Calvary Independent Baptist Church

We would like to say a special thanks to everyone who attended services this weekend.

Sunday morning’s service included a message from John 17:1-21 that focused on the subject of “Washed and Ready.” If you are saved, you have certainly been washed, but are you ready? The Bible tells us in Ephesians 5:25-27 that Jesus loves the church and gave himself for it. But it goes on to say that he wants to present it as a glorious church without spot or wrinkle.

At times, Christians have gotten used to having sin in their lives and do not want others to judge them because of their spots and wrinkles. Christ wants to get the spots and wrinkles out, and if we allow him to help us get the bad things out, we quickly learn that it is so that he can get the better things in. We should be ready, ready for a purposed ministry that others might hear about Jesus and want to live a Christian life. We should be ready for people, not only to be that witness for salvation, but ready to be that encourager to help the saved in their Christian walk. We should be ready for a mission that has been prepared by God the Father and made available through Jesus Christ the Son.

We hope you have been washed and are ready, saved and serving in whatever God has prepared you for.

Sunday night’s service included a message from Titus 2:11-15 titled “Saved, But Now What?” That same unmerited grace that saves us also is teaching us how we are to live as Christians. We are saved by the grace of God, and now we are being taught by the grace of God. We are to not only have redemption but also purification and sanctification: purification through the process of purging some things out and sanctification through the fact that we are to be a peculiar people, zealous of good works. We are special, unique in our own way and created unto a purpose that God has been preparing us for. We hope you have found your purpose and are faithfully attending a Bible-believing church near you. If not, we pray that you will consider visiting with us this Sunday.

Cedar Grove Baptist Church

Praise the Lord!

Special music was performed by the Cedar Grove choir, Lauren Wyatt and Bro. Stony. We were glad to have our visitors and welcome each and every one back.

We had an awesome Holy Spirit-anointed service again today. God is good, all the time.

Pastor Bro. Jeff Carroll’s text came from 1 Corinthians 2:1- 16 “Spiritual Answers.”

The Christian revelation owes nothing to human wisdom. We would be foolish to attempt to stand on the wisdom of men for spiritual leadership or growth. We must have a relationship with Jesus to receive the wisdom and power of God.

God is real! There are some things of God some of us as humans will never get because we are separated from God, relying on man instead of God. It takes understanding the fundamental foundation of the world. How could we see the miracles of God and still crucify him? People generally do not want to hear from God; they want to hear from the world or their own idea of wisdom.

We can never receive the wisdom of God through our natural state, but only through receiving the Holy Ghost our Comforter, by being born again and receiving Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. We know our flesh spirit, but again we cannot obtain spiritual wisdom without God giving it to us through the Holy Spirit of Christ; then and only then will we be able to have access to the throne of grace. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.

Love to all have a blessed week.

Prayer concerns: Earl Giles, Sandra Carroll, Billy Caton, Mike Robinson and family, Renee Cleckley, Kip Cleckley, Janet Wyatt, Pastor Bro. Jeff Carroll, those in the hospitals and nursing homes, spoken and unspoken requests, and Sherrill and Sid Godbee.