Calendar of Ministry Events August Thursday Sunday
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Saturday Sunday Monday Saturday
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Sunday
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Saturday
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Board of Trustees Meeting 7:30 p.m. VBS Feedback Session Meeting after Worship Service in the Goodwin Building first floor. Meeting will be less than 30 min. Hattitude The Sweet Singing Cavaleers-featuring Michael Holmes In Full Concert here at SBC @ 4 p.m. Please come out and enjoy! September BLL Breakfast 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. The Lord’s Supper Celebration 4:45 p.m. Labor Day Grandparents Day Banquet-see Lucile McLendon for additional info. 3rd Quarter Meeting from 10-11:30 a.m. in conference room A National Grandparents Day Diakonos, Mothers, Fathers, Annual Day 3:30 p.m. Guest Church Tower of Faith-Dr. Reuben Anderson-Pastor 3rd Quarter Teacher Meeting 10 a.m. Fannie Goodwin Bldg. SET for FAMILIES, 12th Annual Healthy Families for LIFE Fair, 8:00am - 3:00pm. Free Mammograms, health screenings, professional led workshops. Free photos, games, and prizes. NEW -Special workshops and activities for teens. Fun and fitness for the whole Family! www.setforlifenews.org here at SBC
Bishop Wm. LaRue Dillard, Ph. D. Parish-Shepherd/Soul-Watcher
August 21, 2016
Special Announcements When youngsters turn 13 years of age, they must attend Teen Discovery Class SBC Livestreams at https://new.livestream.com/accounts/10332936 Pay tithes and offering online at www.secondbaptistmonrovia.org/tithes-offering.htm Revelation Series “DISTANT THUNDER” will be shown Sunday September 4th and 11th. During the Sunday School hour 9:45 a.m-10:30 in the Fannie Goodwin Bldg. The 17th Annual “Christian Men/ Boys Families Keepers Conference. Theme: “Christian Men and Boys making us of Our Spiritual Gifts” Scripture reference – Romans 12:3-8. Date Saturday Oct. 29th and Sunday Oct. 30th. We are currently collecting monies for Bow Ties & Handkerchief set $10. 00 Registration is $30.00 for Men $15.00 for Boys up to 15 years of age. October 13th -Save the date! NAACP Dinner at Pasadena Hilton Hotel Bishop Dillard is a Faith Award Honoree and John Pointer is keynote speaker- Ticket are $160.00 per person- Contact Lois Gaston 626-827-6732. purchase tickets online at http://pasadenanaacprmw2016.evenbrite.com
HIS GLORY IS OUR STORY! (John 1:1-14) “Troubles Break the Syndrome of Independence and Willfulness and Bring Us Back to the Lord!” Bishop Dr. Wm. LaRue Dillard www.secondbaptistmonrovia.org---sbcmon@aol.com
Bishop’s Epistle
August 21, 2016 THEME: STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE, ADVANCING THE KINGDOM!
COURAGEOUS LOVE WITH NO EXPECTATION OF ITS RETURN!
The Call to Worship--------------------Elder of the Lyceum Council
Sons and Daughters of my Flock, Grace to you!
Hymn of Worship--------------------------------Gathered Assembly “Make Me A Blessing” #350
There is a helpful message in I Thessalonians 2:1-12. Verses 11-12 say “As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.”
Worship Leader: Diakonos’ Ministry Responsive Scripture Reading……...Gathered Assembly (II Timothy 4:1-8)
Do you ever find yourself loving just to be loved? If so, that’s not Christian love. Most of the times when we say, “I love you” we are saying, “I desperately need you”! Whenever we love in order to assure a return of love, we are disappointed. The reason is that no one can love us as much as we need to be loved. Only Christ Jesus can do that!
Fervent Prayer unto the Lord------------Chosen Diakona
If we saint try to manipulate from another person what we were meant to receive from God, we will create an idol who will eventually fall from his or her pedestal. The Lord’s approval is all that is important.
The Chancel Ministry--------------------------------Presiding Elders
Verse 4 declares, “But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who test our hearts.” The apostle Paul was freed to be one of the most courageous lovers of all time. That’s what he meant when he wrote, “For our exhortation did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit.” (Verse 3). Always remember that original love from the Lord frees us from the endless effort to please people. When we know that He is pleased with us in spite of what we’ve been or done, that He offer forgiveness and a million new beginnings, we can get out of the sick syndrome of trying to please the people around us. Perhaps you are in one of those slumps right now depending on people’s response to you more than on the assurance of Christ’s “I’ll never-let-you-go” quality of love. It happens to all of us. We can all remember times when we were hurt so badly that we questioned whether we wanted to try to love again. I encourage you to follow Paul’s demonstrated love for the Thessalonians because it proves what love can do. It was not only original love from the undisputed origin of Christ Himself, it was a love distinguished by the next aspect of the authentic. It was genuine. Let us get on with loving sincerely with no expectation of love returning to us. Amen Until He Come, I Am Serving Christ Joyfully, Bishop Dr. Wm. La Rue Dillard Parish under-shepherd
Let’s Just Praise the Lord Together!
Welcome Parishioners and Visitor----Lyceum Council of Elders Stewardship of Paying Tithes and Giving Offerings Solo----------------------------------------------Shaquille Hemmans Acknowledgment /Announcements—Diakona Terrence Williams Special Appeal------------------------Brotherhood Laymen League Dance-------------------------------------------------Praise Brothers SERMONIC GOSPEL MESSAGE Bishop Dr. Wm. La Rue Dillard, Preaching “HOW CHRISTIANS SHOULD VIEW LIFE”! (II Timothy 4:4-7) A Christian Invitation
Your Prayer Requests ◊ To Be Born Again ◊ To Join this Parish Church The Doxology (Reverently) “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow!” The Benediction Recessional Chant “Let the Church Say, Amen!”