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
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed (Romans 13:11, ESV).
Get out of your spiritual stupor, because Jesus is coming soon.
Sociology professor, Tony Campolo, once said, “As Christians we teach our children to pray all wrong. We teach them to pray, ‘If I die before I wake.’ Instead, we ought to pray, ‘Wake me up before I die’” (Tony Campolo, “If I Should Wake before I Die,” Preaching Today, Tape No.124).
Dear friends, wake up! Become spiritually aware. Be aroused from your spiritual stupor.
And get dressed! Take off your night clothes and put on your day clothes. Put off your sin and put on Christ.
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires (Romans 13:12-14, ESV).
The world tries to change people through arguing and debate. You seek to change people by displaying Christlike character.
Pastor Corey Brooks spent much of the winter of 2022 on a roof top in south Chicago sleeping in a tent. He hoped to raise awareness and resources for the South Side neighborhoods, ravaged by poverty and violence.
On the 120th day of the vigil, Brooks was joined by two other pastors Karl Clauson and Mark Jobe (then president of the Moody Bible Institute). He began his conversation by asking why Jesus is the key to filling the void in peoples’ lives and transforming them for the better. In response, Mark Jobe told this story:
I’ll take you back a few years. I'm not going to mention what mayor it was, but it was one of the mayors of the city of Chicago who came to our church. There had just been a couple of execution-style murders in the city of Chicago, and I could tell this mayor was just down. He looked at a group of maybe 40 pastors that had gathered together and he said this: “Our city is in a mess. There's violence. We don't have the answers to this. We can try to police it. We can try to educate it. We can try to create business opportunities, but we have a soul problem in this city.” And he said, “Gentlemen and ladies, what you have to offer is really the answer.” Here is the mayor of Chicago admitting our political structures can't change this. This is a spiritual and soul problem (Eli Steele, “Rooftop Revelations: 'If Jesus were on the South Side of Chicago…he’d probably weep',” Fox News, 3-20-22).
He’s absolutely right. We don’t have a political problem. We have a soul problem, and Jesus Christ is the only one who can fix souls. So put on Christ in your attitude, in your speech, and in your behavior.
Pastor Jack Hayford had it right when he said, “I don't perceive my call as one to protest the culture but to proclaim the Savior” (Jack Hayford, Leadership, Vol. 14, no. 2, Spring 1993).
That’s how you change the culture, not through protest, but through the proclamation of the Gospel in word and deed.
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Join us this Sunday (September 13)
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Join us this week (September 14-19)
- Monday: Celebrate Recovery, 6:30 p.m., @ King's Cross Church (221 S. Pioneer Street)
- Tuesday: Men of Faith, 6:45 to 7:45 a.m., in the lobby of Faith Bible Church
- Wednesday: Worship Team Practice, 4:30 p.m., in the sanctuary.
- Wednesday: Gospel House for Kids, 7-8 p.m., @ First Baptist Church for grade K-8
- 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).
Gospel House for Kids, 7-8 p.m., every Wednesday @ First Baptist Church (803 Dinsmore). We are teaming with First Baptist Church and Aliento de Vida for our Wednesday night children's ministry involving kids in grades K to 5. Middle School kids (grades 6-8) will also meet there at the same time.
Sheriff’s Office K9
Fundraiser: The Sheriff’s office needs $30,000 to purchase and train a drug dog,
which will help make our community safer. Our church is contributing $150. If
you wish to add to that contribution, please, make your check out to the Rice
County Sheriff’s Office. Put it in the offering plate on the information table
or bring it to Leon Boyea at Brew 56.
Fair on the Square, starting a 9 a.m., Saturday, September 26. We'll set up a table to give away Gospel of John's, Church Brochures, pens, and water. It's our opportunity to reach out to the Lyons community with the good news of Jesus and introduce our church to people, who may not know us yet. We'll put together goodie bags at 6 p.m., the day before (Friday, September 25). Volunteers needed to put the goodie bags together and to give them away.
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