Our Spring Gospel Meeting was a terrific success. We were reminded of our Father’s steadfast love that never ceases, His mercies that never come to an end, His great faithfulness, His providence in our lives, and His precious promises wherein our hope lies for today, tomorrow, and forever. NEXT UP – Our Vacation Bible School is just around the corner tentatively scheduled for June 16-19. And we need your help! We’ll be meeting to organize this Sunday (May 19) immediately following our Bible classes at 11:00 a.m.
This Sunday we will continue in our Sunday morning series entitled “Living Forgiven.” When God forgives, He forgives COMPLETELY. When He forgives, He chooses to forget. What about you and me? Let us forgive as He forgives. Our lesson on Sunday evening will be the second in our series “The Four All’s of the Great Commission – Go to ALL the nations.”
CHANGE – Sometimes we want it. Most times not. Change can be frightening and at the same time interesting and exciting. Change is going on all around us, above us, and within us. Change – We may not accept it readily. We may love it or hate it, look forward to it or deny it, accept it or reject it, bless it or curse it, try to alter it or pretend it doesn’t matter, but either way change just keeps on keeping on. All we can do is adjust and move forward with it and in it. When we do, we’ll find that change can be a friend. If you don’t believe what I’m saying is true? Look in the mirror.
I try to talk to my three grandchildren about life and living and they say, “PopPop, things today are not the same as they were when you were our age. Things have changed.” Yep. I know this is true. When I was a boy, my mother would send us outside to play. You know, I rarely see children playing outside anymore. We had no cell phones, computers, or video game consoles. To get our friends in the neighborhood together we’d have to walk over to their house or ride our bike if we had one to see if they could play. And our friends were two miles away. We had no playground equipment other than trees to climb, barns to play in, and forests to explore. We had no swimming pools or splash pads. We did have streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds to swim in. There were no organized sports except for the one’s we “organized” in the backyard between us, like “the goal line is the fence on my side and your shoes on the your side” or maybe setting up the bases for baseball; first base is a soda can, second is a baseball glove, third a paint can lid, and home is piece of cardboard. And we didn’t always have a bat and a ball. Sometimes we had a stick and a rolled up wrapped up something held together with rubber bands. We did have an imagination, that’s for sure. I’m glad things have changed. And I’m sad things have changed.
God doesn’t change. He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. God does change. He changes us. Through His word, the Bible He makes us better, stronger, wise and ready for all the changes that are ahead. I’m excited about all that God has in store for the church of Christ at Harding Street in the near and distant future. He knows.
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