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 October and November, we examined “Seven Things the Lord Loves.” We also need to know from the Word “What God Hates.” We’ll look at Proverbs 6:16-19 in the coming weeks.
During the Week:
- Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study will resume this Tuesday, January 12th, at 10:30 am, continuing our chronological look at the Old Testament.
- Awana Clubs meet at 6:30 pm with “Backwards Night” for Sparks and “Snowball Frenzy” for Cubbies!
- The Thursday Night Toolkit Bible study will resume this Thursday, January 14th, at 6:30 pm, beginning a new survey of the New Testament, “Knowing Jesus and Living Like It.”
- Beginning this Saturday (January 16th), Elim will be hosting a monthly “prayer breakfast”. Yes, there will be coffee, juice, some donuts—maybe a song of praise or two—but most of all a study on the topic of prayer and a time of prayer together for our pastor, the work and ministry of our church, and the needs of the body. This gathering is for all individuals and families of Elim. It will start at 9:00 am and wrap up by 10:00 am each month.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- Please plan NOW to attend the Annual Meeting of the Congregation on Sunday, January 24th. Immediately after he morning worship service, we will meet downstairs for a Love Feast. (Each family should bring a hot dish and a cold dish to share.) Afterward, we’ll be blessed to hear a presentation of new directions in Missions, a report on increased ministry, a presentation of the budget, and an update on the Elder process. ALL who attend Elim are encouraged to attend!
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
…yet there be some who are like the weathervane upon the church steeple, they will turn just as the wind blows. As good Mr. Whitfield said, ‘You might as well measure the moon for a suit of clothes as to try and tell their doctrinal sentiments,’ for they are always shifting and ever changing.
Now, I pray that this may be taken away from any of you, if this be your weakness, and that you may be settled. Far from us may bigotry be removed; yet would I have the Christian know what he believes to be true and then stand to it. Take your time in weighing the issues, but when you have once decided, be not easily moved. Let God be true though every man be a liar, and stand to it, that what is according to God’s Word one day cannot be contrary to it another day, that what was true in Luther’s day and Calvin’s day must be true now; that falsehoods may shift…but the truth is one, and indivisible, and evermore the same.
— from “A New Year’s Benediction,” a sermon delivered 1 January 1860, at Exeter Hall in London, by Charles Spurgeon.
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim