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SS Text for the week - Psalm 51 | Song of Songs 2 | Acts 18 | Romans 16

Text: Psalm 51 | Song of Songs 2 | Acts 18 | Romans 16

Nothing helps keep a marriage strong like keeping short accounts. In the same way bringing your sins to God in repentance quickly is a good spiritual habit, so is facing your spouse to confess wrongdoings when they happen. Avoiding pain is a poor motivation for harboring sins and anger. There will always be pain when sin is involved. The question is, how much pain are we willing to tolerate?

Think about it like this..... You know discomfort is in your future, but you prolong the inevitable. Worse than that, you risk permanent damage to your body, greater expense, and a longer recovery. Just like a ship's captain makes innumerable, minute corrections with the wheel to keep his vessel on course, so a regular habit of confession and forgiveness helps a marriage move straight ahead.

Psalm 51 deals with David's gross sins of adultery and murder, and so we may find it difficult to relate in the ordinary struggles of our lives. But the same principals apply.

Have you read Song of Solomon this week?  If not, take time to at least read the text of chapter 2 before class this week.

We have 2 texts from both Testaments to discuss this week.

Pray for one another and remember those that have asked for specific prayers this week.

God Bless !!!  See you Sunday.

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SS Text for the week - Scriptures: Matthew 5:27-30, Proverbs 5:15-21, Proverbs 6:25-32

This weeks lesson touches on a sensitive subjects.  The bible has much to say about all of them.

Adultery, Sex, and Marriage. 


Rather than provide you with "pre-loaded" questions for the week I would prefer you study the text and pray about it.  We will discuss it from there.  Remember to pray for each other and pray for the lesson and services this week.

See you Sunday.

Fwd: Important Message from Johnny Hunt

The Southern Baptist are looking at how they plant churches in the future and spreading the gospel.  There has been much confusion on this.  This is an email from Johnny Hunt with correct information on what is called "The Great Commission Resurgence Report".  It would be worth your time to at least become familiar with it.  We can discuss this more in Sunday School if anyone has any questions.

Lee

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Dear Brother,

I am sending you a link to the interview that Dr. Ronnie Floyd did recently  with the editor of the state newpaper in Oklahoma.  It clarifies a lot  of things on the Great Commission Resurgence Report on which our committee has been working diligently for the past year.  There has been much misunderstanding and many unwarranted criticisms about what we have  prepared.  I believe with all my heart God led me and the committee to present the report, in the form it is now, to our convention next month in Orlando.  I believe it is what our denomination needs for such a time as this.  I have this conviction deep in my heart and  I wanted you to hear that from me. I would also encourage you go to pray4gcr.com and listen to the 5 minute video there.

 

Here is where you come in.  Will you make every effort to attend the SBC in Orlando and bring as many messengers with you to support the GCR report that will be presented on Tuesday afternoon after the Presidential election?    I need you to do so.

I look forward to seeing you there and I pray God's blessings on you.  If you are unable to attend as a Messenger yourself, please help send your Pastor and those who will go with him as messengers.

 

By the way, we look forward to seeing you soon and I hope you will go to timothybarnabas.org and register for one of the three Timothy Barnabas Pastors schools this fall.  Registrations are coming in quickly and we want to hear from you as well.  This will undoubtedly be our "biggest and best" Timothy Barnabas School and I want you to join us for this special time.  If you  want a brochure and did not get one mailed to you, or you want  additional ones, call Star Lee at 678-494-2640 or email her at star.lee@fbcw.net  and we will get it right out to you.  Help us spread the word.

 

Dr. Johnny M. Hunt

Link to Dr Floyd interview: http://baptistmessenger.com/messenger-insight-vidcast-special-report-d

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Fwd: Prayers for Paul Battles heart surgery

Please pray for Elmer Ridley (Kim Epps Dad)

He has been admitted to the hospital and has pneumonia and low sodium.  Please pray for Mr and Mrs. Ridley and Robbie and Kim and the rest of the family.

SS Text and Lesson - To Love and Cherish Scriptures:Ephesians 5:21-33 | 1 Peter 3:7

I (Still) Do
Lesson: To Love and Cherish
Scriptures: Ephesians 5:21-33 | 1 Peter 3:7


Paul's instructions to submit to one another speak to everyone in the church - the husband and wife, the single person, and the widow.

