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26th April 2020 Bulletin

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Calendar of Events: - before attending please ALWAYS check against troychurch.net/calendar

APRIL

27th – Bible Reading – Acts – 7:00 PM via Zoom.com

28th – Bible Reading – Acts – 7:00 PM via Zoom.com

29th – Peak of the Week – 7:00 PM via Zoom.com

30th – Bible Reading – Acts – 7:00 PM via Zoom.com

MAY

1st – Bible Reading – Acts - &:00 PM via Zoom.com

3rd – Worship Service – 11:00 AM via Zoom.com

- New items added to the calendar will appear in red font when first added

Minister’s Corner

Good morning to you on this last Sunday of April. Peace & Grace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!

April has been one month for the books, hasn’t it? This month will remain in our memories with clarity for a lifetime. Will it remain in our memories as the month filled with negativity and depression or will it stay in our memory as the month when the world stood still, brought to it’s knees by disobedience of God’s advice (don’t mess around with bats and certainly don’t eat them), always wash your hands, quarantine illness for 7 days at it’s onset, etc. I am amazed at how much sound medical advice God provided to the people of Israel in a time when the world was in absolute ignorance of these practices. I don’t want to debate whether or not God sent this pestilence upon the world or merely allowed it. Bottom line is that God has given us sound rules of living that we, as a global family, continue to ignore and sooner or later grave consequences are inevitable. These grave consequences don’t exist just in the material world, they exist in the spiritual world as well but they also do exist in our emotional and psychological world as well. God has given us sound teaching about all these aspects of life that as a global family we ignore and the consequences are sin, mental illness, emotional illness, divorce & broken families, sexual orientation confusion, lack of power in prayer,… and others, many others, too numerous in fact to count. I am persuaded however that if as a global family we would decide to listen to the sound judgment of God’s teaching as given to the ancient Israel, we would see an improvement in our lives, our societies, our economies, and most definitely in our emotional, psychological and spiritual selves.

Today we come to worship, in an unusual way, mind you, but we come to worship, and God has given us sound advice of how to make this worship count, not to Him, but to us. How to make this worship time beneficial for our emotional, psychological and spiritual health. I pray that this morning you will be able to abandon yourselves to the Spirit’s work as you consciously follow and sing, and pray and open your mind and heart up to God’s word and the fellowship in the communion with Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Let’s praise God and encourage one another with all our hearts, mind and souls. Let’s prepare ourselves for worship! 

This Wednesday – April 29th – Bible Study from 7:00 PM

This Wednesday we will meet online again for a Bible Study hour and we will study about God’s physical purity laws to the Israelites and in what measure they would be beneficial for us today.

I will send an email with log in details on Tuesday evening and a text reminder on Wednesday afternoon.

Elderly status check

Please continue to check on our elder members to make sure they are taking care of and are not in any need. As you do so please mark the file I set up on Google. Please email me if you do not have the link for it.

Bible Reading

I love our time together and look forward to continuing the reading of the Book of Acts with you. Please remember to use the right link or get in touch with me if you don’t have it. For the Bible reading it ends in 4618.

Offering

Don’t forget, for your convenience you can make your offering on line at http://www.troychurch.net/give

Bulletin Date: 
Sunday, April 26, 2020