Freedom Baptist Church: March 2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - Palm Sunday March 16, 2008

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
Palm Sunday March 16, 2008

Church Items
We appreciate Joy getting the fire extinguishers charged and up to date.Greg and Ruth will be gone Sunday April 13th for a trip to Alaska, Lord willing.Updated church histories and membership ship lists are available.We will rotate the staple food items for any needy families that we help as you bring new items to replenish as the expiration dates of items occur.March Birthdays and Anniversaries: Lisa Heald, 10th; Esther Hargrove, 12th; Meghan Griffith, 15th; Hubert and Esther Hargrove, 14th; Danny Griffith, 19th; Lynn Eells, 22nd

Prayer Requests for 2008

Ben Woolard and Woolard family, illness
Dan Campeau, health
Joy, health and recuperation
Bertha, health
Bertie, recovery from illness, unspoken
Christie and Caitlin
Ed – praise for job
Heidi, job
Martha’s friend Ann Dickey, daughters, surgery and car accident, Ann’s husband illness
Mitchell, health
Carolyn, friends
Lynn, unspoken
Ron, Dennis and Johnie, traveling
Ben Campeau, broken foot

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”

Have You Seen This? I had trouble with the idea of turning 30 and was oversensitive to any signs of advancing age. When I found a prominent gray hair in my bangs, I pointed to my forehead and asked my husband, "Oh no, have you seen this?" "What?" he asked.
"The wrinkles?"

Today’s Sunday School Lesson

New Testament Postcards - I John 5:6-8

We believe in Jesus as the Son of God. Who is He? He is truth, and faith in Him is what brings the victory, not faith by itself. “Water” and “blood” were historical realities related to Jesus in His baptism and death.

Today’s Sermon

I Corinthians 15:29-34 Live for Today, for Tomorrow We Rise!Christ’s resurrection connects to our resurrection. Our destiny is wrapped up in the destiny of Christ. Since His life had purpose, so also does ours. Since part of His life’s purpose was to suffer, so also is ours. Since His purpose was to rise again; so also will we rise again. If there is no resurrection from the dead, why fight? Why not “live for today for tomorrow we die?” We live for today, for tomorrow we rise.

WORSHIP SERVICE

Here I Am to Worship (see bulletin)

He Is Lord p. 105

Scripture Reading -Responsive Reading #638: The Triumphal Entry

I Stand in Awe (see bulletin)

When I Survey – p. 185 and new chorus

He Lives p. 220

Offering and Offertory

Message (link to sermon)

The Truth Shall Set You Free

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - March 9, 2008

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
March 9, 2008

Church Items
We need to have the 2 fire extinguishers recharged. They are currently out of date.Greg and Ruth meet with the young people one evening a week for discussion.Greg and Ruth will be gone Sunday April 13th for a trip to Alaska, Lord willing.Daylight Saving Time began this morning. You should have moved your clocks ahead 1 hour. DST will end November 2.Updated church histories and membership ship lists are available.We will rotate the staple food items for any needy families that we help. We will need to keep this replenished as the expiration dates of items occur.March Birthdays and Anniversaries: Lisa Heald, 10th; Esther Hargrove, 12th; Meghan Griffith, 15th; Hubert and Esther Hargrove, 14th; Danny Griffith, 19th; Lynn Eells, 22nd

Prayer Requests for 2008

Ben Woolard and Woolard family, illness
Dan Campeau, health
Joy, health and recuperation
Bertha, health
Bertie, recovery from illness, unspoken
Christie and Caitlin
Ed – praise for job
Heidi, job
Martha’s friend Ann Dickey, daughters, surgery and car accident, Ann’s husband illness
Mitchell, health
Carolyn, friends
Lynn, unspoken
Ron, Dennis and Johnie, traveling
Ben Campeau, broken foot

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”

The Right Prescription: An old man strode in to his doctors office and said, "Doc, my druggist said to tell you to change my prescription and to check the prescription you've been giving to Mrs. Smith." "Oh, he did, did he?" the doctor shot back. "And since when does a druggist second guess a doctor's orders?" The old man says, "Since he found out I've been on birth control pills since February."

Today’s Sunday School Lesson

New Testament Postcards - I John 5:4-5

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Today’s Sermon

I Corinthians 15:20-28 - The Assurance of the Resurrection

If you accept the clarion call of Christ’s resurrection, rejoice! You, like the Lord Jesus, will be raised to live forever in God’s presence. Do not turn a deaf ear to good news. Taste and see that the Lord is good.

