Learning to Trust Learning to Trust Learning to Trust “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” - Psalm 56:3 Mainland Lighthouse Mainland Lighthouse November 2015 November 2015 November 2015 Volume 15, issue 11 Volume 15, issue 11 Volume 15, issue 11 By Pastor Dean Bult Events Upcom- ing 11.7 Men’s Breakfast 11.10 A.C. Rescue Mission 11.11 Absecon Manor Missionary Night-Don Ossewarde 11.12 Pastors and Deacons Meeting 11.14 Thanksgiving Banquet 11.17 CBA –Noon Dismissal Parent-Teacher Conf. 11.20 CBA Picture Day 11.22 Teen/Parent Meeting 11.24 Thanksgiving Service Atlantic Coast Bible College 11.26 Happy Thanksgiving FODALO Football (Flag Football) No one can escape the evidence that we are in hard times and it's not getting any better. Trusting God is at the center of the biblical revelation. “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:5-6). Trusting God means that we believe in His goodness and believe that He wants what is best for us. It also means that sometimes we don’t know what’s best for us. We have to realize that we may not immediately see as He sees. Believing in God is the easy part, but believing that He is working His perfect plan in our lives, especially during hard times, requires trust. Trust involves not just believing in God’s existence, but trusting His ways and His promises. Trusting God is often very difficult because people develop the attitude that says, “If I want to get something done I had better do it myself.” This sounds good, yet no one can really live this way. When we board an airliner do we tell the pilot, “Move over because I can fly this monster better than you can”? Do we persuade the surgeon to leave the operating room because, “I can perform the surgery better than you can”? God is worthy of our trust and has repeatedly proven himself to be trustworthy. We have no sensible alternative. If we don’t trust God, who should we trust? Should we put our confidence in ourselves or in others? Humans are sinful, unpredictable, and unreliable. We all have limited understanding and often are swayed by emotion and wrong motives. We will always end up trusting someone. We cannot trust someone we do not know. We can only trust God if we know Him as He is revealed in the scriptures. Learning to trust God will help no matter what happens, even if things don’t happen the way you thought they would. Fear has a way of taking our eyes off of God and His resources, but David made the choice to look past his circumstances: I will trust in thee….in God I have put my TRUST. This is a decision we have to make every day, especially these days. I challenge you to look up Jeremiah 17:7-8 and see what the Bible has to say about learning to trust God and experiencing His benefits.
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Learning to Trust Learning to Trust Learning to Trust
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in
thee.” - Psalm 56:3
Mainland LighthouseMainland Lighthouse
November 2015 November 2015 November 2015 Volume 15, issue 11Volume 15, issue 11Volume 15, issue 11 By Pastor Dean Bult
Events
Upcom-
ing
11.7 Men’s Breakfast
11.10 A.C. Rescue Mission
11.11 Absecon Manor
Missionary Night-Don Ossewarde
11.12 Pastors and Deacons Meeting
11.14 Thanksgiving Banquet
11.17 CBA –Noon Dismissal
Parent-Teacher Conf.
11.20 CBA Picture Day
11.22 Teen/Parent Meeting
11.24 Thanksgiving Service
Atlantic Coast Bible College
11.26 Happy Thanksgiving
FODALO Football (Flag Football)
No one can escape the evidence that we are in hard times and it's not getting any better. Trusting God is at the center of the biblical revelation. “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:5-6). Trusting God means that we believe in His goodness and believe that He wants what is best for us. It also means that sometimes we don’t know what’s best for us. We have to realize that we may not immediately see as He sees. Believing in God is the easy part, but believing that He is working His perfect plan in our lives, especially during hard times, requires trust.
Trust involves not just believing in God’s existence, but trusting His ways and His promises. Trusting God is often very difficult because people develop the attitude that says, “If I want to get something done I had better do it myself.” This sounds good, yet no one can really live this way. When we board an airliner do we tell the pilot, “Move over because I can fly this monster better than you can”? Do we persuade the surgeon to leave the operating room because, “I can perform the surgery better than you can”? God is worthy of our trust and has repeatedly proven himself to be trustworthy. We have no sensible alternative. If we don’t trust God, who should we trust? Should we put our confidence in ourselves or in others? Humans are sinful, unpredictable, and unreliable. We all have limited understanding and often are swayed by emotion and wrong motives. We will always end up trusting someone. We cannot trust someone we do not know. We can only trust God if we know Him as He is revealed in the scriptures. Learning to trust God will help no matter what happens, even if things don’t happen the way you thought they would.
Fear has a way of taking our eyes off of God and His resources, but David made the choice to look past his circumstances: I will trust in thee….in God I have put my TRUST. This is a decision we have to make every day, especially these days. I challenge you to look up Jeremiah 17:7-8 and see what the Bible has to say about learning to trust God and experiencing His benefits.
By Mrs. Terri Chappell
youth ministry
Thankfulness 10 Ways to Express Thanks
We are blessed beyond what we deserve, yet we expect more and thank less. Among the most important words we can speak are the two words, “Thank you.” The Bible tells us it is good to give thanks, “It is a good thing to give thanks unto Thy name, O most High” (Psalm 92:1). So through this holiday season, let’s do a “good thing” and give thanks!
1. Blessing Basket. Prepare a basket containing paper and pens. Throughout the month encourage family members to write
down what they are thankful for in their life. Then on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day, read them all together and give thanks to God!
2. Thank you Chart. Make a chart with each family member’s name. Every time someone is “thanked”, they put a sticker next
to the person's name who thanked them.
3. Thanksgiving Chain. Have strips of construction paper and tape available. Family members write down what they are
thankful for on strips of paper and tape them together to make a chain See how long your chain gets before Christmas Day.
4. Sing Praises to the Lord. Sing songs with the word “thank” or “thanksgiving” in them. (Psalm 100:1-6)
5. Thankful in All Things. Tell stories of people who have expressed gratitude in unwanted circumstances. For example,
Corrie Ten Boom was thankful for fleas that infested her barracks, and later realized it was the fleas that kept the guards away.
6. ABCs of Thanksgiving. Using the alphabet, go around the room and the first person says what he is thankful for, beginning
with the letter A. Continue with the next person saying what they are thankful for beginning with the next letter in the alphabet.
7. Journal It. Provide every family member a blank journal. Pass the journal around the room, and let
everyone write a note to the journal’s owner expressing thanks for that person. Continue to pass the journal around until everyone has had the opportunity to write in it.
8. Place Setting. Prepare an “assignment” on a leaf for each person to complete at the table. For example:
pray for the meal, share a Thanksgiving memory, read Psalm 100, share a testimony, etc.
9. Tree-Mendously Thankful. Make a large paper Christmas tree. Mount the tree, and put paper orna-
ments nearby. Family members can write things they are thankful for on the ornaments and place them on the tree.
10. Scripture Round Robin. Go around the room and have each family member quote or read a verse
about giving thanks.
FODALO Bow l
Thursday, November 26
8:30 am
Wednesday Gym Nights Through November 18
Join us for gym activities and bring your Bible for our study in Psalms !
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Fall Harvest Banquet @ the Absecon Lions Center
Saturday, November 14th @ 5:30 pm
Please use the sign up sheet in the foyer so we can plan accordingly. Be sure to check off at least
two generous sized portions to bring!
Thanksgiving Service Tuesday, November 24th
@7:00 pm
This will be in place of the Wednesday service. Our special guest for the evening is a singing Group from
Atlantic Coast Bible College.
11.2 Marisol Merino 11.4 Chuck Milstein 11.5 Don Cross 11.6 Evelyn Guimapang Arthur English-Ward 11.7 William & Peace Schaffer 11.8 Al & Carlene Herzig 11.10 Tom & Lois Guion 11.11 Wanda Santiago-Fuentes 11.12 Miriam Champion 11.13 Ayo Olaniyan
11.14 Christine Salvatore Sean & Elaine Williams 11.15 William Dick William & Magdalene Dick Dennis & Sharon Perna 11.18 Toyin Aboderin Maudis Parks 11.19 Laura Linton 11.21 Ayo Oguntuase Mitchlaina Beaufils Don & Noreen Applegate
11.21 John & Marie Boone 11.24 David Agudelo 11.25 Ruben Bigio
We will be honoring the men and women who have served and/or serving in our military.
Veterans Day Chapel Friday, November 13th
At 9:00 am
Current Adult Bible Studies
During the Adult Bible Study hour at 9:30 am we are looking at the
command Christ gave to Peter to "strengthen thy brethren".
