SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1 2015

IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT - THE FAMILY OF GOD
With Pastor Rick and Tressa, Emma, and Clarke Jones
http://youtu.be/QOhXRW1a3Wo

 

Saturday, February 7, 6:00 PM

VALENTINES DINNER FOR MARRIED COUPLES

Join us at the Parsonage for Steak & Chicken Dinner.  Please let the pastor or his wife know you’re coming.

Sunday, February 15, 11 AM & 6:30 PM

SUNDAY SCHOOL APPRECIATION SUNDAY

 

Thursday, February 26 – Friday, February 27,  9AM – 7PM Convention

ST LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION & TRANSFORMATION WEEKEND

Saturday, February 28, 7PM  – Sunday, March 1,  11AM & 6:30 PM Transformation Weekend

Sunday Morning, March 22,
UNION BIBLE COLLEGE CHOIR 11 AM SERVICE

URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS:

TERRY KING'S 16 YR OLD DAUGHTER Maria has been rushed by ambulance to ICU where she is battling for her life after an overdose. 

RICHARD EASTIN, 23 YR OLD is at BJC St Louis for a second bone marrow transplant.  He has Hodgkins Lymphoma.

RUTH GEORGE is home from the hospital after shoulder repair surgery.  She's in a lot of pain.

GRANNY FARMER is home from the hospital but very weak.

OUR NEIGHBOR JAN MULHOLLAND took a serious fall down her basement steps and is in ICU with serious head injuries.

ST LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION 2015 - FEBRUARY 26 27

 

 

 

We're looking forward to meeting you one month from today in St. Louis for the St. Louis Holiness Convention, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 through FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 

We have heard from leaders in MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, IOWA, OHIO, ALABAMA, PENNSYLVANIA, and OKLAHOMA who are planning to come to this year's convention.

The ST. LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION is a unique blend of:

1. SPIRITUAL PRAYING - Like the early church we experience those times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord as we kneel together for prayer. 

2. POWERFUL PREACHING - We're blessed to have some of this generation's greatest exponents of Scriptural holiness on our platform. 

3. INSIGHTFUL TEACHING FORUMS and DISCUSSION - We're not afraid to talk through the great issues of our day.  Spirited conversation seasoned with Spiritual grace nourishes and encourages Spiritual growth and understanding.

4. POSITIVE NETWORKING - It's such a joy to hear what God is doing in His Church across the nation and around the world.  Friends meet at the SLHC to encourage one another in the great cause of holiness. 


While the enemy has come in like a flood, we know that the Spirit of the LORD is lifting up a standard against him.  Our mandate is clear:
    
1.       CONFIDENCE GROUNDED IN HUMILITY.   In too many places our people have lost their confidence in the doctrine, experience, and life of Scriptural Holiness.  The constant bombardment of the world, the flesh, and the devil have taken their toll. We hear of those who are “falling away” more than of those who are falling in love with God.      
  
THERE IS NO GOOD REASON WHY WE SHOULD NOT CONTINUE TO “CONTEND FOR THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS!”  We need confidence grounded in humility--not a carnal, self-justifying, know-it-all spirit.  We know that we don’t know it all.  But we can testify with the Apostle, “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I’ve committed unto Him against that day.”      

2.       CONVICTION HAMMERED ON THE ANVIL OF TRUTH.   Convictions held without reflection are uncomfortable at best and untenable at worst.  We cannot contend for that which we have not ourselves understood from the Word of God—written or impressed upon our hearts by the Spirit.  We need a revival of Spirit driven truth seekers who will without reservation take up the cross and follow the Lord.  Walking in the light is not legalism, it’s the natural impulse of every soul born of the Spirit.       

3.       CHARITY THAT IS SPIRIT GIVEN AND SPIRIT DRIVEN.  When our hearts have been strangely warmed by the Holy Ghost who is given to us, then we will be the blessing God has made us to be.  For the Love of God and souls we will press forward in these last days declaring His perfect salvation and wonderful love!    

 

 

YOU'LL NOT WANT TO MISS THE MUSIC MINISTRY OF UNION BIBLE COLLEGE SINGERS!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ST. LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION VISION

 

It is our conviction that the message of Scriptural Holiness, once the dominant theology of the United States of America, has lost it’s influence in our generation because:

 

1.        We have not met the intellectual challenge of our day.  Too often we have relied on literature that is 50 to 200 years old, rather than writing a sound apologetic in the language of our day.

2.         We have not been aggressive.  It is as though we have lost heart for the cause that we know is right.

3.         We have fallen short of our profession of perfect love by failing to demonstrate that love in our churches, our homes, and our lives.

4.        Our spiritual fervency has waned and our influence has diminished proportionately. Ultimately our cause is a spiritual cause.  We can only prevail as we are channels through which the Holy Spirit of God can flow.

