Celebrate Recovery Bethel Baptist Moody Al

10/31/2024

Why trade a Treat for a Trick?? If we honor GOD's standards, we won't be tricked (even if the world calls us a "grinch")!

10/14/2024

Is the Body of Christ sitting out this next election?? NO, but some of "the church" will be per latest indicators!!

Will "those who are called by My Name" surrender countless lives of the unborn? GOD Forbid!

04/28/2022

May 5 is the National Day of Prayer for the USA. We can prepare our hearts to Praise/Repent/Appeal/Yield. Starting with "Praise":

Next Thursday, May 5, is the National Day of Prayer for the USA. May we prepare our hearts through the P.R.A.Y. model of Praising, Repenting, Appealing, and Yielding! Starting with "Praise":

04/14/2022

Who is this condemned man? How might he represent us?

"You probably have heard slanderous reports about me. What you think of me depends mostly upon which people who’ve spoken to you. I only ask you to form your own opinion after you have heard me out.

This is probably the first visit some of you have made to a Roman dungeon. Better watch your step; it’s not easy in the dim lighting down here. We don’t have the benefit of sanitation or rodent control, so what your noses find offensive is what we try to ignore when we eat and attempt to sleep. Now is not the time to be sissies about crude circumstances. You need to recognize these sacrifices as the cost for securing Jewish future.

Has that guard who led you down here gone back above? Good! Listen carefully to what I’m telling you! You have heard me called a murderer and a revolutionary. So, what of it?? Yes, I have tried to free Israel of Roman occupation. And what blood I have spilled I would gladly spill again if it would bring us freedom from these pagan Romans, their stupid gods, and their corrupt taxes!

Although they captured me and have condemned me to hang on a hideous Roman cross, my ex*****on needs to stir up more revolutionaries! If Jerusalem is ever to be free of Roman rule all Jewish brothers must unite in arms to sink our daggers into the throats of unsuspecting Romans. If my life is now over, at least let my death fuel the movement all the stronger!! I am counting on you for this!

Be very careful not to trust the Sadducees and temple authorities; those cowards grovel to appease the Romans to retain the ability to maintain temple worship and their authority over us. The Pharisees are only slightly more trustworthy since they prolong their self-righteous positions while awaiting Messiah who will overthrow the Roman occupation. Only fellow Zealots and my dagger-hiding brothers (we prefer the name sicarii) are truly willing to take the actions necessary to overthrow these heathen soldiers of Rome.

They call us thieves and bandits. I admit that we sometimes have to stoop to petty theft, but this is not what got us condemned for crucifixion. Word was given us last night that today I and my two collaborators, Thaddeus and Simon, are to be flogged and forced to carry our cross beams to Golgotha this day. This news causes my heart to pound and palms to sweat, knowing what agony lies ahead for us. Such frightening penalty is reserved for the public humiliation of feared revolutionaries, not mere thieves! As undignified as our deaths will be, we seek only to stir up more opposition to Tiberius and his stooges.

Every day we are haunted by the screams of those who’ve been pulled from the dungeon to face their fates. None have returned. Only their stench and frightful cries remain as our reminder of the moment we all dread. How we pray that Jehovah would send Messiah in time to spare us this torture! Oh that this healer Jesus was really as powerful as Judas reported to us! I’d rather die from an enemy’s dagger than that horrific cross. I dread that my slow ex*****on might entertain any Romans or traitor Sadducees!

If only Jesus really was Messiah and would spare us this gruesome agony! Or maybe they will grant a prisoner release due to Passover!"

01/01/2022

Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days! (Psalms 90:14).

12/31/2021

Romans 12:20

"If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head."

12/30/2021

Let all those rejoice who put their trust in You;
Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them;
Let those also who love Your name
Be joyful in You.
For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous;
With favor You will surround him as with a shield (Psalm 5:11-12)

12/29/2021

Except from Adrian Rogers devotion :

At Bethlehem, a bright star pointed the way to Jesus. But there’s a darker side to Christmas. Consider the scars of the Lord Jesus. They’re not incidental. They’re so fundamental that Jesus carried those scars with Him to Heaven.

Think about it: the only man-made thing in Heaven are the scars of Jesus Christ. When He returned to Heaven, He took some souvenirs of His visit with him…the scars in His hands and side, keeping them as a lasting memorial through all eternity.

12/27/2021

Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. You show lovingkindness to thousands . . . the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts. You are great in counsel and mighty in work.
(Jeremiah 32:17-19)

12/26/2021

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen
(2 Corinthians 13:14)

12/25/2021

John 3:16-17
New Living Translation
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

12/24/2021

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5