Which was fulfilled in writing the first and second epistles of Peter.
Remember the trials of Peter's life and the suffering of those to whom
he wrote.
Meeting on Wednesday night at 7:00 pm. The Christian life is a
relationship. God desires to be with you, and He desires for you to be
with Him.
If you are weary of attempting to live for Christ in your own strength, this study will lift your burden and draw
you back to a vibrant, renewing walk with a personal Saviour.
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come Written by Henry Alford, Composed by George Elvey
Henry Alford was born in London and came from a line of five successive generations of Anglican priests. He was immersed in the classics from an early age and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was made a fellow in 1834. After ordination he held a number of livings in the Church of Eng-land, rising to Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, a post he held from 1857 to his death in 1871. Alford was a talented artist, musician and writer. He translated the Odyssey, edited an edition of the Greek New Testament, the works of John Donne, and published a number of his poems, along with a manual of idiom A Plea for the Queen’s English. He wrote several hymns, among them; Come, ye thankful people, come, Forward be our watchword and Ten thousand times ten thousand.
Come, ye thankful people, come echoes two of Christ's parables; Matthew 13:24-30 [the wheat and the tares] and Mark 4:26-29 [the story of the seed springing up without the sower knowing of it]. This latter text includes the words: "All by itself the earth produces corn. First the stalk, then the ear, then the full grain. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts a sickle to it, because the harvest has come." Through the years the hymn has been greatly altered, and Alford himself was critical of some of the early revisions. The first verse acknowledges our depend-ence on ‘God our maker’ and invites the worshipper to give thanks for harvest home. The second celebrates our partnership with God in creation - we sow and reap but it is God who gives the growth. The verse ends with a prayer that we too might grow and bear fruit as ‘wholesome grain’. The last two verses look to the spiritual harvest of the last judgment, when ‘all be safely gathered in.. in God’s garner to abide.’
Come, ye thankful people, come is almost exclusively sung to the tune St George's Windsor. It was written by Sir George Elvey [1816-93] for Thorne's A Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes [1858] where it was set to the hymn "Hark, the song of Jubilee". Elvey was organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor from 1835 to 1882. The compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern [1861] recognized it as a most suitable tune for Come, ye thankful people, come.
Stories of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the
Never be afraid to trust an un-known
Wildwood native Tony Solis enlisted in the United States Airforce in 1966, a year after graduating from Wildwood Catholic High
School. One of his deployments involved working in security for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in Great Falls, Montana, which
housed the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. He also served in Base Police for NATO Command in Italy. During his time
in Italy, Tony was chosen to travel to Spain to compete in a Filipino Stick and Knife Fighting Tournament! This began a lifelong love
for the martial arts as he achieved a Third Degree Black Belt in Judo and Sixth Degree Black Belt in Karate! In 1971, Tony joined the
Stone Harbor Police Department, where, after earning a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Stockton University, he retired 23 years later as
the Chief. He met his wife Eleanor, who lived in Mystic Island, at Parents without Partners, and they dated for 15 years, with Tony
making the trip up the Garden State Parkway from Cape May County. In 2002, while working as Training Coordinator at the Cape
May Police Academy, Tony suffered a stroke. Tony and Eleanor were married on June 29, 2002, at the Linwood Care Center, one
month after his stroke. In December, 2014, the couple moved to Galloway to be closer to AtlantiCare Health. Early in 2015, Tony
began coming to Mainland Baptist on the Galloway church bus, driven by Shannon Breedlove, a neighbor of Eleanor’s daughter
Dawn. The Airforce veteran was struck by the friendliness of the people and really appreciated the emphasis of Bible preaching at
Mainland. He trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior on May 3 of this year and on July 24, began
attending the Friday night RU Recovery Ministry with Dave and Loreta Wescott. RU is a Christ-centered disci-
pleship program that teaches participants how to have a victorious Christian life. Tony, whose favorite Bible
verse is Psalm 1, truly loves the fellowship of the RU Challenge Groups and the Bible teaching of the RU “3rd
Talk!” He has memorized several Bible verses and has just finished memorizing his favorite, Psalm 1! Tony
Solis feels blessed to “be like a tree planted by the rivers of water” (Psalm 1:3). This retired police chief praises
God for being his Great Shepherd and leading him “in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake” (Psalm
