October/ November 2017 Whitesburg magazine

Whitesburg OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017

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2 Giving Thanks

By Dr. Jimmy Jackson

4 Sadie Robertson Live Original - The Tour

6 The Habit of Gratitude

By Corry Cox

11 Diving Deep in Grace

By Andrea Thoenes 16 Our Thanksgiving Homecoming

By Harold Fanning 19 Kid’s Space

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20 The Gospel Hand

By Andrea Thoenes 26 Group Up!

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Giving

Thanks

by Dr. Jimmy Jackson

One of the simplest and easiest things to do is to say, “Thank you.” Throughout the Bible we are instructed to give thanks to God. A great illustration of this truth is found in Psalm 100:4: “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise, be thankful unto Him and bless His Name.”

In the Old Testament days when the Temple was in Jerusalem, the people were to come to various festivals. When they approached the outer court of the Temple, they were to do so with the words and sacrifices of thanksgiving.

As they moved closer to the Temple, they were to give praise, honor, recognition, and respect to the God of Heaven.

After all, He is the only God. He owns everything, and whatever blessings we have are ours as gifts of goodness and love (Colossians 3:17).

In the New Testament we are called to serve the Lord in both “word” and “deed” in

Jesus’ Name, giving thanks to the Lord God. When we experience troubles that tend to cause worry and anxiety, we are instructed to make our requests and concerns known to God, “with thanksgiving” and God will give us peace that passes all understanding through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:6-7).

No one loves us and watches over us like our Lord and Savior.

He has given to us the Holy Spirit to lead us into the truth of God. He never leaves us. “Every perfect gift comes from Him.” Why should we not be thankful?

Just as our children please us when they say “Thank you” to us or someone else, even so our Heavenly Father is pleased and blessed when we say “Thank you” to Him and to others who share His world with us.

P. S. A thankful spirit is good for our spiritual and physical well-being. It is better than any multivitamin or mineral in the world because it makes us pleasing to our Savior.

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This will be a night packed with practical teaching to equip and encourage young people.

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the habit of

Gratitude Gratitude?

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Maybe the easiest way to describe it is to think about the feeling that you have as you are reading this: “I sure am grateful I didn’t have to write this!” Seriously, I have been doing some reading and secular behavioral scientists tell us that one of the secrets to discipline, health, and happiness is gratitude. So if they believe that…

From a believer’s standpoint we know we should be a grateful people, but why do we miss it?

I think the things we should be most grateful to the Lord for, tend to be those we take for granted the most. Sure we easily think of the big ones: spouse, kids, family, friends, and jobs.

But what about the very breath we breathe, the situations and opportunities for growth that we often find ourselves in, and everything (yes, that really means everything) else? Why do we “forget” to be grateful for them? Is gratitude something

by Corry Cox

we only think of around the Thanksgiving table or does it mark our very fabric?

I want to share a simple story that I think illustrates my point.

Let me start with, I love my church! But I do, at times, get a little like the nation of Israel in the wilderness and grumble, whine, and complain. I know, shame on me. I like to think it’s because I want us to be better, but in reality it is because I forget to be grateful (for everything, yes it still means everything)! There have been several occasions that have reminded me about how grateful I should be for Whitesburg Baptist, but one instance in particular stands out.

I was out in New Mexico several years ago for work. The work trip lasted for a couple of weeks and I wanted to attend church on Sunday. The local Southern Baptist church had strange hours (they started at lunchtime, or at least what I considered to be lunchtime)

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A HABIT OF GRATITUDE and the team I was traveling with was waiting on me to finish with church, so we could play a round of golf. I decided to visit a different congregation, with more “appropriate” hours. It was a small, beautiful old mission church and the congregation, while small and older, were extremely nice.

They were very welcoming and had all the greeters in all the right places to make you feel at home. The service started, we sang out of the hymn books and read from both Testaments, they even declared “Please stand for the reading from the Word of God.” Things were going great!

The pastor soon took the pulpit and started preaching, and I’ll tell you what, I was in to it. He was beginning a series on the Sermon on the Mount. As he was setting up his sermon on the Beatitudes, I was getting fired up. He told us how Jesus didn’t come to preach to the religious, in fact He had His hardest condemnations for those folks.

Amen, I agreed. He told us how Jesus came to have a relationship with us, Amen again!

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left hand turn and said, “In fact, Jesus never preached on sin.”

