“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.” – Pat Morley
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Bits and Bytes
Here are some “sound bites” from Sunday’s sermon, “What are you looking for?”:
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The Jews were looking for a political king.
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Jesus was meeting all of their expectations of the coming Messiah.
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The people shouted “Hosanna”, which means, “Save us now!”
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The formula was right for Jesus to be the Messiah; He healed the sick, He raised the dead, and He caused the blind to see.
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The people missed the fact that He was coming to institute God’s Kingdom, not an earthly one.
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We often miss the fact that Jesus, the Messiah, came to seek and to save the lost.
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We want the Messiah to be a cure all for all of society’s woes.
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We sometimes think that Jesus died to give us stuff.
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He died to save us from our sins.
You can listen to Sunday Morning’s sermon here or by clicking the player below.
You can listen to Sunday Evening’s sermon, “When Jesus Got Mad”, based on Mark 11:15-18 here or by clicking on the player below.
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Quiet Room Work Progresses
Jack and Bob have been working hard to complete the new quiet room. Today, they began the work on the paneling.
Click on the picture to enlarge.
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Work on Quiet Room Continues
The “Quiet Room” now has sheet rock and mud. Jack says it should be finished in time for Easter Services. He and Bob have been working diligently on it each day this week, including today. (Sat)
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Notes about Eric Liddell
Most of us only think about Eric Liddell as ‘the man who wouldn’t run on Sunday’, for whom about the movie “Chariots of Fire” was made. After his running career, he served as a missionary to Shandong Province, China. He was captured during WWII by the Japanese and died in a prison camp in Weifeng, China, in 1945, just five months before the camp’s liberation. In a prisoner exchange bargain, his freedom was arranged by Winston Churchill, but he gave it up and let a pregnant woman leave instead. He was known as the “Flying Scotsman” and by his Chinese name, Li Airui, 李愛銳.
I had the opportunity to visit Weifeng in 2004. I saw the camp and hospital where he died. There is a wonderful monument erected in his memory, but someone has defaced it by scratching out the cross at the top and the Bible emblem at the bottom. During the Cultural Revolution, the cornerstone of the hospital was defaced by the Red Guard. They committed a similar act on the monument to Lottie Moon in Penglai.
One of the most moving monuments was the wall of names. It listed everyone interred by the Japanese. Liddell’s name is, of course, listed as well.
Monument to Eric Liddel in Weifeng Prison Camp
Wall of Names at Weifeng Prison Camp Memorial (I circled Liddell’s name in red)
Hospital where Eric Liddell died in Weifeng Prison Camp in 1945.Click on a picture to enlarge.
Bro Rick
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Mission Quote of the Week
“We are all missionaries… Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ, or we repel them from Christ.” – Eric Liddell
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Quiet Room work advances
Jack & Bob have been working diligently this week on the completion of our new “Quiet Room”. The church voted to build the room stemming from a need to provide folks a place to go to quiet a fussy child or if a person is embarrassed by coughing too much during the service. It is not to be anyone’s permanent seat nor are they to stay the entire service inside the quiet room. It is only a temporary fix if a person needs to deal with a noisy situation, but doesn’t want to miss the service. We pray that it will be seen as a blessing to all.
Here is a picture of the work going on in the sanctuary. For more pictures, please go to the “Photo Album“.
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Bits & Bytes
Here are some “sound bites” from yesterday evening’s sermon, “Practice Grace”:
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Those whom have been forgiven much, are able to forgive much in turn.
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Those who aren’t able to forgive, have never experienced true forgiveness.
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We are too quick to judge people either on appearance or on first impressions.
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We often confuse “Holiness” with “respectability”.
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Jesus practiced grace with everyone He met; we are to imitiate Christ.
You can listen to the sermon here or by clicking on the link below.
You can listen to Sunday morning’s sermon, “Last Second Salvation” here or by clicking on the player below.
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Immanuel Southern Baptist Church 