Our speech to one another should be in the context of worshipful, humble, reverent service toward Christ, always giving thanks in every situation.

It's not only at home with our children, or out on "date night" that we should be exhibiting these qualities in marriage. Our brothers and sisters in the church need to see us fulfilling our God-ordained roles as husband and wife, too.

When we fail to fellowship regularly we rob the church of the Holy Spirit exhibiting His work within and through us for others to see.

There are so many problems with marriage today, and so many ways in which God's institution is maligned, marginalized, and discredited.

1. If you have a good marriage, are other believers seeing it on display?
2. Is your godly leadership as a husband, or godly submission as a wife, causing others to rejoice and giving them reason to seek the same qualities in their own relationship?
3. As you face trials and struggles, are others witnessing you work through them and trust them together?

No one has a perfect marriage. So, bring your imperfect marriage to church and praise God anyway. That simple act can minister in ways you may not fully appreciate.

Some Questions to Consider:

1. Wives submitting to their husbands seems like an old-fashioned concept in our "enlightened" culture. What do you know about the culture in which this was written? Were women liberated back in the day?
2. What is submission? Is submission being passive?
3. Some teach "mutual submission" - the idea that husband and wife submit equally to each other. Does this seem to be what the text says?
4. What two reasons are given for a woman to submit?
5. Does submission suggest a lack of equality?
6. What are the benefits for the woman, of learning to submit?
7. Verse 28. What is Christ's goal for the church? What is God trying to do to us?
8. How does Christ cleanse us? Look carefully at verse 26.
9. How does 1 Peter 3.7 say husbands are to treat their wives. How does your translation have it?
10. What bad things happen if we are not considerate with our wives?

Please pray for our Church, Our Nation and Our Families.  We are all facing many trials and struggles at the moment.  We need to lift each other up to Our Lord.

^ excerpts from Lifeway and Josh Hunt

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Our God is Mighty to Save - What a message in 3 minutes by Paul Washer

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National day of Prayer as pastors walk up

Bartow county 2010

What a wonderful service at the courthouse as 100s came for prayer in
Bartow. Keep praying. God heal our land.

Moody Radio | Programs | In the Market with Janet Parshall | 2010 Past Programs

Moody Radio | Programs | In the Market with Janet Parshall | 2010 Past Programs

A day of prayer for judicial common sense - By Jim Daly | April 21, 2010; 5:27 PM ET

A day of prayer for judicial common sense

The news came as a bit of a shock last week: According to a federal judge in Wisconsin, the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that a federal endorsement of the day somehow violates the "Establishment Clause" of the First Amendment.

To even the casual observer, Judge Crabbs's decision was a curious and perplexing one. After all, there have been federally recognized days of prayer in America for as long as there have been stars on the flag.

In fact, to review the history of sanctioned and recognized prayer in the United States is to study the history of the country itself. Dating back to 1775, the Continental Congress designated a time for prayer in forming a new nation. President George Washington called for a "Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer" in 1795. President James Madison followed suit, as did President Abraham Lincoln during the darkest days of the Civil War.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went a step further when he addressed the nation on D-Day, June 6th, 1944, leading the country in a somber but powerful petition. "Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace," he implored, "and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph." Over the crackle of the late night radio airwaves President Roosevelt couldn't have been more overt and passionate, sounding as much prophet and preacher as president: "Help us, Almighty God," he continued, "to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice."

Of course, to be fair, precedent alone is not reason enough to uphold the constitutionality of a national tradition. If it were, the evils of slavery would still be with us and the civil rights of millions of Americans would still be bound up in the prejudicial politics of the past. But in this instance, regarding the declared unconstitutionality of the National Day of Prayer, both fact and faith are clearly at odds with Judge Crabb's unilateral decision.

Legal scholars agree that the Establishment Clause was devised to prevent the United States government from declaring and financially supporting a "national religion" much like Great Britain did with the Church of England.

And thank God they did.

But even an enthusiastic atheist would have a difficult time explaining how merely recognizing the first Thursday in May as a "Day of Prayer" (without any denominational attribution or financial support) is akin to establishing a national religion. By Judge Crabb's standards, if the federal recognition of the National Day of Prayer is illegal, so is Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.

