Items for sale

360 red BRICKS for sale. 25 cent each. Call 772-7294.

ANTIQUES... 1920s-30s golden oak round kitchen table, $425; (2) late night 19th century cast-iron columns, 8 ft. tall, $350 each; solid brass ship’s port hole, $250; cast-iron garden wash basin, mid 19th century, $250; cast-iron ornamental light support, $750; commercial range oven and cook top (for restaurant), gas, $300 each or both for $500. Call 912-858-5454.

Sofa, $50; Chair, $45; Large Entertainment Center, $45. Call 920-4588.

Used Go-Kart, two seater, 6 HP, torque converter, good condition, $350. Call 826-5116 Monday thru Friday, 9 til 6.

THE SPIRIT WORKS!

Religion

Godspeaks

“Whomever I ordain, I also sustain.”

-God

Prayer For This Week...

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance." "We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed t he time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!"

-Paul Harvey

Bulletin Board Briefs

• On Sunday, June 3rd, Rincon First Christian Church will begin their “Vision to Victory” line-up of exciting worship opportunities. Sundays, at 9:00am they will add a traditional worship to their schedule which also includes 10:00am Sunday School and an 11:00am Contemporary Worship. Sunday evenings will feature, free to the public, four classes: Divorce Recovery, ABCs of Finances, 21st Century Christians, and Biblical Eldership. RFCC welcomes new Worship Leader, Ricky Stokes and Youth Minister, Randy Jones. (RFCC serves the Lord’s Supper every Sunday during their AM and PM Worship Services.) For more information contact the church office at 826-2224.

• Trinity Chapel United Methodist Church will be having a Southern Gospel Concert on Saturday, May 19th, featuring Safe Harbor of Pelzer, South Carolina, from 6 PM to 8 PM. Trinity Chapel UMC is located at 10th and Butler on Tybee Island. For more information, call 912-786-6377.

• WANTED: PIANIST FOR PEMBROKE CHRISTIAN CHURCH... We are looking for an individual to play the piano for our 11 AM service each Sunday. Individual must have the ability to work well with others and be willing to contribute to our spiritual growth. Applicant does not necessarily need to be a Christian. We are willing to work on that. For more information, please call 653-2457.

• “REVIVAL” May 20th-23rd at Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1914 East 52nd Street across from Myers Jr. High School in Savannah. Pastor: Rev. Bob Tice. Sunday morning: 11 AM, 6 PM each night. Evangelist Rev. Jimmy Anderson of Richmond Hill, Georgia will be preaching each service. The Holcombes of Faulkville, Georgia will be singing at each service. Everyone is invited! Come and let’s have a REVIVAL!

• Rincon First Christian Church, located at 5835 Highway 21 South in Rincon, will host a High School Conference Friday night, June 1st from 5:00-11:30pm and Saturday, June 2nd, from 9:00am-3:00pm. The conference will feature Randy Jones, speaker; D-Group Breakouts, Praise & Worship Band, and a Jam Session Friday night. Meals and snacks provided. Please register at www.rinconfirstchristian.com.

• New Harvest International Ministries (formerly located at 510 Stephenson Avenue) has come to Pooler! We are excited about being here and we invite you to come worship with us. Join us for awesome praise, worship and messages that will touch and bless you. We are temporarily located at the Quality Inn Hotel behind Hardee’s at Hwy 80 and I-95 in Pooler, with our new facility soon to be built on Quacco Road. Our services start at 10:30 AM on Sundays and 7 PM on Wednesdays. For additional information, contact Pastor Ken Terrell at 912-844-8365.

• Wanted: Youth Pastor for Pembroke Christian Church. We are looking for a Youth Pastor who is committed to teens and their growth in Christ. General duties are planning, directing, and organizing youth activities. Candidate must be mature enough to lead our youth in a Christian-based learning environment, but energetic enough to be active with them. Candidate must be a born-again Christian who believes in biblical teaching and doctrine. This is a part-time position with the potential to become full-time, based on need

and growth. Other duties may include, but are not limited to, leading worship services, visitation and assisting the Pastor with any duties he deems necessary. Please submit resume to: Pembroke Christian Church, PO Box 479, Pembroke, GA 31321, Attn: Youth Pastor Committee.

• 50th Birthday Celebration Concert & Banquet in honor of Bishop Matthew M. Odum, Saturday, May 26th at 7 p.m. at the Temple of Glory Community Church, 1105 Stiles Avenue. Special guests: recording artist, Oleta Adams, and inspirational saxophonist, Jason Bitten. Tickets available at the church; call (912) 233-8213 exts. 21, 27 or 31.

• Becoming the Crown Jewel Conference ’07... Savannah Baptist Assembly in Pineora, June 1st thru 3rd... offered to Middle School and High School Girls...

We've all dreamed of being a princess and we're here to tell you that you already are a princess of God! We will have three special speakers who will talk about royalty, purity, and loyalty. Also, there's awesome worship, great food, and lots of fun and new friends! Early registration is $60 for April. Late registration is $75 for May. Full and partial scholarships are available upon request. For more information, check out our website: www.freewebs.com/becomingthecrownjewel, or call 912-663-4621. Come learn your worth in Christ as a princess! Register now!

• Crossroads Worship Center on Hwy 80 in Pooler (across from Domino’s) is NOW OPEN! Sunday morning worship service is held at 10:30 AM and Wednesday evening worship service is held at 7 PM. Call Pastor Joe Hubbard at 912-547-5101 for more information.

