Bartimaeus Baptist Temple

We had quite a few out last week and I want you to know I missed you.  I hope you are all feeling better especially with Thanksgiving coming up, you don’t want to miss out on that Turkey!

I hope you all have a terrific Holiday and I want you to remember to count your blessing over this Holiday season.

This week’s sermon is going to be in 1st Corinthians 4: 1-7.  I was going to talk about the ten lepers who were healed and only 1 came back to thank Christ but i think God wants us to see what Paul is writing to the church at Corinth.  These versus can be very confusing and I hope to be able to help us see what Paul was trying to get across.  The Phrase I want you to ask yourself between now and Sunday is this ” WHAT DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE” ?  I want you to think about this week.

I hope to see you this week in church as we don’t want to miss a singel opportunity to be there.  Do something for yourself this week by doing something for someone else.

Love You,

Pastor David

The church was filled and overflowing for the funeral service for “Little David”, or should I say ” Young David”, Kilgore on Tuesday.  There was family and friends that were their to support the family and pay their last respects to a young man that was tragically taken away from us.  It is hard to understand why things like this happen and it is hard to try and carry on, but things do go on.  Our prayers are with Cathey and Ruth as they try to make it through this very tough time as I know they are still grieving.  That is because they loved David so much.  It is when we love a lot we hurt a lot when tragedy comes but that is the way it is suppose to be.  We cant be afraid to Love because we don’t want to get hurt.  We cheat ourselves out of the relationships that make life bearable.  Our prayers are with this family as we too love them very much.

This week sermon is found in the Matt 25:14-30.  We are going to see what God expects us to do with what he has given us and we have been given plenty.  I hope we will appreciate one another at this time of the year because we all need each other.  We need each other ‘s talents each others support and we especially need each others love.  I hope you will be able to be at church on Sunday and share with us what you have received, and share with us a great Thanksgiving dinner.  Continue to talk to people about our church, invite them to come and continue to make good choices in your life.  Start by doing something good for somebody this week, maybe somebody who would never expect you to do it.  See you on Sunday!!!

Love you

Pastor David

I hope all of you enjoyed the experience on Sunday as much as I did.  I know this may be a little different then what we are used to but we need to be receptive to what ever God has for us NOW not just in the future.  God is good and his grace really does flow like a river.  This week’s sermon we are going to continue to look at grace and how we really do have favor with God whether we realize it or not.  The bible verse will be very familiar to you this week it is Matt 5: 38-48.  I hope we will be able to see because we have favor with God we need to pass that grace on to others.  It is a lesson you have been taught before but something we need to hear again.

Also this week Linda Thacker is going to share with us her testimony.  Larry and Linda both have had a terrific influence on us in just the few months they have been part of us and I am so excited to hear her story and how God has worked in her life.  I want to give others a chance to share their testimony as well as that is how we are going to be able to bring other people to the Lord by sharing what he has done for us.  I hope you will make plans to be here on Sunday because you don’t want to miss any opportunity you have to be in God’s House because we never know how many chances we will have to worship together.  As Laurie taught us don’t take things for granite because you will overlook many blessings and much joy if you don’t take time to enjoy even the little things in life.

I hope to see you on Sunday and I am looking forward to worshiping with you.  May God bless you and remember to do something good for somebody this week, it will make your week go much better.

I love you,

Pastor David

First of all I wish to publicly thank Pastor David for giving me the opportunity to share with my new family so soon after joining the church.  I appreciate the trust that conveys, and hope it isn’t diminished by my reminding everyone that only my wife went through seminary.  I did not.  However, she did graciously provide me some of her notes to help me prepare this message.

In Genesis Chapter 1, verses 26-28 tell us that God made us in His image.  What does that mean?  Why is it important?  In what ways are we lie Him, and in what ways are we not?  Does knowing this give us insight into how we should live our lives?  I believe it does, and I want to share it with you.  We will cover a lot of scripture, so I will provide the notes if anyone is interested.

Well we have made it through another month and what a month it was.  We celebrated our 50th Anniversary as a church,  we are making progress on the remolding of the Church, and we have all been blessed to just have been able to enjoy the blessings God has given us.

Last Sunday brother Joel reminded us of how we are to “Experiment with God.” I hope we can all really adapt that to our lives and step out and do what we believe God has for us to do.  So many time we sit around waiting to hear a specific word from God and we have missed out on many opportunities to help someone because we have been afraid to trust what we already know to do.  I encourage you, as well as myself, to reach for new areas to expand our Faith to work hard to bring the Kingdom of God down to this earth so we can make a difference in the people’s lives we touch.  We wont make a difference if there is not something diffrent about us.

This week’s sermon is called ” The Blessing Complex “.  the scripture for this week is Philippians 3: 7-15.  This week has been a very difficult week for our Country.  We are seeing our economy fail all around us and the government is trying to step in and save us from ourselves.  What a mess!  The question is how can we fix it?  Well to begin with we will have to get our priorties in the right place.  In the scripture verses for this week Paul says those things we counted as profit or all worthless compared to knowing Christ Jesus.  We are blessed because God has chosen us, each and every one of us, to pass this blessing along to others.  When we truly understand that our gr eastest assets are not what we have accumulated here on Earth but what we are doing to advance the Kingdom of God, we wont have to worry about depressions and ressicions we will understand how we have been truly blessed.  That is a promise from God.  He has promised in his word  When my People who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and turned from their wicked ways, then will I hear their prayers from heaven and heal their land.  Our Land needs healing, our Lives need healing and our spirit needs healing.  Lets develop a blessing complex so we can praise God and bless others.

The State Fair excursion is quickly approaching so be sure to let me know if you are going.  Don’t let the lack of money keep you from going with us as the church has been given the funds to let every member who wants to go have enough to get in and have plenty to eat for that day.  We will meet at the Church around 8 am and have breakfast and leave from there.  Hope to see you there and I hope to see you in Church on Sunday.  Invite a guest and share a blessing with someone  this week.  We love you!

Pastor David