Welcome to Faith Bible Church!
an Evangelical Free Church
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
Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them (Exodus 15:11-12).
By God’s right hand the earth swallowed Israel’s enemies. No other God has done (or could do) such wonders. God is holy, unique among anything on which we might depend for our own security.
The most common question visitors to Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian art galleries ask is, “Why are the statues’ noses broken?”
The question surprised Edward Bleiberg the first few times he heard it. He oversees the museum's Egyptian art and had taken for granted that the sculptures were damaged. Certainly, after thousands of years, an ancient artifact should show wear and tear. But the broken noses led Bleiberg to uncover a widespread pattern of deliberate destruction. He noted, “The consistency of the patterns… of damage found in sculpture suggests that it's purposeful.” A protruding nose on a three-dimensional statue is easily broken, he conceded, but the plot thickens when flat reliefs also have smashed noses.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the essence of a deity could inhabit an image of that deity. These campaigns of vandalism were therefore intended to “deactivate an image's strength… The damaged part of the body is no longer able to do its job.” Without a nose, the statue-spirit ceases to breathe, so that the vandal is effectively “killing” it. To hammer the ears off a statue of a god would make it unable to hear a prayer. Pharaohs regularly issued decrees with terrible punishments for anyone who would dare threaten their likeness.
Bleiberg noted the skill evidenced by the iconoclasts. “They were not vandals recklessly and randomly striking out works of art.” In fact, the targeted precision of their chisels suggests that they were skilled laborers, trained and hired for this exact purpose (Julia Wolkoff, “Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?” CNN Arts, 3-20-19).
God is not like any idol, whose nose can be cut off. No! In fact, any idol is absolutely powerless to help you, even if you try to preserve its nose. Whatever you turn to for security or a sense of significance will eventually fail you no matter what you do to prop it up.
Later, in Israel’s history, God showed his utter contempt for the idol of Dagon in its temple when He threw it down and decapitated it (1 Samuel 5:1-5). And that’s the way it is with any other idol people raise up in the place of the one true and living God. God regards them with utter contempt, “cutting off their noses” (so to speak), demonstrating that He, and He alone has the power to save.
So turn from your idols. Stop looking to your money to save you, or to your popularity on social media, or to anything or anyone else. Instead, cry out to the Living Lord, who alone can save. For the Bible says, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Romans 10:13).
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Join us this Sunday (May 19)
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Join us this week (May 20-25)
- Monday: Ladies Bible Study, 7 p.m., in the lobby of Faith Bible Church
- Tuesday: Men of Faith, 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., in the lobby of Faith Bible Church
- 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, 7 p.m., every Monday evening. Jaclyn Rummel leads a time of fellowship and study relevant to the issues women face today, now discussing Having a Real Relationship with God, guided by Kay Arther's book with the same name. She invites ladies of all ages to come and enjoy an evening of fellowship and time in God's Word.
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).
Special Guest Speaker during our Sunday
morning worship service, June 2—Jose Carillo, Campus Pastor at
Sterling College, will be preaching during our 10:30 a.m. worship service on
Sunday, June 2. He is married to Paige and they have two young children,
Brielle and Aria.
Bunco Game Night, 6 p.m., Sunday, June 30, in the Fellowship Hall at Faith Bible Church. Bring a snack to share and get ready for an evening of fun and fellowship.
Free Christian Videos: Faith Bible Church is providing every member and regular attender an on-line video library with over 25,000 video sessions from a host of well-respected pastors, teachers, and producers on almost every subject that impacts your daily life. They include videos for children, youth and adults on a variety of topics including books of the Bible, marriage, parenting, finance, work, leadership, men's and women's issues, the Christian life, recovery, interacting with the culture, short films, stories for children and a host of other topics. If you or someone you know is struggling in their marriage, financially strapped and drowning in debt, have a son or daughter who is making some very poor choices, or just need to grow in your personal relationship with Jesus, you will find what you need in this video library free of charge. Just click HERE or text LYONSFBC to 49775 to create your account and access any of these 25,000+ video sessions for free.
Let's Read the Bible Together
If you would like to join us in the exciting journey of exploring the treasures of God's Word, I invite you to read through the entire Bible with us this year. This reading plan takes you through the Old Testament once and the New Testament twice in a year. Just click HERE to begin a journey which will absolutely change your life.