WHAT??? I nearly jumped out of my pew! I was thinking ‘Jesus is fixin’ to preach on sin in this sermon, in fact, it’s where he adds to the sin of anger and lust!’

‘What is this guy talking about?’

He then goes on to say that the disciples added all of that stuff to the Bible later! Needless to say, my emotional state goes from fear (uh, is lightning gonna strike?) to anger, to sadness. I am unsure of anything else he said that day, but I began to pray for that congregation, that God would deliver them from that kind of leadership. My heart was truly burdened for them.

You know what else I prayed that day? A prayer of gratitude.

I began to contrast that congregation and Whitesburg.

We have the joy and privilege to hear the Word of God preached on a weekly basis! I repented of the grumbling, whining, and complaining and thanked the Lord for Godly leadership from our pastor, staff, and the numerous saints who volunteer to teach and lead. We are truly blessed. After I walked out of that little church, I called home

and told Erika, we have a great church and there is nowhere else God would have us!

Moral of the story? Always visit the Baptist church. Wait, no, that’s not it. For if I had visited the Baptist church, I don’t think I

would have gotten this message!

The moral is, don’t wait for God to point out why you should be grateful! Begin cultivating a habit of gratitude and He will bless you!

Corry Cox is a believer, husband, father, and engineer who loves Jesus, his wife, his kids, his job, and his church.

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Saturday, December 2 8 - 10 am We invite your family to a free come-and-go breakfast with the Bethlehem characters!

The children will receive special gifts to help them better understand the Christmas story.

All families with children Grade 2 and younger, including siblings, are invited.

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And, of course, it all turned

out just fine. Our glorious Redeemer, Christ Jesus, saw it as a way to reveal His love, provide His grace, and make His children a bit more like Him. This is the conclusion to every gospel-dipped story of our lives.

The impossible schedule, the

emotional blowout, the multipage to-do list, the horribly bad decision, the chronic pain, the tragic phone call, the devastating diagnosis all have the same good ending above when we immerse it deep within the gospel waters.

Raised to walk in newness of life! Not just the body; snatch

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DIVING DEEP INTO GRACE every item and event, every worry and care and plunge them deep. They will rise to the top transformed. Wait for it.

This good ending realization hit me as I was cleaning out a filing cabinet of old prayer journals. Flipping through the pages of notebooks dating back to 1986, each was a myriad of praises, complaints, trials, births, moves, accidents, new jobs, projects, windfalls, and deaths.

Sin-soaked pages; grace-filled chapters. Loose ends waiting; so many not-yets.

Listen though.

Those dangling unanswered prayers, those unspoken requests and secret things, dreams denied,

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things done without – those are not forgotten by our Lord Jesus.

There they lay, submerged in the baptismal pool, covered by His grace. Will they dissolve in the waters of mercy and maturity?

Or, will they rise up and walk out in some amazing, unexpected way? Some tragedies, some senseless evils make no sense here on earth, but once we get to heaven, we’ll see the eternal ripples of blessing the Lord brought forth from those ashes.

We may not have answers till we see His face, but He has promised to work all for good.

Good. Not happy. God doesn’t deal in wispy happy, but in solid rock goodness.

Everlasting

righteousness. Forever and ever, Amen.

Stop a moment and take a breath. Hold it now and dive deep under grace-filled waters where it is quiet and still. Consider, we can scurry and stress and be angry about life not conforming to our plans, or we can deliberately look for and find the gospel of Jesus Christ transforming our lives. What are You doing, Lord? David Powlinson, author of How Does Sanctification Work? explains, “Jesus Christ [is working] out His saving, sifting, sanctifying purposes…He enters in, reacts, helps, rattles, invites, irritates, teaches, argues,

clarifies, perplexes, saves, warns, encourages. When Jesus crosses paths with you, He reveals you for who you are. He precipitates decisive choices. In response to Him, people change, either making a turn for the better or taking a turn for the worse.”

Our response is up to us. This is nothing new: “While He was still speaking, a man came from the house of the synagogue director and said to Jarius, ‘Your daughter is dead; do not trouble or weary the Master any further.’ But Jesus, upon hearing this, answered him, ‘Do not be seized with alarm or struck with fear; simply believe in Me as able to do this, and she shall be

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DIVING DEEP INTO GRACE well’” (Luke 8:49-50). Imagine that long walk back to his home. Jarius, hoping, praying, perhaps crossing his fingers behind his back. In the flash of seconds, analyzing, calculating, rationalizing, and giving up; he knows he’s powerless. Stripped bare of everything but his mustard seed of faith in Jesus.

