READ THE BIBLE WITH US THIS YEAR
 
For the week of July 7-13, 2025
 
                               Old Testament Reading                    New Testament Reading                                  
 
Mon.                                       Job 35-37                                                         Acts 14
Tue.                                         Job 38-39                                                         Acts  15:1-21
Wed.                                       Job 40-42                                                        Acts  15:22-41
Thur.                                      Psalms 1-3                                                      Acts 16:1-15
Fri.                                            Psalms 4-6                                                     Acts  16:16-40
Sat.                                          Psalms 7-9                                                     Acts  17:1-15
Sun.                                         Psalms 10-12                                                 Acts  17:16-34
 
 MEMORY VERSES:     Acts 17:22-25
 
22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
 
23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
 
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.
 
25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
 
THOUGHT TO REMEMBER  
Paul did not miss the opportunity to witness to the people of Athens concerning the saving grace of Jesus Christ. We should not let the opportunities that God gives us to witness, pass us by.
 
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Something to Think About
 
JESUS UNDERSTANDS YOUR PAIN     Craig A. Cooper
 
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.      (Isaiah 53:3 NIV)

Jesus was known as a man of sorrows, well acquainted with grief. Our Savior knew what it felt like to be scorned and mocked. He understood rejection. He encountered deep betrayal. He faced the loss of loved ones. He experienced exhaustion, sleepless nights, and deep sorrow.

Besides all of His own anguish, He carried the sorrow and suffering of those around Him. He welcomed with open arms the weary, the bro¬ken, the hurting, the diseased, the distressed, the disillusioned, and men those who had made a mess of their own lives by their own choices. That the “Man of Sorrows” would be called the “Friend of sinners” is a beacon of hope for everybody breathing in this broken world (see Luke 7:34).

Here’s what it means: it means that Jesus understands your pain. He gets it. He can sympathize with you in your weaknesses. There’s no sin or suffering that can surprise Him; He has gone before us in both pain and comfort. Now “as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too” (2 Cor. 1:5).
 
So, we can go to Him, although trembling, and tell Him our trouble just as it is. He can handle it, He can understand it, and He can help us with it. He is the Great High Priest and He is able to sympathize with our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way but never once sinned. Because of this, we can come to the throne of grace and be met with mercy and grace in every time of need (see Heb. 4:14-16).
 
Take heart, dear child of God, the Man of Sorrows is the Friend of sinners.
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From the Pastor’s heart;
 
Don’t forget to use this time to reach out to others. Spend some time each day calling members on the telephone and offering to pray with them.
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Pastors Requests
Remember II Chronicles 7:14. “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 I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.”
 
While we wait on God’s healing grace, let us fast and pray for His visitation. Pray for God to intervene and bring an end to this virus that we are facing. Pray for God to calm our spirits and help us to trust Him.
 
Pray for the lost to be saved. Pray for the unrighteous to turn to God. Pray for God to be glorified in the crisis we are going through. Pray in faith; pray with the confidence that God will hear and answer our prayers.