Category: Bible Reading Plan

Monday

Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel.

Since the first day that you set your mind

to gain understanding

and to humble yourself before your God,

your words were heard,

and I have come in response to them.

~Daniel 10:12~

 

Devotional, Scriptures, & a Song

  • “Cat Gate” – http://odb.org
  • I am the door.                                                                                                                                                  If anyone enters by Me,                                                                                                                            he will be saved,                                                                                                                                                  and will go in and out                                                                                                                                         and find pasture.                                                                                                                                                                           ~John 10:9~                                                                                                                                                        If anyone would come after Me,                                                                                                                he must deny himself                                                                                                                               and take up his cross                                                                                                                                 and follow Me.”                                                                                                                                                 ~Matthew 16:24~
  • “The Way of the Cross Leads Home” –                         http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/a/waycross.htm

Annie Armstrong Offering for North America

“Who is Annie?” –  http://anniearmstrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Who-Is-Annie.pdf

Read the Bible in 2015 – Genesis 36-39

Have a great day.

Anna Lee

Sunday

I trust you moved your clocks forward last night.  If not, do so now and get moving!

 

 

“[God’s] intent was that now,

through the church,

the manifold wisdom of God

should be made known.”

(Ephesians 3:10 NIV)

 

Faye Campbell Pike

Read the Bible in 2015 

 Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Pursuing Holiness” – http://odb.org/
  • Pursue peace with all people,                                                                                     and holiness,                                                                                                                     without which no one will see the Lord.                                                                                                                      ~Hebrews 12:14~
  • “Holy, Holy ,Holy” – http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh064.sht

Annie Armstrong Mission Offering 

Week of Prayer for North American Missions & Annie Armstrong Easter Offering:
When people give to the offering, 100 percent of their gift will be transformed into missionary salaries and ministry supplies. Those missionaries and supplies will help others hear the message of Christ and respond in faith to His offer of salvation.

 Have a great Lord’s Day!

Anna Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday

He guides the humble in what is right

and teaches them his way.

~Psalm 25:9~

 

Julia Irene Bryant (Prescott) Forrest, 77, of Kentwood, LA., died peacefully on March 4, 2015 after a 24 year struggle with Parkinson’s Disease.

Born April 26, 1937 in Lexie, MS., she was preceeded in death by her parents, Burlin R. and Pauline (Bond) Bryant, her brother and only sibling, Burlin “Randy” Bryant, and her loving husband, Robert Dale Forrest.

Julia was Kentwood’s Town Clerk for 42 years. Ask anyone and they will tell you that she was the backbone of City Hall. Things could not get done without her. She retired to enjoy country living with her husband, Dale. She was a member of Kentwood First Baptist Church, an avid reader, loved sewing and computers. But her greatest pleasure was the time she spent with her family and she gave her love abundantly to her grandchildren.

Survivors include her son, Richard, Jr. “Ricky” & Jill (Scioneaux) Prescott, two daughters, Raine P. Himel and Ronde P. Newman;  stepson, Craig & Pam (Cook) Forrest, and stepdaughter, Kathy Dale Forrest; ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Julia’s loving and generous spirit continues to touch lives. It was her desire that, when she passed on, her body would be donated to science. There will be a  Celebration of Life for family & friends at Kentwood First Baptist Church on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 9:00-11:00a.m. with a memorial service at 11:00a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Michael Stern Parkinson’s Research Foundation, 1115 Broadway, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10010 or online at http://www.parkinsoninfo.org/donate.
Condolences may be left in Julia’s online memorial at http://www.forevermissed.com/julia-bryant-forrest/

The family wishes to extend their gratitude to St. Helena Parish Nursing Home for Julia’s care, Community Hospice and Professional Funeral Services for their support in her final days.

 

Friday Morning Bible Study – not meeting today!

Annie Armstrong Missionary

Read the Bible in 2015

Devotional, Scripture, and a Prayer

 

Friday

“Yours, LORD, is the greatness

and the power and the glory

and the splendor and the majesty,

for everything in the heavens

and on earth belongs to You.

Yours, LORD, is the kingdom,

and You are exalted as head over all.”

~1 Chronicles 29:11, HCSB~

 

Mrs. Mildred Birch got good reports yesterday.  Continue to keep her in your prayers as she resumes her normal life.

Mrs. Nancy Birch continues to search for answers.  Please continue to pray for her.

Read the BIble in 2015 – Isaiah 51-55

Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer Missionary

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • Lessons from a Fence –  http://odb.org/2012/10/14/lessons-from-a-fence/
  • Whoever hears these sayings of Mine,                                                                          and does them,                                                                                                                          I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.                                                                                                                        ~Matthew 7:24~
  • The Wise Man and the Foolish Man – http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/The_Wise_Man_and_the_Foolish_Man/

The associational WMU Week of Prayer Emphasis for Annie Armstrong will be Monday, March 16th at Montpelier Baptist Church.  The 10:00 A.M. meeting will be followed by a potluck lunch.  I hope many of you will be able to attend.

