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 — Continuing in our look at “What God Hates” from Proverbs 6:16-19, we see that God hates “a heart that devises wicked plans.” Please prepare your heart and mind now to receive God’s Word into your heart and your life.
During the Week:
- Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study continues this Tuesday in our chronological look at the Old Testament. This group meets at 10:30 am in the Fireside Room
- Awana Clubs meet at 6:30 pm with “Scavenger Hunt Night!”
- The Thursday Night Toolkit Bible study continues our survey of the New Testament, “Knowing Jesus and Living Like It.”
- Saturday (2/20), 9:00 am: Our monthly Prayer Breakfast! A wonderful time of learning more about God’s heart for our prayers, why we should pray, and how to pray. A light breakfast will be enjoyed by those who come to the Lord in prayer for the needs of our church and our world.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- Elim’s Council of Elders will be meeting again on Sunday, February 21st, immediately after the morning service. Those interested in joining Elim Baptist Church as members should let one of the council members know BEFORE this meeting. Also, please notify one of the council members if you have any other items to bring before the council.
- Check your bulletins this week for information about the Grace & Truth Conference for Women on April 30 & May 1st. Ladies, you’ll want to set aside this Friday & Saturday for biblical teaching on cultivating a fruitful life for the glory of God.
- If you are planning on graduating from high school or college this spring, please contact the church office.
- For immediate prayer needs, Elim has a chain of faithful folks who pray for the needs of the congregation and our loved ones. Requests for prayer are given by phone or e-mail. During the month of February, all requests should be sent through the church office.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
God hates sin; He hates every sin; He can never be reconciled to it; He hates nothing but sin. But there are some sins which He does in a special manner hate; and all those here mentioned are such as are injurious to our neighbor. It is an evidence of the good-will God bears to mankind that those sins are in a special manner provoking to Him which are prejudicial to the comfort of human life and society. Therefore the men of Belial [wickedness] must expect their ruin to come suddenly, and without remedy, because their practices are such as the Lord hates and are an abomination to Him, v. 16. Those things which God hates it is no great thing for us to hate in others, but we must hate them in ourselves.
—from Matthew Henry’s Commentary
Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim