Pool 25' round, 10,500 gal. Doughboy, new pump & liner, $950 or best offer. Call 858-5166.

Set of Engraved Samurai Swords and 8 piece Engraved Knife collection set. Asking $175. Call 858-5052.

Stuffed animals, dolls, small toys, baby clothes to size 6, a few housewares, VHS recording tapes, knick-knacks, & books, all $ .50 to $3, old 3-wheel beach bicycle. 7 days a week ‘til sold! Hwy 80, west of Pooler in Eden, Call 748-0994, 10AM-10PM only, please.

Bowflex Ultimate 2 Home Gym, used very little, asking $1,000, obo. Call 964-6413 after 6 PM, Pooler.

25 HP Briggs & Stratton 42” riding mower, good shape. $500. Call 748-9226 or 604-1885.

THE SPIRIT WORKS!

Religion

Godspeaks

“Can’t sleep? Don’t count sheep, talk to the Shepherd!”

-God

Bulletin Board Briefs

• Gospel Concert at Trinity Chapel United Methodist Church, 10th and Butler Street, Tybee Island, featuring The Cleghorns, Saturday, November 18 from 6-8PM. For more information call 786-6377.

• There will be a Flag Pole Dedication Ceremony on Sunday, November 12 at Rothwell Baptist Church in honor of Michael L. Hartwick, Jr., who was killed in action on April 1, 2006.

• Local Group Gets Call to Nashville

Local singing group, “Beautiful Soles”, is going to Nashville, Tennessee in November to tape two shows for television. One will be aired on the PAX Television Network in early December.

“Beautiful Soles” is a gospel group consisting of Pam Rahn and her three daughters, Stacy, 15, Keri, 13, and Ashley, 9. They have been singing together since February of 2006. They have finished their first CD and have begun their Christmas CD which contains a beautiful tribute song for the troops and is due out the first of December.

Anyone wishing to know more about this family and their rapidly growing ministry can email them at beautifulfeet4christ@yahoo.com or call Pam at 308-5912.

• Alpha Methodist Church, located on Hwy 80 in Bloomingdale will be having their annual fried chicken dinner/craft and yard sale this Friday and Saturday. Dinners will be served Friday 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and Saturday 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The craft and yard sale will begin Saturday AM at 8:00 AM. Refreshments, baked goods and boiled peanuts will also be available. Everyone welcome!!!

• 1st Annual Gospel Sing, Celebrating 25 Years! Hosted by The Bruce Holcombe Family. Featured guests will include: Masterstouch, Wayne Bennett, David and Curtis, a house band and much more! Saturday, November 18th at 6:30 PM at Faulkville Baptist Church, Hwy 80 in Bloomingdale. Refreshments will follow. For more information, please call 398-1836, 728-3702 or 756-2064.

• Trinity United Methodist Church Chicken Dinner, Saturday, November 4th from 11 AM to 6 PM. $6 per plate: includes 1/2 Fried Chicken, Potato Salad, Green Beans, & a Roll. Women’s Sweet Shop, Preschool Yard Sale starts at 7 AM. The Church will deliver orders of 10 or more plates. The Church is located at the corner of N. Newton and Benton Drive in Pooler. For more information- phone/fax: 748-4141, email: trinitypooler@yahoo.com, web: www.trinitypooler.org.

• Sand Hill Baptist Church Fall Festival! 1931 Sand Hill Road. Saturday, November 11th, from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm. Everything is free and all are welcome! We will have lunch, music, fun, games & prizes. Please join us for a great time!

• First Baptist Church of Port Wentworth is sponsoring Family Fun Day! Saturday, November 11th, 11 AM to 2 PM at the Port Wentworth Soccer Field. Free Activities for the Family, Food, Games, and Fun!

• Cokesbury United Methodist Church will be having a Gospel Sing with special guests The Proclaimers from Rincon on November 11th at 7 PM. The Church is located at 5411 Skidaway Road. For more information, call 912-748-6147, and ask for Claude.

• Sunday November 5th at 10:30 AM, Oak Grove Baptist Church at 2285 Oak Grove Church Road, Portal, Ga, will have Homecoming with Rev. Bob Conley & The Sounds of Glory with dinner on the grounds. For more information contact the church at 912-865-5174.

• Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

Come and sing folk hymns from the shape note tradition. Saturday, November 11th, from 2pm to 4pm Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road, Savannah.

Sacred Harp singing (also called shape note or fasola singing) is a nondenominational community musical activity emphasizing participation, not performance. We sing from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. All are welcome to sing or just listen. No experience or membership is required. Books will be available for loan or purchase. Call 655-0994 for more information.

