Putnam Friends Church

05/20/2026

04/19/2026

As our little shop is located in rural North Carolina, many of our family members and friends are farmers or work in industries whose livelihoods depend on moisture for the land.

They are in need of rain to sustain their crops, their livestock and to prevent such severe dry conditions.

Our farmers work tirelessly and right now they need rain, strength, and support more than ever.

We humbly ask that you join us in lifting them in prayer—pray for rain, pray for our farmers, and pray for the land that sustains us all.

When God sends us the rain, we need to thank Him for it. Thank Him for His mercy and goodness. Thank Him for His favor.

04/14/2026

Inner Invincibility
By Oswald Chambers
April 14

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me… —Matthew 11:29

“Whom the Lord loves He chastens…” (Hebrews 12:6). How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us to the point where we can have fellowship with Him, only to hear us moan and groan, saying, “Oh Lord, just let me be like other people!” Jesus is asking us to get beside Him and take one end of the yoke, so that we can pull together. That’s why Jesus says to us, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). Are you closely identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God when you feel the pressure of His hand upon you.

“…to those who have no might He increases strength” (Isaiah 40:29). God comes and takes us out of our emotionalism, and then our complaining turns into a hymn of praise. The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke of Jesus upon us and to learn from Him.

“…the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). Where do the saints get their joy? If we did not know some Christians well, we might think from just observing them that they have no burdens at all to bear. But we must lift the veil from our eyes. The fact that the peace, light, and joy of God is in them is proof that a burden is there as well. The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility.

If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God’s strength.

04/12/2026

You don't have to be a pastor, a theologian, or a Bible scholar to share the gospel. Peter and John were fishermen. Moses said "I'm nobody." And God used them anyway.

"We are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves." — 2 Corinthians 4:7

God isn't looking for ability. He's looking for availability.
Your workplace, your neighborhood, your school — that's your mission field. Show up. Speak up. Watch what He does. -Greg Laurie

04/03/2026

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

Dwight Lyman Moody

01/01/2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR

11/27/2025

“Is a choir needed to ‘lead’ worship? What choir was needed to aid the Savior and His apostles as they sung that hymn in the upper room, ere going forth into the Garden? (Matthew 26:30). What choir was needed to assist the apostles, as with bleeding backs they sang praises to God in the Philippian dungeon? Singing, to be acceptable to God, must come from the heart. And to whom do the choirs sing — to God, or to the people?

The attractiveness of singing has been substituted for “the foolishness of preaching.” The place which music now holds in many of our public services is a solemn “sign of the times” to those who have eyes to see. But is music wrong? Has not God Himself bestowed the gift? Surely, but what we are now complaining about is church-singing that is professional and spectacular, that which is of the flesh, and rendered to please the ear of man.

The only music which ever passes beyond the roof of the church in which it is rendered is that which issues from born again people, who “sing with grace in their hearts unto the Lord.”

~ Arthur Pink, "An Exposition of the Gospel of John”

11/21/2025

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Smith wigglesworth

11/21/2025

NKJV
Psalms 96
A Song of Praise to God Coming in Judgment
1Oh, sing to the Lord a new song!
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
2Sing to the Lord, bless His name;
Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
3Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonders among all peoples.
4For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.
5For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
6Honor and majesty are before Him;
Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
7Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Give to the Lord glory and strength.
8Give to the Lord the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
9Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the earth.
10Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
The world also is firmly established,
It shall not be moved;
He shall judge the peoples righteously.”
11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
12Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord.
13For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with righteousness,
And the peoples with His truth.