White Bluff
CHAPEL

The Final Test of Love
    Mar 8, 2020
    John 21:15-17
    Dr. James Pool

Not This Again: Revisiting an Old Story
    Mar 1, 2020
    Luke 10:25-37
    Dr. Hulitt Gloer

Bible Studies

All meet at Fellowship Hall

Sunday Mornings, 8 am

Men's Ministry
  Mondays, 7:30 am

Wednesday Evenings
  6:30pm (6:00 supper)

Bible Study Fellowship
  Thursdays, 10:15 am

Community Ladies Bible Study
  Fridays, 10:00 am

Let's Pray! - 6/7/20

Read This Over Before You Turn It In…
Posted June 4, 2020

Not long ago, I was walking out of my Air Force office and saw a small, yellow sticky note blowing across the sidewalk.  I picked it up and mentally read the words, “Read this over before you turn it in.”  Obviously, the note had been affixed to a document and then wind-blown into oblivion. It was a friendly reminder to take a second look before submitting.  Hopefully the message was received before the adhesive gave way.

Consider some ancient words that may have been on a sticky note of their day:

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2:1-5)

Like the first message, the proverb is a reminder of reflective consideration before action is taken.  However, unlike a message on a random document, the timeless proverb encompasses the totality of life.  We should always be attentive to timeless truths. If we are not careful, the winds of the world can blow Godly words off our spiritual filters, and with time, become out of sight and out of mind.  Next thing we know, our name is associated with a word, action, attitude….or life that is far from what we intended.

Let us always allow messages of timeless truth to be embraced and firmly affixed to our lives.  Heed their warnings.  Embrace their promises.  Follow their instructions. Only then will we truly “understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”

God So Loved the World . . .
Posted June 4, 2020

by Lindy Lee *

The Word became flesh—body, soul, spirit
His glorious light—full of grace and truth
All things placed into the hands of His Son
Divine origin and authority
Prophet without honor in His country
Offering fountains of living water
Revealing Himself as the Bread of Life
The Light that gives verve to a fallen realm
The open Gate to the abundant Life
The Good Shepherd laying down His own Life
The sheep hearing His voice as He calls them
Truly, the Resurrection and the Life.

Jesus Christ:  the Way, the Truth, and the Life
The true Vine that gives the branches being
Father Messiah:  constant and faithful
Christ, the Lamb of God—ladder to heaven
All existence, all judgment, all renewal
Are in His tender and capable hands
The power to harvest spiritual souls
The strength to cleanse and redeem those once lost
The authority to heal, raise the dead
Where only real and lasting quiet is found
Breathing wells flow from His innermost core
Conquering the sphere as His glory drew near.

Calming His disciples’ most troubled hearts
Instructing them to keep on believing
While He is preparing a place for them
Soon appearing again to take them home
Urging them only to ask in His name
Pledging a divine helper to guide them
Sustaining them with the Holy Spirit
Affirming all those events yet to fall
Promising not to leave them as orphans
Turning their sorrow into great joy
Providing peace for ensuing battles
As they are tested and tempted and tried.

God’s blessed Son praying first for Himself
For the protection of His disciples
Then for His followers in years to come
Committing believers to His Father
Pleading for His own glorification
For the restoration of His grandeur
Shared with creation before the world was
For salvation for this fallen kingdom
Sanctification, unification
Commanding all to love one another
As the Comforter has loved each of them
The hour now come to complete His work.

Setting aside, emptying His glory
In order that He might become a man
Grasping still greater glory as God-Man
Carrying His weighty cross and stumbling
Wearing a purple robe and crown of thorns
Bidding John to take care of His mother
Crucified at the skull of Golgotha
Suffering death and humiliation
Crying, “I am thirsty.” “It is finished!”
With bowed head--yielding His majestic force
Surrendering; fulfilling prophecy
Blood and water pouring—more than human.

Interred by loving friends—wound in linen
Covered with one hundred pounds of spices
Buried in a tomb hewn out of coarse rock
Rolling a boulder in front of the door
Rising victorious—the stone now gone
Mary discovering the empty grave
Then Peter and John racing to the site
Observing the cloth wrappings lying there
Jesus calling out to Mary by name
God loved the world and gave His only Son
The Gospel written that we should believe
That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

*Lindy Lee is the pen name that WB Chapel member Linda McClary has written under since her youth.