• Bulletin June 29, 2025

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  • The Blind Hymn Writer

    The Blind Hymn Writer
    Most who read this will probably recognize these hymns:
    Blessed Assurance : To God Be the Glory
    He Hideth My Soul : I Am Thine, O Lord
    Jesus Is Tenderly Calling : All the Way My Savior Leads Me
    Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour : Praise Him! Praise Him!
    Rescue the Perishing : Safe in the Arms of Jesus
    Savior, More Than Life to Me : Tell Me the Story of Jesus
    All of these, plus over 8000 more, were written by one woman, Fanny J. Crosby!
    It is even thought that she employed nearly…

  • Somebody

    Somebody

    When you’re nobody the air feels different. You move between characters in
    motion, occupying the roles of our lives. You speak to them as to a wall that
    echoes. But really, in life’s brevity, is your presence too momentary for people to
    REALLY know you? Your practical priorities may not line up. Your visual style
    could offend. The message you’re sounding is not one that is HEARD. As
    christians, what etchings do we trace into our mortal design? Creation’s first
    intent manifested the Most Holy will of One.
    Scripture recalls God taking presence with man, “And they heard the sound…

  • Bulletin June 22, 2025

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  • Who is #1?

    Who is #1?

    What do we treasure most in life? Is it a person, our money, or our possessions?
    Who holds the number one position in our hearts? Is it really God?
    This country is so amazingly rich and filled with comfortable distractions. Our
    lives are easy in comparison to many places around the world. We can get in a
    car and drive wherever we want, eat what we want when we want. Do whatever
    we want to do for the most part. Then again, we don’t have to go anywhere, we
    can have everything delivered to our front door! Either…

  • Bulletin June 15, 2025

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  • Why Rome Fell

    Why Rome Fell

    In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
    observed that there were five basic reasons why that civilization withered and
    died. Here are the flaws that Gibbon listed:
    1. An undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home.
    2. A mad craze for pleasure, with pastimes becoming every year more
    exciting, brutal, and immoral.
    3. Decay of religion – faith fading into mere form.
    4. Higher and higher taxes with public money being spent for free bread and
    circuses for the populace.
    5. Building great armaments, although the real enemy was…

  • Bulletin June 8, 2025

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  • What Should be our Appeal?

    WHAT SHOULD BE OUR APPEAL? 
    (By Jefferson David Tant)

     

    Some four or five students from our local high school have been having some Bible studies with me. Some have come for weeks, but one had come only once. I asked her if she would be interested in studying some more. She replied that she preferred to go where they appealed more to young people. She was very respectful, but mentioned that some churches seek to relate to the younger generation. Another has come…

  • Bulletin June 1 , 2025

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  • The Narrow Way

    The Narrow Way

    Near the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus starts to wrap up His message
    with a warning: “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the
    way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow
    is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find
    it.” (Matthew 7:13-14)


    If this warning was not enough to grab your attention, just a few verses later he
    adds to it: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall…

  • The Peril of a Self-Focused Lens

    A recent review by the University of New South Wales in Australia calls attention to the danger of … taking selfies.

    The review, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, surveyed multiple studies in the U.S. and Australia of incidents in which people were injured or killed while taking pictures of themselves with their smartphones. The two most common causes: falling from heights and drowning. Some scenic locations have even implemented “no selfie zones,” physical barriers, signs, and social media warnings in hopes of preventing such accidents. The review concludes that…

  • 'Let Brotherly Love Continue'

    “Let brotherly love continue” (Hebrews 13:1). “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love” (Romans 12:10).

    In these verses, “brotherly love” (Gr. philadelphia, from philia, love + adelophos, brother) describes the warm affection and mutual concern that flows from a sense of kinship — in this case, our connection to one another as fellow children of God. As John wrote, “Whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him” (1 John 5:1).

    But sometimes brotherly love is hard. Why? Because our brothers and sisters are not always lovable! They…

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