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