On the Lord’s Day:
9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from the Scriptures. To see Sunday school classes, ages and meeting locations, click on the red “Ministries” button under the category “Pages” (to the right).
10:30 am — In preparation for corporate worship, begin praying now for God’s Word to be delivered in spirit and in truth during the morning worship service.
During the Week:
- Monday: Elim’s Softball team takes to Diamond # 1 for a 6:00 pm start!
- Tuesday: Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study will not meet for this week (June 16). Be ready to resume on June 23rd with a chronological view of the Old Testament!
- Thursday: Our Thursday Night Toolkit Old Testament survey Bible study not meet this week (June 18), but will resume on June 25th, meeting at 6:30 pm in the sanctuary.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- As, once again, Elim has three young people giving their summer to Child Evangelism Fellowship as summer missionaries, the Elim Council of Elders has decided to collect a special offering to raise the money for this summer ministry. Thus, for six Sundays beginning May 24 and going through June, the church will endeavor to raise $4200. Please mark your gifts for this ministry as “CEF.” And check the bulletin board at the back of the sanctuary to see our progress.
- One of our senior couples needs transportation to and from church on Sunday, June 14th. If you can help with this, please contact the church office.
- The women of Elim are invited to a wedding shower on Saturday, June 20th at 3:00 pm. The happy couple will be getting married this summer and we want to help them start their household and their new marriage in Christ. See your bulletin or the church office for details.
- The men of Elim will meet on Saturday, June 20th, from 9 to 11 am for a time of prayer, fellowship and study. Continuing in reading and discussing “Practical Religion” by J.C. Ryle, the men are looking to see if their faith is active, accurate and alive. For more info about this study time, contact the church office.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
Further, my dear brethren, it is a very sad reflection, that we may always expect to find ungodly men in the church of God, for numbers come there, at first, through inadvertence. I will excuse many, in some respects, for being found numbered with God’s people, though unconverted-I excuse them to some degree, for I believe that they were honest when at first they were added to the church. They were never saved, of course; but they thought they were. Never having had a true sense of sin, they nevertheless experienced some alarms, and they set down those alarms for repentance. Although they have never truly believed in the Lord Jesus, they have felt a degree of peace, and have come to look upon this treacherous calm as the result of true faith. They have never really received a new heart, still there is a measure of reformation, and they mistake the outward for the inward. They were excited by the earnestness of God’s people, and under a thrilling sermon they were made to feel as they had not felt before, and straightway, the wish being father to the thought, they concluded they had passed from death unto life, while they still remained dead in trespasses and sin. At first, a few fears may have passed their minds, but by degrees, finding these fears uncomfortable, and Satan determining to blind their eyes and sear their consciences as with a hot iron, they at last made no further enquiries, but went straightway onward to ruin with their eyes closed, believing that they were on the road to glory. It is said that a certain player had acted the part of Richard III. so admirably, and had thrown his whole soul into it so thoroughly, that he imbibed the idea that he was actually a king, and became so extravagant in his living, and withal so haughty in his behavior, that he brought himself first to contempt, and next to beggary. Doubtless there are many who at first were mere actors, who at last have grown into the conceit that the part which they have merely acted is a reality, and so they have continued to strut with all the pride of Pharisees, till God has plucked the mask from off their wicked faces, and set them up to be butts for the arrows of eternal contempt. Oh, beware lest that should be our lot, lest, inadvertently to ourselves at the first, being mistaken, we should at last become miserable dupes and deceivers of others.
—from SPOTS IN OUR FEASTS OF CHARITY by C. H. SPURGEON
Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim