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
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing [or better, rendered ineffective], so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin (Romans 6:6, ESV).
In some states it’s legal to buy and keep a baby lion or tiger. They are incredibly cute and fun, but what do you do when they become adult tigers, weighing several hundred pounds in just a year or two? Then they are capable of ripping to shreds—and eating—their owners. On top of that, tigers are untamable, fickle beasts, playful one moment and deadly the next. Their owners can’t control them anymore. That’s when some of them call Joe Taft, founder of the Exotic Feline Rescue Center (the EFRC) in Indiana.
Joe's sanctuary for abandoned wild animals is the second largest in the nation and provides a habitat where lions and tigers and such can live out their days peacefully. Although Joe and his team try to avoid letting the big cats reproduce, sometimes, well, accidents happen. Cats will be cats, so when there's a new cub born on the grounds at EFRC, it's hand-raised by humans until it is ready to live in the wild.
In 2002, Joe was raising one of these cubs in his own home. It was a boisterous, wild thing, growing bigger and bigger every day. Still, Joe was fully capable of controlling his tiger … until he had a heart attack and subsequently underwent quintuple bypass surgery. As you can guess, having a tiger for a roommate—even a young one—was quite dangerous for a cardiac patient.
Suddenly, Joe's own home became a very real threat to the weakened and recovering man. There was only one thing to do: Joe had a steel fence built around his couch. And Joe Taft spent the bulk of his recovery time caged in his living room, eyeing his things from behind bars while the tiger roamed freely through the rest of the house, pacing and roaring and keeping Joe a literal prisoner in his own home. (Mike Nappa, God in Slow Motion, Thomas Nelson, 2013).
That’s the state of those who are without Christ. Sin, like a tiger, prowls around your life as if it owns you. It threatens your very existence with its mere presence, and it stares at you through the cage that imprisons you—a cage of your own making.
You long for freedom beyond the bars, but you’re too weak to master sin by yourself. Then you cried out to Jesus to save you from sin, and that’s exactly what He did. He captured that “tiger” and tied it up. He “brought it to nothing.” He rendered it ineffective, so now you can get out of your cage.
Certainly, sin is still around, but sin no longer has any power over you if you have trusted Christ with your life. It is ineffective. It is powerless to control you anymore. It is tied up, so to speak.
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Join us this Sunday (June 21)
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Join us this week (June 22-27)
- 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.
- 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!
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).
Semi-Annual Congregational Business Meeting, immediately following worship on Sunday, July 26. Join us for a brief review of the first half of the year followed by a light luncheon in the Fellowship Hall.
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