Spring yet? Still waiting! Summer Series is just around the corner...

April 20, 2018 – Hello friends.  Glad we made it to Friday.  It’s still cool outside but very nice.  Kentucky Thunder on the Ohio River is now upon us scheduled for tomorrow (21^st) downtown.  And “Derby Day” in only two weeks away.  Be careful on the highways; 750,000+ people going and coming and gathered together can be quite complicated. 

Our annual Watterson Trail “Tuesday Summer Sermon Series” is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, June 5^th, only 6 weeks away.  You won’t want to miss a single Tuesday evening.  Each session will begin at 7:00 p.m. and last about an hour.

We will have 12 of Kentucky’s very best preachers with one Alabama preacher from Kentucky in the mix preaching on our theme: “The Greatest Questions – The Greatest Answers – The Greatest Book.”  From first to last these men of God will be sharing lessons from the greatest book, the Bible.

Take a look and plan to be here for every session.

June 5              Dean Beard, Piedmont, AL - Is anything too hard for God?

June 12            Luke Ashby, New Harmony - Will a man rob God?

June 19            Brent Donoho, Martinsburg, IN - If a man dies, shall he live again?

June 26            Larry Webb, Worthington - Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

July 3               Jerry Macon, West Broadway - If God be for us, who can be against us?

July 10             Eric Welch, Hamburg Pike, J’Ville, IN - Who is my neighbor?

July 17             Steve Johnson, North Lexington - For what is your life?

July 24             Greg Circle, Palmyra, IN - For what does it profit a man if he gains the 

                       whole world and loses his own soul?

July 31             Zack Martin, Cedar Springs - How shall we escape if we neglect so 

                       great salvation?

August 7          Aaron Erhardt, Taylorsville - For do I now persuade men or God or do I seek 

                       to please men?

August 14        Andy Baker, World Christian Broadcasting – What does it profit, my brethren 

                       if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

August 21        David Hamilton, Potter Children’s Home – Who are you Lord?  Lord, what 

                       do you want me to do?

August 28        Larry Sawyer, Big Springs – To whom shall we go?

May God bless us as we come to Him, learn from Him, and take His yoke upon us every day, for He is meek and lowly in heart and in Him we shall find rest for our souls (Matthew 11:28-30).

What a Savior we have in the One and Only Jesus  Christ – John 14:6.

Jesus Christ - What a Savior - God's Amazing Grace is Amazing!

April 2018 – We keep expecting the cold and rain to give way to bright sunshine, warmer temps, and those feelings that say “summer is just around the corner.”  However, our Kentucky winter is being quite stubborn.  God’s promises are forever secure.  After Noah’s ark landed on the mountains of Ararat God said, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).  God is faithful.  No need to worry.

Our Sunday morning sermon (April 8) is entitled “Jesus Christ – What a Savior.”  Whatever we do, whoever we are, whatever might happen or might not happen, Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord, and “Oh what a Savior Jesus IS.”  Whatever the question – Jesus is the Answer.  Whatever the problem – Jesus is the Solution.  Whatever the hurt – Jesus is the Healer.  Whatever the bondage – Jesus is the Liberator.  Whatever the burden – Jesus is the Overcomer.  Whatever the need – Jesus is the Supplier.  Whatever the sin – Jesus is the Forgiver.  He washes.  He justifies.  He sanctifies.  He and He alone is THE One and Only Savior.  He said it Himself; “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). 

Read and remember what Paul wrote to Titus, “a true son in our common faith” asking him to “affirm constantly” these things and that we “who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works” (Titus 3:1-8).  He writes about the “kindness and love of God our Savior” in Jesus and reminds us of Jesus’ amazing grace when he writes; “…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at WT is very special.  We have been studying about “God’s Perfect Peace” from Isaiah 26:3-4.  You and I can have God’s perfect peace every day if we’d follow three simple steps:  #1 – Empty Myself (mind, heart, conscience, and body of the things of the world), #2 – Fill Myself (with faith, hope, and love, with God), and #3 – Guard Myself.  We’ve talked about steps 1 and 2.  We will conclude with the task of guarding ourselves against regret, selfishness, fear, and doubt.  Hear and do.