11:00 am Service
258 HIS NAME IS WONDERFUL
86 GOD OF THE AGES
Opening Prayer / Welcome
248 O HOW I LOVE JESUS
Scripture Reading: Psalm 27:1-6
590 WHAT IF IT WERE TODAY
Sermon: Evangelist John Neal
Invitation: 253 TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS
1:00pm Service
475 LIVING FOR JESUS
392 ROCK OF AGES
Sermon: Standing Strong in a Godless Society - Pastor Mark Sage
Invitation: 494 HAVE THINE OWN WAY LORD
VBS volunteers, we are meeting on Wednesday, June 19th at 6:30pm for an important meeting to organize and prepare for our Amazing Race VBS. Be there ready to go, we have a lot to cover.
May 30th, we will have our normal morning services. For lunch we will grill some hot dogs and sausages on the grill and enjoy it in the Hopper Pavilion. We have the afternoon service in the pavilion as well.
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Psalm 27:1-6KJV
There are two ways of handling pressure. One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that the water pressure would crush a conventional submarine like an aluminum can. Bathyspheres compensate with plate steel several inches thick, which keeps the water out but also makes them heavy and hard to maneuver.
Inside they're not alone. When their lights are turned on and you look through the tiny, thick plate-glass windows, what do you see? Fish! These fish cope with extreme pressure in an entirely different way. They don't build thick skins; they remain supple and free. They compensate for the outside pressure through equal and opposite pressure inside themselves.
Christians, likewise, don't have to be hard and thick-skinned--as long as they appropriate God's power within to equal the pressure without. - Jay Kesler
Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length;
Pressed so intensely, it seems beyond strength;
Pressed in the body, and pressed in the soul;
Pressed in the mind, till the dark surges roll.
Pressure by foes, and pressure by friends--
Pressure on pressure, till life nearly ends.
Pressed into knowing no helper but God;
Pressed into loving the staff and the rod.
Pressed into liberty where nothing clings;
Pressed into faith for impossible things.
Pressed into tasting the joy of the Lord;
Pressed into loving a Christ-life outpoured.
