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Kitchens Creek
Baptist Church Email:
Pastor
Milton W Howard
Weekly Church Bulletin
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FEBRUARY 02, 2025 |
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daily
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7:45
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kwdf
am 840 |
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morning
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11:00
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wednesday
worship: |
7:00
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THE Gospel PREACHER’S PRAYER
Pastor Tim James - Cherokee, North Carolina
(1 Kings 18:36-37) "And
it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that
Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of
Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I
am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. (37)
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD
God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again."
This passage of Scripture is underlined in my Bible, and I usually
read it before I preach. It
is not a manta or motto, but rather, for me, A Reminder Of What I’ve
Been Assigned To Do And A Prayer Unto God, That He Might Get All The Glory…that
He would reveal Himself in His true character, and that if anything is
accomplished, folks would know that HE did it.
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Christ's riches are
unsearchable, and this doctrine of the Gospel is the field this treasure
is hidden in.
Thomas Goodwin
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"Harden Not Your Hearts"
- Hebrews 3:8
There is a Natural
Hardness of heart with which we all are born.
The heart of all natural sons of Adam is like a stone--destitute of
life. There is an acquired Voluntary
Hardness of heart to which men arrive by mocking the word of God and
ignoring the warnings and words brought by God's servants.
Pharaoh is a good example. "Who
is the Lord, that I should obey His voice;" and so, "Pharaoh
hardened his heart and hearkened not to Moses." There is a
hardness of heart (referred to here) to which people are liable who claim
to be God's people (as Israel did), who give mental acceptance to the
Word, who often hear the Word preached and go about the outward forms of
worship and religion, "who try me, prove me, and see my works,
yet err in heart and do not know nor walk in my ways" (Heb. 3:9-10).
The old-timers called it "Gospel-Hardened."
Heart and hand, faith and walk, thoughts and ways – these are to
be attended to NOW, while it is called TODAY.
Unknown
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I can hardly recollect a
single plan of mine, of which I have not since seen reason to be
satisfied, that had it taken place in season and circumstance just as I
proposed, it would, humanly speaking, have proved my ruin; or at least it
would have deprived me of the greater good the Lord had designed for me.
We judge of things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees
them in their consequences, if we could do so likewise we should be
perfectly of His mind; but as we cannot, it is an unspeakable mercy that
He will manage for us, whether we are pleased with His management or not;
and it is spoken of as one of his heaviest judgments, when He gives any
person or people up to the way of their own hearts, and to walk after
their own counsels.
JOHN NEWTON
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CALL TO WORSHIP
Isaac Watts, 1709
Firm as the earth Thy gospel stands,
My Lord, my hope, my trust;
If I am found in Jesus' hands,
My soul can ne'er be lost.
His honour is engaged to save
The meanest of His sheep;
All that His heavenly Father gave
His hands securely keep.
Nor death nor hell shall e'er remove
His favourites from His breast;
In the dear bosom of His love
They must
for ever rest.
(Tune:
Majestic Sweetness)
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(Psalms 32:1-2) "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto
whom the Lord imputeth
not iniquity, and in whose Spirit there
is no guile."