AWANA is now on Sunday nights from 6:00 - 7:20 PM! There is still a nursery for those attending or serving on Sunday nights! And we will still have childcare on Thursday evenings from 6:30-7:45 PM, where AWANA used to be. Please, join us on BOTH nights! :)

I’ll admit it… I have a problem… a problem with prayerlessness. I don’t pray as regularly and passionately as I ought. I recently told my wife that I’d much more enjoy reading the Scriptures than spending time in prayer. I don’t know why and I guess it doesn’t matter why. Maybe some of you have a healthy prayer life, but if you’re like me… I have to confess that my prayer life is not the way it should be. Most of the responsibility falls on me. Most of the problem is me. However, I think sometimes part of the problem is a misunderstanding of prayer and improper expectations we ourselves or others put on us. For instance, sometimes we might feel, hearing stories of great prayer warriors, that we’re expected to spend an hour on our knees every day. Or sometimes we misunderstand what prayer is and how it happens – we think that prayer is that thing you do while kneeling beside the bed with your eyes closed. (Again, this is does not excuse my prayerlessness - most of the problem is me.)

In the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 6:5-15, Jesus assumes that His followers are praying: “When you pray…” I wonder if He would be satisfied with my prayer life?

How much money do you make? How much do you give? I really shouldn’t even ask those questions. You’d be right not to answer me. So here’s a better question: Why do you give? If I had to answer that question, I would first have to think for a moment. I guess I give because I know it’s the right thing to do. Maybe I give because I was taught to give. I give because I have to give. But I guess I don’t like to.

In the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 6, Jesus addresses three spiritual disciplines: prayer, fasting, and giving – each of these being things we do to express, or exercise, our spiritual life. Spiritual disciplines are important for two reasons: First, these outward acts express inward attitudes – your love for God is shown through action. Second, these disciplines grow us – obedience changes us. Jesus does not command us to give, instead He assumes that we are giving. He begins by saying, “When you give…” I wonder if that’s a safe assumption to make...

Now before you go and get all judgmental let me explain!! Tonight at the college bible study group we talked about a book we are reading as a group called Heaven Is a Place On Earth.. In this book the author talks about not wanting to go to the "heaven" us humans depict.. We place ourselves in the clouds with halos and white robes, or playing harps and floating around.. But this is not biblically true, heaven is going to be on our recreated earth.. So we had a great bible study surrounding this topic...

The college age group here at B.H.B.C meets once a month to do something fun. We call these the 'First Friday' events. They are always fun and action packed.

This past Sunday we had an all SALT fellowship after church. For those of you who don't know "SALT" stands for Serving And Learning Together. Out under the drive up we had tables and chairs sitting out and food in the atrium. People gathered, ate and became merry! That is what we call a picnic at B.H.B.C. I hope that everyone attended! If you didn't you missed out on a lot of fun!

Starting September 13th! There will be child supervision from Nursery through K-5. As we have interest or needs, we will expand to more grades.
This is another excited opportunity to serve the Lord through Children's Ministry. If you would consider being on a rotational schedule, please, contact Micha'l McCoy.

Saturday, Sept. 12th
9 AM - 3 PM
Woodside Bible Church in Troy is hosting Jeff Smith for the Kids Ministry Unleashed. There are over twenty workshops to choose from. Each leader can attend two workshop sessions. Contact Micha'l McCoy as soon as possible for registration.

A blog about how Ashley and Kristen see the world.

Cowboys and Indians. The Autobots and the Decepticons. The Red Sox and the Yankees. Enemies. Living in our reasonable civilized society, not many of us have personal enemies. There certainly are enemies of Christianity: secularists and atheists. There are enemies of Western society: Islamic terrorists. And enemies of our worldview: the liberal media. Most of us, however, do not have personal enemies. But we do have people we don’t like and who don’t like us. In our families there are people who we really don’t look forward to seeing at Thanksgiving. At work there are people who we don’t get along with and try to avoid. Even at church there are people who irritate us and we would prefer not to be around them. It’s natural to gravitate toward certain people, but is it right? Is it right to keep our enemies at bay? I don’t remember who said it, but he recommended keeping your enemies close; keep them close so that you can keep your eye on them. I think Jesus would also tell us to keep our enemies close, but for a different reason…