AN AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY

I am the one sitting near the back of the building. I am not there every time the saints meet, but I am trying and I am doing better. I haven’t been a Christian long and when I see the same people worshiping God each week, I am encouraged to be more faithful. I know I am missed when I get phone calls or cards in the mail. Thank you for being friendly and encouraging, and caring.

COMFORT

COMFORT

I think that God is proud of those who bear

A sorrow bravely -- proud indeed of them

Who walk straight through the dark to find him there,

And kneel in faith to touch his garment's hem.

Oh, proud of them who lift their heads to shake

Away the tears from eyes that have grown dim,

Who tighten quivering lips and turn to take

The only road they know that leads to him.

How proud he must be of them -- he who knows

All sorrow, and how hard grief is to bear!

I think he sees them coming, and he goes

With outstretched arms and hands to meet them there.

And with a look, a touch on hand or head,

Each finds his hurt heart strangely comforted.

(by Grace Noll Crowell, found in Victory Over Trials by Lottie Beth Hobbs)

DEBORAH'S DELIVERANCE

The time of the judges was a period when the Israelites went about doing what was right in their own eyes, then crying unto the Lord because of the oppression they were experiencing wanting deliverance. "Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them" (Jud. 2:16). There were a total of 15 judges. One of those judges was a woman and her name was Deborah.