Babies

Love God.  Love People.  Help people love God.  It is a simple and challenging task.  It is what we strive to do here at the Downtown Bixby Church of Christ.  Over the next few weeks we will look at different segments of our demographics; women, mothers, grads, babies, kids, men and fathers.

Someone once said that babies are God’s opinion that the world should could go on.  This Sunday we recognize and celebrate the numerous blessings of little ones God has sent our way.  When we see children as a blessing from the Lord, we see that we, too, are a blessing.  We see we come from the Lord.  And we should see that it is privilege and responsibility to pass that on to the next generation.

Priority

Though priority is not a word found in the New Testament, Jesus demonstrates that he had a priority scale in his life.  From an early age he showed that being about his Father’s business outweighed the priorities of family and culture.

In the life of Jesus, time and time again, he demonstrates that loving people is a high priority in his life.  But Jesus doesn’t just love people in a way that will ‘make them feel good’.  Jesus demonstrates that his priority is to “make them good.”  Jesus’ authority and power to heal, cast out demons, etc., compliment his high objective to spiritually heal people.  In doing so, Jesus is able to do things that don’t seem to be initially in the person’s best interest.  This week we follow Jesus as he loves people in a way that is best for them.

Friends and Family

For more than 100 years, the Downtown Bixby Church of Christ has had an open invitation to our community; “come and see”.  We are not perfect.  We don’t have it all figured out.  But we do know that together we are better than if we are alone.  There is something special that happens when we worship as friends and as family.

Do you need a friend?  Do you need a family?  Wouldn’t it be nice to be in a place where others know your weaknesses… not to kick you when you are down, but to support you during those difficult times?

Join us for a morning of worship, a time of food and fun, and share the joy of being in a place that values you as a friend and a part of our family.

 

The Resurrection

He is risen!  The tomb is empty.  Many people around the world are taking notice of the power of the empty tomb.  From every nation, the understanding of impact of Jesus’s new life continues to change the world all around us.  Reports of Taliban members turning over their guns for Bibles, Buddhist monks who leave the monastery to join in Bible studies, and atheist finding God all because of the truth of the empty grave.  Is it changing you?

Do you remember Easter as family holiday, a scavenger hunt, or a chance to reflect back on God’s greatest expression love, a sacrificial gift of His own Son?  Do you see Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection as changing what is possible, what is impossible and what you want to do with your life?

His Death

From the triumphal entry to the last breath, what did Jesus say and do?  The next 3 weeks we will look closer at the death, the burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The steps he took, the words he shared and the certainty of his death and new life will excite you.  Take time this week to read Matthew 21-28.  

Notice what Jesus chooses to discuss.  Take note of his popularity.  See the sacrifice.  Accept his gift.