It was the 2nd Sunday at Rock of Ages Baptist Church and it was another Sunday of absolute blessing and challenge!!! I am going to the couples class which is a great challenge with raising and having a Biblical family and then church is just powerful on the Christian walk in general. In Sunday school it is a series on David. This Sunday was on "The Adversary". I Samuel 18:8-30 It was about the adversary Saul was to David (envy-of Saul, etc.) and how David responded to it and likened it to our adversary the Devil. There was a lot to it that is a small synopsis. He ended by saying "The more you gain the more you have to lose."
The kids love it and I do too. They have Sunday school and Children's Church and have been learning about forgiveness. Last Sunday as we were walking out of church Gabriel asked me how I liked my church?! I said "I loved it". In church it was the second sunday a child/teenager sat next to me.
This Sunday the girl sitting next to me was wearing an elastic waisted pleated (all the way around!) skirt which was meant for someone in there 60's or up. She wore what she had that was proper for church. She used to live with her mom and she said she wasn't able to go to school all the time because her mom (whom she said kept marrying losers) would end up in a fights with them and then she couldn't go to school. She now lives with an Aunt. What a blessing to see her and as I looked behind me a teenager with grunge street clothes singing hymns (not mumbling!). What a work!
The last 2 Sunday nights I have sat in the back of the church because the kids are with me and BOTH Sunday nights a lady (different ladies) in the church looked back and saw me and came to sit with me! They are full of God's love.
There is so much JOY in the church! Laughter comes so easily and so often! Laughter and joy are good for the soul! Prov. 15:13,15, 17;22
Gabriel was listening VERY WELL to the sermon last night about the Amalekites!! That thrills my heart.
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I'm thrilled to hear the church is a good fit. Isn't great to see genuine ministry with folk who desperately need the Lord (we all do) but with those that are oftem forgotten. Dad
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