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 — We focus on the the Savior in Communion as we meet to corporately worship our Lord. Then one of our elders will bring the second part of his message from Matthew 10:34-39. Prepare yourself physically and spiritually to hear and respond to God’s eternal truths.
Hearing Assistance Available
During the Week:
- Tuesday, 10:30 am: We continue our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study in Genesis, meeting in the Fireside Room.
- Wednesday, 6:30 pm: Our Awana Clubs meet with games, activities and learning God’s Word! Be here to join in the fun!
- Thursday, 6:30 pm: Our Old Testament survey Bible study, From God for Your Encouragement, continues with a survey Daniel. This study meets in the sanctuary.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- If you (or your spouse) are 60 years young or over, you are especially invited to a 60′s Group luncheon on Sunday, October 25th, immediately after the morning service. All food will be provided. Look in this Sunday’s bulletin for details!
- As you know, transportation issues are a primary concern for some of our seniors. If you are able to pick someone up for church and drive them home, please contact the church office. You could be such a blessing to a brother or sister in Christ!
- Saturday, October 17th, the men of Elim will meet for a time of prayer, study and fellowship. Be one of the men who is growing in grace and truth as you grow in God’s Word by attending this very important meeting at 9:00 am.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
Jesus called God’s command to “love the LORD [our] God with all [our] heart and with all [our] soul and with all [our] might” (Deuteronomy 6:5) the “greatest commandment” since all of the aspects of the law, including our duties to God and fellow man, stand or fall on the depth of our love to them. The depth of the love that God requires and deserves is staggering. The Pentateuch records the elaborate duties that God gave to His people that were to be an expression of their love for Him. And those rituals are indicative of an even more pervasive, all-of-life, kind of spiritual service that God requires of us. Horatius Bonar understood this love and desired to give all of himself, including His heart, to God. But he also realized that our hearts are naturally deceitful and desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9) and incapable of loving God on our own. We naturally orient our lives around, find security and satisfaction in, and spend our time thinking about the things of this world. We were made to be satisfied in the only truly satisfying object of our love – God Himself. This song [written by Bonar] is plea, both with our hearts to leave the empty things of this world, and with God who alone has the power to draw out our affections to drink from His “fountain of delights.” (Psalm 36:8)
Go up, go up, my heart,
And dwell with God above;
For here you cannot find
A satisfying love.
Don’t set your love upon
These things so stained and dim;
Go up to meet with God,
Take up your love to Him.Go up, my heart, go up
To the fountain of delights.
Go up, my heart, go up
To the source of all joy, Jesus Christ.Go up, go up, my heart,
Don’t spend your treasure here:
Ascend above these clouds,
Soar to a higher sphere.
Don’t waste your precious stores
On creature-love below;
To God that wealth belongs,
On Him that wealth bestow.
from Reformed Praise
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim