Faith Community Bible Church

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News

• Retirement Home Ministry:

  Join us Sunday, June 1st from 1:30 – 2:15 at Paramount Parks in Eagle. If you’d like to help by leading music or a devotional, or just come to visit, please contact John Fearey (322-6398). This opportunity is available every other Sunday.

  Dec. 14 and 28, 2008
  Jan. 11 and 25, 2009
  Feb. 8 and 22, 2009

• Thirst Thanks You!:

  The youth group would like to thank all who contributed candy and cupcakes, contributing to the success of their harvest party!

• New! Church Calendar:

  Click here to view events on our church calendar

• Auto Harp Provided!:

  Praise the Lord for His provision! Recently an auto harp was requested for our children’s ministries, and a donation came in the very same day. Thank you, Visitor, for your generous donation!

• Fall Women's Studies:

  We have new studies beginning in September. Please check out our Women’s Ministry page for opportunities to study God’s Word together.

Events

• 45+ Fellowship Event: 12/06/2008

  Saturday, December 6th at 6 p.m. Join us for dinner, a few carols, and a white elephant exchange. Sign up at the back table on Sunday or call Howard (375-8172) by Wednesday, December 4th to RSVP. Cost is $5.00 per person. Location to be determined by number of attendees. You will be contacted with details.

• HFG Questions - Week of November 30: 11/30/08 - 12/6/08 David in the Pressure Cooker
  1 Samuel 21-23
  Jason Wolin
  
  We would all be greatly advantaged to read chapters 21-31 and then read the corresponding Psalms that go along with these sections (Ps. 18; 34; 52; 54; 56; 57; 63; 142). This would be a great study to prepare you for Sunday Morning and HFG. If you have time you will enjoy the reading.
  
  The superscript of Psalm 57 says, "A MIKTAM OF DAVID, WHEN HE FLED FROM SAUL, IN THE CAVE." This is a remarkable prayer of David especially considering the circumstances. Spurgeon said "Had David prayed as much in his palace as he did in his cave, he might never have fallen into the act which brought such misery upon his latter days." Why is it that comfort and prayerlessness go together?
  o Comfort is not a bad thing in and of itself. How do you know when comfort is becoming a bad thing?
  o What are some indicators that comfort is starting to effect your soul negatively?
  o One of the best indicators that comfort has affected your heart negatively is complaining. How are complaining and a sinful pursuit of comfort connected?
  
  David is trusting in God to deliver him from his enemies and yet he is exercising all kinds of strategizing, planning, etc. Explain the mental perspective we need to have to trust God in the midst of trail while still being responsible. If you are without a job, how do you trust God in your heart that he will provide and at the same time put forth diligent effort to pursue opportunities?
  o How are these two elements of trust not a contradiction?
  o What is the fundamental error in someone who sits on the couch and hides behind the excuse, "God will provide me a job in his time."
  o What is the fundamental error in someone who absorbs all responsibility for finding a job expending maximum fleshly effort and then gives a token acknowledgment that "God will provide me a job in his time."
  o Which way do you tend to error? How do you guard against it?
  
  David was hiding in the cave and yet he knew that God had anointed him to be king. I'm sure from David's perspective, cave dwelling didn't look like he was heading in the right direction. We have a similar promise from God. We are promised to be exalted with Christ in heaven. We are promised that eternal happiness awaits us. And yet can we trust that the current path we are on which is so dark, so dreary, so full of dangers is the shortest path to heaven?
  o What are some of the lessons you can learn from David to help you in your time of trial? Why do you think David experienced trial? Do those lessons apply to you?
  o How does David sing this in a cave?
  Psalm 57:7-11 7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! 8 Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn! 9 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. 10 For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. 11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!
• Men's Breakfast at the Church: 12/13/2008

  Join us Saturday, December 13th at 8:30 a.m. for a men’s breakfast at the church. Breakfast is free and we’d love to have you join us! Call Howard (375-8172) for more information or to sign up.

• HFG Questions - Week of December 7: 12/07/2008 - 12/13/08

  Presumptuous Titles
  1 Samuel 24-26
  Jason Wolin

  When David was in the cave his men said to him, 1 Samuel 24:4 “Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” David’s flesh would have undoubtedly agreed fully with that. David could have used seemingly biblical argumentation to support a desire of the flesh. What are ways we sometimes take biblical arguments to support desires of the flesh?
  i.e. – I need time alone so I can be spiritually prepared to be a good father or mother when really you just want some selfish time
  i.e. – you can’t have that because we need to be good stewards of our money when really you just want to use the money for something else
  i.e.- let’s not go to the fairgrounds because its worldly when really you just don’t like the fair.

  o Mark 7:11-13 is a great text that shows how man can take religion and twist it to his own fleshly ends. What is the core heart issue in sins of “corban?”
  o How is hypocrisy a corban-type sin?

  David could have easily said, “The Lord has delivered my enemy into my hands.” That would have been wrongly taking a situation and interpreting God’s will through it. People sometimes use phrases like, “The Lord moved me on from that ministry because x happened” or “I felt the Lord wanted me to stop serving in that ministry because of y situation.” This absolutely certainly could be the case. But the possibility also exists that a person is saying something like this to avoid a situation or run away from something difficult. In your own heart how do you guard against using phrases like this in a self serving way?
  o What other subjective phrases do we use that have the potential to be misused?
  o Is there a danger in avoiding all subjective phrases?
  o What are some interpretations of situations that may be dangerous? (i.e. God gave us the money so we could buy __________. God used this situation to really close the door on missions this year. This might be God’s way of telling us to take it easy. )
  o How do we interpret situations without being presumptuous or letting our flesh lead us?

  David was promised the kingdom but certainly did not get it in the timetable he was hoping for. God had things to teach him and David was very submissive to that plan. David knew what it meant to wait on the Lord. There are many Psalms that address this theme of waiting. One that is particularly helpful is:

  Psalm 130:1-8 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! 2 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6 my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. 7 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. 8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities

  o What other texts have been significant in your life as it relates to waiting on the Lord?
  o What is the right way to “wait upon the Lord” in an unemployment situation? In an engagement situation? In an interpersonal conflict situation? In an emergency situation?
  o Why is waiting upon the Lord so difficult? What can we learn from David’s example?

• Christmas Evangelism Service: 12/21/2008

  Invite your friends and family to attend, either at 9:00 or 10:45!