Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Practice Notes for November 20

Hey Choir,

Remember that we do not have choir this coming Sunday morning during our combined worship time, and we also do not have practice Sunday evening.  On Sunday evening we will be at the community Thanksgiving service at Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Remember we are having a community choir which will meet at 4:45 PM with the service to follow at 6:00 PM.

Also remember that there is no choir practice on Sunday night of November 27th or December 4th due to the holidays and Joyful Sounds presentation.

We will practice from 4:00 - 6:00 on Sunday night December 11th and also from 10:00 - 12:00 on Saturday, December 17th.

Wow the holidays are moving fast....I can't believe that November is halfway over!  Wow!  Have a great week and we'll see ya Sunday morning.  Here's our devotional thought for the week!

Shall Not Perish
When I was 6 years old I made the best decision of my life, but it wasn't until later in my life around 17 or 18 that I truly understood the significance of that decision.  I had been studying the Bible and came to the realization that there was a God who loved me.  In fact, He loved me so much that He left heaven and lowered Himself to live as a man so that He could live a perfectly sinless life and then die a horrible death on a cross to pay the price for the bad things I have done.  Once I came to the realization that I could know this God personally, I jumped at the chance.  I asked Him to forgive me of my sins and to become the Lord of my life.

Lord, thank You for dying on a cross for me.  I love you!

"For God so loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life" - John 3:16


"And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept the mercy and grace while it is offered to you.  Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation." - George Whitefield


Jeff

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Practice Notes for November 13

Good Wednesday everybody!

This coming Sunday morning (November 13) our Joyful Sounds choir will be leading in the 8:30 service and there will be no choir in the 11:00 service.  Jack will be leading the early service and Adam Cunningham will be leading the late service!

Also, we will have choir practice Sunday night at 5:00 and Barbara will be leading this time so come ready for some laughs and hard work on the Christmas musical!

I am still looking for some replacement dates between now and our performance and will post those by the beginning of next week.

Hope you're having a great week and we'll see ya Sunday!

Here's our devotional thought for the week!

One Way
One summer I did camp in Mississippi and so one weekend we took a trip to visit New Orleans.  Now if you've ever been to New Orleans, you know that there are many one-way streets.  Now I was responsible for driving our team around the city and it drove me absolutely crazy.  But as I talked to a waiter one night I learned that these one-way streets weren't all that bad.  He told me that his car had been stolen and was quickly located and the thieves were promptly apprehended simply because they were foolishly attempting to make their getaway by driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the one way of salvation.  God has not provided any other plan to His people whereby they can come to Him.  Humans often selfishly, ignorantly, or rebelliously invent alternative routes to spending eternity with God, but they are sorely misguided and mistaken.  No other way is needed because God's plan is perfect.

Jesus, You are the one way to salvation.  Thank You for being our Savior.

"There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it." - Acts 4:12


"But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior." - author Tim LaHaye