Everyone, please come join us tomorrow for a very important day in the life of our church as we will worship for the first time since the SCOTUS decision that will forever redefine marriage in America.  Originally, we would be in the gospel of John, but after prayer and seeing the tidal wave of social media engagement over the issue, I was convinced that the decision needs to be addressed from the pulpit.

Also please remember that there are several other important things happening tomorrow.

1. Brotherhood Breakfast – 7:45am – prayer, breakfast, Scripture and fellowship for the men and their sons.
2. Attendance Goals – The last Sunday in 2nd Quarter – help us make our attendance goals – 140 Sunday School, 190/Worship.
3. “One Can Sunday” – food pantry re-stocking drive ends for the month – we will bring our food offerings to the altar and pray over their use in our community.
4. World Changers Celebration PM Worship – Sunday night we will celebrate World Changers Construction Ministry that happened this past week – so come and see the great ministry that happened!

Come join us this Sunday night for a time of fellowship after evening worship.  Our pastor will give us a report about the Southern Baptist Convention that met in Columbus, Ohio and then we will eat together.

Be sure and bring a food items and desserts and the church supplies the drinks.

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, ² that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. ³ Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

THE PROMISE OF MULTI-GENERATIONAL FAITHFULNESS FOR BELIEF AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” ² At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. ³ And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. ⁴ Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. ⁵ From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings^[a] and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, ⁶ and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

Session 8 Revelation 4

²⁶ When Joab came out from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it. ²⁷ And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. ²⁸ Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. ²⁹ May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!” ³⁰ So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.