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
In 1973, Tony Orlando sang a song which topped the charts that year. It was about a man who has “done his time” in prison and is now returning home on a bus. He has written his sweetheart, asking her to “tie a yellow ribbon ‘round the old oak tree” if she still wants him. “If I don’t see a ribbon ‘round the old oak tree,” he wrote her, “I’ll stay on the bus [and] forget about us.
However, when he gets home, the whole bus is cheering, because he sees not one, but “a hundred yellow ribbons ‘round the old oak tree.” His sweetheart loves him and wholeheartedly wants him back (Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown, Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Old Oak Tree).
My dear friends, that’s how God feels about you! Despite your sin, God wholeheartedly wants you back.
Max Lucado put it this way: “One of the sweetest reasons God saved you is because he is fond of you. He likes having you around. He thinks you are the best thing to come down the pike in quite a while… If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and he chose your heart. Face it, friend. He's crazy about you! (Max Lucado, A Gentle Thunder, Word, 1995)
That’s hard to believe, I know. But that’s what the entire first part of Romans is all about. In chapters 1-5, God saves believing sinners. In chapters 6-8, God sets believing sinners apart for himself. And in chapters 9-11, God secures believing sinners in His love, which never fails.
So how do you respond to such love? How do you react to such undeserved affection? Romans 12 tells us how.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship (Romans 12:1, ESV).
Present yourself to God as a living sacrifice. Put yourself completely at His disposal. Don’t just make a contribution to God. Commit yourself fully and completely to Him.
When you see a plate of ham and eggs, you know the chicken made a contribution, but the pig was committed. In the same way, commit your whole body to God now, while you’re alive. For God does not want a corpse. He wants your body as a living sacrifice.
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Join us this Sunday (August 30)
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Join us this week (August 31 to September 5)
- 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
- Tuesday: Red Cross Blood Drive, Noon to 6 p.m., in the Fellowship Hall
- 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).
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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