercession for Christians? I think it is because of our infirmities, frailties, and shortcomings that result from us still having fleshy bodies. When God, in his infinite wisdom predestinated the church, he knew that Christians would need someone to intercede on their behalf. I may not understand exactly the extent of the intercession, but I am glad that Christ is there for Christians.

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