Daylight Saving Time ends on Saturday, October 31st. Don’t forget to set your clocks BACK one hour and enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
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 — Are you part of the Church? Do you know what the Church is all about? Why did Christ establish His Church? One of our elders will bless us with his studies in the Scriptures on the nature of the church. Our corporate worship is an act of response to God and His written Word. Prepare your heart and mind to hear the Word of the Lord!
During the Week:
- Tuesday, 10:30 am: The Ten-Thirty Tuesdays Bible study continues, 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: The Thursday Night Toolkits Bible study surveying the Old Testament meets in the Sanctuary. This week, we’ll start with an introduction to the Minor Prophets, then a survey of Hosea.
- Join us for a HOT time on Friday, November 6th at 6pm for a Chili Cook-Off and Family Game Night. We are putting together a great evening of food and games, sure to include LOTS of fun. Bring a pot of chili to be judged (and maybe win a prize!), and a snack or dessert to share. Bring along a favorite family board game as well! Crackers and beverages will be provided. So please RSVP to the church office by November 4th that you’ll be there!
- Saturday, 4:00 pm: Elim League Bowling
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- We have the opportunity in November to put hands and feet to our praise as we serve dinner and do light clean-up at the Rockford Rescue Mission on Tuesday, November 17th at 5:45 pm. Please sign up on the sign-up sheet on the back table in the Sanctuary.
- Mark your calendar now for the annual Praise Service and Pie Social on Wednesday, November 25th at 6:30 pm.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
Music is often highlighted as an important vehicle for the communication of God’s truth. Here (Colossians 3:16) the Church at Colosse is commanded to let the Word of Christ dwell in them, music being an important accompanying vehicle. I’ll mention…that teaching propositional truth is [not] all that is in view in this verse, but that is certainly part of the power of music — it can accompany and enhance God’s truth.
Songs throughout the Bible are filled with God’s truth. Just survey the Jewish hymnal — the Psalms — and you will find enough theology to fill a systematic theology. God could have presented that truth in any number of ways, but he chose to do so with art — poetry set to an appropriate tune.
We can find many examples of this in the New Testament as well. There are many passages in the epistles that scholars agree were written in a distinctly poetic form and likely set to music and sung in the early church: Philippians 2:6-11, 1 Timothy 3:16, 2 Timothy 2:11-13, John 1:1-18, Ephesians 1:1-11, 2:14-16, Colossians 1:15-20, andHebrews 1:3.
Sacred songs are important vehicles for the communication of God’s truth to His people.
—Scott Aniol, ReligiousAffections.org
Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim