Bible Verse for Sunday Service January 2, 2022
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Announcements:
As this new year starts, our announcements bring news of ministries restarting, like the Ladies Bible Study on Tuesday @ 10AM, and AWANA starting on Wednesday @ 6:30PM. Our deacons will be meeting on January 13 to make nominations for church offices, and planning the budget that we will discuss at the annual meeting and potluck on January 23. Lastly, a Gideons representative will report on their work on January 30th.
Sermon:
For the new year, preached on James 4:13-17, a passage about the dangers of claiming to be a believer, but instead being a practical atheist, one who plans and acts without God.
Pastor found no fault in planning for tomorrow, knowing that we cannot know what tomorrow brings nor control it. But as we step into that tomorrow, we can trust in God’s sovereign will for our lives, and obey His revealed will, His word, the Bible. By doing this, we will avoid the sins discussed in the passage, sin of omission, not doing what we know we should, and the sin of commission, doing what we know is wrong.
As Pastor put it for a Montana audience, this is like driving down a road with ditches on each side, the sins. By steering straight, making sure we do not sin either way, we will do well today, and tomorrow if we do the same. So let’s hold this word in our hearts for the new year.
Accessing the Service, Bulletin and Sermon Outline:
Here are the pages from the bulletin, click on the images below to see them full size:
If you would like to have the sermon outline, you can download it here, a pdf file.
Here is a video record of the service on Rumble, an alternative to YouTube. To start the new year off correctly, I made sure to get to church early to setup the camera, and to catch the announcements.
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