Welcome to Faith Bible Church!
an Evangelical Free Church
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learning to follow Christ together!
We're located on the west edge of Lyons, Kansas, off Hwy 56
(turn south at the big red "Rice County Safety Complex" sign)
For Google Maps directions, click HERE!
9:30 a.m. Sunday School for youth and adults
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Thought for the Week
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith” (Romans 1:16-17, ESV).
Some time ago, a skin cream company ran an advertisement on their “Future Perfect Micro-Targeted Skin Gel.” It promised to give your skin what it needs—luminosity. The ad read: “The past forgiven. The present improved. The future perfect.”
That’s exactly what the Gospel promises. It assures us of God’s forgiveness for the past. It vastly improves our present, and it guarantees a perfect future. The good news about Jesus has the power to change you from the inside out. It can give you a right standing before God today. It can help you live right before God every day, and it will make you right, perfectly right, someday in glory.
In the year, A.D. 793, the Vikings from Scandinavia raided the eastern coast of Scotland. An English scholar living at the time wrote, “Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race” (Alcuin).
The Vikings attacked Christian settlements from Ireland to the Mediterranean coast for the next 200 years. And, along with blood and destruction, they also brought with them a violent paganism. They brought their Thor, Wodin, and Frey, an unholy trinity of power and magic, which threatened to undo the 500-year work of Christian missionaries.
No wonder for 400 years the monks regularly prayed, “From the fury of the Northmen, O Lord deliver us.” Well, not only did the Lord deliver England from the pagan Vikings, over the next 400 years He also converted the marauders.
It is one of the most remarkable and little-known stories in Christian history—the conversion of the Vikings. It happened slowly and piecemeal—a combination of missionary effort, key royal conversions, and mostly day-to-day witnessing by common people who bumped into Christians as they traded goods. By 1200, the Scandinavian countries became thoroughly Christian, and after the Reformation, thoroughly Lutheran (Georgia Beaverson, “The fury of the Northmen,” Christian History, Issue 60, no. 4, p.41).
That’s the power of the Gospel, my friends. It not only changes individuals. It changes whole cultures. Now, it doesn’t happen overnight and not as neatly as we’d like. But it does happen if we continue to pray and share as God gives us opportunities.
Do you see the answer for our country? It’s not in political power. It’s in the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, changing one life at a time from the inside out. Please, trust Christ with your life and let the gospel change you today.
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Join us this Sunday (May 3)
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Join us this week (May 4-9)
- Monday: Ladies Bible Study, 6-7 p.m., at Faith Bible Church
- Monday: Celebrate Recovery, 6:30 p.m., @ King's Cross Church (221 S. Pioneer Street)
- Tuesday: Men of Faith, 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., in the lobby of Faith Bible Church
- Wednesday: Worship Team Practice, 4:30 p.m., in the sanctuary.
- Thursday: Red Cross Blood Drive, Noon to 6 p.m. in the fellowship hall.
- Saturday: Men's Breakfast, 8 a.m., in the fellowship hall.
- Every Day: Plan to minister to one another and to a world in desperate need of Jesus. Ask God for opportunities to serve and do what He leads you to do.
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News!
Ladies Bible Study, 6-7 p.m. every Monday @ Faith Bible Church. Nancy Hicks leads a study in God’s Word focusing on the women of the Bible. Invite your friends and join this life-transforming fellowship focused on the issues women face in our world today.
Celebrate Recovery, 6:30 p.m., every Monday at Kings Cross Church (former Presbyterian Church on 221 South Pioneer Street, Lyons, KS). Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find freedom from your hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Celebrate Recovery is for EVERYONE! No one should have to face their pain alone. We are a grace-filled community of strugglers who courageously enter this safe and beautiful space to get honest about our pain and the negative ways we may see ourselves, God, and others. In this process, we come to accept that some of the habits we have developed to escape our pain may have hurt us and those close to us. It is a biblically based approach to help us achieve long lasting recovery by healing our hurts, guiding us toward new healthy truths, and developing life-giving habits.
Men of Faith meets at 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. every Tuesday morning in the lobby at Faith Bible Church. "As iron sharpens iron," men are invited to sharpen one another in the middle of each week before work during a time of mutual encouragement, Bible study, and prayer (coffee provided).
Men's Breakfast, 8 a.m., Saturday, May 9, at Faith Bible Church. Men, join us for some good food and fellowship at our next Men’s Breakfast in the fellowship hall.
Care Giver Support Group, 6 p.m., Thursday, May 21, in the lobby at Faith Bible Church. Caring for a loved one is difficult work. It can often leave a strong person feeling overwhelmed and stressed. If that's you, then join us as we seek God's life-transforming love through the Scriptures, allowing the Holy Spirit to encourage us to live out of God's call to love others.
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