Calhoun Baptist Church News December 8, 2013~
Rev. David Van Bebber Pastor:
Come celebrate the “Christmas Season” and worship the Lord with us here at Calhoun Baptist Church where you will always feel at home!
We have a Sunday School Class for each age group @ 10:00 AM
Worship Services @ 11 AM
Bible Study and Prayer Services @ 6:00 P.M.
Beginning in December RA’S are meeting Sundays @ 5 PM
Youth With Brother David @ the Parsonage Saturdays from 7-8 PM
There is much anticipation of the day we celebrate the first coming of Christ. We are decorating the church with a beautiful “Lighted Christmas Tree” that sits almost in front of the Cross that is on the right side of the Alter. There are decorations all along the Alter and Wreaths with beautiful bows on the doors. Most of all there is going to be a Manger Scene out on the church’s lawn. If you wanted to sum up the meaning of Advent, this beautiful and haunting season of waiting, you could do it with just one question: What are you waiting for? Most people, I suspect, would say, very simply, we’re waiting for Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Jesus. But the Gospel our Advent Season suggests that answer isn’t really accurate. What Advent is really about is something greater and deeper than what you see in the malls or watch on TV. It transcends Jingling Bells and Twinkling Lights. It even transcends time. What we are waiting for, really, is the end of time. We are waiting for Christ to come – not as a baby in a manger, but as a King in the clouds. This second Sunday of Advent Brother Jeff and Sister Heather Hollinger and their daughters Elana and Gracie lighted the Candles of Advent and read the Scriptures and ended with a Prayer.
Brother David’s reading of the Word was from the Book of Luke Ch: 18:1-8 NKJV. His sermon was about the just Judge and the unjust judge.
Luke 18:1-8
New King James Version (NKJV)
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
18 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, 2 saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. 3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
6 Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
This scripture is about prayer. We should pray without ceasing. We must keep an eye out all of the time for the unjust judge this parable speaks about. Will the just Judge find us waiting for Him when He comes again?
Here is our Prayer Concerns:
Brother David~ The Poinsett Family~ Janet Taylor~ Shirley Adams~ Bo Hendron~ Logan Hull~ Coach Ron Kreisel~ Carol Price~ Christy Manley Houk~ Carol Turner~ Mary Allen~ Frances Barrow~ Howard Moore~ Sally & Jane~ Jo Stromberg~ Jay Lilly ~ Ryan, Christina & Baby Rosayln Mantonia ~Pat Kampe ~
The Holiday Season is here and we are celebrating the Savior’s Birth with our upcoming events to look forward to attending and taking part in the celebrations! Sunday December 8th. Today is “Second Sunday of Advent” Lighting of the Candles by thre Hollinger Family.
Poinsettias were brought this morning to place on the Alter! They were placed on the Alter to worship God with all of their beauty and the special remembrance of loved ones already gone on to meet the Lord. The families participating in this were Brother Charles and Sister Margaret Fields, Brother Haus and Sister Lorie Riemer and Brother Charles and Sister Claudean Brown.
Saturday December 14th. At 8 A.M. Brother Jim Bilbruck’s Christmas Breakfast Served for those helping Sack Candy and Fix Fruit Plates for our home bound members of our church.
Sunday, Dec, 15th. “Christmas Program”Performance in the AM & PM
December 24th. “Christmas Eve” Candle Light Services @ 6 PM
Sunday December 29th. “Singspiration @ Calhoun Baptist Church @ 6 PM
Tuesday December 31st. New Years Eve ~
We are located 3 blocks off 52 on V Highway~
Our website is: calhounbaptist.org.