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Read the weekly message from Pastor Mulvaine.
January 29, 2012: God gave us a great Vision Sunday/Annual Business Meeting last Sunday. If you missed it, please make sure you pick up the reports that we handed out. I do want to thank everyone for their ministry over this past year and for your willingness to submit a report on your ministry. God has a great year planned out for us in 2012. I am asking everyone to take the challenge to “Draw Deeper from the Well in 2012.” As presented last Sunday, there are several tools that I am making available to you to help with this endeavor. I have offered a yearly Bible reading booklet, a Spiritual Journal booklet and I am offering several books that we are going to be reading as a church during the year. Please commit yourself to this worthy goal. The materials are ready and you may receive them today. Also, I am asking you to sign a spiritual commitment card and turn it in today. Let us all “Draw Deeper from the Well in 2012!”
God Bless, Pastor Mulvaine
January 22, 2012: Today is our annual Business Meeting/Vision Sunday. We will take time to reflect upon God’s goodness and provision over this past year. It is amazing how God has cared for Troy Baptist Temple. We will also be considering our spiritual and service opportunities for 2012. God has burdened my heart to make 2012 a spiritual journey for our church. Of course, we are always endeavoring to grow spiritually, that is a no-brainer. Yet, I want to put out a special challenge to you this year to approach your walk with God as a spiritual journey of deeper growth in His Word and deeper growth in your relationship with God. Jesus did say “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink”- John 7:37. Will you pray with me that God will give all of us a much greater thirst for Him than ever before? Jesus told us that if we thirst, he will give us drink. Please make it your goal this year to “Draw Deeper from the Well in 2012.”
God Bless, Pastor Mulvaine
January 15, 2012: I want to encourage everyone to pray and prepare to have a great “Vision Sunday/Annual Business Meeting” next Sunday. Each year we set aside a Sunday to share the vision and direction of our church for the next year. This helps all of us to move in the same spiritual direction as a church. We also take this Sunday to report what God has done in and through our church over the past year. TBT has had many challenges but we have also had many blessings. We need to rejoice in both the challenges and the blessings. We also need to discuss some business matters concerning our church. We will start the day with Sunday School, Morning Service, a potluck dinner follow the morning service and then our business meeting. We normally finish up about 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. There will be no evening service. Please plan to stay and catch the vision!
God Bless, Pastor Mulvaine
January 8, 2012: Welcome to the New Year! All the holiday festivities are now over and hopefully we are ready to journey into the New Year. Only the Lord knows what 2012 will have in store for our personal lives and the ministry of Troy Baptist Temple. This past Sunday, the challenge of the sermon was that we need to be “redeeming the time, because the days are evil”- Eph. 4:16. What this verse communicates is that we need to diligently use every opportunity to grow in the Lord and to have lives that glorify Him. The implication of this verse is that you can spend your time carelessly or in a wasteful manner. We must walk carefully, because the days are evil. Therefore, without deliberate carefulness, the evil that surrounds us will overwhelm us. I trust that all of us will use 2012 in such a way that we grow in our walk with the Lord and that our lives honor and glorify HIM. Let us all have a great 2012!!!
God Bless, Pastor Mulvaine