 

It is our prayer that the ST LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION will be one means, blessed by the Lord to revive the message and cause of Scriptural Holiness in the 21st Century.

 

John Wesley said, "Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart, and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation."  We are praying that 100 Christian Leaders will meet in St. Louis, to “shake the gates of hell, and bring in the kingdom of God.

 

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Saturday, February 7, 6:00 PM

VALENTINES DINNER FOR MARRIED COUPLES

Join us at the Parsonage for Steak & Chicken Dinner.  Please let the pastor or his wife know you’re coming.

 

Sunday, February 15, 11 AM & 6:30 PM

SUNDAY SCHOOL APPRECIATION SUNDAY

 

Thursday, February 26 – Friday, February 27,  9AM – 7PM Convention

ST LOUIS HOLINESS CONVENTION & TRANSFORMATION WEEKEND

Saturday, February 28, 7PM  – Sunday, March 1,  11AM & 6:30 PM Transformation Weekend

 

 

PRAYER REQUESTS:

 

NEIL GOODRICH had foot surgery this week. 

 BROTHER COTTON IS NOW AT HOME WITH THE LORD.  He battled severe infections after suffering severe burns on 75% of his upper body.  Funeral services were Saturday in Eldon, MO.

 JONATHON LePAGE  IS NOW HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL

 GRANNY FARMER IS NOW HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL. 

 BUTCH MATLOCK’S FAMILY appreciates your prayers. 

 PRAY FOR FERGUSON.

 MELISSA WILKERSON’S MOTHER

 TAMMY LEWIS

 NORMA GILLHAM got a good report from the Doctors!  Praise the Lord.

 PHIL BOLDRA & FAMILY

 SISTER REGINA RUIZ

 ANNA DUTKIEWICZ

 JOE HARDY

 CHRISTY DODSON

 BERLIN JENKERSON

 RUTH GEORGE

 SHERYL VanLANDINGHAM

 JEAN JETTON

 MARSHALL SHARP

 MILLIE RADNEY

 SHEILA JACKSON

 HERMAN RODEMACHER

 HEATHER LACAVICH

 RON FEGER has really been suffering with severe pain.

 JON HURLBUT appreciates our prayers for his back injury.

 PRAY FOR THOSE IN NURSING HOMES, Katherine Graham, & Ralph Berberian.

 BEVERLY NELSON

 PRAY FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH. And remember the Christians in Ukraine.

 CONTINUE TO REMEMBER THE RECENTLY BEREAVED. the Dean/Roberts family, The Crawford Family, The Gober Family, Yvonne Mason’s Family, The Michael Wright family, Tom Lacavich family, P L Liddell family, Randy Hughes, Luke Miller’s family, The Fry Family (Howard). The Marsala Family.

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 TODAY'S BUS PAPER

 

 

TRUTH NEEDS NEVER FEAR ERROR...BUT ERROR ALWAYS FEARS TRUTH

Twenty two years ago I happened to pick up an impressive looking journal prominently displayed on the shelf of a leading bookstore.  The title of the lead article immediately grabbed my attention. That article, THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS by Samuel P. Huntington, has proven both enlightening and remarkably prescient. 

With the fall of the Soviet Union and the Economic collapse of totalitarian communist states, Huntington predicted that the primary axis of conflict in the 21st century would be along cultural and religious lines. Indeed.

As millions have endorsed the Qu'ran and embraced the prophet Mohammed, the exhortations of Islamic sacred scriptures have incited the faithful. "Kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worst than killing...but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful.   And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.  But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)"  Quran (2:191-193)

Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" 

Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." 

It was Mohammud who said in Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 992: - "Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah." 

It's clear from these and many other sacred writings of Islam that error, as they define it, has no right to exist.  How remarkably different from doctrine of Jesus Christ.

Jesus never killed or wounded those who opposed Him.
Jesus never urged his disciples to kill or hurt those who disagreed with Him or them.
Jesus welcomed inquirers (think Nicodemus) and answered doubters (remember Thomas).
Jesus engaged sinners (the woman at the well) and though zealous to expose hypocrisy He was equally zealous to save hypocrites.
Jesus loved his friends and lovingly prayed for His enemies ("Father forgive them for they know not what they do...")
Jesus urged his disciples to be willing to die for their faith, never to kill for their faith.

Even in His last moments before Pilate, the Savior was confidently testifying to the truth (for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth) and error was discomfited (Pilate took water and washed his hands...) and undeterred.

It's no wonder that the followers of Jesus Christ built a civilization that prized liberty, verity, and charity. These convictions are instilled in the hearts of those who follow Christ. 

We are indebted to our forebears who have protected our civic virtues, but we reserve our deepest reverence for the Light that dawned in Judea centuries before.