SUNDAY Maltese Service 09:00 - 10:00 English Service 10.30 - 11.30 TUESDAY Prayers 18.30- 18.55 Bible Study 19:00 - 20:00 SATURDAY Prayer Meeting 07:00 - 08:00 WOMEN’S MEETING Friday - xxxxxxx 19:00 - 20:00
Word of Life PH Church
Place of Hope. People of Promise.
The words that I speak to you, they are Spirit, and they are life. John 6:63
The Lord’s Day, JULY 11, 2021
Welcome
to our church & fellowship
WOL DEVOTIONAL POEM
Between hope and our despair Is a thickness of one hair A dull thought enters our mind Leaves all hope trailing behind Hope, despair, are both motions Like faith versus emotions They are always on the move But its faith we must approve In despair your views are dark Without hope you miss your mark Suddenly we face a threat Leading to spiritual death We no longer feel secure Wonder if we can endure Missing light to safely walk To my Lord I have to talk
As for us He has His plan Just ensure His will is done As you pray to what is prime You receive at the right time Change from despair to hope Like hanging to a strong rope Having faith in its design From despair you just resign Avoid uncontrolled despair Its a case beyond repair Adam, Thomas, also Eve Due to doubt their misbelieve Kill the doubt, use hope and faith Do it quick, no need to wait So it won’t enter your heart From the Lord you’ll not depart
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praying for the next generation
Our children are in their glory days..  enjoying summer free from school and the last thing on their mind is to study. But as all parents do, we push them to study and make some revision. And it's not an unknown thing that when children are set on holidays mode their mind seems to forget what they learned at school. How frustrating it is for us grown ups knowing how important is to study and not doing so will bring consequences....we learnt this from experience. Does this stand in line spiritually? Do we track if our children are back sliding spiritually? At least this is much easier to monitor as we can still teach by example. We have no summer holidays and the Bible is at hand all year round. We have to pray and thank God for our children's well being. And what is frustrating to us can be easily let in God's powerful hands.
One of the new controversies troubling the church is the matter of soul sleep. It is the teaching that after people die, they will go into a state of “sleep” and will be no longer conscious of the time until Jesus returns and wake them up. This is the standard teaching of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Seventh-day Adventists. However, besides the several Scriptures that show the dead conscious state, the problem arises because of the lack of hermeneutics, the science of interpretation. Like in any normal language, the Bible uses literal devices, such as synonymous and euphemism. It means that an author uses different words to minimize the negative effect that words may have. This use was so common that it is alarming why people fall so quickly into this interpretation mistake. “Sleeping,” “went to his fathers,” “passed on,”and “perished” are few words to refer to the same event: when the soul leaves the body, then, death takes place.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 1 Thess 4:13
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WOL Marriage Devotion
THE HARMONIOUS MARRIAGE
Have you ever been so angry with your spouse not for what they said but how they said it? Proverbs clearly illustrates this practical truth: the tone we use in our daily conversation can have a hefty effect on the kind of response we get from those around us. In married life, conflict tends to start in the subtext of our interactions. A snippy tone, rolled eyes, a short response, or even a rushed exchange can be the kindling for major conflict. We have to be vigilant not to let careless responses steal the tenderness and joy from our marriages. The struggle to champion tenderness in the midst of our daily hustles is real. The pressure we face to meet deadlines, make dinner, tidy up, and care for our kids can squeeze the kindness right out of us. When your spouse forgets an integral detail for your day or asks a
question to which they should know the answer, it can be so easy to unload all your pent up frustration on them when you respond. We should not save our worst for the one we love the most. Continually offering our hurried, incomplete, or snappy selves to our partners is a recipe for long-term deterioration of the love that once brought you together. How can we remind ourselves to slow down and consider our responses in our marriages? We need to spend some unhurried time together. Busyness is one of the best ways the enemy of our souls can distract us from the fact we have been given to our spouse to show the love of Christ. It is easy to forget that our spouses are worth the extra effort kindness requires. Press pause on life and reconnect with your spouse so you can be reminded that you are on the same team. They are not one more item to check off on the endless to-do list of life! Amanda Idleman
A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare. Proverbs 15:1