The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum A Praise

As many of you know, my church (First Pres in Biloxi) is located across the boulevard from the beach. Except for the day before the hurricane, we've been able to meet every Sunday since. Plus the fellowship hall at the church was used for a supply store for the community for 6-7 weeks, and we are still housing work crews coming down to help.

This week they finally opened up the beach road for normal traffic. Before we had been getting to the church through back ways. Today, as I took the road home it really struck me in that we are practically the only building along the road still usable. What a terrific praise for our Lord Jesus Christ Almighty.

Sure, we have damage to the church, but it is still functional. I'm beginning to like cement floors, sitting in pews that need varnishing, along with other visible signs of the storm. Maybe we should keep it that way.

John,

"Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain." Psalm 127:1

Denny

Roms 3:22-24

John,

Your comments of praise about your church remind me about Jesus' teaching in His sermon on the mount. In Matthew 7:24,25 we read about the house built on the rock.

"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock."


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