Category: FBC

Sunday

This is my blood of the covenant,

which is poured out for many

for the forgiveness of sins.

~Matthew 26:28~

 

Please pray for Wilbur Creel who suffered second and third degree burns on his hands arm and side yesterday.

Pray for Joanne Seymore who began her twelve rounds of chemo Friday.

Pray for Bettye Fussell as she and Fuzzy continue her treatment.

 

Nadine Joiner Anderson

November 05, 1954 – April 07, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/obituary/nadine-anderson

 

 

Read the Bible – I Kings 20-22 & Psalm 100

Easter Cantatas

  • Spring Creek Baptist Church – this morning
  • Kentwood FBC – 7 P.M. tonight

 

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.                             ~Hebrews 1:3 (NIV)~

The reminds me of our Easter cantata which will be tonight.  David and I watched the practice last night.  I hope you can attend tonight.  The children are singing two songs.  There is a variety of music from the adults, some familiar and some new.  Come be blessed.  It will begin at 7:00 tonight.

The Children in Action are leading a mission project for an area food pantry.  They are collecting bags of red beans and rice.  Please support them by bring some too!

It’s Annie Armstrong Easter Offering time.  Our missions march will be one week from today.

Have an extra meaningful day this Palm Sunday.

Anna Lee

 

 

Friday

Just as people are destined to die once,

and after that to face judgment, 

so Christ was sacrificed once

to take away the sins of many;

and he will appear a second time,

not to bear sin,

but to bring salvation to those

who are waiting for him.

~Hebrews 9:27-28~

 

Mrs. Estelle Raborn is still not well, but she is home again.  Please pray for her and for Bobby as he cares for her.
Harrell Sharkey. Jr. will probably come home today from Ochsner.  Pray for him and his family as they await biopsy results.
Alice J Blades

January 12, 1942 – April 02, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/obituary/alice-blades

Pray for our world.  There are many people full of terrible hate and not the love of God.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

The life I now live in the body,

I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

— Galatians 2:20 (NIV)

“The Love of God”

 

 

Announcements

  • Bible Study – 10:00 this morning – Ezekiel 4
  • Cantata, Jesus Messiah – Sunday, evening at 7 :00
  • Easter – 8:15 and 10:30 services
  • Missions March – April 23

Read the Bible – I Kings 14-16 & Psalm 98

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Louisiana Baptist Message – baptistmessage.com

 

Take the “Love of God” with you and share it with others as God provides the opportunities.

Anna Lee

 

 

 

Thursday

The next day

John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,

“Look, the Lamb of God,

who takes away the sin of the world!

~John 1:29~

 

Harrell Sharkey, Jr.’s  lung procedure went well.  The doctors think he has an infection, but do not know yet if it is viral or bacterial.

One of my former students, Darla Williams Berg, complete her treatment for cancer yesterday.  Let’s pray she can stay clear.

A lady who was in high school, but not my class, Georgia Tarver Canale, is in North Oaks because of a mild stroke.  Let’s pray she is soon better.

Read the Bible – I Kings 11-13 & Psalm 97

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

“Healing is Pastor McLean’s Plea after TX Bus Tragedy” – http://www.bpnews.net/48623/healing-is-pastor-mcleans-plea-after-tx-bus-tragedy

“Former Saloon Home to Ky. Missionary of the Year” – http://www.bpnews.net/48620/former-saloon-home-to-ky-missionary-of-the-year

Friday Morning Bible Study – Ezekiel 4

“Jesus Messiah” Cantata – Sunday night at FBC, Kentwood at 7 P.M.

April/May Mission Project – The Children in Action of FBC, K will be collecting red beans and rice until the end of May.  The food will be given to a local food pantry.

Annual Missions March for Annie Armstrong Easter Offering – March 23 at FBC, K mornig service

FBC, Kentwood will have an extra service at 8:15 on Easter morning, but no service that night.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. — 1 John 3:16 (NIV)
Anna Lee

Wednesday

The crowds that went ahead of him

and those that followed shouted,

“Hosanna to the Son of David!”

