Category: Bible Study

Friday

“It was faith that made Moses leave Egypt

without being afraid of the king’s anger.

As though he saw the invisible God,

he refused to turn back.”

~Hebrews 11:27 TEV~

 

Wear Blue Today to Support Law Enforcement
This day has been set aside to honor to honor law enforcement.  Take time to pray for them when you see members of this group.

Susan Rimes will be going to see a doctor on September 30.  Let’s pray her pain can be eliminated or managed.

Doug Toney is still unable to walk.  His hospital days are almost up.  Pray for a place that can help him walk in the next three weeks.  Sandy says they need a miracle.

Mrs. Margaret Ann (Leroy) Wilson of the Monroe area.

“Asking for prayer for my family and especially my Mom. Today we found out she has a mass on her kidney and a nodule on her lung. It is causing erratic blood pressure and swelling in her legs and feet. We are believing for complete healing and that they are benign. Satan tried to bring fear and today we stopped that as we gathered in prayer. Please stand in agreement with us. Thank you!”

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Joel

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Women’s Ministry

  • Bible Study this Morning – “The Queen of Sheba” followed by lunch at the Hitching Post
  • Frozen Food for Families – Bring your food to my room before Sunday School this week.
  • Operation Christmas Child
    • The focus this month is on flip-flops, slippers, and socks.  Bring your items in labeled with a count.
    • We will be working to organize and inventory the items we have collected soon.  If you want to help, please let me know.

 

Wear blue today and be ready to pray for and encourage those wearing the uniform and serving to protect us daily.

Anna Lee

 

Thursday

“The LORD has heard my plea for help;

the LORD accepts my prayer.”

~Psalm 6:9, HCSB~

God loves to hear from us, but He always makes the final decision.

 

Kent Roberts!

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kenroberts2/journal/view/id/55e7a1f98b5cd3202166fa71?utm_source=JEN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JEN+email&utm_content=visitsite

My heart races, my mind full… Please please keep my brother Ken in your thoughts & prayers. Tomorrow is a huge day for him with another open-heart surgery. He is fighting so hard. I can’t get him off my mind as I wonder what he must fear & anticipate in the coming hours, days, & weeks! I will tell you that we laughed plenty & made light of his situation as we joked about his new 6 cylinder heart replacement & assured him the Gap Bands, “burn rubber on me” would be playing in the OR! Serious though, please lift him up…What he needs only God can provide!                                                 ~ Ken’s sister, Cyndi~

Last night, Bubba Roberts was talking about going to see Ken last Saturday.  We had not realized Ken and Bubba are cousins.

Pray as often as you think of Ken and his family today.

Flo Hatcher (Written by daughter, Julee)
Prayers for my mommy please… She starts radiation on several tumors in her body tomorrow and a new cancer drug, along with the physical therapy she has to do to learn to use her leg with a steel rod in it from hip to knee. Her body is very busy trying to kill cancer and heal.
Otis Gayle Rodriguez

Born: July 27, 1940
Died: August 24, 2015

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=3296487&fh_id=10545

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Proverbs 22

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • The Tyranny of the Perfect – http://odb.org/

  • If we claim to be without sin,                                                                                                              we deceive ourselves                                                                                                                               and the truth is not in us.                                                                                                                                                           ~1 John 1:8~
  • “Whosoever” Surely Meaneth Me

Homebound Lord’s Supper

We were blessed to be part of a team that visited with Mrs. Susie Wales (and Chris and Kathy Wales) last night.  During the time we were there she prayed including thanking God her 95th birthday fell on the night of our visitation.  Her love for others and the Lord is just as steadfast as it always was.  I wish all of you would have fit into her home last night so you could have be blessed as we were.

Women’s Ministry

  • Operation Christmas Child – September items – shoes, slippers, and socks
  • Friday at 10:00 – Bible Study on the Queen of Sheba followed by lunch at the Hitching Post
  • Food for Families – Bring your frozen food items Sunday morning

I’m looking forward to another day, compliments of God.

Anna Lee

 

Sunday

“There is more happiness in giving

than in receiving.”