WORSHIP SERVICE

Worship Christ the Risen King p. 225

Awesome God (see bulletin)

Scripture Reading

For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.I Cor. 2:2

Lead Me to Calvary p. 176

Amazing Love (see bulletin)

All Heaven Declares (see bulletin)

Offering and Offertory

Message (link to sermon)

The Truth Shall Set You Free

Sunday, March 2, 2008

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - March 2, 2008

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
March 2, 2008
Church Items
We would like to have some staple food items here at the church that we can put into a box for any needy that come by. We would only keep one box on hand and when it is given out we will replenish it.
Easter is coming up March 23rd; we begin our Easter worship songs today.
FYI - Greg and Ruth meet with the young people one evening a week for discussion.
Greg and Ruth will be gone Sunday April 13th for a trip to Alaska, Lord willing.
Daylight Saving Time begins next Sunday, March 09, 2008 and ends Sunday, November 02, 2008 this year. It begins Sunday, March 08, 2009 and ends Sunday, November 01, 2009 next year.
We have welcomed Johnie and Jackie Jackson in the membership of our church. If you were not here last week to welcome them, be sure you do so today.
March Birthdays and Anniversaries: Lisa Heald, 10th; Esther Hargrove, 12th; Meghan Griffith, 15th; Hubert and Esther Hargrove, 14th; Danny Griffith, 19th; Lynn Eells, 22nd
Prayer Requests for 2008

Missionaries - Marshall Craig, Ed Potter and Larry Morgan
Dan Campeau, health
Joy Sunderland, health and recuperation
Bertha Cox, health
Bertie, recovery from illness, unspoken
Christie and Caitlin
Ed, IT job, praise Ed starts soon
Heidi, job
Martha’s friend Ann Dickey, daughters, surgery and car accident, Ann’s husband illness
Mitchell, health
Carolyn, friends
Lynn, unspoken
Ben Woolard & family, Ben's pain control

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”
Blind Date: After being with his blind date all evening, the man couldn't take another minute with her. Earlier, he had secretly arranged to have a friend call him to the phone so he would have an excuse to leave if something like this happened. When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a grim expression and said, "I have some bad news. My grandfather just died." "Thank goodness," his date replied. "If yours hadn't, mine would have had to!"
Today’s Sunday School Lesson
New Testament Postcards - I John 5:1-5, We are loved by God who is love and we fellowship in His love. His character lives out in us and we love one another, we obey God, and we overcome “the world.” What is “the world”? It is the spirit of the antichrist in all manner of false teachings and false teachers. The world is displayed when we say we love God while we hate each other; when we are full of disobedience; or when we are guilty of false doctrine. We were saved (born of God) by faith, and therefore everything else related to the Christian life is based on faith. Faith overcomes all.
Today’s Sermon
I Corinthians 15:12-19, The Necessity of the Resurrection: Paul causes us to ask a disturbing question: what if the resurrection was not true? The Corinthian believers were fading in their faith on the Resurrection of Christ and their own resurrection from the dead. The very idea of eternal life was in doubt. The resulting chaos was well-documented within the life of the Corinthian church itself, a chaos that will always result if there is no belief in the reality of the Resurrection.

WORSHIP SERVICE

At Calvary p. 338
Scripture Reading
"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:14-16
Are You Washed in the Blood p. 190
The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus p. 212
Offering and Offertory
Message (link to sermon)

"The Truth Shall Set You Free"

Location & Times

Freedom Baptist Church
312 Auburn Drive
At the intersection of Boulder and Auburn, 2 blocks west of the car dealership from Academy and Boulder
In the storefront under the green sign
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
Sunday School 9:00 - 9:45am
Worship Service 10:00
Pastor Greg A. Chandler
A local church that is Baptist in doctrine and unaffiliated with any national denomination. We have been worshiping the Lord since our forming in 1988. Some of our members have fellowshiped in this and a previous church for over 50 years. We are families who have come together to try to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. We support 3 missionaries and try to help as many as we can while pursuing our prime directive as a church to teach the gospel and train followers of Christ. We welcome the utilization of the best translations of the Bible (we are not KJV-only) by each individual believer since each believer has the right to choose for himself in the freedom with which Christ has given.

Announcements

Our music CDs:
The Music of Heaven, sung by Pastor Greg Chandler and church pianist extraordinaire Lisa Heald is now available. Pastor Greg and Lisa have recorded some favorite songs as we anticipate our eternal home in heaven. What a day of rejoicing that will be!
Other CD's:
FBC - Celebrating the Resurrection
FBC - Celebrating Our Independence
FBC - Celebrating His Birth
We also produce our Sunday Worship Services on CD.
If you would like a copy of any CD we produce, please email us your request including your name and mailing information so we can send it out.

We also have church cookbooks available with our favorite recipes from the great cooks of our church. If you're a Baptist church it's in the Statement of Faith that you have to have a lot of potlucks, and therefore you have great cooks.

Greg's Little Sayings

Church is on Sunday morning because of Saturday night
I'm doing the work of 3 men - Larry, Moe and Curly!
Most church folks don't mind having the wool pulled over their eyes, but they do mind getting fleeced! Courtesy Dennis Craig
This faith ministry is going down the tubes if you don't give!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Prophet's Meeting is cancelled tonight (Huh?)
If you let the dogs out, don't complain about the barking!
I saw a bumper sticker, “Nature is my church.” I guess he can’t get along with other folks
Those that blame God for suffering acknowledge there is a power greater than themselves; at least they're not atheists
On church arguments - it's always about control
Church is no more than a handrail on a set of stairs! Courtesy Johnie Jackson
We're not the worst church you'll ever attend!
Ya gotta dance with the lady what brung ya!
When in doubt, sing!
If you’re feeling down and faithless, wait three days, you’ll feel better; in the meantime, clean something, at least you’ll be doing something good
It’s not just what you believe that matters; it’s how you hold what you believe
Humility: if you have to advertise it, you ain’t got it
When you’ve done all you can, have faith; oh, no, has it come to that?