Cedar Grove Baptist Church

Cedar Grove Baptist Church Southern Baptist Congregation

09/07/2026

In Jeremiah 32:27 God says, “I am the Lord, the God of every person on the earth, nothing is impossible for me.” We need to hear that God is still in control. We need to hear that it’s not over until he says so. We need to hear that life’s mishaps and tragedies are not a reason to bail out.

Corrie ten Boom used to say, “When the train goes through a tunnel and the world gets dark, do you jump out? Of course not. You sit still and trust the engineer to get you through.” The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren’t the first person to weep. And you aren’t the first person to be helped. Read the story and remember the story is yours!

09/06/2026

Jesus’ love does not depend upon what we do for him. Not at all. In the eyes of the King, you have value simply because you are. You don’t have to look nice or perform well. Your value is inborn. Period. Think about that for just a minute. You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you’ve done, but simply because you are.

Remember that the next time you are left bobbing in the wake of someone’s steamboat ambition….or some trickster tries to hang a bargain basement price tag on your self-worth. Remember that the next time someone tries to pass you off as a cheap buy. Just think about the way Jesus honors you—and smile. I do! I know I don’t deserve love like that. None of us do.

09/05/2026

When a tool emerges from a blacksmith’s anvil, there is no question as to what it’s for. One look at the tool and you instantly know its function.

Time on God’s anvil should clarify our mission and define our purpose. Being tested by God reminds us that our function and task is to be about his business. Our purpose is to be an extension of his nature, and a proclaimer of his message. We should exit the blacksmith’s shop with no question as to why God made us. We know our purpose.

If we live our lives in this way, then we can enter our final years with the assurance of knowing that life was well spent and heaven is but a wink away…and is there any greater reward than this?

09/04/2026

Let us each lead a life stirring enough to cause a movement! Let’s love unquenchably, dream unfalteringly, and work unceasingly. Let us close our ears to the manifold voices of compromise and perch ourselves on the branch of truth. Let’s champion the value of people, proclaim the forgiveness of God, and claim the promise of heaven.

Let’s start a movement of hope! A movement comes of age when one life harvests the seeds planted by countless lives in previous generations. A movement occurs when one person, no greater or lesser than those who’ve gone before, lives a forceful life in the fullness of time.

Let’s live lives stirring and forceful enough to cause a movement. Will the movement come in our generation? I hope so. But even if it doesn’t, even if we never see it, it will occur. And we will be part of it.

09/03/2026

The Scriptures say “Jesus sustains everything by the mighty power of his command” (Hebrews 1:3). Jesus has unimpeachable authority. The Roman government tried to intimidate him. False religion tried to silence him. The Devil tried to kill him. All failed!

Jesus is the command center of the galaxies. He occupies the Oval Office. He stopped the waves with a word. He spoke and a tree withered. He spoke again and a basket became a banquet. Jesus said in Matthew 11:27, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father.”

All things includes Satan. Jesus outranks him in every situation. He must obey Jesus, and he knows it. The Bible says that prayers offered in the name of Jesus have “divine power to demolish strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:4). Is Satan setting up a stronghold in your life? Lift up a prayer and unleash the demolition power of Jesus!

09/02/2026

Wait on the Spirit. If Peter and the apostles needed his help, don’t we? They walked with Jesus for three years, heard his preaching, and saw his miracles. They saw the body of Christ buried in the grave and raised from the dead. They witnessed his upper room appearance and heard his instruction. Had they not received the best possible training? Weren’t they ready? Yet Jesus told them to wait on the Spirit. He said in Acts 1:4-5, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised…the Holy Spirit.”

Learn to wait, to be silent, to listen for his voice. You don’t need a thing– you’ve got it all! All God’s gifts right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene.

09/01/2026

Do you feel as if your best years have passed you by? Do you regret wasting seasons of life on foolish pursuits? So do I. But we can stop our laments. We have an eternity to make up for lost time.

Colossians 3:1 is a great reminder to “seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.” Seek heaven the way a sailor seeks the coast or a pilot seeks the landing strip. Colossians 3:2 says, “think only about it.” Other translation say Keep your mind on it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. In other words, obsess yourself with heaven! Open your eyes, Christ invites. Lift up your gaze. Don’t limit your story to the days between your birth and death. You were made for more than this life!

08/31/2026

Is there anything in your life that needs to be removed? Any impediment to the impression of God’s Spirit? We can grieve the Spirit with our angry words and resist the Spirit in our disobedience. We can test or conspire against the Spirit in our plottings. We can even quench the Spirit by having no regard for God’s teachings.

But there is something that helps us stay in step with the Spirit from Galatians 5:22. We know that the “fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” They are indicators on our spiritual dashboard. So whenever we sense them, we know we are walking in the Spirit. Whenever we lack them, we know we are out of step with the Spirit! Do your best to follow the admonition of Galatians 5:25 and “Keep in step with the Spirit!”

08/30/2026

Death is not the final chapter in your story. John 11:25-26 assures us that in death we will step into the arms of the One who declared “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.”

Winston Churchill believed this. The prime minister planned his own funeral. Two buglers were positioned in the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral. At the conclusion of the service the first played taps, the signal of a day completed. The second played reveille, the song of a day begun. Death is no pit but a passageway, a corner turn. Isaiah wrote “Your dead will live…all you dead and buried, wake up! Sing! The earth is bursting with life, giving birth to the dead” (Isaiah 26:19). So play on bugler…play on!

08/29/2026

The Apostle Paul says, “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (Galatians 3:27). Think about this for a moment. When you make God’s story yours, he covers you in Christ. You wear him like a vest. Old labels no longer apply.

How about these new labels: Royal Priest. Secure. God’s Coworker. God’s Workmanship. Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Psalm 103:12 reminds us not to mess with the old clothes any longer. “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” When God sends your sins to the east and you to the west, you can be sure of this: He sees his Son, not your sin! In fact, Isaiah 43:25 says, “He remembers your sins no more!”

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Leakesville, MS
39451

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Wednesday 7pm - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 7pm

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(601) 394-2616

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