STANDING STONE BIBLE
WEEKLY
June 17, 2024
THIS WEEK
Here are the highlights of classes and events THIS week
18-26 - Reminder: young adults are now meeting weekly for the summer months. Join in tonight at 7pm. In addition to Monday nights, there is also a study this summer at the Zieg home discussing The War on Children by MacArthur (along with some hanging out time!).
Summer Club - This four-day club (run by CEF) began this morning at SSB. Your elementary-age children may still attend the remainder this week - this runs through Thursday from 9am to 10:30am.
Ladies' Progressive Supper - The ladies of SSB will have a progressive supper on Friday, June 21st, beginning at 5:30pm. You may sign up HERE.
Baptism Class? - This class is Sunday during the Sunday school hour (8:45 to 9:45 am). For those interested in learning more about this important step in following Christ, please join.
Summer Club - This four-day club (run by CEF) began this morning at SSB. Your elementary-age children may still attend the remainder this week - this runs through Thursday from 9am to 10:30am.
Ladies' Progressive Supper - The ladies of SSB will have a progressive supper on Friday, June 21st, beginning at 5:30pm. You may sign up HERE.
Baptism Class? - This class is Sunday during the Sunday school hour (8:45 to 9:45 am). For those interested in learning more about this important step in following Christ, please join.
upcoming events
Make note of the classes and events available in the near future
Car Show - Vroom, vroom... the annual car show is Friday, June 28th. More details to come.
Member Meeting - A lunch and business meeting on June 30th at 11:45 am to hear from Jaime followed by a possible vote to fund him as an SSB evangelist.
VBS - Vacation Bible School (VBS) is July 8-11 (mornings).
SAFETY - Annually, SSB hosts safety training sessions. Attending one is required for all who work with children (or might like). VBS helpers (i.e. middle school and high school students) should also attend. The sessions this summer: June 24 @7pm. July 6 @ 10am. July 13 @ 1pm.
Info Classes - For those interested in learning more of SSB or pursuing membership, information classes will be held in July (July 14, 21, and 28) during the SS hour.
Summer Bible Camps - Glad Tidings is a camp ministry we have sent several kids to. They offer camps for pre-school age through High School (and a "wilderness" camp). Visit their web-page HERE and consider signing up the kids. Camps run end of May through July. SSB will help with money if that is a concern.
Creation Days Conference - August 10th will be this year's annual "Creation Days." The format, this year, will be an all-day conference. Matt Miles with the Creation Truth Foundation will be teaching at SSB (including breakout talks). Food and childcare will be provided.
Member Meeting - A lunch and business meeting on June 30th at 11:45 am to hear from Jaime followed by a possible vote to fund him as an SSB evangelist.
VBS - Vacation Bible School (VBS) is July 8-11 (mornings).
SAFETY - Annually, SSB hosts safety training sessions. Attending one is required for all who work with children (or might like). VBS helpers (i.e. middle school and high school students) should also attend. The sessions this summer: June 24 @7pm. July 6 @ 10am. July 13 @ 1pm.
Info Classes - For those interested in learning more of SSB or pursuing membership, information classes will be held in July (July 14, 21, and 28) during the SS hour.
Summer Bible Camps - Glad Tidings is a camp ministry we have sent several kids to. They offer camps for pre-school age through High School (and a "wilderness" camp). Visit their web-page HERE and consider signing up the kids. Camps run end of May through July. SSB will help with money if that is a concern.
Creation Days Conference - August 10th will be this year's annual "Creation Days." The format, this year, will be an all-day conference. Matt Miles with the Creation Truth Foundation will be teaching at SSB (including breakout talks). Food and childcare will be provided.
the Lord's day
We honored fathers. Thank you to the many dads who do well in rearing their children to know and follow the Lord.
The message, taken from 1st John 5:14-15 about praying in God's will looked at praying for the church. We considered God's will for the church based on the pictures of the body, the temple, and the church as the bride of Christ.
Sunday evening several attended the concert by Daryl Mosley hearing much of his story through song. It was a treat! You may still enjoy the concert on the app or through our website HERE.
The message, taken from 1st John 5:14-15 about praying in God's will looked at praying for the church. We considered God's will for the church based on the pictures of the body, the temple, and the church as the bride of Christ.
Sunday evening several attended the concert by Daryl Mosley hearing much of his story through song. It was a treat! You may still enjoy the concert on the app or through our website HERE.
•Who told you that you were naked? - Genesis 3:11
Satan asks the first question recorded in Scripture. But then God asks the next questions. Four of them in Genesis 3. This second question was to Adam. Imagine a world so perfect where you never had a reason to blush? Adam and Eve, in their glory were naked and felt no shame. The implication of the question is that it did not even occur to them that they were naked. But, once they sinned, they could not look upon their own nakedness without blushing.
First, “Who told you that you were naked?” seems to be a rhetorical question. Designed to get Adam thinking. No one told him… somehow, he figured it out… something had changed. This is connected to the “knowledge of good and evil.” There is suddenly an evil knowledge that Adam now knows (just like God said would happen).
This question also looks past the results of the sin. The results are the nakedness (and death, the curse, etc). But we all know that often remorse is only for getting caught. People feel remorse for the results of their action, their sin. “Who told you that you were naked?” takes Adam from being naked (results) back to the sin, back to the cause. A question we must always consider in our circumstances is “Am I harboring sin that might have led to this?”
First, “Who told you that you were naked?” seems to be a rhetorical question. Designed to get Adam thinking. No one told him… somehow, he figured it out… something had changed. This is connected to the “knowledge of good and evil.” There is suddenly an evil knowledge that Adam now knows (just like God said would happen).
This question also looks past the results of the sin. The results are the nakedness (and death, the curse, etc). But we all know that often remorse is only for getting caught. People feel remorse for the results of their action, their sin. “Who told you that you were naked?” takes Adam from being naked (results) back to the sin, back to the cause. A question we must always consider in our circumstances is “Am I harboring sin that might have led to this?”
Prayer Prods
- Janet B back in hospital with pain (stomach ulcer).
- Kathie Pieper still in rehabilitation at Old Mill
- Laurie H recovering from knee surgery, Ron Anderson from kidney stone procedure
- The blessing of birth (Molly & Marco G)!
- The blessing of marriage (Tristan & Autumn)
- Support of Jaime and SSB's role
- Outreach ministries: Good News Jail, Aspire, Four the Master
- Cancer struggles: Peggy O, Patti Z, Ron M, Joyce N
- Gerald's continued hospice care
