Posts by courtnut02 (Page 17)
Lifelong Learners
A week doesn’t go by, that I don’t learn something from God or about God. He continually teaches me. In Psalm 25:4, King David prayed, “Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths.” We never reach the point where we can’t learn anymore. The more that I study God’s Word, the less it seems that I know. We must be lifetime learners. We must recognize our strengths and weaknesses. God’s teachings strengthen us and make us successful. They…
See You At The Pole
Despite the rain more than 200 students met at the middle school, high school and SWOSU to pray for our country, our city and their schools. See You at the Pole began in 1990 as a grass roots movement with ten students praying at their school. Over 20 years later, millions pray on their campuses on the fourth Wednesday in September. See You at the Pole is a student-initiated, student-organizes, and student-led event.
Notes From Mark
Thank you for a good day this past Sunday. It was good to have a fuller house and it was good to fellowship with each other. Thank you to the many who helped make the day a success! God’s Word is filled with passages that encourage us to build up one another. One of these is found in Hebrews 3:12-14. Reminding believers about those Israelites who lived in rebellion in the desert and they were not allowed to enter into…
Connect Sunday
Connect Sunday was great. We had fellowship at breakfast…we studied God’s Word in Sunday School…we had some fun with our contact and attendance challenges…we worshiped…we looked at why God wants us to attend church…and we had food, fun and fellowship in the parking lot. I hope you made it. God has a plan for each of us and for Emmanuel. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not…
Connect Sunday
This next Sunday is Emmanuel’s Connect Sunday. Please make every effort to be in Sunday School and Worship. We have a big day planned. We want to connect with each other and with God. In the crazy world we live in, we need God…and we need each other. Once Daniel Boone, a great pioneer-trapper, was asked, “Mr. Boone, have you ever been lost?” “Oh, of course not,” He replied with a smile. “However, I must admit that I was once…
Adjusting to God’s Mission Focus
Have you ever played the game where you start with a blurry image and as your keep looking at it the image grows more and more in focus and you try to guess what it is before time runs out? Sometimes God reveals things in much of the same way. He gives us a basic but blurry image of what he wants us to do, we follow him in obedience. If we continue to follow him the vision gets clearer…
Notes from Mark
Love is a word and emotion that has different meanings for each person. As you walk by countless people each day you have different thoughts for each one if in fact you give them a thought at all. In our humanness we place values on people. Those who are dear to us we place a greater value than those whom we hear about to those who we will never meet. For us it is the person and the relationship that…
Two Special Sundays
This coming Sunday evening, we will have our annual fellowship meal and baptism service at Crowder Lake. Make plans now to attend! But first, join us next Sunday for Sunday School and worship in the morning. That afternoon, come early to the lake (4:30 p.m.) to play some lawn games. Bring a couple of dishes for the potluck meal. We will have our fellowship meal at 6 p.m. and will follow with a baptism service. If you have not been…
We need to Pray, now more than ever…
No matter when I write these words they are always true. We need to pray, our church needs prayer, your family needs prayer, our country needs prayer, you name it and they need prayer. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey, more than half (55%) of Americans say they pray every day, while 21% say they pray weekly or monthly, Even among those who are religiously unaffiliated, 20% say they pray daily. As we CONNECT with people from our…
Notes From Mark
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:1-3 Theses words…