February 21&28, 2010
Pastor: Elder Vernis J Stanaland
Associate Pastor: Elder David Machiavello
Deacons: Brethren Steve Cooper, Alvin Holley,
Ed McGee, Keith Pridgen, Ned Sibley, Jason Stewart.
Welcome to Tyler Primitive Baptist Church. We trust you will find a group of God’s children here endeavoring to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. We hope that we may all learn more about Him from His word..105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalms 119:105 (KJV
Winter Meeting
Thursday, Feb. 25th
5:30 PM Sandwiches
7:00 PM Song Service
7:30 PM Elder David Pyles
Elder Sonny Pyles
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Friday, Feb. 26th
10:15 AM Song Service
11:00 AM Elder David Pyles
Lunch
1:30 PM Song Service
2:00 PM Elder Sonny Pyles
Supper
7:00 PM Song Service
7:30 PM Elder Sonny Pyles
Elder David Pyles
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Saturday, Feb. 27th
10:00 AM Song Service
10:45 AM Elder David Pyles
Elder Sonny Pyles
Lunch
1:30 PM Song Service
2:00 PM Elder Sonny Pyles
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Sunday, Feb. 28th
10:15 AM Song Service
11:00 AM Elder Sonny Pyles
Lunch
I trust that we all pray for one another often, and that our prayers are continually offered for the welfare of the church. If you have a request for special prayer for someone, please let me know and I will list them so that we can all remember them in our prayers.
This is a Special Prayer Request for our Winter Meeting coming up this week. Please remember to pray that the Lord will shower his blessings down on these services. Do not treat this as an ordinary request; I want the whole church to be very diligent to ask Gods blessings on these ministers and the congregation. Please don’t forget!!!!!
Jason and Rebecca Stewart requests the prayers for their friends, Aaron and Courtney Blackeney whose 9 day old daughter Presslee died a few days ago from unknown causes. Please ask the Lord to give them comfort as they mourn this tragic loss.
Leah Woodruff’s father, Danny Beckendorf, will not have disc surgery at this time for his back problem, but will receive a cortisone shot for temporary relief. Our prayer is that this will work and give him the needed relief.
The McSwain Family continues to solicit the church's prayers on behalf of Brother Darrell McSwain, who continues to suffer from seizures. His condition has worsened such that he has many seizures during a week's time. His current medication is no longer stopping the pain or the seizures. He has tried different medications without success. Brother Darrell lost his job last year and has been unable to obtain employment and is currently unable to even work. Please continue to pray earnestly for this sweet family who live in Mabank and attend Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church in Eustace. If you wish to donate to this family, our church will accept a check in their name or you may wish to send something direct to Darrell McSwain, 318 Lakefront Drive, Mabank, TX 75156. (From Brother Ed McGee)
Remember that the Women’s Fellowship Group plans to meet this coming Tuesday, February 23 from 2PM until 4PM. here at the church.
Please remember that February is letter writing month for the Baptist Bible Hour, and I hope that each of you will write Brother Bradley in this 57th year of his national and worldwide radio broadcast of the Baptist Bible Hour and the publishing of his monthly paper THE BAPTIST WITTNESS. The radio broadcast, the monthly paper and Brother Bradley have all been a wonderful blessing to so many (me included) over the past 57 years. Please pray for his ministry, and his plans to be here with us for our Annual Meeting in November of this year.
Radio Program: Baptist Bible Hour, Sunday @ 8:30 a.m. KTBB 600AM.
Men’s Fellowship Group: Wed. Morn. 6:15 AM,
Bible Study: Wed Evenings at 6:00 PM,
Visit us anytime at our web site. WWW.TylerPB.com
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Wednesday Night Bible Study
Starting Wednesday March 3rd
6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Please Contact Jason Stewart by February 21st if you are interested in participating in this study so that course material may be ordered. TPBC will furnish the material at no cost to participants.
Jason Cell - 903 520 9065
Or
jasonleestewart@yahoo.com
(Information below as advertised by Crown Financial Ministries)
Discovering God’s Way of Handling Money, Video Series.
In this eight-week series, you will learn the profound impact that managing money has on your relationship with God. Your faithfulness will be rewarded as you discover and apply God’s practical and life changing financial principals. Each participant will use a course workbook during the study.
