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East Burke Baptist Church
Sunday Services 11 a.m.
Pastor: Jordan Clayton
Hwy 24 Sardis, GA
Please call 706-526-1733 for
more information.
Green Fork Baptist Church
Pastor Jesse Sadler (Phone Number:
850-843-6102)
Worship Opportunities:
Sunday Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Worship 5:30p.m.
Children's Choir 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday Bible Study/Prayer Mtg 7:00 p.m.
Millen Baptist Church
Come join us!!
Morning Worship 11AM
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
219 N. Gray St, Millen, GA
478-982-5411
Pastor Brad Asbury
pastorbradasbury@gmail.com
Millen Methodist Church
Morning Worship 11AM
Sunday School 10 a.m.
413 N. Gray St, Millen, GA
478-982-2664
Pastor John Drake
For questions about our services, please
email us @ millenmethodistchurch@gmail.com
Oak Hii i Baptist Church
Sunday School: 10 a.m.
Sunday Morning: 11 a.m.
Wednesday: 7 p.m.
Adult Bible Study - Young Adult Bible Study
Youth Group - Team Kids
3233 Oak Hill Church Rd., Millen, GA
Pastor: Joshua Johnson
478-982-1616
www. oakhillmillen. com
Scarboro Baptist Church
4204 Scarboro Church Loop
Millen, GA 30442
706-466-4494
Pastor: Perry Hearn
Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Due to the fire, this will be our service time until further notice.
Trinity Episcopal Church
4401 Country Club Rd, Statesboro, GA
Sunday Eucharist
8:15 a.m. and 10:30a.m.
Father Charles Todd, Rector
Jonathan Murphy, Music Director. 912-489-4208
www.facebook.com/TrinityEpiscopalStatesboro
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A Seed
From
The Sower
-Michael Guido
Herb had been dating Liz for about a year. He was deeply
in love with her and finally decided that he would ask her
to marry him. So, he went to a jewelry store and used all of
his hard-earned savings to purchase an engagement ring for
her. Unfortunately, the rings were more expensive than he
imagined, and he had little money to spend and had to settle
for one with a small diamond.
One evening he took her to dinner, and after they ordered
their meal, with a shy, trembling voice, he asked, “Liz, will
you marry me?”
“Oh yes, of course, I will,” said Liz.
With tears in his eyes, he presented the ring to her and
said, “Liz, I’m sorry, so sorry that the diamond is not as big
as I wanted it to be or as large as my love.”
“Oh my,” said Liz, “that doesn’t matter. The diamond is as
big as we make it!”
How very true! Value is always in the eye of the beholder,
isn’t it?
We often substitute “things” for thoughtfulness or gifts
with goodness. We even confuse large with lovely or
big with beauty. Often we substitute spending time with
someone by offering them a present instead of ourselves.
When we give something to someone, especially to
God, the cost of the item is not, in the final analysis, what
matters most. What matters most is our attitude and reason
for giving.
Prayer: May we realize. Lord, that giving reflects the
sincerity of our heart, not the size of the gift. May we also
show our love by what we do as well as what we give. In
Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Scripture For Today: Wives, submit to your husbands,
as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. Husbands,
love your wives and never treat them harshly. Colossians
3:14-25
Oak Hill offers
ornament for
Lottie Moon
Oak Hill Church and Southern Door
Art have teamed up to offer this year’s
2023 ornament for Lottie Moon. They
are $15 each. Please call the church
office at478-982-1616 or email us at
oakhillchurch@bellsouth.net if you
would like to purchase one. You can let
us know if you would like it to be in
memory or honor of someone. Thank
you Southern Door Art for making these.
TAKE AWAY
SPECIAL NEAL DEAL
Words of
Encouragement
By Joshua Johnson,
Special Contributor
for
The Times
Pastor Oak Hill
Baptist Church, Millen
"Redeeming the Time"
Isaiah 7:14 - “Therefore the Lord himself will give
you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a
son, and shall call his name Immanuel. ”
Immanuel means “God with Us”. God promised His
people Israel that He would send them the Messiah,
a Savior, to be King over them and make everything
that was wrong, right. It was a beautiful promise, and
the people of Israel looked for the promised Messiah
in every generation. After a while, He didn’t come and
He hadn’t met their expectations, so they went on with
their lives.
Hundreds of years passed between the last Old
Testament prophet, Malachi, and the coming of the
Messiah, Jesus, to earth as a newborn baby. When
Messiah came, He didn’t split the heavens and descend
on clouds - He came as a newborn baby, helpless and
humble. He wasn’t bom with spectacles - He was bom
in a bam and laid in a manger, with donkeys and oxen,
sheep and shepherds as his first visitors.
A tiny baby was bom in a small town in Palestine,
and hardly anyone took notice of it. But don’t miss this
- Immanuel came! The Messiah came to earth just as
God promised. God With Us came and lived among
His people. He grew up in the will of God, lived His
entire life as a sinless man, and He went to the cross
and died on it with one purpose - to make an end of
sin. The Messiah came in an unexpected way, lived an
unexpected life, but accomplished God’s set purpose -
to save His people from their sins.
Mundane, “lacking interest or excitement, dull”.
Sometimes our expectations are bigger than reality.
Sometimes we expect God to split the sky and come
down with spectacle. Sometimes we expect God to
show up in a big way and change the course of our life.
But just as Jesus came to a small bam, in a small town,
on a quiet night - Immanuel shows up in our life in the
mundane.
In 1 Kings 19, Elijah experienced the spectacular and
the simple when God took him to a mountain top and
showed him three spectacular feats of nature, one right
after another - a mountain-shattering wind, a ground
splitting earthquake, and a blazing fire. After those three
natural disasters, the Bible says, “But the Lord wasn’t
in the wind, the Lord wasn’t in the earthquake, and the
Lord wasn’t in the fire.” After these things, a still, small
voice was heard. God spoke to Elijah, not through the
spectacular but through the simple - His still, small
voice.
God is with us even in the mundane. God still speaks
with a still, small voice. Jesus shows up and meets with
us in the still, small, unexciting parts of our life. Jesus
meets with us in the dull, every day, simple moments -
like fixing supper, washing dishes, grinding out another
week at work, or going to the annual doctor visit.
As you go through your normal week, consider
Immanuel, God with Us - especially in the everyday,
mundane moments of your life. Consider the still small
voice of God - look for it, listen for it, be aware of it.
God is with us in the simple, everyday moments of our
lives. Immanuel draws near, not with wind, earthquake,
and fire, but with a still, small voice. How will that
change the way you see your everyday moments? Look
for Immanuel this week in the mundane and listen for
His still, small voice.
Eddie Lovett
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