Our annual ALL NIGHT SINGING is this Friday night, August 6th beginning at 7:30 p.m. I hope you will be a part of this great time of fellowship where Christians sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs well into the night. We plan on singing for a couple of hours then take a break. The singing will resume and continue as long as we can.

Our annual youth rally; BREAKOUT 2010 is this Saturday, August 7th. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Brother Caleb Colley will be our speaker and has planned some really great lessons on the Christian’s ACTIVE DUTY. Please make plans to come out on Saturday for this very special event.

Thank you so much for your positive comments about last Sunday’s sermons. To God be the glory because every lesson I present comes directly from the Bible. Are you a faithful Christian? Only a faithful Christian will hear Jesus say “Well done.” A faithful Christian “is” until death. Faithful Christians bear much fruit. Faithful Christians not only talk the talk, but also walk the walk. When it comes down to it, faithful Christians walk a different, difficult path from the rest of the world. We must not conform to the world. We can and must allow God to transform us by and through the word of God.

Some people seem to think that God will not accept them, that God does not value them, that God does not love them, that God will not forgive them unless their lives are perfectly in order. They are mistaken. Please don’t be mistaken! If this is the case with God then none of us will ever be accepted, valued, loved, or forgiven. I love to read the Biblical account of a father and his two sons in Luke 15:11-32. The young prodigal son made some really poor decisions. He made some sinful decisions. Yet what happened when this young sinful son realized his wrong and decided to return home to his father? Read it. The father joyfully accepted his son even though his life was sinful, dirty, and in disarray. It is true. We all are capable of making some really bad choices. It is also true that we are capable of making really good choices.

Don’t be fooled by the lies of the devil and those who are mistaken about His goodness and His will for every man, women, boy, and girl in the world. The Holy Spirit wrote concerning God’s plan for every human being in 2 Peter 3:9; “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH but that all should come to repentance.”

This Sunday morning we will consider the subject “BUSYNESS” not business, busyness. Our lives are about to get very busy again with school, homework, tests, sports, practice and games, getting up earlier, going to bed earlier, and everything else that goes with the close of summer. In our busyness we must not forget our first and foremost commitment to Christ and His church. We must never be too busy with life that our Bibles go unread. We must never be too busy with our own schedule that we miss the opportunity to help others who are in need. We must never be too busy to pray, to sing, to give, and to worship. Let’s make sure that we put first things first. When we do, all the other things will be in the right order.

On Sunday evening we will take a look at Paul’s words to Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:6-8; “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” We too have a fight to fight. We have a race to finish. We too must keep the faith. What was at the end of Paul’s journey? Read it.