~Acts 20:35b TEV~

 

 

Operation Christ Child – “Shoeboxes” for children who live all around the world

  • September – Footwear (Flip-flops and socks)
  • You are also free to choose a “paper bag” and fill it as listed.

 

Friday’s Bible Study – The Queen of Sheba

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – 2 Timothy 1-2

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Verify the Truth” –  http://odb.org/
  • [The Bereans] searched the Scriptures daily                                                                                 to find out whether these things were so.                                                                                                                                                            ~ Acts 17:11~
  • “Holy Bible, Book Divine”

 

I’m thankful for this Lord’s Day and looking forward to being at church today.  I’m looking forward to leading my class for our lesson on hospitality today.

Anna Lee

Saturday

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

~Matthew 28:19a, HCSB~

 

 

Andrew Charles Messina

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – John 10-12

 

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Frozen Food for Families – You have a week to freeze some more food for our collection on the first Sunday of September.

 

Ladies’ Bible Study – Following our study of the Queen of Sheba next week, we will eat lunch at the Hitching Post in Amite.  I’m looking forward to Friday.

 

Operation Christmas Child – Unopened Kid’s Meal Toys – If someone you know likes the size of “Kid’s Meals”, but not the toys, please ask them to save the unopened toys.  They can be used in the shoeboxes.  Thanks!

 

Senior Adult Revival – September 14, 15, and 16.  Mark your calendar.

 

If you have not already prepared your lesson for Sunday School, use some quality time today to do so.

Anna Lee

Thursday

“I love the Lord

because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy.

Because he bends down to listen,

I will pray as long as I have breath!”

~Psalm 116:1-2 NLT, 2nd ed.~

Pray for Smiley Conerly who is  having some blood pressure issues.

Susan Rimes learned yesterday that her two kidney stones are still the same, so her issues are different.  Pray for her and her family as they seek a solution to the pain she lives with.

Mrs. Velma Anthony is not only out of the hospital, but is out of the house again.  Pray for her continued improvement.

Read the Bible in 2015 – Proverbs 20-21

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

Women’s Ministry Reminders

  • Ladies’ Night – Tonight at 6:15
  • Bible Study – Tomorrow at 10 :00
  • Operation Christmas Child – Buying school supplies still

 

Be blessed and be a blessing today.

Anna Lee

Wednesday

“And whenever you stand praying,

if you have anything against anyone,

forgive him,

that your Father in heaven

may also forgive you your trespasses.”

~Mark 11:25, NKJV~

 (That doesn’t mean that if you pray while seated, you don’t need to forgive others!)

Pray for Susan Rimes as she has another appointment today.  Kidney stones have been a frequent problem the last few years.  Let’s pray these last two will soon cease causing her problems.

Please continue to pray for Debbie Miller as she makes some changes to help improve her daily life.

Pray for Mr. Phillip Harrell as he makes a trip today to check on a medical issue.  Pray for the family as they continue to be good caregivers.

Sherry Day continues to get good reports.  Thank God for her progress.

Pray for a good attendance at Sunday School and worship this week.  You can be influenced by these times if you don’t put forth the effort to be there.

Pray for families as they continue to make adjustment to a new school year.

Pray for many of our local families who are dealing with sicknesses and deaths.

Pray for our schools as they influence our children’s lives for a major part of each day.

Read the Bible in 2015 – Psalm 99-101

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scriptures, and a Song

  • “The Power of Words” – http://odb.org/
  • Death and life are in the power of the tongue,                                                                                and those who love it will eat its fruit.                                                                                                                                                             ~Proverbs 18:21~                                                                            Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart                                                be acceptable in Your sight,                                                                                                                   O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.                                                                                                                                                    ~Psalm 19:14~
  • “Tell the Good News”

Women’s Ministry

  • Four birthday ladies and a number of others celebrated August birthdays yesterday.  Thanks to Betty Simpson for taking charge yesterday.
  • Tomorrow is our next ladies night, “Follow the Ants to the Picnic”.  We will begin with a picnic lunch at 6:15.  I hope lots of you will be there for all we have planned including a demonstration of making a sand cake.  You don’t want to miss this event.  Invite some guests, ladies between 3 and 103 years.  No tickets needed.
  • Friday’s Bible Study at 10:00 – Rizpah (2 Samuel 21:8-14).  Can you tell her story?  If not, join us to learn her story.
  • This next week is a good time to gather some donations for the Children’s Home.  Bring your items to the church any day but Saturday.
  • The first Sunday of September will be here soon.  I trust you are freezing some food for “Food for Families”.  What a blessing it is to others.

