Calvary Chronicle Calvary Independent Baptist Church P.O. Box 3433, Post Falls, Idaho 83877 http://idahobaptist.com July 5, 2015 K. David Oldfield, Pastor A Pillar and Ground of the Truth Welcome: The membership of Calvary Baptist Church would like to thank you for visiting with us today. We are a church that is Baptist in doctrine, in other words, we take what we believe directly from the Bible, and we try to teach and preach only what the Bible declares. If you would like to learn more about us please ask or look up our church web-site: http://idahobaptist.com Prayer Requests: Sister Rosemary Snedeger – Eye problems. Sister Ethel Moore – Surgery recovery. Sister Willi Berg – Treatment for cancer. Brother Bill Asmundson – Leukemia. Brother Steve Kjeldgaard – Leukemia. Brother Tim Parrow – Heart attack recovery. Schedule: Nursery Workers – Sisters Hannah & Kathy. Family Camp in 3 weeks – July 27 to July 31st. Next Men’s Prayer Meeting – August 2. Next Fellowship Sunday – July 19th . Forget not, dear Christian ... it is the throne of grace, to which you come in prayer. It is a throne, because God is a Sovereign. He will ever have the suppliant recognize this perfection of His nature. He hears and answers as a Sovereign. He hears whom He will, and answers what and when He will. There must be no dictation to God, no refusing to bow to His sovereignty, no rebelling against His will. If the answer be delayed, or God should seem to withhold it altogether, remember that "He gives no account of any of His matters," and that He has a right to answer or not to answer, as seems good in His sight. Glorious perfection of God, beaming from the mercy-seat! But it is also a throne of grace. And why? Because a God of grace sits upon it, and the scepter of grace is held out from it, and all the favors bestowed there are the blessings of grace. – Octavius Winslow Services: Sunday School – 10:00 a.m. – “Biblical Lies and Honesty” Morning Service – 11:00 a.m. – “What Judas Teaches about Repentance” Evening Service – 6:00 p.m. – “The Sins of Priests and Betrayers” Wednesday Service – 7:00 p.m. Memory Verse: This week: “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full” (John 16:24). Next week: “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men” (II Corinthians 3:2). One person has died ... and at least twenty others were sick with symptoms of food-borne Botulism following a church potluck in Ohio, hospital officials said on April 21. The Fairfield Medical Center said in a statement that the patients, five of whom were in critical condition, had all attended a picnic at Cross Pointe Free Will Baptist Church in Lancaster on Sunday.... Botulism is a rare, but potentially fatal paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by certain bacteria, according to the CDC. Symptoms include drooping eyelids, slurred speech and muscle weakness, which can progress to paralysis of the limbs and respiratory muscles. (Reuters) Perhaps this disease, like leprosy, might be used to illustrate sin – or in this case – false doctrine. When a church robs God of His glory, by putting salvation in the hands of the sinner (freewillism), there are bound to be deleterious side effects. The preacher may mean well in preparing his potato salad sermons, but Satan knows how to turn them into poison, infecting, and killing, a whole congregation. (KDO) He that hath ... God’s heart shall not lack God’s arm. A spirit in need ... The United States Constitution of forgiveness is a fragile thing. Your words and deeds can either lighten the load of guilt that a person is carrying or pile onto the already difficult burden he or she has to bear. Why do we feel the need to make sure people know where they went wrong, even after they've admitted it? What is it within our human nature that compels us to say, "I told you so!" or to take it upon ourselves to see that others suffer sufficiently for their mistakes? We should be helping each other carry our burdens, not making them heavier. Most people know when they've messed up. When their faults and failings lie exposed to the world, what's needed in those critical moments is the grace to comfort them and the love to cover their mistakes. Let me caution you not to confuse love with the liberalism of tolerance. If a person's behavior needs to be corrected, love demands that you speak the truth and do all that you can to turn them back to the right path. Those whom we fail to rebuke when they're wrong, we really don't love at all (Hebrews 12:6). However, once people admit their mistakes, love substitutes the slap in the face with a pat on the back. Shame and regret can be destructive forces. Guilt can consume a person. That's why we must be careful not to compound its negative effects once it has worked its positive purpose of provoking a change. Do you feel the need to reinforce the guilty feelings of others when they fall short? Do you find it hard to resist the urge to elaborate on their errors? If we honestly examine what we say and do, we'll all discover our guilt in this regard to some degree. Purge your spirit of the impulse to put your foot on the necks of those who have fallen down. Consider the damage you're doing when you assume the role of "punisher." Not only are you adding to the emotional weight they have to endure, but you're probably eroding your relationships with them in the process. You may be planting the seeds of bitterness, which will eventually bear the fruits of anger and alienation. Once grief has done its good, help the people you love to let it go ... you may need their help before too long! – R. Dawson is a six-block walk from the D.C. city council – but it is light years away from the District's policymaking. For years members of the D.C. government have pretended that the First Amendment in their neighborhood doesn't apply to their lawmaking, especially when it comes to social issues. The latest example is the city Reproductive Health NonDiscrimination Act (RHNDA), which it raced through in January against the warnings of its own legal team. Under the bill, it would be a crime for groups not only to refuse to pay for abortion coverage – but to refuse to hire a pro-abortion activist. Of course everyone is familiar with the first part of the measure, thanks to the ObamaCare mandate. But ordering Christian groups to set aside their beliefs and hire members of the opposition? That's as unconstitutional as it gets! Imagine if Congress passed a law demanding that Muslim organizations hire Jews! Or that an atheist group put Christians on the payroll! It's the same concept here – but the D.C. council has somehow bypassed the controversy in the name of "tolerance." Or so it thought. – Family Research Council It is God’s Word, not our ... comment on God's Word. Souls are slain by the sword, not by the scabbard, nor by the tassels which adorn the hilt of it. If God's Word be brought forward in its native simplicity, no one can stand against it. The adversaries of God must fail before the Word as chaff perishes in the fire. Oh, for wisdom to keep closer and closer to that which the mouth of the Lord hath spoken! – C.H. Spurgeon Nineteenth-century Oxford ... professor M. Montiero-Williams, who spent forty-two years studying ancient Eastern books, made this stunning claim in comparing them to the Bible: "Pile them, if you will, on the left side of your study table; but place your own Holy Bible on the right side-all by itself, all alone – and with a wide gap between them. For ... there is a gulf between it and the so-called sacred books of the East which severs the one from the other utterly, hopelessly and forever ... a veritable gulf which cannot be bridged over by any science of religious thought. – D. Limbaugh
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