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OUR SUNDAY LITURGIES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Brussels:
St. Ambrose
Saturday
6:00 p.m.
17 Flora Street
Wingham:
Sacred Heart
Sunday
9:00 a.m.
220 Carling Terrace
Listowel:
St. Joseph's
Sunday
11:00 a.m.
1025 Wallace Avenue N.
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From the Minister's Study
You make decisions but God's the CEO
By Rev. Mark Royall
Huron Chapel Evangelical
Missionary Church, Auburn
I like to look at my life from a
business point of view. I am Mark
Royall Incorporated. I am my
company. I have a vision for my
company. I have a business plan. I
have goals. I am the CEO of Mark
Royall. However, the owner of Mark
Royall Inc. is God. He's the boss. I
answer to Him and I am fully
accountable to Him.
As CEO, God lets me make
decisions. God gives me the free will
to run my company the way I would
choose to run it. I choose to run
Mark Royall Inc. the way He, the
Owner, says it will work best and be
most productive. I trust that His
direction for my life is better than
my own. Also I know that, just like
in my favourite parable, the Parable
of The Talents, one day I will give an
account to God for my life and how
I used it.
One of the biggest decisions 1 have
made for Mark Royall Inc. is that I
am going to work with God's
mission here on earth. I want my
mission as the CEO to reflect the
mission of my Owner so I have
decided that I am going to invest in
the work of His Church. Why?
Because God's Church, and what it
means and stands for, is the only
thing that will matter in the end.
More than that... it will be the only
thing standing in the end.
I don't know when Jesus is
coming back, I just know that the
Bible tells me to be ready. If Jesus
has not come back in 1,000 years
from now I can tell you this without
a doubt, in 1000 years from now
there will be no Apple Computer
Corporation, there will be no Tim
Horton's, there won't even be a
Canada or the United States because
what we learn from history is this,
no corporation or empire lasts.
Companies and countries may
think they will always be relevant
and present but let me ask you this,
where is the Byzantine Empire, or
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"Conquer Series"- purity for MEN: Mon, 7 pm at Huron Chapel, Auburn
Small Group • Tuesdays 7:30 pm at G&M Lisle's, Wingham
Coffee Break Women's Bible Study • Wed. 10 am 0 Blyth CRC
Youth Group • Wed. 6:30.8:30 pm at Huron Chapel EMC, Auburn
10:30 a.m. - Worship & Sunday School
at 308 Blyth Rd. (former Church of God)
Pastor: Ernest Dow - 519-523-4848
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the City of Troy today? Or can you
tell me where I can find Kodak or
Blockbuster Video today? Anything
made by man has a shelf life. It will
not last. It will soon be gone. But
God's church will be still be here in
1,000 years from now. The church
will be present when Jesus comes
back to gather His followers and put
an end to the rule of sin in the world.
Jesus said, "I will build my church,
and all the powers of hell will not
conquer it" (Matthew 16:18).
The church has survived, even in
the face of persecution and it will
continue to survive. Back in 1949,
China was taken over by
communism and the government
forbade the church to exist. They
began persecuting Christians so the
church had to go underground and
hide. The church still faces
persecution there today. In fact it is
reported that in 2015 a total of
20,000 Chinese Christians suffered
religious persecution at the hands of
the Chinese government and yet the
church is thriving in China. The
national British newspaper The
Telegraph published a story in 2014
on the growth of Christianity in
China stating, "It has now been
estimated that by the year 2030 there
will be more churchgoers in China
than there is in all of America"
Uber tried to make a go of it in
China and it failed, Google tried to
make a go of it in China and they
failed. Best Buy and EBay tried to
make a go of it in China and they
failed.
But the Church, even when
persecuted, is alive and thriving
because it is based... not on man but
rather, it belongs to the God of
heaven. Thus, the church isn't about
being "religious" it is all about the
"relationship" we can have and we
need to have with our God through
His Son, Jesus Christ. It is this
relationship and not religion that
saves us from the consequences of
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SUNDAYS
Morning Service 10:00 am
Evening Service 7:30 pm
BLYTH CHRISTIAN
REFORMED CHURCH
Minister: Pastor Gary van Leeuwen
Hwy. 4, Blyth www.blythcrc.ca 519-523-4743
BRUSSELS
United Church
WORSHIP SERVICE
AND SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:00 am
Bulletin notices: 519-523-4224
blythunited@tcc.on.ca
Church bookings: 519-887-6377
Everyone welcome
Minister: Rev. Gary Clark, BA, M.Div. - 226-963-1175
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Sunday, January 22
Brussels Business & Cultural Centre
at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Sunday School for children
4 to 12 years of age at 9:30 a.m.
Childcare provided for infants and preschoolers
during the sermon.
Coffee & cookies after the morning service.
For additional details please contact Pastor Andrew Versteeg 519.887.8621
Steve Klumpenhower 519.292.0965 Rick Packer 519.527.0173
Blyth United Church
Est. 1875
Worship Service & Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.
Sunday, January 22
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Mary Ross is here
OFFICE: 519-523-4224
our sin. Before ascending back up to
heaven Jesus said, "There is
forgiveness of sins for all who
repent— (Luke 24:47). To repent
means you turn your life in a totally
new direction.
This is the message of the church
and so it is my message as well. We
read in Romans 10:13-14, "For
everyone who calls on the name of
the Lord will be saved. But how can
they call on Him to save them unless
they believe in Him? And how can
they believe in Him if they have
never heard about Him? And how
can they hear about Him unless
someone tells them?"
So now I seek to carry out this
message, to tell the message of
God's love, with God's love every
day and as for long as my company
exists here on earth.
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St. John's
11:15 am
Church Office
519-887-6862
Everyone Welcome!
COME WORSHIP WITH US!
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22
We invite you to join our church family in:
Worship & Sunday School - 11 am
Coffee & Snacks following the service
Fridays 11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Soup & More 2
- a free community meal held in Melville's basement, and
made possible by the Brussels churches working together.
Nursery care available
519-887-6687
"Hope in the Christian life is not wishful
thinking. It is confident expectation"
Henry Blackaby
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