Friday, June 13th, 10:30 AM
Lunch at Fancy Girl Farm in Hahira, GA

For each trip, we’ll meet in the church parking lot and ride together on the bus—we’d love for you to come along! If you need a ride from home, we’re more than happy to arrange a pickup. Just let us know!

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or call the church office.

All ladies are welcome to join our WMU  group.
Monday, June 9th
1:30 PM

Meet in Bill Hardin’s SS Classroom

You’re invited to be part of wonderful group of ladies! Join us each month for our WMU (Women’s Missionary Union) meeting—a time for women of all ages to gather in fellowship, grow in our faith, and focus on missions near and far. Come discover how God is working through women just like you and missionaries worldwide.
 

Giving as of June 3, 2025

Budget for 2025 . . . . . . . . .. $329,624.00
Tithes Needed to Date . . . . . $139,456.46
Received to Date . . . . . . . . . $120,970.40
Needed for weekly budget . . . $6,338.93
Tithes Received this week . . .  $12,198.00

MID-WEEK DEVOTION

Remember to check out Brother David’s Mid-Week Devotion in Psalms.
They are uploaded each Wednesday on the sermon page.

From Our Pastor

In 1 Corinthians 10:12 we read, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.”  What a warning for us!  We must not become overconfident in our walk with the Lord.  We never grow or mature past the possibility of failure. 

We see this lesson from the life of Solomon.  He was chosen and equipped by God.  Solomon was gifted with wisdom beyond any other man.  Yet his life ended under God’s judgment upon himself and the nation.

What can we learn from Solomon’s failure?  1 Kings 11:1-13 shows Solomon’s failure. We must guard ourselves against this pattern, so we don’t fall.

The first step toward failure was sinful influences.  Verse 1-3 describes Solomon’s wives and concubines.  This violated God’s design for marriage of one man and one woman for life (Genesis 2:24).  This was made all the worse because most of these women were from the idolatrous nations surrounding Israel.  God knew they would lead His people astray.

We must guard ourselves against sinful influences.  We must seek to influence the lost to Christ but not let them have a sinful influence on us.  We need to be careful about everything that enters our mind.  We must guard against sinful influences.

Next, we need to watch for a cooling devotion to the Lord.  Verses 3 and 4 describe Solomon’s heart turning away from the Lord.  This did not happen in a single day.  This turning away began slowly and then accelerated.  That is always the pattern.  We must watch for any sign that our heart is cooling toward the Lord.

Third, we see Soloman join in his wives’ idolatry.  This is a critical step.  When our devotion and trust are directed toward something other than God, we are in idolatry.  If we begin to view God as being different from how He has revealed Himself in His Word, we are in idolatry.  God had made it clear that He will not share His glory with another (Isaiah 42:8).

The last step toward failure is the allowing of sin to enter and grow in our life.  Solomon began building places of worship for all these idols.  He went from building the temple to building altars for false gods.  Sinful practices were part of that worship.

We must deal with sin as soon as it enters our life.  We must not let it take root, grow and spread.  If we allow sin to remain and grow, we fall as 1 Corinthians 10 warned against.

Solomon started well.  He was blessed by God.  He became wise and great.  He also horribly failed.  May we learn from him.