TOPICS COVERED ARE: Introduction,Debt,Counsel, Honesty, Giving, Work, Saving, Investing, Children
Up Coming Dates to Remember for 2010
February 25-28: Winter Meeting: Elders David & Sonny Pyles.
March 28: Psalm Sunday Communion Service.
April 4: Easter Sunday.
May 1: Annual Spring Picnic and Fellowship Day.
July 11-16: Melody Grove Singing School, Warren, Texas.
July23-25: Vernis to hold Meeting at Moriah Church, Colbert, GA.
October 2: Annual Fall Fellowship with Wiener Roast and Hay Ride.
October 14-17: Cincinnati Annual Fall Meeting.
November 18-21:OurAnnual Fall Meeting with Elders Harter&Bradley.
December 12: Our Annual Church Christmas Dinner.
Our Regular Sunday Services
10:15 a.m. Congregational Singing
Prayer
10:50 a.m. Preaching
Invitational Hymn: During the singing of this song we are extending to you the opportunity for membership in this church. If you desire to join the church you may come forward after the song begins, or when you come through the handshake. Just express to the Pastor that you would like to become a member of this church. If you are already a member of a Primitive Baptist Church, you will be accepted by letter from that church. If you have not been baptized, or your membership is with another denomination, we ask that you submit to our baptism according to Acts 19:4-5.
Handshake: Our church generally shakes hands with the Preacher, and each other during this last invitational hymn, and everyone including all visitors are welcomed to do so, if they so desire.
Contributions: Donations to this church may be made by placing your contribution in the receptacle provided in the foyer, or laying it in the collection plate on the communion table, which is located in front of the pulpit.
Church Fires: Arsonist have burned seven church buildings in the Tyler area in about the last 30 days, and most local churches are on high alert by prayer, security, and being vigilant in watching out for suspicious activities around our buildings. Our church building has an alarm system which we have activated again, and the alarm notifies the fire and police departments immediately if a door is opened or there is movement in the building. If you need to enter the building you will need the code or the police will be here to greet you real soon. Please call Vernis, Iris, or one of the deacons, if you do not know the code.
Sin and Its Effects
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned – Romans 5:12
Can one man make a difference? Human history shouts in the affirmative. One man, one woman, one child can have an enormous impact, either for good or evil. Adam, by eating of the fruit which God had forbidden, plunged himself and all his posterity into sin. And the inevitable result of sin was death.
The world is full of “if onlys”. If only Adam had not eaten of that fruit! If only the people had listened to Noah’s preaching! If only Moses had not lost his temper! If only Peter had stood up for Jesus!
On the other hand, the world is full of “what ifs”. What if Abraham had not faithfully followed God’s command? What if David had not stood up to Goliath? What if Paul had not written to the churches?
May your life be empty of the “if onlys” that come from disobeying the clear instructions of God in his Word. May history be filled with the “what ifs” of your faithful acts of obedience to God.
One Man entered history 2,000 years ago and lived a life free of “if onlys” so that we might live lives free of regret and full of joy, in his service and to his credit. Jesus unwound the “if onlys” of Adam’s sin and its effects and wove them into a magnificent tapestry of grace, to the glory of his name. Copied From Baptist Bible Hour Web Site
Repentance
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! – Luke 15:17
The story of the Prodigal Son describes us all, as children of God. We are all unfaithful children of our benevolent heavenly Father. We all have squandered the abundant inheritance he so graciously has bequeathed to us. And we all—at one time or another—have known what it is to finally “come to ourselves”.
Sin is insanity. It is an unreasoning, illogical, self-destructive way of life. It ignores the plain hand of our heavenly Father, full of every provision we need, and follows after the hallucination of worldly pleasures and fulfillment.
But when we finally come to ourselves, we realize that starving out in the pigpen is not what our Father planned for us. We are the King’s children! No one in his house is hungry or wanting, and yet here we are in the mud pit of sin because we forsook the house of our Father. When we finally come to ourselves, we finally come back to him. We forsake the miserable quest for self-gratification and begin to seek the abundant life that is found in God alone.
Have you come to yourself yet? Have you turned your feet back to your Father? If so, know that there is always a warm welcome for those who come to God by his Son Jesus Christ. Copied From Baptist Bible Hour Web Site
