This Saturday, June 4, we are hosting a MOM2MOM SALE!  The doors will be open for the sale from 9am - 1pm, and the entrance fee is $2!  All of the proceeds from this sale are going to help send under-priviledged kids go to camp this summer!  We hope to see you there, whether you are a seller, buyer or a volunteer from church! God bless!

We would love to see you each week for AWANA on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8pm. We also have programs for Sunday morning during 10 and 11 am services.   

Join us every Sunday morning for VBS during our morning worship @ 10 AM. Our theme is SonWorld the Adventure Park.  There are crafts, games, great stories and snacks!!!

Join us weekly on Sunday evenings from 6:00-7:20 PM!  AWANA is a great way for our children to learn important life lessons about responsibility, helping others, Bible truths and teamwork.  We have clubber groups from Pre-school through 5th grade. We hope to see you there!

Our AWANA Grand Prix is scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2010, starting at 3:00 PM in the fellowship hall. Please, join us to watch the children race their cars. It will be loads of excitement. See you there!

I think that one of the most misunderstood of the commands of Jesus is this one: Do not judge (Matt. 7:1). You tell me: Is it judgmental to stand outside Joel Osteen’s church and preach against him? Check it out on YouTube. Is it judgmental to speak out against the legalization of gay marriage? To tell a friend that her sexual promiscuity is sinful and destructive? To confront a friend regarding his drinking? The command is clear: do not judge. To judge is God’s responsibility, not mine. If I do judge others, I will be judged. But what does it mean to judge?

I’m not much into fasting. I get grouchy when I don’t eat (just ask my wife). I guess, with my high metabolism, my body doesn’t like being starved. But I have, a couple times in my life, fasted for a brief period of time. But neither of them really count for much. One of the times was when I was in elementary school – the children’s ministry at church had an all-boys over-night event at church and if we made it the entire night without eating we won a prize. It wasn't very hard because there wasn't any food there anyway. And the other time was a sort of assignment as part of a spiritual formation class in seminary. It was a good time of prayer and meditation, but I’m not sure I would have fasted if I weren’t required to. Obviously my experience with fasting is not authoritative or exemplary. But I wonder, is there any spiritual value to fasting? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to His followers, “When you fast…” (Matt. 6:15). Jesus assumed that His followers were fasting. Is that a safe assumption? Do we fast? Should we fast?

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?

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...

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!

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.