Okay. How are you doing with the new old back to
school routine? Hopefully everyone is
adjusting well, getting up a little earlier, being better organized, and
looking forward to the weekend. With all
the “busyness” in our lives, may we always put God first in our thinking,
speech, and in our decisions. Jesus
spoke about such things in His Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:33: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things (food, clothing, shelter, and our daily needs)
shall be added to you.”
It was a great
joy this past Sunday (16th) to meet a new member at Watterson Trail,
Brother Harold Long of J’Town. Brother
Long came before God and the church to rededicate his life to Christ and begin
again to work and worship with His church.
We are so very happy to have him with us at Watterson Trail.
Our Sunday morning
lesson series “More Than Conquerors” continues this week (23rd). We are asking ourselves three very important
questions: Who am I? Who am I trying to
please? and Where am I going? Jesus knew
who He was. When I know who I am; a
Christian and a child of God, people, circumstances, and things cannot change
me into someone else. This week we will
focus on the second question: Who am I trying to please? Jesus knew who to please; His Father, always
His Father, God. When I don’t know who
to please, I fall prey to three negatives:
criticism, competition, and conflict.
When I aim to please God, people may like me or not, circumstances may
be positive or negative, and life may get tough, but these things cannot move
me from pleasing the heavenly Father. On
Sunday afternoon we are looking at God’s ability to help us every day. He is strong.
He is Master of everything. He is
our Father. He is able.
Our Summer
Series “The Christian’s Confidence” has been a great success this year and
comes to a close this Tuesday evening (25th) at 7:00 p.m. with our
final preacher, Brother Dean Beard preaching on the subject “Christ is.” Christ is revealed, verified, declared,
believed, known, followed, loved, obeyed, honored, imitated, and exalted. He is eternal. He IS.
It is my hope and prayer that we have all increased in our faith and
confidence in Christ Jesus through this series of lessons.
We are currently
in the process of appointing additional elders and additional deacons to serve
Christ and His church at Watterson Trail.
Our elders are carefully and prayerfully considering our recommendations
and will soon announce a list of those men of the congregation who are
qualified and ready to serve. Please be
in prayer for our elders, for those who will be announced, and for the church
as a whole that we will continue in faith and unity as we endeavor to further
the gospel of Christ in Jeffersontown and in the surrounding community. May God bless us.
