Posted on Mar 24, 2019 in Newsletter |
Have you hit your growth spurt yet? I know what many of you may be thinking at this moment. “How many children and teens does this poor preacher think actually read his writings?” I am not speaking of your physical growth. Most have stopped growing up and have begun to grow out. But I am speaking of our spiritual growth. As we do grow to a certain point in our physical life and stop, that should not be the case in our spiritual life. We should continue to grow and to learn and become more and more mature in the Lord. Unlike your physical growth, spiritual growth doesn’t just happen. Spiritual growth must be a desire and purposefully pursued. So have you hit a time that God has opened the portals of heaven and touched your life with a deeper relationship? If not, it is not too late. I encourage you to begin this journey today! Talk with Him, walk with Him, grow in Him and He in you!
Posted on Mar 18, 2019 in Newsletter |
How valuable is a minute to you? At face value, most people would begin to think in monetary forms. We think of the hourly rate in which we receive and begin to divide this by 60. But is a minute only worth a monetary value? Wealth is something that is fluctuating in value. This is according to where you live, how much you earn and many other variables. If we dwell on eternal values, a minute is worth much more than approximately 12 cents to the minimum wage earner. As we live in this hour, each person has 60 minutes. In the course of a day, we will have 1,440 minutes. A week is equal to 10,080 minutes. Each passing minute can never be regained. It is in the past never to come again. A minute with loved ones is worth more than a minute at a place of employment. A minute with God is of the greatest value of all. Minutes serving the Lord are laying treasures of heaven that have no equal on earth. What is the value of this minute? Can this minute change your outlook on the rest of your life? Consider your walk with the Lord. Can you give Him just a minute? He gave His life that you might live. This minute could lead to the devotion to the Savior for a lifetime!
Posted on Mar 17, 2019 in Newsletter |
Praise the Lord for the wonderful revival meetings that we were able to host here at our church. This past week has truly been a blessing to me and I trust to each of the people of Calvary Baptist Church. We also had many that visited from other churches and I am thankful that there are churches that still serve the same God, preach the same Word and worship the same Savior! The week of meetings may have come to an end, but revival can still continue and become stronger in our hearts and lives. I urge you to continue in your prayers for a revival to sweep across our church and the surrounding churches and throughout the nation! Take the wonderful messages that we have been blessed with and apply them to your heart! Go back and refresh your heart this week and listen to them again. Seek to find revival in your heart and where God is working in your life!
Posted on Mar 10, 2019 in Newsletter |
Praise the Lord, the time set aside for our revival meetings has arrived! We have been much in prayer for these meetings and the men that will bring the Word of God to us each service! I have great confidence in these men that God has called into the ministry and I am looking forward to a time of refreshing, reviving and renewing in our church, community and country! Every revival begins with a few believers searching out God in prayer and a congregation seeking for the Word of God to be proclaimed! This is such a time for our church and our congregation can be where revival begins! Thank you for your continued prayer and seeking after God! Invite your friends and family to be a part of this revival, only God knows the blessings that we will receive!
Posted on Mar 3, 2019 in Newsletter |
Revival is so needed in our country, state, county, city, and congregation! This has been on my heart for a time and I have been praying that God would lead and direct a time for a revival meeting. The time that God placed on my heart is just seven days away. We have made all the preparations that we can. We have men of God ready to come and preach the Word of God! A readiness is far more than plans of the meetings. Just as I ask each member to be ready for every service, I want you to be ready for revival! Spend time in prayer that God would ready you for what He has planned in this revival. We have been challenged to pray daily for our revival meetings, for the preachers that preach, for the songs which are sung, for conviction to move a people to humble themselves, pray more, seek God, and turn from the wicked ways of this world! Revival is still possible! Be ready for God to move!
