FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - May 2009May CelebrationsLinda Olsen, 5th; Beth Griffith, 8th; Matt Heald, 20th; Annie (Motzkus) Sjolund, 21st; Leon and Martha Osban, 27th; Greg and Ruth Chandler, 27th; Matt Campeau, 29th
Pew ProjectWe can continue to receive freewill offerings for the pews if you have not had a chance to give yet. We can receive your offering until the time that we start selling the cookbook. We need 1182.50 for the balance. (Total cost for the pews was 4282.50)
Cookbook ProjectWe are currently receiving recipes for the new church cookbook as a fundraiser for the pews. With the completion of the pews we can proceed with getting the cookbook info together.
Sunrise Church will host another jazz concert this summer. It is scheduled for June 12. The tickets will be $15/ea group rate. More information will follow
We are ready to send another box to Vicki in Iraq. We need coffee, powdered creamer and beef jerky. The coffee and creamer must fit in a 5” deep box, so small cans or bags are needed.
Father’s Day is June 21; Greg and Ruth will be gone to Alaska from June 15 to June 26 and therefore gone for the 21st
- We will have a representative from the Gideons Sunday June 28
Prayer Requests for May 2009- Daughter in law of Joy, Shawna, chemo, improving
- Shawna’s mother, illness
- Friend of Joy, Brian Maecker, wife’s illness
- Joy’s grandson Matthew, job
- Ed Griffith, job and diabetes treatment
- Vicki Burshia (Peterson), Iraq
- Beth Griffith’s aunt, health
- Carolyn, unspoken
- Ruth’s Uncle Wardell and family, passed away
- Tim and Christa’s friend Derek, job and family
- Darrel and Carolyn grandson Josh, military
- Matt Gamm, friend of Olsen’s, auto accident
- Carol’s neighbor Eleanor, health Ruth’s dad, diagnosed with Parkinson’s
- Dennis’ sister Debbie, surgery recuperation
- Lynn, liver illness
- Jerry and Linda Teske, missionaries, moving to CO
- Carol, unspoken
- Joy, recuperating from fall
- Bob and Bertie son Rick, job; and unspoken
- Martha, passing of cousin in TX
- Campeau’s and Ruth, traveling
May 3, 2009’s SermonThe Life of Moses: Taking Unnecessary Risks Numbers 10-14
God gave His Word to them in written form on Sinai. We studied the Decalogue and highlighted the intricate instructions that God gave Israel for the tabernacle and the other ceremonial aspects of the Law. This instruction extended from Exodus 21-31.
After the failure of the Golden Calf and God’s judgment on those that worshiped it, the worship of the Lord was reconfirmed. They constructed the tabernacle per His instructions and began the journey to the Promised Land. They had the tablets and the ark and also a new respect for the Lord as they begin their 2nd year.
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May 10, 2009’s SermonThe Life of Moses: Passing the Torch to Joshua Numbers 20 and 27
The risky business of resentment by the Israelites eventually provoked God to the extent that He judged the current generation in the land. While in only the 2nd year of their 40 year wilderness journey, God pronounced judgment on them because of their resentment against God.
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May 17, 2009’s SermonThe Life of Moses
(We are closing our study of Moses)
Obituary of a Leader: Deuteronomy 34
The Lord shows Moses all of the Promised Land, and Moses died (34:5). He died alone; He died secure; He died in God's timetable; He died without bitterness, regret or self-pity
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May 24, 2009’s SermonYou don’t have leave your brains at the door to become a Christian
I Cor.2:14 “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Faith is more than “you ask me how I know He lives; He lives within my heart;” the Spirit of God uses intellectual enlightenment through reasonable explanations of God.
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May 31, 2009’s SermonIf God Exists, He Can Be Known
There are many arguments for the existence of God, most of them valid and quite powerful. However, because we are sinners and cut off from immediate communion with God we need something more than good arguments. What we need is for God to reveal Himself to us. This is exactly what He has done.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalm 8:3-4
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