I Will Rise – Chris Tomlin

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God’s Chisel

 

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The Gift of Worship (FloodgateProductions)

 

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PASTOR’S NOTE

                                       I did some work for old customers of mine this week, the Thurmans.  I have spoken of them before.  This elderly couple, both in their eighties now, have endeared themselves to me.  They met during the Second World War while they were both serving in the Navy, fell in love and married.  Captain Bud Thurman served until his retirement in 1975.  It has been my privilege to work for them on several occasions.  I count them as friends.  They have recently moved into an assisted living facility.  I was asked to do some work at their home of forty-some years in order to get it ready to sell.  They have not moved all of their belongings out of their old home and in order to do what had to be done, I found myself moving things around to clear a work area.  Among the stuff moved like a pool table, ping-pong table, weights and bench, treadmill and other fitness equipment, we moved a lot of personal paraphanelia:  pictures and plaques marking their days and experiences in the military, pictures of ships, destroyers and aircraft carriers. There were scenes of places around the world that I have never heard of.  There were mementos most certainly presented to them by the men and women who served under their command.  One collage was an artistic drawing of Captain Thurman and many of the important people he had met through his long career.  All of this may be just stuff to an outsider but to them these are a few of the things that mark the tracks of their lives.  When they are gone, these things will help their children to remember and will tell their story to their grandchildren and great grandchildren.  For me, it has enabled me to realize what a great couple they truly are and the sacrifices they willingly made for their country.  I wonder, what kind of tracks will we leave behind?  What mementos will there be to tell our story?  The question each of us should ask is:  are we living a story worthy of telling?  Are the mementos of our lives going to be such things as empty bottles, used needles, broken promises, ruined lives and unattained dreams?  Or, will there be such things as good memories, pictures of places and people we have loved, old useless but cherished gifts, love and honor?  The choice is yours.  You can decide right now which it will be.  What story are you leaving behind and what tracks have you made?  Stories are to be told and tracks are to be followed.  Will your story tell what you want heard?  Will your tracks lead those you love to a place you want them to be?

Jesus Christ is Everything – Paul Washer

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SHOW TEENS & SHOW EXPLORERS

The SHOW Teens and SHOW Explorers have been busy in the month of June.  The Teens went to youth camp.  They had a great time.  The SHOW Teens all testified the Sunday after youth camp.  The honesty of their testimonies touched the hearts of Safe House.  The SHOW Teens & SHOW Explorers presented an Independence Day/4th of July program on June 28th.  They did a great job of pledges and a song.  Thanks SHOW Teens and Show Explorers for all you do!  Please enjoy the slide show below.

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Welcome to Finley Plante

A welcome home reception and baby shower was given recently to Joe,  Amy, Elena and Finley Plante.   Master Finley Plante arrived just a few weeks after the Plantes returned from Azerbijian.  They had served two years as youth pastors and will now assume the role of Children’s Pastors at Real Life Church in Cincinnati.  Amy is the daughter of Pastor Marty and Joyce Huff of Real Life.  She is also the niece of Pastor Desi and Joanne Allen of Safe House of Worship.  Safe House has recently enjoyed the ministry of the Plantes.  Welcome Home!

Great Christian One-Liners 2nd Edition

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PASTOR’S NOTE

We are nearing one of the most celebrated of all American Holidays, the Fourth of July, Independence Day.  I read somewhere that more hot dogs are consumed on this one day than any other day or holiday of the year.  It is a time for family, fun and awesome cookouts.  It will be so at my place.  This year we will be blessed to have my other three grandsons from Delaware here.  Needless to say, we are guaranteed to have fireworks without striking a match.  Regardless of anything else that will be going on, I want us as a family and as a church family to pause and truly be grateful for the freedom we have.  We could have been brought under the rule of a tyrant or a run-a-muck military regime.  Thank God for the founding fathers of this great nation who, though not perfect men, were evidently much wiser than those in power now.  These men understood the necessity of the freedoms of worship, speech, assembly and the right to bear arms, among other freedoms.  They understood that it was dangerous to create a special interest group with rights above and beyond that of the rest of the people.  They had seen and experienced these abuses in Europe.  We are watching unfold before us right now in the streets of Iran what happens when corrupt government yields to the will of a supreme leader and then attempts to stop freedom of speech and assembly of its people.  When government feels it can ignore the will of the majority of its people, as in Iran, in order to pursue the agenda of those in power, certain things are inevitable.  Our dear country can and will experience much of the same if we do not do something about it.  Abuses of power is the beginning and the fuel for government that has abandoned government for the people and by the people.  As a result, the people of this nation lose true representation in Washington.  The will of the people ignored for the will of the few.  Its military and other federal agencies established to keep us safe from outside forces will turn their attention inwardly in order to keep the masses in tow.  The freedom to believe and speak independently of government influence will be discouraged and punished.  Our freedoms of assembly and to travel will be greatly restricted and even taxed.  Lives will be lost.  Many of you, like me, feel inadequate to do anything about this.  So let us do what we are best at doing.  Let us pray to the Creator of all free men.  Let us call on God who makes us free in Christ, to turn our nation around and make us dependent only upon Him and independent of all who would try to enslave us.