Cleansing Wave (Dave Scott Arrangement)

Performed by Anna Buck & Jimmy Reed Vocals, Dave Scott piano

Hello All,

My, oh, my, what a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

The Apostle Paul tells us this in 2 Corinthians 10:5 …

• (2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV) We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.

Have you ever noticed how eager we are to examine and judge the thoughts, religions and philosophies of other people? Likely yes.

But have you ever noticed how reluctant we are to examine our own thoughts? Likely no. And why would we, I mean, we have all the answers, right? We are Christians and go to Bible-toting churches, we know we are right.

 “Hmm … Examine my thoughts? Novel idea.”

As Lee Corso would say on an ESPN broadcast, “Not so fast, my friend!”

Unless and until we are willing to bring our thoughts to obedience before Christ, how can we even think about insisting that other people do this? But we do. We believe what we believe and don’t tell me differently.

So then are we sharing our stuff and calling it God’s stuff, or are we actually sharing the truth of God?

“Know thyself. Really?”

Message Title: Ministry God’s Way – Truth Past This Room!

Message Text: 2 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Tennessee School Alumni Reunion
at
Faith Fellowship Church

102 West Jackson St, Tennessee, Ill.

 in the same location as the former

Tennessee United Methodist Church

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Potluck Meal at 12:45 PM

Coffee, Iced Tea and Water will be provided.

Please bring you own table service.

If you are not able to attend, 

please send information that can be read to

the group about you & your family 

and any memories of attending school at Tennessee

Also, please share the announcement with family and friends in case 

they would be interested but are not on our mailing list.

Communication using email is welcomed and encouraged.

Gerald and Mary Jane White      gerald@macomb.com

3514 N 600th Rd

Colchester, IL 62326

309-776-4592

Gerald and Karen Beck

Joyce Steiner    steiner@adams.net

☛ Faith Fellowship Church now has chair lifts on both stairways.

• You are welcome to attend services at Faith Fellowship Church Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
• Refrigerator, microwave, electrical outlets available in the basement of the church for your convenience.

Hello Everyone,

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC April 27 2014

Hello All,

This is a promotional for the Ten Year Celebration of White Prairie. This is a very interesting place to visit. Kerry and I plan to go back and take more friends this year.

Here is his promotional flier as a PDF:

• White Prairie Promo for 2014 Gerald White Events Calendar 042114

Hello Everyone,

Forgot to post earlier. Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC Easter Sunday April 20 2014

Spring Finally Here?

Military Memorabilia Display for Memorial Day:

• Janet Sowers is going to assemble a display and would like to have it installed by Friday May 16, so it will be ready to be shared on May 18 & 25. Your pictures, medals, hats, coins, any military related items, etc. are welcome. Please bring your items to the church on or before May 11. And please label your items with relevant information. Thanks.

Hello to You,

Had to take my sweatshirt off earlier. Getting a little warm. Oh yeah! Do a little grass cutting next week maybe. That’s what I’m talking about.

Anyway … on to “spiritual” things. 🙂

This week is what many regard as Palm Sunday. The event in the following text takes place several days before the crucifixion of Christ. They are celebrating what they believe to be their Savior and their salvation. The problem is that it seems many of the same people are just days later joining the masses and calling for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

• (Matthew 21:9 ESV) And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
•  As to “Hosanna to the Son of David,” it should be noted that “Hosanna” means “save now,” or “save, pray.” The attitude of the people toward God was perhaps about as follows: “We beseech thee, O Lord, save now, grant victory and prosperity at this time, since because of thy goodness the appropriate moment has arrived (MacArthur Study Bible).

Jesus knows this, thus his lament.

• (Matthew 23:37–39 ESV) ³⁷ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! ³⁸ See, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹ For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”

From the garden of Eden to this present day the same dynamic cycles through every generation of humans. God offers life as he intended and designed, but many people choose their own plan. And, not only do we choose our own plan, but we call it God’s plan.

In this week’s text, we will look at such a group. They chose their plan of salvation, and then they discover too late that they have missed the most important thing about salvation, that being – God saves only his way, only one way, only one plan, only one Savior.

There is only one plan that ends in life – God’s!

The tragic irony is that they did use the Bible to build their spiritual houses. They heard the words but didn’t do the words. When they read and studied, apparently they didn’t hear God speaking because they sifted and sorted until they found something to fit their plans. And if they couldn’t do it on their own, they found “teachers” to validate their choice.

But the person who hears God when he reads and studies doesn’t sift and sort. He obeys.

• Sift and sort: Build on sand.
• Hear and obey: Build on Rock.

Message Title:  “Lord, Lord, save me … My way!”

Message Text: Matthew 7:13-29

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Dave

Hello Everyone,

What a beautiful day! Maybe our warmest yet this year?

I can remember message planning, planning for Easter, etc. last year and thinking how far away April seemed. Not so.

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC April 13 2014