“Simply believe in Me as able to do this…” echoing in his ears.

Jesus is still asking us to believe. What will our response be to the circumstances Jesus is using to transform us? Oh for grace to run to Him when failure and deceit make waves! Oh for that bottomless peace as the calendar fills up and the money runs out. Come, everyone who thirsts! Come to the waters, the Living Water bids you drink!

(Isaiah 55; John 4). Wade into the Word of God, soak it up, and bring your hopes, your troubles, your relationships. Daily appropriate His wisdom and power, believing

in Him as able to do a miracle in even the smallest puzzlement.

Look ahead and trust in His faithfulness and goodness – the fountain overflows every day, haven’t you heard? A bit further ahead and you can see the glimmer of heaven on the horizon, and the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb (Revelation 22:1).

It will all turn out just fine.

Our glorious Redeemer, Christ Jesus, sees this as a way to reveal His love, provide His grace, and make His children a bit more like Him. Note from the author: Two excellent books to read regarding the day-by-day application of the gospel are: “A Gospel Primer for Christians” by Milton Vincent and “How Does Sanctification Work?”

by David Powlinson.

Andrea Thoenes is devoted to her husband, Michael, and her kids.

She likes to be with family and friends and do things that will impact eternity. Her life motto is, “Lord, I am willing to Receive what You Give, Lack what You Withhold, and Relinquish what You Take…”

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Our

Thanksgiving Homecoming

by Harold Fanning

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God knows the pain and suffering we encounter in this world. Jesus left the glories of heaven, and entered the hard environment of human life. Jesus got tired, hungry, thirsty, and endured hostility from those who did not like Him. He was even ostracized by His own family and friends. But, unlike us, Jesus experienced far more than daily hardships. Jesus, the Son of God in human flesh, willingly took all our sin on Himself and paid our penalty of death.

As a hospice chaplain, I have the daily task of walking in the “valley of the shadow of death.”

I watch as a child says goodbye to his grandpa, as a husband or wife utter their final “I love you,” or as a son or daughter strokes the cooling brow of their dying mom while fighting back the tears. These situations can be nearly overwhelming emotional experiences for all involved, and the strain is near the emotional and spiritual breaking point.

I am often asked, “How do you keep your emotional wits when dealing with death and dying

on a daily basis?” I think it is because of what – no – rather, Who I know! I understand that those who die in Jesus are received into their eternal home with rejoicing. Psalm 116:15 states, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” This is truly an amazing statement. When a child of God enters eternity, there is rejoicing in heaven because one of God’s kids has come home.

Their journey is over, and they are welcomed by the loving, opened arms of Jesus Christ. I believe that my responsibility as a hospice chaplain and minister is to help others get prepared for their eventual trip home.

D. L. Moody, the great evangelist in the 1800s, once remarked, “Someday you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal – a body that death cannot touch, that sin

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OUR THANKSGIVING HOMECOMING cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body. I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit will live forever.”

On December 22, 1899, Moody was on his deathbed.

Just prior to his passing he said, “Earth recedes. Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here.

God is calling me, and I must go.

This is my triumph; this is my coronation day! It is glorious.”

D.L. Moody captures the heart cry of every child of God. The greatest Thanksgiving homecoming ever will be when the Lord’s own people are finally in their Father’s house.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, let me remind you of a tremendous truth – promised by our Savior and Lord Himself in John 14, “Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s

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house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am, you may be also.”

Dr. Harold Fanning and his wife, Debbie, are the parents of a son and a daughter, and have two grandsons and three granddaughters.

He is a retired pastor who currently serves as a Hospice Chaplain.

Harold speaks each Wednesday night at WBC’s Prayer Meeting service and is a hotrod enthusiast.

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So… What’s the Gospel, again?

The GOSPEL is…

The Incarnation The Sinless Life The Crucifixion The Burial The Resurrection The Ascension The Eternal Reign And Return Of JESUS CHRIST

Gospel: Literally, the “God Spell”; the good tale of what God has done for His creation.

Right! uh… What does that mean?

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Incarnation: The union of divinity with humanity in Jesus Christ when He was born in Bethlehem.

Sinless Life: Perfect Work.

Never once, in thought or deed, did Jesus break God’s laws or seek His own desires, but in all things “Not My will, but Yours be done.”

