Dear River Reach Family, But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5 Christmas reminds us of God’s love for us!…
Sometimes the circumstances we face trying to serve the Lord don’t make much sense to us. We want to do what honors the Lord. We make plans to try to serve our Lord, but then our efforts don’t seem to produce much fruit. How will we respond? What will we do?
It is easy to let our immediate struggles consume 90-100% of our thoughts. “How am I going to solve this problem?” “Wow this really stinks!” “This is really hindering me from being happy!” True joy in life doesn’t come from physical ease and smooth operating circumstances. True joy comes from meditation on the Lord and His promised loving-kindess and faithfulness to us.
The Lord blesses us in this world with friendships, ministry relationships, and fellowship with one another in the body of Christ. We are to treasure these relationships and use them for the glory of our Lord. The relationship between Paul and Barnabas is a tremendous example of God’s rich relationship blessing. Because we are individuals there will be times when we don’t see things the same way.
So far it looks like the Lord is giving us wonderful weather for our Fall Fun Fest community event tomorrow! We are excited about another fun opportunity to serve the Lord together as a church by reaching out into our community!
Serving the Lord will lead you through a wide variety of experiences with recurring themes of difficulty and triumph through grace. In five of the six cities in which Acts records details of Paul and Barnabas’ witness for Christ on their first missionary journey, they face some kind of major opposition or set back. Amazingly they keep on faithfully serving their Lord!
Dear River Reach Family, When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48 What some reject others receive. Every human being is free to choose how they will respond to God. There are plenty of petty…
Dear River Reach Family, “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, 33 that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ Acts 13:32-33…
Dear River Reach Family, “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, 33 that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ Acts 13:32-33…
Our Lord’s last command to us to “make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19) requires some Holy Spirit called faithful disciples to leave their homes and churches and travel to distant lands with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark were the first Holy Spirit commissioned missions team of the church. What would it be like to be a missionary?