(July 8, 2010)
Prayer & Medication
Tonight the Mighty Men ministry meets at 6:30pm at Dunn Brothers then at church at 8:00pm for their bible study - followed by RPM at 9:00pm. RPM is open to everyone. Feel free to come and pray with us.
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Devotional!
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies. If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; but if anyone loves God,he is known by Him.

1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Knowledge puffs us. It increases our pride. The proud man has a false perception of himself. He thinks he knows something yet he does not yet know as he ought. He does not know in the way he ought to know. He's gaining knowledge through faulty means. The law without the spirit is death. Knowledge without a right spirit is death.

Knowledge that comes through humility is much more beneficial than knowledge that comes through pride.

The last part of that verse helps us in this. If anyone loves God, he is known by Him (God). The Greek word for "love" here is "Agape." Agape is an unconditional love that is based on giving. To love with an agape love is to love by giving yourself away. Giving up your life is humbling. However, the one who gains knowledge of God through humility knows in the way he ought to know. His knowledge did not come through some exaltation of his own mind and abilities. It came through letting God lead him.

The proud man thinks he has great knowledge of God yet he does not know what he ought to know. Typically the proud man's love for God is a love for what God can give him. That is typical of Phileo love. Phileo love is a conditional love based on what a person can gain. Many people love what they can get from God. They love how the knowledge they gain through the Spirit of God helps them gain positions of exaltation.

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Medication: A Merry Heart

And Also with You

In our Anglican church, each service begins with a greeting.
The officiating clergyman says, "The Lord be with you." The
congregation used to respond by saying, "And with thy
spirit."

But, with the modernizing of the liturgy, the minister now
says, "The Lord be with you," and everyone responds with,
"And also with you."

One Sunday a visiting bishop went to a church where the
sound system was known to be old and unreliable. As he
approached the microphone, he tapped it several times and
finally said, "There's something wrong with this!"

Without hesitation, the whole congregation answered
faithfully, "And also with you."

(July 7, 2010)
Prayer & Medication
No mid-week services tonight since it's Family Week. I trust you are getting together with other families for times of fellowship.
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Devotional!

Psalm 140:6 “O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God." Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.”

Mercy is the greatest benefit of having God. You are my God, have mercy on me. No other religion makes that claim. All other religions are based on complete obedience to the letter of the law. That is why many of them are becoming such fanatics. They believe they must earn their salvation. We rely on mercy. What a great advantage it is to be Christian. Mercy is so much more loving than anything else is. When we proclaim Him as God we are not only asking mercy for ourselves but also for our nation and world. We want the world to know our God – the result of that will be mercy on all mankind. This is not merely a lifting up of our God – though He is worthy of that – it’s following God’s will in praying for the salvation of all mankind.

When we proclaim Him as God we don’t make Him Lord. The idea here is that He is Lord already and we need to acknowledge that. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. There is no other God but Him.

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Medication: A Merry Heart

Boat Name

My friend wanted a boat more than anything. His wife kept
refusing, but he bought one anyway.

"I'll tell you what," he told her. "In the spirit of
compromise, why don't you name the boat?" Being a good
sport, she accepted.

When her husband went to the dock for the maiden voyage,
this is the name he saw painted on the boat: "For Sale."

(July 6, 2010)
Prayer & Medication
It's Tuesday which means it's our ladies prayer meeting at 9:00am. If you can get to the church for the PUSH and Praise prayer meeting - you will definately be blessed.
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This is Family Week which means we will not be having a mid-week service.
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Devotional!
Psalms 63:1 “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you.” When the Psalmist stated that God was his God he proved it by his pursuit. How can any of us claim that He is our God without a prayer life? How much sense does it make to state that the very God of heaven, creator of all, is your God if you don’t spend any time with Him? However, I am not saying that He cannot be your God if you don’t have much of a prayer life – I am saying that you don’t make much of a proclamation that He is God without a prayer life.

Prayer is more than just a religious activity. Prayer is our expression of love and desire for God. What is it that the Muslim’s have in their faith that is known world-wide? Three times a day they bow to pray to Allah. Three times a day they pray to a dead god and yet we allow our living God to go unnoticed many times. Our lack of prayer almost nullifies our proclamation of faith.