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

~Matthew 21:9~

Pray for Jim and Sylvia Watson as he continues to progress from tests to a plan of treatment.
John Willard Helsel

December 04, 1935 – April 03, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=obituaries.obit_view&o_id=4183781&fh_id=10545

Read the Bible – I Kings 8-10 and Psalm 96

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Louisiana Baptist Message – baptistmessage.com

Annie Armstrong Easter Offering – Missions March at FBC, Kentwood on Sunday, April 23

Friday Morning Bible Study – Ezekiel 4

Children in Action – Tonight at 6 P.M.

 

For Christ’s love compels us,

because we are convinced that one died for all,

and therefore all died.

And he died for all,

that those who live should no longer live for themselves

but for him who died for them and was raised again.

~2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NIV)~

“Living for Jesus”

If you heard Wendel Rhodus speak Sunday, this song may describe how we are to live our “dash”, the mark between our date of birth and our date of death on our tombstone.

Anna Lee

Tuesday

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!

Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!

See, your king comes to you,

righteous and victorious,

lowly and riding on a donkey,

on a colt,

the foal of a donkey.

~Zechariah 9:9~

 

We talked with Betty Fussell yesterday.  She said the transfusions had made her feel so much stronger. Betty says she is eating more thanks to Fuzzy’s encouragement.  She’s looking forward to having a chemo treatment Monday.  Please continue to pray for them.

Debbie Miller was scheduled to return to Greensburg after a brief stay at Oceans.  She is doing much better.  She’s always seems to enjoy visits.  Please continue to pray for her and for her family.

Judith Graham Young

January 23, 1941 – April 02, 2017

Susan M. Jenkins

November 20, 1946 – April 02, 2017

(She was a modern day Dorcus!)
Willard Helsel of Roseland also passed away.  Most of you have seen his swings and rockers for sell in the curve south of Roseland.  Some of you are rocking and swinging in them.  His son-in-law, Heath Rohner, posted an awesome tribute to him on Facebook.  It touched my heart too!
Read the Bible – I Kings 4-7, Psalm 95, and video, “Heaven and Earth”
Baptist Press – bpnews.net
Children in Action – Meeting tonight at 6 P.M.
I hope to see many of you at the Easter Cantata at FBC, Kentwood Sunday night at 7 P.M.
Anna Lee

Sunday

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,

and the message is heard

through the word about Christ.

~Romans 10:17~

 

Josephine Perez Currier

December 01, 1922 – April 01, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=obituaries.obit_view&o_id=4181584&fh_id=10545

 

Read the Bible – 2 Samuel 22-24 & Psalm 93

 

Many churches will be having special musical programs for Easter.  Kentwood’s is Sunday evening, April 9th.

 

Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time

Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem.

On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them,

“We are going up to Jerusalem,

and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests

and the teachers of the law.

They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles

to be mocked and flogged and crucified.

On the third day he will be raised to life!”

~Matthew 20: 17-19 (NIV)~

“Alas and Did My Savior Bleed”

 

May you fully give this Lord’s Day to Him!

Anna Lee

 

 

Saturday

I just returned from a two-day WMU meeting at FBC, Mandeville.  It was a great experience!  I wish many more of my friends would have been there too!

 

“Don’t worry about how or what you should speak.

For you will be given what to say at that hour

because you are not speaking,

but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you.”

~Matthew 10:19b-20 HCSB~

“Do not be afraid;

keep on speaking, do not be silent.”

~Acts 18:9b NIV~

 

 

Pray for Jim Watson as he has a PET scan this week.  The results should let the doctors know how to plan the next steps.

 

Jimmie Lathan Pittman

February 08, 1953 – March 31, 2017

 

For the director of music. Of David.

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;

there is no one who does good.

 ~Psalm 14:1 (NIV)~

“My God is Real”

 

Read the Bible – 2 Samuel 19-21 & Psalm 92

 

Invitation – You are invited to the Easter Cantata at FBC, Kentwood April 9th at the P.M. service.

