Pastor's Blog

“Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.” (Ephesians 4:32)

It was a good thing to see Edd Gillespie in our first service yesterday morning as we joined Sandy & him in celebrating their good news regarding his malignancy.  Praise the Lord.

Katie Tillman will have a surgical procedure today as a result of her miscarriage.  Pray for Grant & Katie.

Amy Huhn’s father, Bobby Morrison, will have a heart ablation today.  They are doing this ablation on a side of his heart that they did not want to do previously but now seemingly have no other option.  Pray all goes well.

Larry & Judy will travel to Jacksonville today, he will have some pre op stuff done tomorrow and then surgery on Wednesday. Pray for Larry.

We have a considerable number of folks within the Friendship family battling the flu, et cetera.  Pray for them too.

Blessed with three good services yesterday.  Our attendance was really good in all three services.  The prayer time last night was significant.  We thank God for His continued blessings.

I am writing this entry a little after 3:00AM and the outside temperature is twenty nine degrees.  Today’s high is projected to be fifty eight, tonight’s low thirty six (beach weather) and then tomorrow’s high fifty three.  It is then that we get another blast of cold air as Tuesday night’s low is expected to be twenty two, Wednesday’s high forty and Wednesday night’s low twenty one.

So, once again we will not have our Wednesday morning service this week.  We will have all of our regularly scheduled Wednesday evening activities, classes, service, et cetera.  Bro. Jerry will be preaching in the 6:30PM service.  Please pass the word.

We will now have cancelled two of our Wednesday morning services in a three weeks period of time.  Just learned that this has not been approved by the Alabama Baptist State Convention which means we may have to make up these missed services.  That would mean going from 10:00AM until noon for two future Wednesdays.  I appealed this ruling but was denied.  So, I have scheduled these make up Wednesdays for January 5 & 12, 2028.  Please mark those dates on your calendar!

Are you serious?  It seems to me that the liberal media and the NFL take the American public for a bunch of dummies!  NBC has announced they will show any players participating in that game who choose to kneel during the national anthem as they have to since it is a live event.  Are you serious?  Every single second of the Super Bowl is choreographed.  The network is making a political statement.  News flash to the liberal media – these protesting players are not civil rights activist!

The NFL attendance and viewership has suffered this year.  The NFL and the liberal media do not get it.  Recently Al Michaels (who will be doing the national broadcast of the game) said,  “There are a lot of empty seats, especially in the beginning of the second half. Most of the seats in most of the stadiums have been sold, but you go to Atlanta, where they just opened up a new stadium. They have behind the lower bowl a 100 yard almost mall. You’ve got stores, you’ve got bars, you’ve got restaurants, you’ve got games for the kids.”  That is definitely it Al, football loving men are going shopping instead of watching the games!

In my opinion, more of the American public needs to stand up and boycott the NFL by not watching any games.  And yet there will be churches that will dismiss their evening service or have Super Bowl watch parties.  Are you serious?

Boy, he is on a soapbox this morning, is he not?  I am.  Blood pressure just spiked!

I pray that you will have a great Monday with Jesus.