Announcements - April 1, 2018

Abiding in Christ - 50 Days of Prayer and Fasting: Make sure to get a copy of the prayer guide. Extra copies of the guide are on the information table. Also, copies of the article on fasting and praying by Bill Bright are available on the table.

GOLD Meeting Saturday April 7: If you're a team leader or deacon, join the pastors at the church office for the quarterly Glory of Christ On-going Leadership Development meeting from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. If you have any questions or suggestions for the meeting, please contact Pastor Charlie.

All-Church Prayer Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 11: We will continue our season of prayer together in corporate prayer, seeking the Lord’s will for the long-term lease or ownership of a property in Elk River. All are welcome!

Act Like Men - Husbands: If you are a husband or hoping to be a husband someday, GCF will be offering a class outlining the 7 L's of a godly husband. The class is scheduled for Saturday, April 14 at the church office from 8:00 to 10:30 a.m. The class will be taught by Pastor Charlie and Pastor Kevin. Breakfast with Dunn Bros coffee will be served. $5 per participant. Notify Pastor Kevin by April 13 if you plan to attend.

Women's Retreat Coming Soon! Brochures are available on the information table. We look forward to getting away together April 27-28/29. This year's speakers are Jan Goris and her daughter Lisa Howse. The theme is Hope in God (1 Peter 1:18, 21). Ladies 16 years of age and up are invited to register. See Susan Fergus, Claire Belknap or Shelley Herzog if you have questions.

Next Week’s Fighter Verse

For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;

he is to be feared above all gods.

For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,

but the LORD made the heavens.

Psalm 96:4-5

Comments

God Displays His Beauty While Lifting Heavy Burdens by Pastor Kevin

I know I am a little bit overweight. My doctor tells me so. The mirror that I look into affirms it and the scale (that I mostly avoid) reminds me every time I step on it. All of that makes what I am about to say so much more impressive. I had the privilege of sitting on the beaches of Florida's Atlantic coast for 8 days on our most recent family trip. For me there is something magical about the beach, especially on the Atlantic side with the waves washing up against the shoreline. We have been lucky enough to find a sleepy beach town to vacation at. A nook, if you will, that typically features retired folks or families with kids. Out of the way of those who want to party, the beach is truly a relaxing place for me. Let me tell you something that I gleaned this time around that never quite landed on me. This last week it landed on me, almost literally. My son Ben and I are the more adventurous specimens in the Feder five. We actually get into the salty water where there are jelly f...

To Have My Soul Happy in the Lord, by George Muller

To Have My Soul Happy in the Lord By George Muller “It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost for more than fourteen years. The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, or how I might glorify the Lord, but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. “I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God—not prayer, but the Word of God. And here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God so that it only passes through my mind just as water runs through a pipe, but considering what I read, pondering over it, and applying it to my heart. To meditate on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed. And that thus,...

Is your Sense of Identity Tied to your Smartphone?

In her book Alone Together Sherry Turkle writes, “To make more time would mean turning off our phones. But this is not a simple proposition since our devices are ever more closely coupled to our sense of our bodies and minds. They provide a social and psychological GPS, a navigation system for our tethered selves” (167). Hmm, that’s a profound point. Our phones are no longer just a tool we use to get things done; they have become part of who we are. They make us feel awake, alive, and connected to the world, and therefore we must have our phones with us at all times. But why is this so? Or to ask a question that gets closer to the heart of my issues with my phone, Why do we feel the compulsion to check and respond to messages multiple times per hour? Perhaps… We want to feel important, bigger than we are. We want to feel needed, even indispensable. We fear the disappointment, disapproval, or anger of others if we do not respond in a certain period of time. We feel i...

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