Everyone, just wanted you to know that we purchased a “Mega Resource Pack” from the Creation Ministries International book table and will make it available to you to check out at your convenience.  It is a great pack with 7 DVDs and 13 books designed to help us think more correctly about Biblical Creation, equipping us to push back against the tidal wave of evolutionary teaching in our culture.  There are resources for all ages, so if you are interested please call the church office.  A list of the resources are below:

• The Creation Answers Book
• Creation without Compromise
• Refuting Evolution 2 Volumes
• Answer to the Big 4 Questions
• 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History
• The Genesis Flood
• Skeptics Vs. Creationists – A Formal Debate
• Stones and Bones
• By Design:  Evidence for Nature’s Intelligent Designer – the God of the Bible
• Please Nana…What is Death?
• Please Nana…Who is God?
• Creation:  Key to the Dynamic
• Clash Over Origins
• Dinosaurs & the Bible
• From a Frog to a Prince
• The Age of the Earth
• The Image of God
• Artistic Ape Anecdotes

“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. ⁹ Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Everyone please come and join us at Woodland Baptist Church this Sunday, March 24th, for our first Creation Conference with Creation Ministries International.  We will meet for group Sunday school at 9:30am and worship in the sanctuary at 10:30 and hear from Scott Gillis as he discusses questions involving Creation and Evolution and the dinosaurs.

This will be one of the most interesting conferences we have had at Woodland Baptist, so please make plans to attend!

Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. ¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them:

“You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; ²⁰ how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, ²¹ testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. ²² And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained b^y the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, ²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. ²⁴ But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. ²⁵ And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. ²⁶ Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, ²⁷ for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. ²⁸ Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. ²⁹ I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; ³⁰ and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. ³² And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. ³³ I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. ³⁵ In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

³⁶ And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. ³⁷ And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, ³⁸ being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

Everyone, please make sure and come this Sunday night to hear the Christian testimonies of one of our newly ordained deacons, Ben Hurt and his wife, Tara.

Most of you know them as they are multi-generational members of Woodland, have four beautiful children, involved Grandparents, and personally connected to the greater community.  Ben owns his own computer technology business, HurtTech, and Tara is a professor at East Mississippi Community College.

Please come and be encouraged as you hear from two very normal people that were changed into extraordinary servants of God.

(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) ¹⁶ Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. ¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.   Pew Notes John 1, 14-18, The Word Became Flesh, Part 2