Crucifixion: Substitutionary death. I deserve a painful, bloody, gasping, tortuous death and torment in hell because of my sin. But JESUS, who was perfect, suffered this in my place to appease God’s wrath, so I could gain God’s favor and goodwill.

Burial: 1) The act or ceremony of burying; to deposit; to entomb.

2) To put out of one’s mind; to consign to obscurity.

Resurrection: To rise from the dead. Jesus, in the flesh, died, and then came to life again.

Ascension: 1) To rise upward in direction. 2) To succeed to: ascend the throne.

Eternal Reign: The royal authority and dominion of Jesus Christ having infinite duration, continued without intermission, valid and existing at all times.

Return: to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state.

And… You expect me to remember all that?

The first step to application is focused thought. To help me remember the Inc a r n a t i o n , S i n l e s s L i fe , C r u c i f i x i o n, Resurrection, Ascension, Eternal Reign, and Return of Jesus throughout the day, I often write Jesus on the back of one of my hands. Simply gazing upon His name will often snap my focus off of myself, and onto Him. My name is engraved on the palm of His hand (Isaiah 49:16). With the intent of worship, I write His highly exalted Name on my fist, and…

Raising my thumb, I thank God that He sent Jesus to become a God-Man for me. Just as my

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THE GOSPEL HAND thumb is not a finger, Jesus was not just another man. He was totally God and totally man. He was part of the human family, but also retained His position in the Trinity. In this dual state, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” (John 1:14).

My thumb represents the INCARNATION of Jesus Christ.

(Memory trigger: A baby sucks their thumb.)

Lifting my index finger, I thank God that Jesus never sinned—He never shamed His Father by disobeying or seeking His own will apart from His Father’s plan. He was perfect.

Even though He faced every temptation we do, He never once succumbed (Hebrews 4:15).

He is the ONE perfect man. My index finger represents the SINLESS LIFE of Jesus Christ.

(Memory trigger: God never shook His finger at Jesus.)

Considering my middle finger, remember that Jesus was crucified in the middle of two criminals (Luke 23:33).

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satisfied, and so we could choose to be restored into a relationship with God the Father (Romans 5:1). I thank God for this free gift, which cost Him everything! My middle finger represents the CRUCIFIXION of Jesus Christ.

(Memory trigger: my middle finger is the tallest “cross”; the middle finger is a sign of scorn/ hate that Jesus endured for my sake.)

With effort, I’ll hoist my ring finger. This finger would rather stay down than up. But, where we are weak, He is strong! Only the One True God in His strength and power can bring a dead man back to life (Psalm 96: 3-6). Jesus knew He would die for us, and told his disciples He would be raised after His death. Just as He said, He rose again! (Matthew 28:6). In the same way I can die to sin, leave it buried, and rise free of it in Jesus (Romans 6:4).

I thank God that Jesus is alive and keeps His promises! My ring finger represents the BURIAL and RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ. (Memory trigger: ring finger reminds me that Jesus kept His promise and rose again.)

With joy I lift up my pinky

finger! Thank God that Jesus ascended from the smallness of humanity on earth into the vast glory of heaven. He sits in majesty at the right hand of God and intercedes for me (Romans 8:34). Jesus has taken the throne! Joining my pinky and my thumb together, the circle formed represents the eternal reign of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Above the circle, the Trinity stands. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit deserve my worship and devotion. My pinky finger represents the ASCENSION and ETERNAL REIGN of Jesus Christ. (Memory trigger: Jesus

went from the smallness of earth UP to the heights of heaven; circle formed = eternal reign.)

Now I raise my hand to my eyes, and look toward heaven.

Jesus is coming back! I will look for Him knowing that I am just a pilgrim passing through this world looking intently toward my heavenly destination (Hebrews 11:13). Setting my eyes on eternity, I commit daily to obey Jesus so that I might glorify Him with my thoughts, words, and actions. Looking up represents the RETURN of Jesus Christ.

(Memory trigger: I’m looking up to watch for His return.)

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THE GOSPEL HAND So, how do I intentionally apply it?

Jesus Himself set the example when He said, “The Kingdom of heaven is like: a man who sowed good seed in his field, a mustard seed, yeast that a woman mixed into a large amount of flour, a treasure in a field, a merchant looking for fine pearls, a net that was let down into a lake, a landowner who went out early to hire men, a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son…”

Likewise, we should seek to apply our ever-changing lives to the eternal and unchanging principles of the Gospel. Now that you have brought to mind the Incarnation, Sinless Life, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, Eternal Reign, and Return of Jesus Christ, let’s fit our small lives into the vast riches of the Gospel story.

