ADULT STUDY GROUP @ 9:30 AM - Upstairs (Doug) - God's Plan for Israel

MEN'S STUDY GROUP @ 9:30 AM - Pastor's office (Peter) - Fully Alive ~ Ken Davis 

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Weekly:  Mondays at 7 pm | Prayer Meeting (Jake Braun)

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Mens' breakfast (Saturdays) - Next date: May 13 (Doug Moon)

Youth Event (Fridays) - (Ryan Pendrak)

Outposts by Stand to Reason (Wednesdays) - May 3 (Carol Baker)

** This Outpost meeting will be a potluck and planning for fall. 

SAVE THE DATE: Church Family Campout (Marten River Group Camp)  *June 16-18, 2023

Month of March

Income $31,304.00

Expenses $28,380.15

Can we all agree that electronic gear is cool? And it truly is. But what we need to learn is not so cool: becoming more fascinated with my stuff than God. This is a problem not because we say so but because God does in Matthew 11:28.

When God said that rest is found in him, he means that rest is found in him. Translation: real rest is found nowhere else. God is hinting here that restfulness is tethered to the state of our souls.

We acknowledge that a healthy heart rhythm is critical for maintaining good health. A steady heartbeat is kind of necessary, right? What we are slower to admit is that our souls require rhythm too. “All of us are aware that a healthy heart and regular daily and yearly rhythms are essential for health,” wrote Dr. Christine Sine. “We also know that if our heartbeat is irregular, we need to see a physician for a checkup. Most of us, however, are unaware of the spiritual rhythms that are just as crucial to our health and well-being. Since our lives are increasingly disconnected from the rhythms of God’s world, we do not hear the underlying whisper of God’s heartbeat that is meant to sustain us, and we are unaware of the symptoms that should alert us to our growing ill health”.

So when God says to us, “Come to me, and I will give you rest,” we don’t respond.
God tries again: “Lay your burdens down, children. Walk with me, and your walk will be burden-free.” But, again, we don’t respond.

God says, “I want you to be fascinated not with trinkets but with me.” Still no response.

Ever patient and ever-persistent, God goes for it a fourth time: “Slow down. Look up. Linger here with me.”

We think we hear something. But wait. Was that the voice of God? We glance skyward and say, “Huh? God? Was that you? What’s ‘linger’?”

But before he can reply, we hear subtle dings from our phones—alerting us to new text messages. Then we can’t help but move our thumbs across our phones. Score one for the Enemy of our souls.