As a Christian, I view the matter of prayer with an admitted bias, but one studied with both my head and heart. Clearly, prayer means different things to different people. Personally, I receive my understanding of prayer and its collective purpose and power from the Old and New Testaments in the Bible. I do not view prayer as merely a recitation of personal requests, though I do regularly pray for the health and well-being of my wife and two boys. Prayer is very personal; it helps me remember again and again that life is not about me and how utterly and wholly dependent I am on God.

I am not alone in my understanding and practice of this both mysterious and reflective practice; but we Christians support a National Day of Prayer for reasons well beyond selfish interest. A colleague of mine at Focus on the Family tells the story of a mentor back in Texas who used to say he always got down on his knees to pray because "it makes it real clear who's in charge."

Christians understand prayer to be powerful because it is the way in which we humbly and gratefully praise God. We don't believe prayer changes God's mind, but rather that prayer changes our hearts. And changed hearts lead to a more humble, grateful and healthy nation of Americans.

Who, may I ask, could possibly be opposed to that?

Judge Crabb's ruling is now rightly under appeal. I am optimistic. But for perspective regarding the way forward, believers might look to a wonderful lesson in the New Testament's Book of Acts. There, in Chapter 4, we read of two men, Peter and John, who were arrested and imprisoned for talking openly about Jesus. They were later released. When they returned to their people and explained their plight, their group did a curious and counter-cultural thing. They didn't gripe or grumble; they prayed for their captives and asked for courage to keep the faith and stay on message:

...consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

I believe we have reached a time and place where we are called to do likewise. I am encouraged, actually, to think that Judge Crabb's decision seems poised to do what years of free expression has not - awakened a sleeping Christian people, many of whom (though not all) have taken so many of our freedoms for granted for so long.

Now is the time for Christians, like those of the early church, to be strong and confident, not bitter or embattled.

Now is the time for believers to be bold but humble, courageous but compassionate.

Now is the time, to quote the late Ruth Graham, wife of beloved Dr. Billy Graham, to "pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."

By Jim Daly  |  April 21, 2010; 5:27 PM ET

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SS Insights for May 9 - Genesis 2.23 - 25; Malachi 2.13 - 16; Matthew 9.3 - 12

Text for this Sunday: Genesis 2.23 - 25; Malachi 2.13 - 16; Matthew 9.3 - 12

Critics of the Genesis account of creation claim that chapters 1 and 2 are nothing more than allegory or poetry - that they were never meant to be taken literally. Yet experts in the ancient manuscripts agree there's nothing about the writing style to suggest these chapters are anything other than straightforward narrative. That is, until you arrive at 2:23. It's there that the sight of Eve in Adam's eyes inspired man's first creative oratory. Men have been trying for millennial to describe the emotions women cause them - usually without success. There's no reason to deny the fact that God made men and women to feel attracted to each other's appearances, mannerisms, and personality traits. We should be grateful He gave us that. But thankfully there's so much more to the complexities of our married relationships!

Single or Married, this lesson has something for you.  Explore God's word in the text above and come prepared for a discussion of both Old Testament and New Testament thoughts.

Please pray for the requests we put on the board this week.  Also, pray for your Pastor.  Brother Doug was unable to attend the Mayor Commissioner Prayer Luncheon at the Civic Center today as he was sick.

Lee Daniel (hld3):
Great day at the Bartow Cartersville Prayer luncheon. Dr Nelson Price spoke
about what our nation needs. Heed the warnings spoken in Jermiah

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SS Lesson and Text for the Week - Genesis 1.20 - 31; 2.7 - 25

SS Lesson and Text for the Week - Genesis 1.20 - 31; 2.7 - 25

The Core Verses - Genesis 1.26 - 28; 2.7, 15 - 22

Familarize yourself with the story of God's creation account of the living things that have the breath of life.  Man and God's Creatures

1. Verse 26. How was the creation of man different than the creation of other animals?
2. What does it mean we are created in the image of God? Just how much like God are we?
3. What does the name "Adam" means?
4. How would you respond to those who say the creation account is a fable?
5. Genesis 2.7. What do we learn about the value of man from this verse?
6. What are the practical implications of the biblical idea that man is created in the image of God?
7. God could have created the woman any way He wanted to. Why do you think God did it the way that He did?

See you Sunday