Keep praying for others during another cold weather time  of 2015.  

Anna Lee

Thursday Morning

 If my people,

who are called by my name,

will humble themselves and pray

and seek my face

and turn from their wicked ways,

then will I hear from heaven

and will forgive their sin

and will heal their land.

~2 Chronicles 7:14~

Cathy Russell spent a night in North Oaks for observation.  While at the hospital to visit Cathy, her mother, Nita R. Miller, fell in the hallway.  Please pray for Cathy and Nita as well as their family members checking on them.

Mrs. Annie Bell Harrell has been “checked out” and is doing okay.  Thank-you for your prayers for her.

Mrs. Mildred Birch made it home yesterday, but is on the road for two appointments in Baton Rouge today.

Mrs. Julia B. P. Forrest passed away.  Her service will be Saturday morning, March 14th, at FBC, Kentwood.

Read the Bible in 2015

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

No Friday morning Bible study this week!

Time change Sunday – Set you clocks AHEAD one hour.

Operation Christmas Child – You have the opportunity to purchase items for the shoeboxes for needy children.  Check the table in the hallway across from the kitchen at FBC, K.  You can get a bag or several bags to fill and return to the same area.  New items have been added for the month of March.
Annie Armstrong Missions Offering 
Pray for the world situations and leaders in various countries.  Some leaders are elected and some are not.  Choose the ones God wants you to follow.

Wednesday

Do not be quick with your mouth,

do not be hasty in your heart

to utter anything before God.

God is in heaven and you are on earth,

so let your words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Baptist Press – bpnews. net

  • WEEK OF PRAYER: An immigrant mindset in Toronto
  • Netanyahu: Iran poses world’s ‘greatest danger’
  • CP 4.81 percent ahead of projection
  • CP ‘a tool to obey the Great Commission’
  • ‘I would hug him,’ says florist of gay accuser
  • Bill to slash slavery gains quickly in Senate
  • Tennessee Temple to close, merge with Piedmont
  • FROM THE STATES: S.C., Fla., Texas evangelism/missions news; ‘We need to share Jesus every day where we live’
  • First-Person – FIRST-PERSON: Nurturing new churches
  • MOVIES: Redeeming the art

 

Annie Armstrong Offering for North American mission work

http://anniearmstrong.com/lashey/

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Psalm 24 – 26

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Pray for all those struggling to survive in these weather conditions.  Thank God for the blessing and comforts you have.

Pray for all those whose lives and way of life are threatened around the world.  Thank God for His peace and love.

Pray for all those who have heartaches in our community.  The last three months have had more families with heartaches than I can remember.

Anna Lee

 

Tuesday

 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,

 but in humility  

consider others better than yourselves.

~Philippians 2:3~

Marie Skaggs Raymond

Born: May 27, 1916
Died: March 01, 2015

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=2991193&fh_id=10545

Annie Armstrong Offering for North American Missions

Jonathan and Shelby Land – http://anniearmstrong.com/land/

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

  • SBC presidents send open letter to Obama
  • WEEK OF PRAYER: A heart for Mormon-heavy Utah
  • NRB attendance up 15% at wide-ranging convention
  • 365 DAYS: Prayer warriors stand on knees in Ukraine
  • War in E. Ukraine aids church planting in west
  • Christian media oppose FCC Internet ruling

Read the Bible in 2015 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

Hope Center

Volunteers at Hope Center will be removing winter clothing and replacing it with summer clothing beginning this morning.  In a couple days, put you coat on and come check out the spring/summer items!

Time Change

  • Sunday
  • Move your clocks ahead an hour.
  • Forget, and arrive late for Sunday School Sunday!

Lunch for BCM students at SLU

  • March 4th – WMU of Two Rivers Baptist Association
  • March 11th – FBC, Kentwood
    • If you are providing food on the 11th, food needs to be in the church kitchen by 9 A.M.
    • If you are working, meet at the church at 10:00 unless you are involved in cooking the jambalaya.
    • Thanks to Jason Dean and James Rimes for continuing in Marty Simpson’s place in preparing the jambalaya.

From the hymn for today, “May God Depend on You?”.

May the Lord depend on you?
Loyalty is but His due;
Say, O spirit brave and true,
That He may depend on you!

Anna Lee

Monday

“The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,

and His ears are open to their prayers.”

~1 Peter 3:12a, NKJV~

 

Pray for Ladell and Nancy Birch.  He has just had some stents put in.  She is in Greensburg hospital for some testing.

Pray for Mrs. Annie Bell Harrell.  She did not seem her best when we saw her yesterday.

Chip Caraway will soon be having surgery for throat cancer.  Pray for him, his surgery team, and his family.

