This week at Freedom

No Meet, Eat and Greet meeting tonight; we will schedule our next meeting soon to continue our discussions on church membership. We will meet Thursday night for our Thinking Like a Christian study, continuing our discussion on Economics

Tonight's Bible Study at Freedom

We resume our Thursday night bible study on Christian Worldview "Thinking Like a Christian tonight at 7pm. The subject will be Politics. As James Madison said, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern man, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Tonight at 7pm

The Tuesday night meet, eat and greet group, (the younger adults of the church) will meet again on Tuesday night August 11 after Ruth returns from her trip to see her Dad. We will eat (of course) and begin a discussion on the whys and wherefores of church membership. Why is there such a thing as church membership? Is it necessary or important? What does this church essentially believe? These questions and many others have not been asked for a long time so we hope to not only come up with many questions to ask but also have intelligent and insightful answers. Anyone can come and ask any questions they have about church beliefs, practices, what other churches do and why they do it, etc. This group of younger people is the future of the church (this church and any other church they become involved in) and they are important. Their questions deserve to be asked and answered and they deserve our respect. After all, we’re not getting any younger! If you already have some questions in mind send them to Greg so he can prepare.

This Thursday July 16

We will meet tomorrow night for the contination of our study "Thinking Like a Christian," now on the subject of "Sociology." We have been on hiatus for a few weeks since my grandkids were visiting but we will begin again tomorrow night. I have a meeting at work that may last until 630pm so I may be running a little late but I'll get there as soon as I can. Be in prayer for one another in all things as we strive to be a comfort and blessing to our brothers and sisters in all that they are going through. May the Lord bless you real good

4th of July Worship Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the last Sunday before the 4th of July so we will be singing patriotic songs during our worship service. It is still important for us to sing these songs at this time of year to remember our country for what it was, what it is and what it still can be. Some are disappointed with it while some are happy with it and those emotions have swung like a pendulum throughout our long and tumultuous history. Regardless of recent events, this is still the country in which we are called to live our relationship with Christ and to sing about freedom, grace and truth is still something we ought to do. His truth is marching on, His grace continues to shine upon us, it's still our sweet land of liberty, the flag still stands for freedom and we really need God to bless America! This does not mean we approve of everything about her, but she's all we've got, so let's spread the news across the fruited plain, from every mountain side, of thee I sing! And if God chooses to judge and not bless us either now or later, He's still our King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and as always we ought to obey God rather than men!

Our upcoming schedule for our “Thinking Like a Christian” midweek Bible study: we will meet tomorrow night Thursday the 25th at 7pm. It will be meet the Chandler grandkids night as they will be in from Alaska. We will then not meet again until Wednesday night July 15^th

We will not have our study tonight on Thinking Like a Christian but will resume next Wednesday night at 7pm. Too many scheduling conflicts with the onset of summer but we'll get it going again next week with the section on "Ethics." See you then