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Kitchens Creek
Baptist Church Email:
Pastor
Milton W Howard
Weekly Church Bulletin
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JUly 26, 2026 |
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daily
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kwdf
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wednesday
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7:00
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT – C.H. SPURGEON
You have no right to infer from the greatness of your griefs that God is ceasing to love you, or that he loves you less: on the contrary, I am persuaded that if all the griefs which are possible to men could be heaped upon a child of God, if all God's waves and billows went over him; if he were to descend into the deeps of affliction so low that the earth with her bars seemed to be about him for ever; if not one ray of light came into his soul, but he was tormented with temptation, and afflicted by Satan, and deserted by man, and body and Soul were alike in grief and pain, yet would all this only be a token of divine love to him and part of the process by which love would supremely bless him.
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AN
ATHEIST PUT TO SHAME
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At the University of Chicago Divinity School each year they invite a noted Theologian to speak on his favored subject. Dr. Tillich spoke for two and one-half hours, supposedly proving that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection the religious tradition of the church was groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact, never rose from the dead in any literal sense.
He then asked if there were any questions. After
about 30-seconds, an old preacher stood up in the back of the auditorium. "Doctor
Tillich, I got one question," he said, as all eyes turned toward
him. He reached into his lunch and pulled out an apple and began eating
it. "Doctor Tillich…" CRUNCH, MUNCH… "My
question is a simple question," …CRUNCH, MUNCH… "Now
I ain't never read them books you read," … CRUNCH, MUNCH… "and
I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek" …CRUNCH,
MUNCH… "I don't know nothin' about Niebuhr and Heidegger,"
…CRUNCH, MUNCH… (He finished his apple.) "All I wanna know is:
This apple I just ate: was it bitter or sweet?" Dr. Tillich
paused for a moment and answered in exemplary, scholarly fashion: "I
cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted your
apple."
The white-haired preacher dropped the core of
his apple into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich, and said
calmly, "Neither have you tasted my Jesus."
The 1,000 people in attendance could not contain themselves. The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers. Dr. Tillich failed to quieten the audience, then promptly left the platform.
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CALL
TO WORSHIP
Isaac
Watts – 1719
From Psalm 95
Come, sound His praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing;
Jehovah is the sovereign God,
The universal King.
He formed the deeps unknown;
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all His own,
And all the solid ground.
Come, worship at His throne;
Come, bow before the Lord;
We are His work, and not our own;
He formed us by His Word.
Today attend His voice,
Nor dare refuse His Word;
Come like the people of His choice,
And own our gracious God.
(Tune: "I Love Thy Kingdom")
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(Psalms 95:1-3, 6)
"O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise
to the rock of our salvation. Let
us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise
unto him with psalms. For the
LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods…O come, let us
worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the
sheep of his hand."