FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - February 2010

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - February 2010

February Celebrations: Eddie Olsen, 6th, Richard and Joann Motzkus, 11th, Ben Campeau, 13th, Joy Sunderland, 14th, Vicky Burschia, 16th, Michael Eells, 17th, Melody Tucker, 28th

Church News
Please be in prayer for Brother Marshall Craig and Brother Mike Rogers; Bro Craig is in assisted living; the most recent letter from Sister Craig is on the bulletin board in the library
For Mike, he is undergoing chemotherapy; you can help Mike by visiting the transplants.org website to make a donation to the National Foundation for Transplants in Mike’s honor. The letter is posted in the library for the web address and procedures.
We heard from Mike and he is doing well. He is home and renewing his activities.
We thank Richard for the new outside light over the sign; he donated and installed it
We can get a real good deal on new blinds for the main windows in the auditorium. They would match the blinds on the interior windows.

Prayer Requests for 2010

• Shawna’s mother, illness getting worse
• Ruth’s dad, Parkinson’s
• Darrel and Carolyn’s grandson Josh and family
• Lynn, Medical Tests
• Lynn’s daughter Christie father in law, illness
• Lynn’s brother Wayne, illness
• Lynn, health issues
• Lynn’s friend Pat, job
• Joy, recuperation from surgery
• Joy’s Shawna, traveling to mother in hospice
• Joy’s Matthew, job; had interview
• David Jenkins’ brother Rich, cancer treatment
• David Jenkins, surgery recuperation
• Mike Rogers, recuperation at home
• Missionary Marshall Craig, hospitalized/assisted living
• Bertie’s sister-in-law, cancer treatment
• Jenny Peterson, friend of Carolyn, healing
• Unspoken for Lynn’s grandson
• Martha’s cousin, passing
• Jeff’s family, Flying W employee, loss of parents
• Mike Zwerlin, friend of Lisa, recent passing from illness
• Christa’s aunt, fire/property damage
• Carlton’s niece Patricia, cancer
• Chris, co-worker of Shannon
• Heidi, friend of Campeau’s, her friends
• Bob Mahan, recovery from pneumonia
• Nate & Annka, Matt's Friends, expecting

February 7, 2010's Sermon

From Malachi to the Messiah: The Time Between the Testaments

• There was 400 years from the final events of the Old Testament from Nehemiah 13:4-30 and the final prophecy of Malachi in appx 424BC
• The next event in Scripture is Luke 1:5-25, the census declared by Caesar Augustus
• Nebuchadnezzar’s vision – Babylon to Persia, Persia to Greece, Greece to Rome, from Rome to the Antichrist and the return of the Lord Daniel 2, 7 and 8
• Antiochus Epiphanes’ desecration of the temple and the rededication of the temple
• The completion of the Old Testament by the scribes and experts of the Law from the post-exilic period and the translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek
• The rise of “myopic legalism” as a reaction to the secularization of Hellenism
• The fall of the priesthood into political rule and corruption

February 14, 2010's Sermon

From Malachi to the Messiah: The Time Between the Testaments

• The Spiritual Condition of the people – “myopic legalism”
• The Rise of the Synagogue and the Oral Traditions
• The Old Testament and the Septuagint (Greek translation of the OT)
• The Romans and the Herods
• The Birth of Jesus-the beginning of the Gospel