Blessings to you, friends and family of BBT.  Your weekly update has arrived.

Last Sunday was our 60th Homecoming celebration.  Thank you to everyone who helped make it a good one.  I was so glad that Linda was able to be with us.  It was a time to remember those who have gone before and thank God for what he has done in our church.  Pastor Jay Gibson of Harvest Oaks Church blessed us with a message appropriate to the event.  You can hear it on the podcast or watch it on our Facebook page.  And of course there was plenty of good food, so much so that we’ll go ahead and have our fifth Sunday fellowship this month to finish it off.

This Sunday, Linda has prepared an encouraging lesson for us.  She has been excited to bring it to you and I know you will be blessed.  I am going to speak from Luke 19:11-27.  This is a very similar story to the one in Matthew 25:14-30 that most of us are probably more familiar with, but there are some interesting differences.  I’ll talk about them and about what Jesus is saying through both of these parables.

Something else is in my heart as I sit here writing to you this afternoon.  We are a church that believes in prayer.  That is why we maintain the practice of always having a time of prayer requests before the service begins and why we share them on line so that our members can come back to them and others may add their prayers to ours.  We know that God answers our prayers, even if sometimes we don’t like the answer.  We know that we serve a loving and faithful God who has sustained us for all these years.

That is why I ask you now as you pray for each other to always pray for our church.  Pray that we will love each other so that the world will know that we are His.  Pray that we will fulfill the calling that He has given to us.  Pray that we will choose wisely the future course of our ministry.  Pray that we will be fruitful and multiply.  Pray that He will show you what your part is in His work here.  And finally, pray for your leadership, that we will know His voice and execute faithfully that which He has given us to do, knowing always that it cannot be done without Him.

I love you!

Larry