Mineral Springs CalendarMineral Springs Calendar |
News and Events
NO WAY OUT! -- Or is there?
 FROM OUR YOUTH PAGE..... Sometimes we let our surrounding circumstances get the best of us. We feel as though there is no end to a bad situation. We have no way out! Yet, through all of these things, we can rejoice in the Lord. He is our WAY! The devil has come to steal, kill and destroy. God has come to set us free of fear, to give us a joyful satisfying life. The joy of the Lord is our strength. Dear youth, We want you each to keep this close to you heart and mind.-- God is always in control. He gives you what you need. -- HE IS YOUR "WAY MAKER"! |
APRIL 11TH--A MESSAGE FROM THE PASTOR
|
THE CROSS AND PASSOVER
 THE CROSS AND PASSOVER (NLT) Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. At the beginning of John's Gospel, John the Baptist introduced Jesus by calling him the "Lamb of God". John presented Jesus as the Passover lamb whose death marks the central event of the Passover season. In the first century, Jews came to Jerusalem each year to celebrate the Passover and to reread the the story of the Exodus. When Israel was being rescued from Egypt, the blood of a lamb was spread on the doorposts of each Jewish home in Egypt and saved those inside from death. Jews who came to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover needed to supply a perfect young lamb for the sacrifice. The animal could not be diseased or have broken bones. Jesus used his final Passover meal to show that his sacrificial death would give new meaning to the festival. In John, the cross became an altar where Christ, the Passover lamb, was slain. Jesus' legs were not broken, fulfilling a Passover rule. Blood ran freely from his wound, showing that his life was being exchanged for others. Just as a lamb died to save the lives of Jewish families at the Passover in Egypt, so,too, the death of the Son of God on the cross serves to bring salvation to the world. He carried our sins in his body on the cross....By his wounds you are healed. 1 Peter 2:24 |
FROM THE PASTOR'S HEART
 “Praying Like Daniel” Daniel 9:15-19 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day---we have sinned, we have done wickedly! O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us. Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolation, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.” Amen! |
FROM THE PASTOR'S HEART
“Forgiving Others” Matthew 18: 21-35 (Focus v. 35)  God will not forgive us unless we forgive others even as Christ forgave us. Listen: “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” Who do you need to forgive? |
From The Pastors Heart
 From God’s Word to Our Heart! by Dr. Kinney Wallace “Christmas All Year Long?” Titus 1:4-“Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.” Soon the Christmas trees will be taken down and stored away for another year or planted in a place they can grow. Soon the Christmas lights will be turned out and stuffed in the box again. Soon all the presents will have been accepted and opened and the excitement and expectation will have passed. However, for true believers in the Christ of Christmas, Jesus will be celebrated and worshiped all year long, not just on Christmas day. His grace, mercy and peace which comes from Him to us allows us to celebrate and glorify Him all year long! We know that He is present with us continually and that He seeks such as we are to WORSHIP Him always. “When all the “signs” of Christmas have past, Jesus is the Christ-mas that will last! Amen! |
FROM THE PASTOR’S HEART
 “Preparing the Way of the Lord!” Luke 3:1-4 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, while Annas and Caiaphas were high Priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Christmas is coming! Are we ready for the Lord’s appearance? Have we prepared His way by our repentance for the remission of our sin?
|
1-10 of 63
