Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Starting the week, we will be reviewing the recitation passages that we have worked on memorizing as we went through the book of Isaiah.  Please review Chapter 1 this week with your family as that is the passage we will be reciting Sunday.

This week, prayer will be at the Brown’s barn.

We are going to spend another week on Isaiah 64:5-12 as we are encouraged with the truth that God meets those who rejoice and do righteousness and remembers God in His ways, but Isaiah is confronted with the fact that that was not Judah. His people were faded like a leaf because of their iniquities.  As we consider their state as Isaiah describes it, it is easy to see the similarities to the church of America in the description.  It is easy to see the desolation that false gospels have caused for the church.  It is easy to remember the glory days of old when those who went before us in this country praised God.  Isaiah called out to God for Him to move and to change things.  Is that what we desire in our day?

For the first Sunday in 2016 in the afternoon teaching, Mike is going to speak on our need to plan and consider what God would have us to do in this coming year, while always remembering and trusting that nevertheless the Lord’s counsel – that will stand.

The songs for Sunday follow:

• Behold Our God
• Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Wretched
• I Need Thee Every Hour
• Come, Holy Spirit, Come
• Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners!