The Gooch Lane church of Christ is a group of people in Madison, Alabama seeking to study the Bible and put God’s teachings into practice. We’d love to have you join us for Bible study and worship.
All in Prayer
God does not expect the impossible of us, but rather teaches us to allow Him to shape our lives so that we can be like Him.
Don’t grow alarmed! This is not a call to give up turkey or forgo the dessert table at Grandma’s house; it is much more challenging.
As its very name implies, Thanksgiving is a holiday dedicated to remembering just how blessed we are and how important it is to express gratitude for the abundance of blessings. Throughout the years, the traditional way of commemorating our blessings is to gather around a table filled with good food and enjoy time with family and friends. Unless one is tasked with preparing this feast, it is likely one of the most tranquil of American holidays.
God has made it clear not only that He wants us to pray, but also to trust that our prayers can have great impact. To this end, the apostle Paul admonished Christians to “pray without ceasing” (I Thessalonians 5:17) and the writer James stated, “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (5:16b ESV). A life devoted to prayer with a faith that trusts these prayers are heard by the Lord should build confidence in His children!
If you do not stay up to date on pop-culture slang, you may be unfamiliar with the terms woke and cancel culture. Though definitions vary, the primary meaning of woke involves maintaining social awareness and the primary idea behind cancel culture is to silence anyone whose opinions are not considered woke; thus, they are deemed unfit for public consumption or consideration. Recent months have seen a plethora of people in the public eye scorned and mocked for having opinions at variance with the woke crowd. While this may seem a rather new concept to a nation whose Constitution enshrines the idea of freedom of speech, it is a concept well-known to those who seek to follow the New Testament as their model for both church and individual decisions and behavior. Primitivists, just as their 1st-century Christian counterparts, are aware of what it means to be canceled.
Christians have a responsibility that never needs to be put on hiatus: Praying for those in government to make godly decisions.
Simply put, God is in control! At times this may be difficult to see; however, His faithful know that how things appear on the surface does not bespeak spiritual reality. Eternally speaking, right will reign victorious because God is its Champion.
God is consistently good, and is faithful in all that He has promised. He can answer our prayers.
