Schedule of services for Faith Fellowship Church for July 17, 2022
Hi Everyone,
The good news is that we are going to have church this coming Sunday morning – July 17, 2022. We will not have prayer meeting on July 13 and we will not have evening service on July 17. We would also ask everyone to wear a mask coming into the church and to distance ourselves from one another when we are seated. We will probably have a small group so this should not be a problem.
Please keep praying for those who have tested positive for Covid. That list is Randy and Carol Pittman, Randy Coplan, John Turke, Donna Lantz and Kerry Scott. There are also others dealing with various bugs that are going around; thankfully not all Covid.
I will be preaching from Job 1 this Sunday morning. I believe this will be a blessing to us as we face the trials and challenges of the “new” world in which we live. And in this “new” world we must seek more than ever the wisdom of Scripture. For instance, if we are not paying close attention to the biblical instruction on meeting trials, then we might believe that these trials will shake us up, upend us, throw us off course. But James tells us something very different.
- (James 1:2–3 ESV) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
We are to count it all joy when we meet trials so that when our faith is tested it produces steadfastness. We certainly need steadfastness in this day and age in our lives, and we need to “be steadfast” for those around us. So let’s make sure we are asking God and believing God for wisdom to live by, to guide our course, to face our trials with joy and to become more and more steadfast in a world that is driven and tossed by the winds of change.
- (James 1:5–8 ESV) If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Facing our trials with joy we become anchors, ministers of the grace of God and beacons of hope for the people around us who doubt and are driven and tossed by the winds of change. What a great opportunity we have to bring praise, glory and honor to our Lord as we trust him during this difficult time.
So let’s seek and live by God’s wisdom and watch as he makes us strong and courageous, and we will be strength and courage to those around us.
In the Love of Jesus Son of God,
Pastor Dave