Announcements

MEMBER ALERT:

Sign-up sheets are on the bulletin board for hall monitors, Sunday morning greeters, meal contact persons and Bible class substitutes and assistants on Sundays and Wednesdays.

Bible class teachers and assistants are needed, see Arnoldo Velásquez or one of the elders if you desire to serve in this capacit

Bible study for the ladies on the English-speaking side: THIS Saturday, July 12th at 10 a.m. via Zoom. For additional information, contact Winnie Sylvester or Rosemary Dayie

Bible study for ladies on the Spanish-speaking side: THIS Saturday, July 12th at 5 p.m. at the church building.

Men’s Bible study – Friday, July 18th, at 7 p.m. via Zoom only. This study will be facilitated by Bob Greene. Subject: “Our Overrated Trust in Earthly Things”, favoring “The Here & Now” over “The There & Then”. Read ahead: 2 Cor 5:1, Mk 8:36, Mat 6:24, Luke 16:13; Rev 3:17; Mt 13:22. The Volunteers are needed to lead/facilitate future Bible studies. Contact Bob Greene!

Spanish men evangelization and coffee with Christ: THIS Saturday, July 12th at 8:30 a.m. and monthly every 2nd Saturday at Panera Bread, 6633 Ritchie Hwy, Glen Burnie, MD 21061. This is a Bible study to strengthen and encourage men spiritually as men, as husbands, and to prepare them as servants of God. Rubén Davila and Arnoldo Velásquez are organizers of the activities.

Spanish men, “Looking for Workers”- Saturday, July 19th at 8:30 a.m. and monthly every 3rd Saturday at the church building. This meeting is designed to prepare and encourage men to work and be ready to work in the ministries of the church and the needs that exist. See Rubén Davila and Arnoldo Velásquez for additional information.

Bilingual Youth Activity Night (youth and young adults) - Friday, July 25th at 7 pm and the last Friday of each month. Rubén Davila and Arnoldo Velásquez oversee organizing activities.

The “Big Picture Business Cards” are available! These cards can be a great evangelistic tool! See Chuck Bramble for your supply and for more information!

MEMORY VERSES

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13  ... and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; 13 so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. NASB199

The Beauty of Holiness

Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.(Psalm 29:2)

GOD IS TO BE WORSHIPED IN THE “BEAUTY OF HOLINESS,” BOTH THE BEAUTY OF OUR GRATITUDE FOR HIS HOLINESS AND THE REFLECTED GLORY OF HIS HOLINESS IN OUR OWN LIVES. We were made to experience beauty, and the highest beauty available to us is the beauty of holiness.

Unfortunately, holiness does not have the best of reputations. Those who strive for it are thought to be anxious, repressive, and slightly neurotic. Yet however many unhealthy people there may be in the world, such an image is an unfair caricature of the genuine seeker of God. If we do fit the stereotype of the emotionally strung-out saint, we’ve probably not made our way very far down the path of real sanctity. Far from being incompatible with health, holiness may be defined as wholeness and health in the most comprehensive sense, as is indicated by the very etymology of the words. “The old word for holy in the German language, heilig, also means healthy. And so heilbronn means holy-well, or healthy-well. You could not get any better definition of what holy really is than healthy — completely healthy” (Thomas Carlyle).

But if the holy life is not below the level of normal, there is also a sense in which it is not above. We don’t help ourselves by thinking of holiness as an extraordinary state of being, a state not meant for most of us. In the Scriptures, obedience is presented as the ordinary thing. It is simply the intended, normal mode of human living. If anything is to be called extraordinary, that would be unholiness. To be holy just means that we’re living a life where all the parts of our being are in their proper, normal place. Holiness is quite ordinary in that it is “the symmetry of the soul” (Philip Henry). And what a beautiful symmetry it is!

The human spirit was created to thrive on God’s beauty. When we long for our God and reach for Him, when we devote ourselves with a whole heart to showing forth His goodness, we come closer to a beauty that from the beginning was meant to surround us and delight us.

“Holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end” (Nathanael Emmons).

SERVICE SCHEDULE

SUNDAY/DOMINGO

Adoración En Español - 9 AM

Clase Bíblica Española -10 AM

English Bible Class -10 AM

English Morning Worship -11AM

English Evening Worship - 6 PM

WEDNESDAY/MIÉRCOLES

English Bible Study - 7:30 PM

Clase de biblia en español - 7:30 PM

1. English worship services and Bible study:

https://zoom.us/j/99914262031?pwd=STZLR3dUcEl3QW1uSTUzWjBqZXdB QT09

Meeting ID: 999 1426 203

Passcode: 139492

2. Ladies on the English-speaking side Bible Study:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84044172346?pwd=MEIzeTEvY3dRTmtYZjFWUH JaVll4UT09

Meeting ID: 840 4417 234

Passcode: 547209

3. Spanish Bible Study:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87486845973?pwd=bXdkY2Mwc25SWCtYaVVyR WVxdkRuUT09

Meeting ID: 874 8684 5973

Passcode: Iglesia.