Non-Series Messages (Page 2)
I want to invite you to join us online this Thursday evening—December 24th at 5:00 pm—for our Virtual Christmas Eve service. The service will be premiered on both Facebook and YouTube. We have spent the last couple of weeks capturing video of many of you guys so you might want to watch to see if you make the final cut! One of the highlights of the service will be getting to see the Christmas Story through the eyes of some of our children here at Temple Rogers. Again, it is helpful to consider the “Age-Old” story from different perspectives from time to time. That is exactly what I would like to do today—I would like to consider the role of the shepherds in this narrative. Who were they? What did they do? How do they contribute to the overall story? Why were they included?
We are excited to welcome to our services today the new Ministry Team Leader at the UA Association of Baptist Students—Stuart Estes.
Many of you may already know Stuart from church camp or other local association activities. He and his wife (Hanna) have been leading the student ministry at Round Mountain Baptist Church in Fayetteville for several years now. They are both recent graduates of the University of Arkansas. Stuart is currently working for Walmart in their corporate headquarters, and Hanna serves as a professor at the university. Stuart’s goal is to be able to serve full-time in the ministry; but he needs our help in order to make that happen!
Stuart will be speaking in both services today. He’ll be sharing more about his vision and ministry plans for the ABS ministry.
He will also be challenging us to consider supporting this ministry both with our prayers and our finances. I hope that you will prayerfully consider becoming a partner in this ministry to help reach the 27,000 students on campus that are from all over the world.
As difficulties arise each day, how are you dealing with them? Are you becoming overwhelmed by the stress and anxiety of contracting Covid-19? Has the racial tension across our great country caused uneasiness in you? Has isolation from interacting with people caused you to become despondent or depressed? Everyone is dealing with these things at least at some level. How are you doing? This morning, we’re going to divert from our study in 1 John to spend a few moments thinking about the frailty of life and how we are to respond to it. We’ll be looking today at the fourth chapter of Paul’s second letter to the Corinthian church as we consider a biblical response to the difficulties of our time.
Meet the Stephen and Candice Schroeder…
We are an ordinary family, serving an extraordinary God. We are a family of four, headed to Papua New Guinea to be directly involved with church-planting and Bible translation in a remote tribal people group. This site is a landing page for those interested in who we are and what we’re up to as we’re heading overseas.
Your prayers and financial gifts are what God will use to move us to the field and keep us there. Thank you!
Alberto Herrera is going Bro. Carter Pearce in planting Grace Mission in Green Forest, AR. http://www.gracebaptistgf.com/
HELP US GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, “For the body does not consist of one member but of many.” 1 Corinthians 12:14
Get involved at https://www.gideons.org
God has a plan for every person; a path that we can choose to follow or abandon. We often allow excuses that we create or even allow to be created in front of us in the way of obstacles to become our reason or self-justification for not obeying a perfect plan. Despite a natural excuse making nature, we’re called to lay down our excuses, and follow the path prepared before us.