Anna Lee

 

 

 

Thursday

 

In accordance with your great love,

forgive the sin of these people,

just as you have pardoned them

from the time they left Egypt until now.”

~Numbers 14:19~

 

Pray for missionary friends who were flying home yesterday and  again today.

Betty Fussell received two units of blood Monday.  She had a good day yesterday.  Let’s pray she has another good day today.

Pray for Harrell Sharkey, Jr. as he plans to enter Ochsner in New Orleans Wednesday for a lung biopsy.

Debi Bales’ mother is doing a little better.  Please continue to pray for the whole family.

 

Wallace “Sonny” Carney, Jr.

July 14, 1954 – March 28, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=obituaries.obit_view&o_id=4177582&fh_id=10545

Conerly David Robertson

September 22, 1921 – March 27, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/obituary/4176865

 

The items collected for the LA Baptist Children’s Home have been delivered.  Our next collection for them will be in September.  Thank you for all you have done for the children’s home.

 

“He is Risen” will be the day before Easter.  I gave you an incorrect date yesterday.  The walk will not be this Saturday.

 

 

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

 

Read the Bible – II Samuel 13-15 and Psalm 90

 

If you have been reading the Bible according to the plan I post each day, you will have read 25% of the Bible so far.  We are on our 10th book of the Old Testament.  We have also read about 33% of Psalms.  Best of all, we are learning so much.  I find I can always learn more, even if the passage seems very familiar.  You can always pick up the reading where we are OR go back to Genesis and start there.

 

He was despised and rejected by mankind,

a man of suffering,

and familiar with pain.

Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised,

and we held him in low esteem.

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering,

yet we considered him punished by God,

stricken by him,

and afflicted.

 ~Isaiah 53:3-4 (NIV)~

“Oh, How I Love Jesus”

 

Paperback Bibles – The boxes are back in the church for you to deposit PAPERBACK Bibles which will be given to prisoners at the Tangipahoa Parish Jail.  I’ll leave the boxes for a while.  There is presently no deadline.

 

If you do not get in to see the movie, “Facing Darkness” about the medical volunteers who were working with Samaritan’s Purse when they contracted Ebola, there will be another opportunity in about two weeks.

 

Pray for those having bad weather today.  

Anna Lee

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

Remember this:

Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way

will save them from death

and cover over a multitude of sins.

~James 5:20~

 

Read the Bible – 2 Samuel 9-12 and Psalm 89

Annie Armstrong Easter Offering – “What to Pray for in 2017” – https://www.anniearmstrong.com/mission-central/what-are-you-praying-for-in-2017

 

“He is Risen, 2017” – Walk to show your faith and your thankfulness.

  • Saturday morning at 9:00 at Smokehouse BarBQ or 8:30 at FBC, Kentwood for shuttle service
  • Walk takes about one hour.
  • Police escort as well as medical assistance
  • T-shirts available – Contact Lou Miller Guerra

 

Wednesday is Missions Night for Children at FBC, Kentwood – 6 P.M.

Bible Study Friday – Ezekiel 3

 

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us,

so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV) ~

“Alas!  and Did My Savior Bleed”

 

The days fly by.  Make sure each one counts!

Anna Lee

 

Monday

The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving,

even though we have rebelled against him;

~Daniel 9:9~

 

J.C. Miller said Debbie Miller is being re-evaluated for a change in medication.  As you pray for her, please pray for her family.

Patricia “Patsy Lou” Alford

August 26, 1940 – March 26, 2017

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=obituaries.obit_view&o_id=4174109&fh_id=10545

Read the Bible – 2 Samuel 1-3, Psalms 87, and video on 2 Samuel

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

God has listened;

He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.

~Psalm 66:19 HCSB~

“Sweet Hour of Prayer”

Tomorrow – “Young” Ladies Birthday Party at The Cafe at 11 A.M.

Baptism – Sunday at FBC, Kentwood

Thank-you for praying.

Anna Lee