["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Great singing. Welcome to Verity Baptist Church.
Let's open up on a word of prayer.
Father God, thank you so much for this church, Lord.
Thank you for these people coming out here on a Wednesday evening to praise you.
I pray that our singing would glorify you.
I pray that you bless the service and the preaching would come.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Please turn to your songbook, page number 343.
Page number 343.
We're going to sing, Revive Us Again.
Page 343.
And let's sing it out on the first.
We praise thee, O God,
for the Son of thy love,
for Jesus, who died and is now gone above.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Hallelujah, amen.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Revive us again.
Page 343. Revive us again.
Let's sing it out on the second.
We praise thee, O God,
for thy spirit of light,
who has shown us our Savior and scattered on night.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Hallelujah, amen.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Revive us again.
All glory and praise
to the Lamb that was slain,
who has borne all our sins
and has cleansed every stain.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Hallelujah, amen.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Revive us again.
Let's sing it out on the last.
Revive us again.
Fill each heart with thy love.
May each soul be rekindled
with fire from above.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Hallelujah, amen.
Hallelujah, by the glory.
Revive us again.
Great singing.
Amen. All right, I want to welcome you
to the midweek service here at Ready Baptist Church.
We're glad you're with us.
We call it the most encouraging service of the week.
And we have a special service, of course, this evening.
But let's go ahead and go through our bulletins real quickly.
If you do not have a bulletin, raise your hand.
One of our ushers can get one for you.
If you need a bulletin, just put your hand up
and we will get one for you.
The verse this week, Proverbs 21, 15.
It is joy to the just to do judgment,
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
And that's a good verse there.
We like that.
If you open up your bulletin,
you'll see our service time,
Sunday morning service, 10.30 a.m.
And we do invite you, of course,
to be with us on Sunday morning
on the Lord's Day for church Sunday evening service at 6 p.m.
And we're glad you're with us for the Wednesday evening Bible study.
If you look at our soul winning times,
our main soul winning times on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.
And then we have additional soul winning times
on Thursdays and Fridays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
So if you'd like to go soul winning tomorrow at 2 p.m.,
there'll be a time there for you to be able to do that.
If you're a first time guest,
if it's your first time here at Ready Baptist Church,
we're glad you're with us.
We have a gift we'd like to give you
as you walk out of the church building
this evening as you go through the main foyer
or if you go out our secondary foyer,
you'll see a little table set up
and on that table you'll see these little gift bags.
Please grab one on your way out
as a gift from us to you for being our guest this evening.
There are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have.
The one I like to highlight is this documentary that our church made.
It's called Being Baptist.
It's very well made, very interesting.
We think you'll like it.
We want to give this to you as a gift.
So please make sure you don't leave here
without grabbing one of those gift bags on your way out.
And if you are a guest,
we'd ask that you please take a moment
and fill out the communication card
which is inserted in your bulletin.
If you need a pen, just raise your hand
and one of our ushers can bring you by,
a Ready Baptist Church pen.
You're welcome to keep the pen as a gift from us as well.
And we would just like to have a record of your attendance.
We actually would like to send you a little gift,
but we need your info to do that.
So please take a moment to fill the card out.
If you look at the announcements there,
we of course are a family integrated church.
What that means is that children and infants
are always welcomed in the church service.
We do not separate children from their parents for any reason.
We do have mother-baby rooms
and daddy rooms available for your convenience.
All of the rooms have comfortable seating.
They have monitors set up
so you can watch the service and listen to it.
So if you have a child
that's being distracted during the service
or if you need some privacy,
we would encourage you to please use
the mother-baby rooms and the daddy rooms.
If you're not sure where those are at,
you can look at the back of the bulletin
and it'll show you a layout of our church building.
It'll show you where the restrooms are,
where the mother-baby rooms are.
It'll show you where everything is.
If you need to be baptized,
please let us know.
We'd love to baptize you.
On your communication card on the back of the card,
you can check off that you'd like information about baptism
and we will follow up with you in regards to that.
If you look at the announcements and upcoming events,
of course we've got the big nine chapters a day challenge
going on right now and we are right at the end of it
and I hope that you are sticking with it.
Some of you might have already finished.
You probably have already finished
and if you have not finished, you wanna stay with it.
Even if you got behind, you need to realize
that right now is the time for you to get caught up
because the chapters are getting a lot shorter
and you are able to get that done.
So make sure you don't forget about that.
And then of course tonight, we have a very special guest,
Deacon Corbin Russell from Faith Forward Baptist Church
in Tucson, Arizona is here with us tonight
and he's gonna be preaching for us
and I'm excited for him to preach for us tonight.
I hope that you will encourage him of course
and brother Corbin is a good friend
and he's a great preacher and I'm glad that he's here.
So make sure that you sit up straight,
pay attention, encourage him, say amen
and just make sure that we hear from the man of God tonight.
And then of course this week, we've got the teen activity
for the teenagers.
This Friday, January 27th at 6 p.m.,
there's a laser tag teen activity.
The address is there for you.
All the teens are paid for, siblings not included
and then one parent is paid for.
You can bring both but you have to pay for yourself,
all right?