A person can say all they want about their love for God but prayer is the one activity that says it the best. I have always maintained that the lack of prayer comes from the lack of desire. Anything we desire we want to be with. It does not make sense to talk about our great love for anyone if we don’t actually go out of our way to be with that person. Proverbs says, Many men will proclaim unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? It indicates that the true sign of love is faithfulness to the one you are professing your love to.

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Medication: A Merry Heart

Blonde in Heaven

A blonde died and went to heaven. When she got to the
Pearly Gates, she met Saint Peter who said, "Before you get
to come into heaven, you have to pass a test."

"OH, NO!" exclaimed the blonde.

But Saint Peter said not to worry, because he would make it
an easy test. "Who was God's son?" asked Saint Peter.

The blonde thought for a few minutes and replied,
"Andy."

"Andy? That's interesting. What made you say that?" inquired
Saint Peter.

Then the blonde started to sing, "Andy walks with me. Andy
talks with me. Andy tells me..."

(July 5, 2010)
Prayer & Medication
I got back from Family Camp last Saturday after a great week there. But by far the best thing about this weekend was the service we had on Sunday morning. The spirit of God was moving and things happened. It was great to be back in the pulpit after having been gone for the last 5 weeks.
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This is Family Week which means we will not be having a mid-week service.

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Devotional!
Psalms 31:14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."

Paul often referred to “His God.” Romans 1:8; First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you; Philippians 1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you, and Philippians 4:19; My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

There is something about proclaiming God as your own that makes it personal. Have you ever had someone says to you, “Put in a good word for me to the man upstairs?” That is so impersonal. It tells me they don’t really claim Him as their own. They may recognize Him as God but they lack a personal relationship. Jesus is more than just the man upstairs. People who know Jesus call Him by name. They talk to Him themselves. They worship Him using His name. There’s just something about that name.

The Psalmist once said, You are my God, and I will give you thanks; you are my God, and I will exalt you, (Psalms 118:28).

That is exactly what God wants to have happen in our relationship with Him. When we claim Him as our God we begin to give thanks to Him for all that He has done. When we do our sacred assemblies we just sit in His presence and simply give thanks to Him for all He has done for us. We praise and exalt Him. He is our God.

When we proclaim Him as God we are also claiming Him as a friend. Friendship gives credence to someone. It’s not so much that God needs credence from man; it’s that man needs credence from God.

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Medication: A Merry Heart

A History Lesson

The junior high school teacher was giving her students a
test on American history. One question was, "Who said, 'I
regret that I have but one life to give to my country'?"

A youngster answered, "Nathan Haley said it. The saying is
now known as Haley's Comment."

(July 2, 2010)
Prayer House News!
Well it's July 2, you know what that means!
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Tonight is the True Freedom event at the Band Shell in Kenosha. This is a great event! Last year there was such a great spirit there as several hundred Christians from 15 different churchs in town gathered to proclaim True Freedom in Jesus. I hope you will be able to make it this year.
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Cancelled! SNS will be cancelled for this coming weekend only. We will only have a service on July 4th. Please help us spread the word.

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Devotional!
The Moral Glory of Christ


Isaiah 6:1-4 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. (2) Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. (3) And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." (4) At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.



This must have been a very solemn, soul-subduing sight. It is always a serious matter whenever man stands before the throne of God with all the demands and standards of that throne bearing down upon his conscience. Isaiah found this to be true for him. The light of the throne revealed to him his true condition. And the light that comes from the throne of God is the moral glory of Christ.

John 12:41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him.

John said that what Isaiah saw at the throne was the moral glory of Jesus. Christ is the perfect standard by which every man will be measured. Our own perception of ourselves or even how others perceive us does not matter. The question is; what do I look like in the presence of Christ? This is what the throne of God does; it reveals! The law tells us what we need to be; our conscience may tell us what we think we are; but it is only when the bright beams of Christ’s moral glory shine upon us that we are enabled to form a true estimate of who we are.


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Medication: A Merry Heart

Children Are Quick
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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America .
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
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TEACHER: John, why do you always get so dirty?
JOHN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. '
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it.
Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?

LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand....
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TEACHER: Now, Simon , tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
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TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's.. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.

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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher
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