Please come and join us for our first quarterly emphasis – “In the Name of Jesus, Rise Up!”  We welcome Rev. Rickey Blythe, Director of Stewardship and Cooperative Program Promotion as he leads us for an entire day in the brief letter of Philemon.

Please remember our schedule is different during these special Sundays:

9:00-9:30 – church wide breakfast – **everyone please bring a dish to share**

9:30-10:15 – Large group Sunday school in Sanctuary

10:30-11:30 – Morning Worship

6:00pm – Evening Worship

Romans 12:1-2 – 12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers,by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship^{, 2} Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Do want to be conformed to world or transformed by Christ?

Conformed to world [systematizo] – to form or mold one’s behavior in accordance with a particular pattern or set of standards.

Transformed by Christ [metamorpho] – to change the essential form or nature of something.

This Sunday we will look at the Transformational Church ministry by Lifeway and be reminded that we have already been “transformed” by Christ, now we want to see the transformation realized throughout the ministries of the church.

Missionary Mindset…Vibrant Leadership…Relational Intentionality…Prayerful Dependence…Worship: Actively Embrace Jesus…Community: Connect People with People…Mission: Show Jesus through Word and Action

Come join us in the morning at Woodland Baptist Church as we spend the Sunday before Christmas remembering why we believe that Jesus Christ is the one true Messiah, savior of the world!

Multiple congregations members will be telling us about the ancient prophecies and how they were fulfilled by Christ and recorded in the New Testament.  It will be a very special day!

Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 6, 1-19

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, ² if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, ³ then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten,^[a] and plead urgently with your neighbor.  ⁴ Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber; ⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter like a bird from the hand of the fowler.  ⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.  ⁷ Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, ⁸ she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.  ⁹ How long will you lie there, O sluggard?   When will you arise from your sleep?  ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, ¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.  ¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, ¹³ winks with his eyes, signals^[c] with his feet, points with his finger,  ¹⁴ with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; ¹⁵ therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.  ¹⁶ There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,¹⁹ a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

All WBC members are invited to come tonight at 5:30pm and participate in the recital and food fellowship afterwards for Classical Conversations, a nationwide homeschooling community that specializes in helping to equip families how to teach their children in classical education at home.

http://www.classicalconversations.com/

You will have the opportunity to meet all the homeschool families’ children and parents and learn about the teaching methods this organizations offers families that have chosen to homeschool.  The presentation will last about an hour, then we will have the fellowship.

Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 5, 1-23

My son, be attentive to my wisdom;incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion,and your lips may guard knowledge.
³ For the lips of a forbidden^[a] woman drip honey,and her speech^[b] is smoother than oil, ⁴ but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,sharp as a two-edged sword.  ⁵ Her feet go down to death;her steps follow the path to^[c] Sheol; ⁶ she does not ponder the path of life;her ways wander, and she does not know it.

⁷ And now, O sons, listen to me,and do not depart from the words of my mouth.  ⁸ Keep your way far from her,and do not go near the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your honor to othersand your years to the merciless, ¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength,and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, ¹¹ and at the end of your life you groan,when your flesh and body are consumed, ¹² and you say, “How I hated discipline,and my heart despised reproof!  ¹³ I did not listen to the voice of my teachersor incline my ear to my instructors.  ¹⁴ I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”