Thank you for praying.  My family, like yours, has benefitted from the prayers of others.  

Anna Lee

Monday

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,

for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly

about my weaknesses,

so that Christ’s power may rest on me.  

That is why, for Christ’s sake,

I delight in weaknesses,

in insults,

in hardships,

in persecutions,

in difficulties.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

Brandy and Raymond Cutrer will become the parents of a new baby for a total of three today.  Pray for them today and in the days to come as they make the adjustment to the growing family.

Debbie Miller has been seeing doctor to check on some medical problems.  Pray for her as she has another appointment this week.

Susan Rimes is still “under the weather” with kidney stones and will also be undergoing tests.

Mrs. Velma Anthony is hospitalized at North Oaks.  Pray she will soon be feeling much better.

Walter Dykes made it to Sunday School yesterday morning.  Thank God for Walter’s progress in recovery from heart surgery.

 

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Numbers 5-8

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Coming Alongside” –  http://odb.org/2015/08/24/coming-alongside/
  • Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,                                                            . . . who comforts us in all our tribulation,                                                                                     that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble.                                                                                                                                 ~ 2 Corinthians 1:3-4~
  • “Day by Day”

 

Women’s Ministry this week

  • Tuesday – Birthday party
  • Thursday – Ladies’ Night
  • Friday – Bible Study

 

Opportunities for Everyone this week

  • Operation Christmas Child
  • Frozen Food for Families
  • Food Drive for LA Baptist Children’s Home

 

Be a Christian influence on those you meet this week.

Anna Lee

Sunday

In the same way,

faith by itself,

if it is not accompanied by action,

is dead.

~James 2:17~

Ken Roberts now has a Caring Bridge page.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kenroberts2

 

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – I Timothy 4-6

Waylon Bailey –  http://waylonbailey.com/

Thom S. Rainer – http://thomrainer.com/

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

 

Women’s Ministry

  • “Young” Ladies’ Birthday Party
    • Tuesday, August 25
    • 11 A.M.
    • The Cafe, Kentwood
    • Celebrates the birthdays of ladies from FBC
  • “Follow the Ants to the Picnic”
    • Ladies’ Night
    • Thursday, August 27
    • 6:15 A.M.
    • Ladies from 3 – 103
    • You don’t have to be a member of FBC, K to attend.
    • Bring a friend.
    • No charge
  • Friday Morning Bible Study
    • 10 A.M
    • Next three studies
      • Rizpah – 2 Samuel 21: 8-14
      • Queen of Sheba – I Kings 10:1-13; Matthew 12:12:42
      • Jezebel  – I Kings 16:29-33; 18:1-19: 21:1-25; 2 Kings 9
  • Frozen Food for Families
    • Your opportunity to make life better/easier for someone
    • Sunday, September 6
    • Place food in quart-size freezer bags.
    • Label and date it.
    • Bring to my Sunday School room on the first Sunday of each month
    • I’ll be doing the same.
    • Delivery will be made that afternoon

 

 

Question: Are you interested in our children and young people learning about missions?

Quote: “The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.”

Scripture:  In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.                                                                                                                                                                 ~James 2:17~

Question: Are you willing to help teach them?

Solution: Let me know as soon as possible.

 

 

Have a wonderful week of studying, learning, doing, and sharing!

Anna Lee

 

 

 

 

Friday

“‘I have the right to do anything,’ you say —

but not everything is beneficial.

‘I have the right to do anything’ —

but not everything is constructive.”

~1 Corinthians 10:23 NIV~

 

Please pray for Barbara Hutchinson as she sees a doctor today and hopefully is closer to having the surgery she needs.