Begin by remembering that the Lord who loves you perfectly and understands you completely knows your true need. (Fitzpatrick) He will not hide His truth from you but will “tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3). Ask God to help you remember the truths of 24

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the Gospel and bring them into contact with your life. Ask Him to help you find the connections between His “good tale” and your everyday life. Here are two real examples from my family’s life: Practical example 1: When one of the kids accused another of something they did not do, I sat and held the crying child and reminded them that Jesus was accused of many things He did not do. I assured her that Jesus knew EXACTLY how she felt in this situation. All His life He was accused falsely of doing and being evil, and received no justice from any authority.

Jesus’ crucifixion was the ultimate unjust act. I stressed the incredible love that Jesus has for us that even though He did nothing wrong He went to the cross “as a lamb to the slaughter.”

My daughter and I sat at the foot of the cross in amazement at the goodness of our Savior.

Practical example 2: When I yell at the kids in anger I can go to them and ask forgiveness and explain that as a child of God the Holy Spirit inside me hates this behavior and stirs my conscience to repent of it. I can point to my

thumb and say, I am two people at once! The old man who is prideful and angry, and the new man that Jesus is creating (incarnating). I remind them (as if they didn’t know) that I make lots of mistakes, and raising my pointer, I assure them that Jesus was perfect: The One and Only perfect man! I will let them down, but He will not. He went to His death to save us (3rd finger) and will keep His promise to conform us to the likeness of Jesus, as our

old man is crucified and (4th finger) buried with Jesus, and the new man resurrected by His power. I can get up (5th finger) and start again knowing that nothing can stop God’s plan – not even my sin! Because I love Him, and I want to obey Him, I choose to be cooperative in His work as He changes me. I will look to His glory and His return to keep me from wanting to give up when I’m under affliction and temptation.

Andrea Thoenes is devoted to her husband, Michael, and her kids.

She likes to be with family and friends and do things that will impact eternity. Her life motto is, “Lord, I am willing to Receive what You Give, Lack what You Withhold, and Relinquish what You Take…”

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In a season where we show our gratitude, we are thankful for our LIFE Groups at Whitesburg Baptist Church.

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If you haven’t found your Life Group yet, text GroupUp to 256-344-0023 for a personalized recommendation.

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CHRISTMAS AT WHITESBURG Come celebrate the joy of Jesus’ birth in one of Whitesburg Baptist Church’s special Christmas services this December.

Hanging of the Green December 3 at 11am

Our Student Choir leads a joyous worship celebration!

Children’s Choirs Presentation December 3 at 6:15 pm

A heart-warming children’s Christmas program.

Winterlude

December 10 at 6:15 pm

Four pianos and a big band play timeless Christmas favorites.

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WHITESBURG BAPTIST CHURCH

october-December 2017 Calendar October

1 60th Anniversary of WBC 1 Discover 101 8 Global Mission Discovery with Lee Marshall in Evening Service 8 Discover 201

November

4-11 Haiti Mission Journey 5 Discover 101 12 Lord’s Supper in Evening Service 13 Alabama Baptist Pastor’s Conference 14-15 Alabama Baptist Convention

December

1-2 Appalachia Family Christmas Mission 2 Bethlehem Breakfast 3 Hanging of the Green 3 Children’s Choir Christmas Program 9 Single Adult Christmas Banquet 10 Global Mission Sunday 10 Winterlude

9 Senior Day at the ROC 13 Date Night 14 Singles’ 35+ Coffee House 19 Sadie Robertson Tour 20 Family Night at Tate Farms 26 Ladies FOLD

18 Singles’ Thanksgiving Dinner Super Coffee House 19 Baby Dedication 19 Discover 301 23-24 Offices & ROC Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday

11 Senior Day at the ROC 13 Student Ministry Christmas Party 22 ROC closes at noon 24 Christmas Eve Vespers Service 25 Christmas 25-29 Offices & ROC Closed for Christmas Holiday 31 No Evening Service

For more details on these and other events, visit WhitesburgBaptist.org.

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LIFE Groups 8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 am Blended Traditional Service 9:30 am with Dr. Jimmy Jackson Contemporary Service 11:11 am with Jon & Trisha Evening Service 6:15 pm

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