Baptist Goodness

Last night I had a holiday from St Michaels. It worked conveniently with the school holidays and so I didnt have to be at church at 4:30 for JBS.
Turned up and found someone I knew and sat with them. The service was really good (as always) and the sermon was great. They were doing the last night of their old testament series (based on the 'Full of Promise' by Matthias studies). It was really good with the last Chapter of Nehemiah being the focus. The book of Nehemiah begins with Nehemiah praying for 'us' as in the people of Israel, however, by the end of the book, he is just praying for himself. His attitude was basically, 'I've had a go God, now I give up on these people. Please remember me.' As far as the OT timeline, this book, apart from Malachi is pretty much the last one written before the 400years of silence from God before the NT. So, just as the end of Judges, it was obvious that the people were still as depraved as ever and the problem of sin was not fixed.

Enter Jesus...

As for next week, well, it is still the holidays and I think I will go there again. Last night was really good. I met some new people (when you work full time, often all the people you know are at Church). I think i was asked if I wanted to be part of a bible study at least twice as well...heheh. Speaking of bible study, I got a couple of good ideas about some stuff we can look at as we get further towards the end of the OT.
I think we should make some shirts for the guys at bible study. "Love the OT" I think it would go down a treat!