• The 11th SOUND OF JOY, PRAISE, AND WORSHIP CONVOCATION will be held November 15 – 17 at First Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, located at 219 West 45th Street in Savannah, where Gregory A. Tyson is Pastor. The purpose of this event is to bring together pastors, ministers of music, psalmists, praise ensembles, choirs, musicians, and saints for the purpose of educating, edifying, and exhorting the Body of Christ in the ministry of praise and worship. Workshops will be held on Thursday and Friday beginning at 6:15PM. Services are scheduled to begin at 7 PM on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. Please call Pastor Errol Roach for more information at 964-9096.

• The Reggie Saddler Family will be performing at First Assembly of God, 1901 Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday, November 4th at 7 PM, Sunday, November 5th at 11 AM and 6 PM, and Monday, November 6th at 7 PM.

Before accepting Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior, Reggie and his 7-piece band worked professionally with such groups as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Drifters, and the Platters. He also performed at the Las Vegas Hilton with Bill Cosby, Don Rickles, and comedian Redd Foxx of Sanford-n-Son backed by the Joe Gerceo’s (Elvis Presley’s band director at the Las Vegas Hilton) 18-piece orchestra. Also, at Lake Tahoe, he worked with Dick Clark’s Rock-N-Roll Revival which featured the likes of Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, Rick Nelson, the Platters, and many others. Reggie was employed by the Walt Disney Corporation for 10 years in Florida and California. One of his largest crowds was 80,000 in Tokyo, Japan. In the late ‘70s, Reggie Saddler was introduced to Jesus Christ while visiting Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles where Dr. E.V. Hill was Pastor. “Things Changed” and Reggie left Rock-N-Roll, and joined Jesus.

• KAIROS Ministry, a ministry for the family will have it's Annual KAIROS Family Conference on Thursday, November 9, 2006 (Family Night 7:00 p.m. nightly~Guest Speakers: Elder Tracy Boles of Atlanta, GA and Dr. Deloris Young of Hardeeville, SC and Guest) through Saturday, November 11, 2006 (10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.Carnival, 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Storyteller, and Concert 7:00 p.m.). The 9th/10th sessions will be held at the Argent Square Ballroom in Hardeeville, SC and the 11th event will be held on the campus of Armstrong Atlantic State University.

• A silent auction will be held on Saturday, November 11th, 5-8 pm at Rincon United Methodist Church. Items for bid include antique and handmade furniture, artwork, simulated jet aircraft flight (Flight Safety), designer handbags, gift baskets, etc. No entrance fee. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres provided. Baked goods available for purchase. All proceeds to benefit the church’s building fund. More information: 826-5940 - Delores Dukes.

• Groundbreaking Celebration!!!

Sunday, November 5th, 12:30 – 3:00pm: Rincon United Methodist Church will be hosting a groundbreaking celebration for our new Family Life Center that will located at the intersection of Weisenbaker and Fort Howard Road. A complimentary hamburger and hotdog lunch will be provided along with musical entertainment. Lunch will be served at 12:30pm, followed by the groundbreaking ceremony at 1:00pm.

Beginning at 12:15pm a trolley shuttle will transport passengers to and from the church’s current site on 107 Savannah Avenue to the construction site on Fort Howard Road. Please join us for worship at 11:00am (107 Savannah Ave.) and then board the trolley for the celebration following our service. This event is open to the entire community. Please BYOS (Bring Your Own Shovel) for the groundbreaking.

• Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous meets every Monday, 7:00 p.m. at New Faith Community Church, Pooler Georgia. No cost to attend. Call 748-9051 or 844-6967 www.ocapoolerga.com.

Operation PB & J, A Local Outreach Ministry, Needs Help

Open Door Ministries is a worship-based ministry in the Savannah area. They hold worship services every Wednesday and Friday at 7:30pm and Sunday mornings at 10am. The majority of their efforts is directed to reaching out to local underprivileged children.

For several months now, they have been going into two of the Chatham County housing apartments to reach out to the children of the inner city, and have upgraded their services to the children to include on-site sidewalk Sunday School.

The program they offer is called Operation PB ‘n J. The name originated when the ministry started taking peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the children, played games and interacted with them to earn their trust. Many of the children that Open Door Ministries is reaching out to are products of broken homes. The living conditions of these children are horrible and the church is giving them hope and helps them realize that they can have a future.

Open Door Ministries has two 15-passenger vans which are used to transport the children to and from the Bible Study, youth group meetings, and Sunday services. On Sundays, snacks are served in their children’s church, which has been named Kingdom Builders, and lunch is prepared for everyone.

In addition to these services, the children are learning music and the arts. The ministry provides tutoring and counseling for the kids. Many of them have problems at home and school and the ministry is very encouraging. Some of the youth come and spend the whole weekend at the church because of the joy they experience there.

