Sunday Summary

This morning's message continued with thoughts on worship. I opened Psalm 103, which is full of "benefits" or reasons why God is worthy of our worship. If anyone left our service without be excited about God... they were either unsaved, backslidden, or physically dead! God IS worthy of our worship!

Following the message, a young woman responded to the invitation and invited Jesus to be her Lord and Savior! She was invited by a friend who loved her enough to care about her soul. She plans to take the step of baptism next Sunday. Congratulations Cindy and welcome to the family of God!

We started our service with 5 baptisms. The Jordan's were saved just 2 weeks ago and the Powell's were introduced to Emmanuel by their godly employers. Their daughter was saved during Judgement House 2008 and the parents were previously saved, but today took the step of baptism. It was exciting to have three family members in the baptistry at once! These 5 also decided to join the fellowship of Emmanuel Baptist Church.

Each year on the Sunday closest to Valentines Day, our church incorporates a Marriage Recommitment time into our morning service. We invite couples to come to the altar, join hands, and renew their marriage vows. We give them a certificate that they sign and display as a reminder of their recommitment to each other and before our Lord. Today, we had couples across the front and down the aisles taking part in this service.

In keeping with the Valentines / Couples theme, tonight we showed the movie Fireproof. Our teens and singles provided the childcare, so all couples could participate in the movie. Interesting, when the film was duplicated on DVD, there were problems with the DVDs skipping. When we bought the rights to show the film (Yes... we did it legally!), the company noted the problem and sent an extra DVD that was a recent duplication. Both DVD's skipped during the showing and both skipped the MOST IMPORTANT SCENE! It was the scene regarding salvation. Call it a coincidence... BUT I think it was spiritual warfare!

Today was another exciting day in the Lord's House and I just can't believe He keeps blessing and using us like He does! We are in a very "small" town with 114 churches, yet God is still allowing us to make an eternal impact. Thank you, Lord!