Arthur Danny Richardson

Born: September 09, 1944
Died: February 28, 2015

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=2990385&fh_id=10545

Mrs. Margaret Caraway told me yesterday that the associational senior adult trip has been postponed to September due to her son’s surgery.

Annie Armstrong Offering – Travis and Staci Kerns

http://anniearmstrong.com/kerns/

Time Change – Next Sunday, you set your clocks ahead an hour (and get to miss an hour of sleep if you don’t go to bed earlier).

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “A Deadly Weapon” – http://odb.org/
  • Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength;                                                            . . . they shall run and not be weary,                                                                                             they shall walk and not faint.                                                                                                                                                                                                   ~Isaiah 40:31~
  • “Trust and Obey” – http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/r/trstobey.htm

Read the Bible in 2015 – Genesis 32 – 35

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+32-35&version=NIV

Enjoy the rain.  Be thankful it is not ice and snow.

Anna Lee

Sunday

“The godly give good advice to their friends;

the wicked lead them astray.”

~Proverbs 12:26 NLT~

 

Today, we begin the annual week of prayer for North American missions.  The theme this year is “Send>>America”.

Today’s prayer focus is on Daniel and Linda Yang.  Check out this link and learn more about them, their mission field, and the work they are doing in Canada.

http://anniearmstrong.com/yang/

Read the Bible in 2015 – I Corinthians 1-2

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Learn the Cost” – http://odb.org/
  • You were bought at a price.                                                                                                                                  ~1 Corinthians 6:20~                                                                                                                           Without the shedding of blood                                                                                                           there is no remission of sin.”                                                                                                                                                   ~Hebrews 9:22~
  • “Nothing but the Blood” – http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/b/nbtblood.htm

Don’t forget the Frozen Food for Families this morning,  Bring your donations to my classroom before Sunday School.  The food will be delivered today.  

Hope Center will be changing from winter clothing to spring/summer clothing this week.

  • If you wish to work some time this week, please let me schedule you.
  • If you want to get a good look at the new clothing, give us a few days and then check it out.

Operation Christmas Child – Please check the table near the kitchen in the fellowship hall. Our goal is to pack about 50% more boxes than last year.  That means working all year to collect the items listed on the bags.  You can shop as individuals or as classes.

Have a great Lord’s Day!

Anna Lee

Saturday

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,

joy,

peace,

patience,

kindness,

goodness,

faithfulness,

gentleness and

self-control.

Against such things there is no law.

~Galatians 5:22-23~

 

Please pray for the family of Mrs. Avis Sullivan and get ready to hear her sing again in heaven one day.  Margie said she didn’t know yet what the arrangements will be.

Koltyn Gafford

Yesterday made 1 week since we brought Koltyn home from the hospital. Things surely are a quite bit different.
Sleeping habits are extremely different for him than before. He now goes to sleep between 3 & 5 every afternoon and sleeps til 3 or 4 in the morning. Most everyone that knows me, knows I am not a morning person but, I have managed to do quite well with the new bedtime schedule.
We’ve already made three trips to Baton Rouge, Monday we had evaluations for Occupational, & Physical Therapy & Wednesday an evaluation for Speech Therapy. Yesterday we had a follow-up appointment with his regular Pediatrician, also in Baton Rouge. He will have therapy twice a week, 45 mins sessions of each therapy on Monday & Wednesday’s for at least a year. Next week they are going to mold his feet for his AFO’s (ankle foot orthosis – A strong and lightweight solution for children & adults with mild to moderate drop foot.)
His Speech Therapist is already talking about working on trying to get his mouth and throat ready for liquids by mouth. He has already made progress making different sounds. We can now tell the difference between a hurt cry, a wet/dirty diaper cry, or just a simple whin which means he just wants to be held and loved on! My favorite of them all!!
He also knows the difference between Mommy & Daddy’s bed (which he used to sleep in every night) and his bed. Brad laid down with him in our bed one night while mommy took a shower, then put him in his bed when we were ready to go to sleep and abt 30 mins. later he started to fuss and we laid him in bed with us and he went sound to sleep. Definitely is a good sign that he remembers that was his normal place to sleep. Brad & I both are loving all the snuggles at bedtime. Thanks to everyone for your continued support and prayers. We still have a long recovery ahead of us! Keep the Prayers coming. We love you all

Brad Gafford & Kristin Russell Gafford

Baptist Press –  bpnews.net

Read the Bible in 2015 – Matthew 23-25

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song 

  • “Catching Up with Us” – http://odb.org/
  • When I kept silent,                                                                                                                                    my bones grew old through my groaning.                                                                                                                                                  ~Psalm 32:3~                                                                                             Though your sins are like scarlet,                                                                                                            they shall be white as snow.                                                                                                                                                                   ~Isaiah 1:18~
  • “Jesus Paid it All” –  http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/p/jpaidall.htm  –  (Be sure to read the story that goes with this hymn.)

Have a wonderful day.  Spend some time reading God’s Word and singing His praises.

Anna Lee