FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - July 15, 2007

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
July 15, 2007

Prayers and Praises for 2007
Be in prayer for: our missionaries, Marshall Craig, Larry Morgan, and Ed Potter; our church for this year; Mike Rogers, medical (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma); Dan Campeau, surgery on hold for now; Ruth’s Aunt Laverne, recovery; Jackie’s daughter Elaine, health;; Bertha, continued recuperation; Nate, friend of Matt’s, job; Joy, continuing medical treatment; Dennis, Christie’s husband, job; Michael, unspoken; Rocky, medical; Owen Frisby, medical; Howard and Jo Alley, recent death of a friend; Lisa’s daughter in law Amy, recuperation; Terry Tucker, medical; Eleanor, Campeau’s neighbor; Leon and Martha, passing of Leon’s brother in law Ed; Lisa’s recuperation from her surgery; a friend of Dennis and Kathi
We need cleaning families for the remainder of the year. We do have them for the summer months now. The sign-up sheet is on the refrigerator in the back.

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”
Flu Prayer
A young boy called the pastor of a local "corner" church to ask the pastor to come by to pray for his mother who had been very ill with the flu. The pastor knew the family and was aware they had been attending another church down the road. So the pastor asked, "Shouldn't you be asking Brother Simon down the road to come by to pray with your mom?"
The young boy replied, "Yeah, but we didn't want to take the chance that he might catch whatever it is that Mom has."

Today’s Sunday School Lesson: The Life of Elisha: Gehazi’s Greed I Kings 5:19-27
Gehazi became greedy of what Naaman had offered to give Elisha. Evidently he justified his greed by reasoning that since Naaman was an Aramean, a natural enemy of Israel, he should at least be taken advantage of. His greed led to his downfall.

Today’s Sermon: A Quilting Party Gone Bad I Corinthians 1:1-17
We are elected, enriched and established in our Christian lives here in Colorado Springs, having the good fortune to live in a place of beauty with a large Christian presence and a great deal of prosperity and grace surrounding us, just in the scenery and climate alone. However, this also is a breeding ground for flaming carnality. God doesn’t ask each church to be a quilt of one pattern or color; He loves diversity, but the diverse parts of the quilt make up one whole. There can be no compromise on our essential “quiltness.”

WORSHIP SERVICE

As the Deer – Chorus
Great Is Thy Faithfulness p. 43
Scripture Reading: Psalm 23 – Reading #695
Surely Goodness and Mercy p. 45
God Is So Good p. 41
Offering and Message: Link to sermon
"Upon this Rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it"