And we've got round table pizza afterwards as well
so don't forget about that and make sure
that you are there for the laser tag activity.
Married Couple Sweetheart Banquet is coming up
on Friday, February 10th at 6.30 p.m.
and of course we're gonna have a catered dinner that night
from an Italian restaurant, a local Italian restaurant
here and we're gonna be playing the Not So Newlywed Game
and we're gonna be asking you questions about your spouse
and see how well you know each other.
The winners get a $50 gift card to the Cheesecake Factory
so you get a date on us if you win.
If you'd like to attend, you can sign up
on your communication card.
Remember that it's married couples only
and the deadline to sign up is Sunday, February 5th.
It is a catered event so we need to know you're coming
and then of course I Love My Church Sunday
is also coming up Sunday, February 12th.
We want you to make plans to attend.
You should have one of these cards in your bulletin
and we want you to use these cards as a tool
to invite somebody to church.
You might have a friend or a coworker
or somebody you've been thinking about inviting to church
and this is the best time to do it.
Any Sunday's good to invite someone to church
but the best Sundays are the ones
where we're having a special day.
So I Love My Church Sunday, Sunday, February 12th
and we're gonna be having bags of pink vanilla
and caramel Valentine's Day popcorn
for every family in attendance on the Sunday morning service.
The choir is gonna be singing of course special music
from the choir and the orchestra
and we're gonna have a potluck
in the Sunday evening service.
After the Sunday evening service
so just be aware of all of that.
I Love My Church Sunday is on Sunday, February 12th
and then next Sunday if you would like to help us
we are going to be getting together the mailers
for I Love My Church Sunday in the fellowship hall
after the Sunday night service.
So Sunday night, January 29th
immediately after the evening service
in the fellowship hall
we're gonna have the mailers
for the I Love My Church Sunday
and I'm gonna put Brother Shaw on the spot.
Where's Brother Shaw?
How many mailers do we have?
Over 5,000.
Over 5,000 mailers.
How many mailers did we have last time?
7,000.
How long did it take him last time?
Under an hour.
So it shouldn't take very long.
You guys have gotten really good at this.
I'm just trying to make him say something wrong
but no, he's got all the answers.
So good.
So if you can help us with that
we would appreciate it.
Choir practice.
I Love My Church Sunday is
they're practicing for I Love My Church Sunday.
Sunday's at 5 p.m.
and I think this week
it's the choir and the orchestra.
Homeschool group.
They've got PE class on Thursday, February 2nd.
Valentine's Day party on Tuesday,
February 14th at 11 a.m.
Upcoming cleaning crew,
you can check for your name there.
There's other things there for you to look at.
Please don't forget to turn your cell phones off
or place them on silent during the preaching.
And then of course birthdays and anniversaries
for the month of January on Sunday, January 22nd.
It was my dad's birthday, Felix Jimenez.
On January 23rd it was Michael Biel's birthday.
Also Oliver Gonzalez II had a birthday on January 23rd.
Joe Maples II had a birthday on January 23rd.
Edgar de Dios II had a birthday yesterday.
January 24th.
And today is Miss Andrea McQueen's birthday,
January 25th.
So you're welcome brother George.
Hopefully you still have time to go pick something up.
Praise report, money matters.
I'm just kidding.
I'm sure he did not forget.
Praise report, money matters.
All those things are there for you.
I think that's it for all of the announcements.
We're gonna go ahead and pass out the prayer sheet
and we're not gonna go through our prayer sheet tonight
like we normally do on a Wednesday night
but I do want you to have it.
We're gonna skip the prayer sheet tonight.
Wanna give as much time to our guest preacher as possible
but if you did not get a prayer sheet on your way in,
just raise your hand and one of our ushers can get one.
I want you all to have a prayer sheet.
If you need a prayer sheet, just put your hand up
and we'll get one for you
but we won't be going through the prayer sheet tonight.
I think that's it.
So let's go ahead and take our song books
and we'll go to page number 397, page number 397.
And we'll sing little is much when God is in it.
397, as we prepare to receive the offering,
397, sing it out on the first.
In the harvest field, now ripen.
There's a work for all to do.
Hark, the voice of God is calling
to the harvest calling you.
Little is much when God is in it.
Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it
if you'll go in Jesus' name.
397, sing it out on the second.
Does the place you're called to labor
seem so small and little known?
It is great if God is in it.
When he'll die, forget his own.
Little is much when God is in it.
Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it
if you'll go in Jesus' name.
Are you laid aside from service?
Money worn from toil and care.
You can still be in the battle,
in the sacred place of prayer.
Little is much when God is in it.
Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it
if you'll go in Jesus' name.
When the conflict here is ended
and our race on earth is run,
he will say to all the faithful,
welcome home, my child well done.
Little is much when God is in it.
Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it
if you'll go in Jesus' name.
Amen. We'll have the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time.
And let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do thank you for allowing us to gather together tonight.
Lord, we pray that you would bless the offering, the gift, and the giver.
And Lord, we pray that your Holy Spirit would fill Deacon Russell
as he preaches for us tonight. Lord, we pray that he would speak to us,
that we might learn and grow and be challenged by the word tonight.
Lord, we ask that everything that's done would bring honor and glory to your name.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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