God tells us in Psalm 122:6 to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:” and that admonition is on our prayer bulletin every Wednesday for our prayer meeting. The verse also states that the hope of that peace in is the prosperity of loving the Lord which is only experienced in a personal relationship with Him…
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God’s Word is essential to being “satisfied” in this life and in eternity as well. God’s Word is also essential to understanding and living in the fear of the Lord. God’s Word is also essential to God’s wisdom, which is also essential for living life in the fear of the Lord in order to be…
As we discovered last week when we began our journey of a new year, a new ministry theme, and a new sermon series; “the fear of the Lord” is essential to “abiding satisfied” in life here on earth. Being satisfied in eternity in heaven will be effortless and automatic to everyone there, following the final…
2020 brought us much dissatisfaction, and I am praying that 2021 will be a journey becoming more satisfied with the Lord and His work and will in our lives and on earth. The Bible teaches us that being satisfied and content in life is a state being that has to be learned; therefore, it can…
Click here for the 2020 December Martin Prayer Letter We are home. I preached our last service on Sunday December 13th; packed our things on Monday and Tuesday we rented a van to drive to Rome, as the Naples airport closed due to the Virus restrictions. Wednesday we flew into Istanbul Turkey with a 48…
Even though 2020 has had many challenges to be sure, I am thankful for many blessings that we have to celebrate in this year of difficulties. God has blessed families in our church with new life of little ones born this year for which we give thanks indeed. Our family has also been blessed with…
Sister Sherry sang a song recently that bares this title and truly the Biblical narrative of the nativity is nothing less than a very unique and rather odd record of history indeed. There is very little, if any of God’s plan of redemption that makes sense to the reasoning of human logic. God coming down…
There is no denying that we are closer to the end of time than mankind has ever been before. And it goes without saying that everyone of us are one week closer to eternity for ourselves than we were when we last gathered on the Lord’s Day in this place. Time marches on, but don’t…
Much has transpired over the past twenty-one years. The children we arrived with have grown into adults, married, living for the Lord, and are having children of their own. We now have four more children who have been accepted and loved by this church family. Sadly, we have seen many people leave over the past…
I am grateful to the Lord for the nearly 21 years that He has allowed Teri and I to serve here at Summerville Baptist Church. I am thankful for the years we have been distributing food boxes to help families during this holiday season. This year the Lord enabled God’s people here to give away…