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FAMILY MEETING

Re-Lit

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Community Group Training Day

C.S. Lewis on Friendship

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”- C.S. Lewis

THIS SUNDAY-The Church in Joplin

This week we are joined by people from Life Point Church in Ozark, MO. one of our supporting churches. Pastor Lane Harrison will be speaking to the Church in Joplin. They are bringing their band, some members and much excitement. Join us for a great time with friends and family from another city.

FINANCIAL FORUM - THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday 10am-12pm at the Inge's Home: 1002 Country Side Dr. Everyone is welcome.

Poem on Friendship

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs,
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
I fancied he was fled,
And, after many a year,
Glowed unexhausted kindliness
Like daily sunrise there.
My careful heart was free again, —
O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched,
Through thee the rose is red,
All things through thee take nobler form,
And look beyond the earth,
And is the mill-round of our fate
A sun-path in thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coming in August - The Mission of Mystery

Wise and Foolish Men

I think what I would say to a young man, is that there are categories he needs to familiarize himself with from Scripture. Two would be categories revealed particularly in Proverbs – the wise and the foolish. And I would want any young man (and this has broader application for all of us, but particularly for a young man) to familiarize himself with those two categories.

Those are the only two categories that exist. There are no other categories from God’s perspective. One either identifies with the wise or the foolish. Proverbs is a wealth of wisdom given by God as a gift from God to that age group in particular — to protect them from walking with fools, from being a fool, and from experiencing the consequences of being a fool.

Taken from an interview with C.J. Mahaney on The Shepherds Scrapbook

This Sunday- Proverbs: Friends

Gladness

We must serve the Lord with gladness (Psalm 100:2). We are not simply given the charge to be faithful, but also be joyful. How are you doing with enjoying God?

BLOCK PARTY TOMORROW

MYSTERY BLOCK PARTY
TOMORROW 5PM
MEMORIAL PARK
Webb City. Bring a Guest.
Free food, games, music, enjoyment.
Spread the Word.

THIS WEEK - Daughters of Eve

We continue through Proverbs this week examining what it is to be a woman who bears the image of God. Taking our example from the Proverbs 31 woman we will look at what it is to move from being daughters of Eve to daughters of God and sisters of Christ. Who has God made women to be? What role to they play in his plan? How can women best reflect the image of God to the world? Join us for an intriguing and no doubt controversial look at Biblical Femininity.

The Best

"For the Christian, the best is always yet to be."- J.I. Packer

Family Swim Day

When I Feel Lean

Good words to me last week....

“The ill favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine.”

-Genesis 41:4

Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained; if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the famine which rages in my soul. When the caterpillars of indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the palmerworms of self-indulgence, lay my heart completely desolate, and make my soul to languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing whatever. How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favoured hours! If every day I journeyed towards the goal of my desires I should soon reach it, but backsliding leaves me still far off from the prize of my high calling, and robs me of the advances which I had so laboriously made. The only way in which all my days can be as the “fat kine,” is to feed them in the right meadow, to spend them with the Lord, in His service, in His company, in His fear, and in His way. Why should not every year be richer than the past, in love, and usefulness, and joy?—I am nearer the celestial hills, I have had more experience of my Lord, and should be more like Him. O Lord, keep far from me the curse of leanness of soul; let me not have to cry, “My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!” but may I be well-fed and nourished in thy house, that I may praise thy name.

From Charles Spurgeon's Morning Devotion fro July 3rd Mornings and Evenings Daily Devotional

2008 Block Party Next Saturday the 12th

Our annual block party is next saturday july 8th. come eat, celebrate and bring a friend. everythings on us!

THIS WEEK - SONS OF ADAM

Our Series in Proverbs Continues this week as we examine biblical manhood. God has given much weight and responsibility to men. What are men called to be and how are we to handle the role? Join us as we look at this important issue.
Next Week: Daughters of Eve