Walk!

Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. (Ephesians 5:8)

We do not realize the importance of the unconscious part of our life ministry. It goes on continually. In every greeting we give to another on the street, in every moment’s conversation, in every letter we write, in every contact with other lives, there is a subtle influence that goes from us that often reaches further, and leaves a deeper impression than the things themselves that we are doing at the time. It is not so much what we do in this world as what we are, that tells in spiritual results and impressions. (J. R. Miller)

A good reminder that, that we witness, whether well or poorly, whether we intend to or not! May your light shine brightly for Jesus today!

BTW - VBS has been wonderful this week, and as we reach the halfway point, let us renew our prayers for the souls of the little ones God has sent us this week. And pray, too, for those laboring so selflessly... so selflessly... to see little children know the Savior.

It's Only 4 Days Away!

Children... bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4 NIV)

Vacation Bible School is only a few days away - the first week in August!  Have you registered your kids yet?  Or your grandkids?  Or your nephews and nieces?  Have you mentioned it to your co-workers who have kids?  Or to your neighbors?  Or to your sisters and brothers?

Registration is now open, and you can register either online (www.FriendshipBibleChurch.org) or by contacting the church office for a paper registration form.   You may also request free postcards to use in inviting friends and family members.  

One of the best things I have ever read

Brothers, We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering

Let them come!

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them... (Matthew 19:14 ESV)


Vacation Bible School is only a few days away - the first week in August!  Have you registered your kids yet?  Or your grandkids?  Or your nephews and nieces?  Have you mentioned it to your co-workers who have kids?  Or to your neighbors?  Or to your sisters and brothers?

Registration is now open, and you can register either online (www.FriendshipBibleChurch.org) or by contacting the church office for a paper registration form.   You may also request free postcards to use in inviting friends and family members.  

'nuther great Prayer Breakfast!

Thanks, Trudy and Sandie for the wonderful breakfast. Thanks Phil for the word from Peter.  And thanks Ken for the insight into Wickliffe Bible Translator's Ministry.

Another gem from Spurgeon's pen

“The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7)

“Cleanses,” says the text—not “shall cleanse.” There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing now than to depend on the bare possibility of forgiveness when I come to die. Some imagine that a sense of pardon is an attainment only obtainable after many years of Christian experience. But forgiveness of sin is a present thing—a privilege for this day, a joy for this very hour. The moment a sinner trusts Jesus he is fully forgiven. The text, being written in the present tense, also indicates continuance; it was “cleanses” yesterday, it is “cleanses” today, it will be “cleanses” tomorrow: it will be always so with you, Christian, until you cross the river; every hour you may come to this fountain, for it cleanses still. Notice, likewise, the completeness of the cleansing, “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin”—not only from sin, but “from all sin.” Reader, I cannot tell you the exceeding sweetness of this word, but I pray God the Holy Ghost to give you a taste of it. Many are our sins against God. Whether the bill be little or great, the same receipt can discharge one as the other. The blood of Jesus Christ is as blessed and divine a payment for the transgressions of blaspheming Peter as for the shortcomings of loving John; our iniquity is gone, all gone at once, and all gone for ever. Blessed completeness! What a sweet theme to dwell upon!

“Sins against a holy God;
Sins against his righteous laws;
Sins against his love, his blood;
Sins against his name and cause;
Sins immense as is the sea-
From them all he cleanseth me.”

Remember VBS 2010?

Click here for a slideshow that might refresh your memory.