Church

BOYD METHODIST
Boyd Methodist Church hosted an old-fashioned all day meeting and dinner on Sept. 30.
Pastor Tom Rector welcomed special speaker of the day, and guitar picker extraordinaire Gene T. Howard, who was accompanied by several of his family members from Jacksonville, Florida, where brother Gene is Associate Minister of Training for Challenge International. Part of his responsibilities include training nationals to open and operate churches in their home countries.
Preaching, singing, and a potluck dinner was enjoyed by 57 people.

My current screen saver on my phone is a simple Bible verse, a command and a promise, eight small but powerful words: “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).
That verse, those eight small, ordinary words, has been my lifeline for the past year or two as I have struggled with some difficult things within my family.
Be still.
Be -- not pretend to be or try to be, but be.
Whenever God gives a command in his Word, he also gives the means to do it.
Be joyful. Be thankful. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

Recently, I heard about a young dad named Dillon Moore and a Texas dentist, Dr. Kenny Wilstead.
About two years ago, Wilstead randomly came across Moore on Facebook and noticed that he wasn’t smiling in any of his photos and offered to fix his teeth, if that was the reason he didn’t smile.
Moore replied that he couldn’t take off work, and that was that.
Then this past September, Moore had a toothache while at work and his boss sent him to Marshall Family Dental in Marshall, Texas -- the dental office where Dr. Wilstead had his practice.

Last week I met with Carla, a young woman who has an amazing story of how God is using her.
But first, she had to go through a time of incredible pain and darkness. Of course, much of her darkness was the resulting consequences of her own bad choices. Still, those consequences were the very ones she needed to suffer to become the usable vessel she is today.
I’ve heard many pastors use Oswald Chambers’ quote: “Before God can use a (person) greatly, he must woud him deeply.”