This is truly a blessing, but has become rather costly. “We are growing in number with these children at a rapid pace,” says Pastor Royce Bush. “However, we are limited in what we can do because of our limited resources. I pray that you will consider helping us in meeting the needs of these children in our community. We may be all the help and hope they have.”

If you’d like to help, or receive more information about Open Door Ministries, you may contact Pastor Royce Neil Bush by phone: 704-3057, 660-7388, or 964-5001, by email: Pastor_Neil@odminc.org, or you can visit them online: www.odminc.org.

Q: I've given up on God because He doesn't seem to care about me. I can't even begin to list all the problems I have - money, health, job, family tensions, you name it. I know you say God cares about us but I haven't seen any evidence of it in my life. - Mrs. L.W.

A: Have you ever stopped to list the good things in your life? Sometimes we get so caught up with the bad things that are happening to us that we fail to see the other side. As the old hymn says, "Count your many blessings; name them one by one - and it will surprise you what the Lord has done."

Don't misunderstand me, however; your problems are real, and I know that at times it seems like God has forgotten you or hidden His face from you. Even some of the Bible's greatest men and women felt that way on occasion. In the midst of his pain and loss, Job cried out, "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?" (Job 10:8).

But in time Job realized that God still loved him, and even if he didn't understand why he was experiencing so much suffering and heartache, God still could be trusted. The turning point came when Job looked beyond his problems and focused instead on God and His greatness and love. Then he could say, "I know that my Redeemer lives" (Job 19:25).

This is why I urge you to turn to Christ and ask Him to come into your life. God loves you - and the proof is that His only Son was willing to endure the pain and death of the cross for you. Open your heart to Him, and then ask Him to give you the wisdom to change what you can, and the courage to endure what you can't.

(Send your queries to "My Answer," c/o Billy Graham, P.O. Box 1270, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the Web site for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.)

by Gary Toole, Minister

This preacher once preached a sermon entitled, “But God.” I thought about that and realized that there’s been a lot of “But God” in my life.

Near death accidents, but God was there. In severe trouble, but God was with me. I could have lost my life at the hand of someone, but God stayed the hand of death. I was lost and undone without God or His son, but God found me. I was spiritually blind, but God made me see. I was bound, but God set me free. I was going down a path of destruction, but God turned me around. I was on my way to a devil’s hell, but God saved, sanctified, and filled me with the sweet Holy Ghost. I was sinking down into a miry pit of clay, but God rescued me. I was a wretched sinner, but God saved a wretch like me.

Grace, Not Law

By Nicholas A. Kennicott

“For sin will have no dominion over you since you are not under law but under grace.” Romans 6:14 ESV

It seems all too frequent in life that we don’t feel like Christians. Sometimes we do or say things and wonder why we seem to be so far from God when we know we’ve been saved by His marvelous grace.

If you’re a born-again Christian, it doesn’t mean that bad things are not going to happen. The Bible says that every last one of us sins and falls short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Some of the most difficult days in life are when we’re certain of our salvation by grace alone, yet wonder why bad things seem to happen.

God sent us grace. We didn’t generate it by ourselves. It was a gift given by God. There’s no fault in Grace; there is only fault in the flesh. Sin is always present where we live, but thank God that Paul said, “Sin will not have dominion over you since you are not under the law but under Grace.”

Being “under the law” means that law-keeping is the way we will provide a righteousness that lets us stand before God. If we treat the law in such a way that it provides the righteousness that justifies us, then we are “under the law.” And this is true whether you are trusting God to enable you to keep the law, or trusting yourself. It doesn't make any difference when the issue is: what provides the righteousness that justifies us? If it is law-keeping, we are "under the law."

The reason this is deadly for us sinners is that none of us can succeed in using the law to provide a righteousness that puts us right with God. What then shall we do?

Jesus Christ perfectly kept the law by faith, and thus performed a righteousness that will maintain a right standing with God. And so this righteousness of Christ is credited to our account.

What it means then to be "under grace," is that Christ is all our righteousness for justification. We receive it in him as a gift through faith alone. And the opposite is being "under law," which means that Christ is not our righteousness, but law-keeping is.

I don’t know about you, but I’m glad that I am not “under law.” As I go back and read the Bible to see just what “law” is, I know that I am too weak to fulfill that which God requires. What an unexplainable joy to know that I am justified by faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Are you under the law? If Jesus is not your personal Lord and Savior, I’m sorry to say that you are. It is only by faith in Jesus that we are able to escape the wrath of God for our sinful nature and inability to fulfill the law. Trust Him, lean on Him, and let Him change you from the inside out, by grace, and grace alone.

Editor’s Note: Nicholas Kennicott and his wife Felicia attend Woodlawn Baptist Church where he is the new Associate Pastor of Youth and Education. Questions, comments, or prayer requests? You can e-mail Nicholas at kennicon@comcast.net or read his blog at http://kennicon.squarespace.com.