Bro. Brad is sick with shingles and they are very contagious, so activities this week will be canceled.  Please pray for Brad and his family.

**Canceled**Tuesday, June 19th – Kidz Bowling – Columbus Airforce Base, 10:00 – 12:00pm

Be at the church at 9:30 to ride the van to the base

Bring $3.00, lunch provided

**Canceled**Thursday, June 21st – Youth Bowling – Columbus Airforce Base, 10:00-3:00pm

Bring $8.00, lunch provided

**Be at the church at 9:30 to ride the van**

Questions???

Contact Brad – 662-327-6689, brad@woodlandonline.org, 662-574-4363

Malachi 4:5-6 – “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. ⁶ And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

This Sunday in morning worship we will have three baby dedications followed by a message in God’s Word from John 3 and Ephesians 5, entitled “Are You Leading Your Family toward Heaven or Hell?”  The message is designed to encourage our men to evaluate their spiritual lives as leaders and determine through self evaluation by the Word of God, first, if they are indeed in the faith, and second, are they fulfilling their call as Christian men in their homes and communities?

Very different pictures aren’t they?  I chose them for a specific purpose…to make us men THINK.  Very rarely do we see how we look when we speak to our children and wives.  Which of these pictures characterizes us more?  Hopefully the one on the right!

For PM worship we will have a time of reflection on our trip to Central Hills Camp complete with pictures and funny stories with our children and a time of Scripture Reading and prayer for the families in our churches.  Please come prepared to read a Scripture pertaining to the rearing of children and how precious they are to us and to the Lord.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY – here is an great video for your encouragement – it will be shown in AM worship.

Acts 17, 1-9, Against the Decrees of Caesar

Paul and Silas leave Philippi and travel through several cities, finally arriving at Thessalonica.  Paul realizes there is a synagogue there, so he goes in and preaches the gospel to the Jews and other God fearing Gentiles for three Sabbaths.

During his time he “reasons with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

After Paul’s exposition of the Old Testament Scriptures, the synagogue erupts in a predictable way…rejection by some…conversion by some.  The unbelieving Jews become jealous and provoke some local “loiterers in the market place” to stir up mob violence against Paul and Silas’ followers.

Paul’s followers, Jason, and the other brothers, are accused of “teaching against the decrees of Caesar.” The mob goes to Jason’s home and drags them out before the magistrates and made to produce extortion money while Paul and Silas leave the area under threat of arrest.  Could our America be headed down the same path?

Come tonight as we walk through the Scriptures together and try our best to prepare ourselves for what is coming and already here, in our own culture, very soon.

When Are We Going to Grow Up? The Juvenilization of American Christianity

Illustration by Paul Kissele