We will always remember Isabell Riggs and hold her in our hearts.
She went to be with Jesus on Saturday July 15 2017, entering her eternal home and standing in the presence of her Saviour.
Our thoughts and prayers are with her loving family and all her friends.
Notes from Sunday's service. (Thanks, Jean)
Dr. Barclay-Something to Think About
Theme: The devil is out to lie and deceive. God is faithful what he says he means and will do.
Genesis 3:1-13 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LordGod had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
In the garden the devil took on the form of a snake, planting doubts in the mind of Eve to undermine God. The devil does the same to us today. “Did God really mean what he said?” Satan always tries to plant doubts in the minds of the believers. Satan has deceived the whole world, we see written in Revelation 12:9. Believers can be deceived easily. Sometimes even the church has deceived people. Some people have been deceived into thinking they can say the sinners prayer and then be off the hook and free to live their life as they choose from then on. In the book of Joshua we read we are to mediate on the law day in and day out.
Joshua 1:8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Psalm 1:2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
and who meditates on his law day and night.
Over time we as Christians have made things too easy on ourselves and compromised too much.
--Is there really an eternity?, are there really consequences?
Did God really mean what he said? Yes he did!!!
Rev. Steve Webb- Theme: We must be bold and courageous and not afraid to tell the Gospel.
Matthew 9:35-38 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Jesus spent time teaching the people the love of God having compassion on them and healing them of their various sicknesses. What these people were searching for was right there in front of them all along, and yet still some failed to see he was the one they were needing and waiting for. As we go out into the world teaching people the kingdom of God is at hand. We must realize there will be people out there who do not want to hear our message and do not want us to preach it and will be in opposition to it. But we must not fear or be discouraged, because some one out there- we may never know who, needs to hear about the love of God. Many people in the world today are being imprisoned and killed for their commitment to Christ.
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Jesus did not just stay in the synagogue he went out among the people, in their villages on the mountainside- he went to where the people were. The world is ripe for harvest right in front to us, that is why we must tell the gospel whenever possible.
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