FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - January 28, 2007

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
January 28, 2007

Prayer Requests:

Our prayer request list started fresh in January. Be in prayer for: our missionaries, Marshall Craig, Larry Morgan, and Ed Potter; our church for this year; Joy, medical; the Ness family; Mike Rogers, medical; grandfather of carpool friend of Maria and Travis, medical;

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”

Bell call
The scene: Alexander Graham Bell's laboratory. An exciting new discovery is about to take place. In the next room sits Bell's assistant, a man named Watson, hard at work on Bell's new invention to transmit sound over wires. As Mr. Watson toiled away in the room with the receiver, it suddenly rings -- it must be Bell! He picks it up and hears "Good evening, sir. Are you paying too much for your long distance service?"

Today’s Sunday School Lesson:

The Life of David
II Samuel 19-20 The Return of the King and other continuing dramas

Today’s Sermon:

Humility: The Passage to Joy
Philippians 2:1-11
Paul loves them dearly for their gift to him, and wants them to continue their spiritual growth. He shared with them his anxiety and burden about dying and rejoiced that his trial is helping others and causing the gospel to spread. He knows to live is Christ: not just part of his life, but all of his life. To die is gain: he has decided that it is God’s will that he remain to minister to them. He exhorts them to live within the limits of the gospel they have received, and do it to stand firm in one Spirit, so that they can withstand the opposition. He now develops the theme of humility and joy in suffering in the 2nd chapter with the example of Jesus Christ as the supreme example of the right mind-set we are to have in this life. The humility of Christ is the passage to joy for all of us.

“You don’t have to be afraid of praising God too much; unlike humans He never gets a big head.”
“Praise is almost the only thing we do on earth that we shall not cease to do in heaven.”
“It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.”

WORSHIP SERVICE:
Lisa is gone today, so we are doing karaoke worship

Praise Him! Praise Him! p. 106
3 verses

Come Ye Sinners p. 334
3 verses

Scripture Reading:

Give ear to my words, O LORD. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up. Psalm 5:1-3

Step by Step (See bulletin) Chorus

Victory in Jesus p. 473
3 verses

Offering and Message: Link to Sermon

"The Truth Shall Set You Free"

"As the deer pants for the water, so pants my soul after thee, O God"