Union Baptist Church

Happy Birthday Ms Lynn Forbes Nevil. We pray your day is filled with Gods precious blessings just for you.

Happy Birthday Jim Ackerman. We pray your day is filled with Gods precious blessings just for you.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. --Romans 6:23 When we share our faith with others, we love telling the Good News part, don’t we?... We love to talk about the love, the grace, the power of God to save, and the forgiveness of God. That’s the wonderful good news of the Good News. We love to talk about heaven and we should! But then there’s that troubling other side, the difficult side that Jesus talked about: hell. In fact, Jesus talked about hell more than He talked about heaven. He talked about judgment. And the Bible talks about how people without Christ are spiritually dead. And we are told that the wages of sin is death. While most people don’t like to talk about that too much, integrity demands that we tell the Good News and the bad news. Because it’s the bad news that makes the Good News the Good News! Now, let me ask you a simple question today: Do you want someone to tell you the truth or do you just want them to tell you something to make you feel better? If we’re going to have integrity with our message and our mission in our witness for Christ, all of us must be willing to tell people the truth! If God is going to use you, you must be a person with integritywhich means telling people the Good News and the bad news! Which will make the Good News trulyGOOD NEWS! IT’S THE BAD NEWS THAT MAKES THE GOOD NEWS THE GOOD NEWS!

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. --1 Peter 4:12-13 Why does God allow Christians to experience adversity and endure suffering in life? This is a question we’ve all asked at different times in our lives.... And while I can’t definitively explain why you may be going through a particularly difficult season in life right now, I do know that the Scripture gives us several reasons why God allows us to have adversity in life. One reason we suffer and have adversity is simply because we’re Christians. Jesus Himself said, Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. Now, I know that it’s not a natural reaction to leap for joy when you’re mistreated because of your faith in Christ! But I want to encourage you to know that God sees and hears what others say and do to you because of your faith. And He will reward you because of it! So stand strong todayand remember the promise in James 1:12, which says, Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. GOD WILL REWARD YOU FOR ANY ADVERSITY YOU ENDURE ON HIS ACCOUNT!

It’s great to see the choir singing at Union. They sound like a group of angels singing.

We want to wish a very Happy Anniversary to Joe & Lynn Mathews. Take time to celebrate the love that God has joined together. https://www.facebook.com/lynn.mathews.752