Since there was a threat of rain last week we had to reschedule Chris Hail for another Sunday in May.  It seems like having Chris coming to Bartimaeus is like the Byron Nelson Golf tournament coming to Dallas.  You schedule it and it brings rain. Maybe the next time we invite Chris to come we will wait for a drought and he will bring rain with him!  We need the rain but we want to hear Chris as well.

This week is Easter.  There will be some people in Church’s all over this city this week that have not been in a church since last Easter. My prayer is that they will be ministered to and see what they have been missing and people all over this city will find Christ.  I hope we have a good group in Bartimaeus as we celebrate the resurrection of our Savior.  We would all be lost today if God did not love us enough to sacrifice his Son for us.

I am going to preach on the Gospel of John 20: 1-18.  This is the story of Mary finding the tomb empty.  I want to tell you why I believe in the Resurrection.  There are some thing we as Christians believe that are essential to Christianity, things like believing there is no way to heaven but through Christ Jesus.  We believe that God hears our prayers and we have forgiveness of our sins by repentance and confession of our sins.  We believe that Jesus was sent to this earth as a sacrifice for our sins and we must believe that God raised him from the dead and he is alive today and will come again one day.  These are things that I believe with all my heart and I cannot be swayed away from.  I hope you feel the same way.  I am going to give the reasons I believe in the Resurrection this Sunday.  I hope you will invite someone to come with you.

After the service on Sunday we will have an Easter dinner with Ham and all the sidings. We invite everyone to join us as we fellowship together.

Please continue to pray for those that we mentioned in our prayer request on Sunday and give a special thanks to god for the healing for our brother Jerry Gibson.  I can’t wait till he can come and bring a testimony of what God has done for him.  My scripture to you this week is Romans 8 18 “For I consider the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”. Keep fighting the fight and know that you are blessed even if you don’t feel it right now.  Walk by faith!!!

We love you so much

Pastor David & Pris