FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - March 18, 2007

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
March 18, 2007

Prayers and Praises for 2007

Be in prayer for: our missionaries, Marshall Craig, Larry Morgan, and Ed Potter; our church for this year; Joy, medical; Mike Rogers, medical (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma); Ben Campeau, recovery; Dan Campeau, recovery; Ron, traveling for work, returning the 22nd; Carolyn’s aunt, ill; Ruth’s Dad, surgery recuperation; Carol’s neighbor Eleanor, family; Lynn, unspoken and James, ill; Praise that Matt Campeau got a new job immediately; Praise for promotion for Jeremiah Tucker.

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”

Murphy’s Law of Computers
- As soon as you delete a worthless file, you'll need it.
- Installing a new program will always mess up at least one old one.
- You can't win them all, but you sure can lose them all.
- The likelihood of a hard disk crash is in direct proportion to the value of the material that hasn't been backed up.
- There are only two kinds of computer users: Those whose hard disks have crashed, and those whose hard disks haven't crashed - yet.
- Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it. If you fiddle with something long enough, you'll break it.

Today’s Sunday School Lesson

The Life of David
David’s Failures: The Cycles of Sin
II Samuel 24 and I Chronicles 21
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

Today’s Sermon

Philippians 3:15-20
The Weird and Wacky World of the Christian
“A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong in order to be right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.” A. W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

WORSHIP SERVICE

At the Cross p. 188

Scripture Reading

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 6:14)

In 1850, Fanny Crosby attended a revival meeting at New York’s Thirteenth Street Methodist Church. On November 20, as the altar call was given and the choir was singing the song we just sung, “At the Cross,” she went forward and accepted Christ as her Savior. A prolific poet, Fanny turned her attention to writing songs, one of which is the one below, “Near the Cross,” which was written in remembering the song that was sung when she was drawn “near the cross.”

Near the Cross p. 385

Easter Song p. 222

He Lives p. 220

Offering and Message: Link to Sermon

“If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me”