THE CAPE NEDDICK BAPTIST CHURCH HAS IN-PERSON WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH SANCTUARY, MEETING AT 10:15 AM EACH SUNDAY. SOCIAL DISTANCING IS ENCOURAGED AND WEARING A MASK IS UP TO THE DISCRETION OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
“Then go inside and shut the door”—2 Kings 4:4 They were to be alone with God, for they were not dealing with the laws of nature, nor human government, nor the church, nor the priesthood, nor even with the great prophet of God, but they must needs be isolated from all creatures, from all leaning circumstances, from all props of human reason, and swung off, as it were, into the vast blue inter-stellar space, hanging on God alone, in touch with the fountain of miracles. Here is a part in the program of God's dealings, a secret chamber of isolation in prayer and faith which every soul must enter that is very fruitful. There are times and places where God will form a mysterious wall around us, and cut away all props, and all the ordinary ways of doing things, and shut us up to something Divine, which is utterly new and unexpected, something that old circumstances do not fit into, where we do not know just what will happen, where God is cutting the cloth of our lives on a new pattern, where He makes us look to Himself.--Adapted from Streams in the Desert
You'll Get Through This
You fear you won't make it through. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. In the pits, surrounded by steep walls and aching reminders, we wonder: Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten? Inthis six-session small group Bible study, pastor and New York Timesbest-selling author, Max Lucado offers refreshing assurance. Max reminds participants God doesn't promise that getting through trials will be quick or painless. It wasn't for Joseph—tossed in a pit by his brothers, sold into slavery, wrongfully imprisoned, forgotten and dismissed. But his Old Testament story is in the Bible for this reason: to teach us to trust God to trump evil. Max explores the story of Joseph and the truth of Genesis 50:20. What Satan intends for evil, God redeems for good. Click on the book to be linked to the study.