Merry Christmas to you and your family from up in the country! We enjoyed our children and grand children today, Saturday, December 24th as they made the short trip from Conway to give us a little bit of heaven on earth. I hope you will be experiencing a similar love with your family and friends. Christmas is on Sunday this year, tomorrow. At the Enola church of Christ our worship will be just as deep, just as loving, just as passionate, as always. We do not have to change a single element of our worship together. Every Sunday we celebrate and commemorate the birth, life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and eternal promise of the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Every Sunday we sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with all our hearts to the Lord. Every Sunday we pray to our Father about our needs and the needs of those we love while giving thanks for God’s continual provision. Every Sunday we study God’s word just like the church did in the Bible. Every Sunday we examine ourselves and remember the sacrifice of Christ in the Lord’s Supper. Every Sunday we share from the bounty of blessings we have received from the hand of God into the hands of our eldership to be directed and distributed for the cause of Christ in our area and throughout the world. What a wonderful blessing it is to be a Christian and a member of the Enola church of Christ.

Thank you for allowing me to be your minister and friend for the past 6 months. God continues to bless us as we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, just like Jesus spoke about in His sermon on the mountain in Matthew 5-7. We have some among us, our brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering with sickness, pain, disease, relationship issues, temptations, trials, and testings. Let us put the lessons we have been taught over the past few weeks on prayer to work in our lives for ourselves and those around us who are suffering. I am praying for them. Join me in doing the same every day. Remember what Jesus said, “Ask…Seek…Knock…” When we ask, seek, and knock, He promises that we will receive, find, and the door will be opened to us. We do not always receive what we ask for. We do not always find what we are seeking. We do not always knock and have the door we knocked on open up for us. God promises to fulfill our needs according to His rich mercies. Too many times we stand in opposition to God in our personal lives and then wonder why our prayers and efforts seem to fail. May we stand close to our Father in word and deed so that His blessings toward us will shower down upon us like the recent rains we have experienced.

The coming year; 2012 will be one of the best yet. God is so good. Let us always be thankful.