Please continue to pray for Susan Rimes as she continues to battle kidney stones.

Debbie Miller has seen and will see more doctors to help solve some medical issues.  Pray for JC and the doctors as they they work to make daily living easier on her.

The doctors are working hard to help Ken Roberts.  The family is finding hope in what is being done.  Please continue to pray.

Mary Lyle Russell Ellzey

Born: August 03, 1926
Died: August 19, 2015

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=3283377&fh_id=1054

Mr. Paul Douglas Howard

Born: Wednesday, June 20, 1962
Died: Wednesday, August 19, 2015

http://www.webcemeteries.com/memorials/Obituary.asp?Id=14488282

Read the Bible in 2015 – Hosea 1-7

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

  Third Thursday 

We had a great meeting last night.  We were blessed to have two people there for the first time and at least seven churches represented;  What of wonderful spirit!

Ladies’ Bible Study

  • 10 A.M.
  • This morning
  • Fellowship Hall of FBC
  • You’re welcome to join us.

Pine Ridge United Methodist Church Breakfast

  • Sunday morning at 8 A.M.
  • Donations accepted; Benefits a needy family or cause
  • You can leave after breakfast and attend your own church.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

I trust you will decide to follow Jesus if you have not already done so.

Anna Lee

Monday

Consider it pure joy, my brothers,

whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faith

develops perseverance. 

Perseverance must finish its work

so that you may be mature and complete,

not lacking anything.

~James 1:2-4~

A quote I heard at church last night:

“Christians need the patience of a farmer

and the perseverance of an athlete.”

                                                ~Caleb Smith~

I love to have Scripture show up in timely ways.

Who would have thought this verse would come to my computer

shortly after the quote I heard?

God has a way of making his points clear to us!

May we all be more like farmers and athletes!

I talked with Wendy L. Alford at church last night.  She said her dad, Mike Lambert, is now in rehab and improving some.  Please continue to pray for Mike and his family.

Last night, Lisa Piner, said her mother, Alice Faye Lee, did not need a stent or a by-pass. She will be treated with medication and will possibly be coming home Monday.  Please continue to pray for this family.

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Numbers 1-4

 

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Baking with Jess” – http://odb.org/
  • Do not labor for the food which perishes,                                                                                           but for the food which endures to everlasting life.                                                                                                                                                        ~John 6:27~
  • “Seek Ye First” 

 

New Zion Baptist Church would love to have you attend their monthly senior adult gathering, “Young at Heart”.  They meet on the third Tuesday each month at 10:30.

Thursday at 6:30, David and I will host the Third Thursday Gathering at the Cabin.

Pine Ridge United Methodist Church would love for you to attend their breakfast at 8 A.M. the fourth Sunday of each month.  Donations are used to support needs of individuals.

Friday, all ladies are invited to attend Bible study in the church fellowship hall at 10 A..M. We are studying Women of the Bible: The Wise Woman of Abel  – 2 Samuel 20:14-22.  Our group is growing!  We are learning great lessons of life.  Contact me for more information.

Tuesday of next week will be the “Young” Ladies Birthday Party at The Cafe at 11 A.M.  Come help us honor ladies who have August birthdays.

Thursday of next week, the ladies will host “Ladies Night: Follow the Ants to the Picnic”.  All ladies from 3-103 are invited to come picnic with us at the FBC fellowship hall of FBC.  You do not need to attend church at Kentwood to come.  All ladies are invited. Don’t miss out!

One of our on-going projects of Women’s ministry is Operation Christmas Child.  It is exciting to watch as our gifts are accumulating waiting for our packing party.  The party will only be a success if we purchase and donate items for the children’s shoe boxes. Check the area in the hallway of the fellowship hall closest to the coffee pot to get ideas for your purchases.

I need to borrow three or four  Scrabble games for a missions lesson.  If you have one I can use, please let me know.  You can bring it to me at church Sunday or Wednesday.  Please put your name on a sheet of paper inside the box.  Thanks!

 

 

Make this a week where you work for things that can have eternal value/meaning to others.

Anna Lee