• Are you a GOD lover with limited places to go? Or maybe a V.I.P. (very intense praiser) with no where to dance like David? Do you feel the need for more after service and are longing for a night spot for food, fun, and Holy fellowship? COMING SPRING 2007... CLUB ZION “A HOLY Hip-Hop Experience”... Savannah’s first nightclub of its kind, Club Zion is dedicated to delivering the gospel to “the Streets” through the Spiritually Enlightening Holy Hip-Hop Ministry, Music, and Entertainment that glorifies God. With live DJ’s, performances including Rap, Drama, Comedy, the arts, and more. Club Zion is a positive spot for teens and young adults. BE THERE WHEN THE DOORS OPEN! Psalms 102:16. For more info & dates, visit: www.myspace.com/clubzion_savannah.

• "Reaching for Souls" (Vision Partners) invites you to Bible Study, held each Thursday evening at 7PM in Pooler. Everyone is welcome and invited! For location and more information, please call 963-9803.

• Sacred Harp singing (also called shape note or fasola singing) is a nondenominational community musical activity emphasizing participation, not performance. All are welcome to sing or just listen. Books will be available for loan or purchase. Call 655-0994 for more information.

• First Baptist Church of Pembroke is offering free ESL (English as a Second Language) classes every Monday evening from 6:30pm to 8pm. Anyone is welcome! The church is located at 169 Church Street in Pembroke. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact the church at 912-653-5860 or Stephanie Miller at stephanie_m44@yahoo.com.

• 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.

Heaven... Where Is It?

And how do we get there?

This was the topic of a Barbra Walter’s special recently. As a follower of Jesus Christ, there is no greater topic for me to speak of and proclaim to anyone than that of… Heaven and How to get there.

Where is heaven? Heaven is another place, another time, some say another dimension altogether. It’s a place where God is and Jesus Christ His only Son resides and rules with His angels. It is where the Holy Spirit came from to be in the lives of His followers after Jesus ascended back to heaven. It’s the place where Jesus Christ is preparing a place for His followers. It’s a place where there are streets of gold as well as walls of precious stones, and twelve gates of twelve pearls.

The Bible (God’s holy word) gives the reader a description of heaven in the book of the Revelation. Please read the referenced verses in italics to get a better word picture. Revelation Chapter 21 and verses 19 and 21. Heaven is where the righteous people of God prior to the death and resurrection of Christ went too, and all of His followers go too. Many things there have happened, are happening, and will happen there as described in the Bible.

How we get there starts ...by looking at ourselves as God sees us against His standard rule of measurement, the Ten Commandments – His Holy Law. Everyone of us have broken His Laws at one time or another, and because we have, we are guilty and stand condemned. When we’ve lied (regardless of how small) or stolen (regardless of the value), disrespected our parents and therefore dishonored them, God sees lusting after another as committing adultery, hating someone as murder.

A day is coming when people will stand guilty and give an account to Him and be judged. The Bible says “it is appointed for each person once to die, and after that comes judgment.” Hebrews 9:27.

So knowing that a person will stand before God guilty of breaking His law(s), what will the verdict be? Innocent or Guilty? All will be found guilty. They will then be sentenced to eternal punishment in hell. Whether you believe in hell or not, it doesn’t change the fact all people will be found guilty and pay the penalty for their sinful life in eternal suffering punishment.

So who then can make it into heaven? It’s the person who God draws to His Son, by letting him or her recognize that they stand guilty of offending God by living their lives breaking His laws (sinning), and turn from their sin to God, to be made right by asking Him to forgive them of their sins, and trusting in the sacrifice of God’s Son Jesus on the cross who paid for the sins of all, then rose from the dead to conquer death, hell, and the grave.

God loves humanity and knew we could not make it to heaven on our own merits, because we are imperfect human beings. God’s word says in Isaiah 64:6... “We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags.” That is why God sent His perfect and only Son Jesus Christ, to take our sin and by this we could be made right. The Bible says “For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. The Bible says “for God so loved the world that He gave His only son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have ever lasting life.”

There is only one thing that stops people from receiving God’s forgiveness and entering heaven, it’s called PRIDE. People in the U.S. and throughout the world are prideful, thinking they can go to heaven on their own merits like those interviewed on the Barbra Walter’s special.

It showed that different religion’s ideas of making it to heaven were totally based on how GOOD they behaved while alive. People think if they live life a certain way that God will be pleased. But what they are trying to do is cover up their sin, and the Bible says "He that covers his sins shall not prosper, but who ever confesses and forsakes them [repentance] shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)

They hope that after they die and stand before God, that God will notice their goodness, wink at their badness or that their good will outweigh their bad and let them into heaven. Nothing is further from the truth and it doesn’t make sense. God said… “for all have sin and fall short of His glorious standard (Romans 3:23).”

Besides if that were true God would have never had to send Jesus to pay for our sins. Jesus said of Himself “I AM the way, the truth, and the life. No comes to the Father but by Me. (John 14:6).

How about you? Have you sensed God calling you to get right with Him after listening to a preacher or friend, or read a section of the Bible or a pamphlet asking you to get right with God? This is how God draws you to His Son. God sees the attitude of your heart so push your pride aside, admit you’re a sinner, turn from your sin to God and believe.

The bible says… If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved (Romans 10:9-10). Call out to God now, repent, believe and confess. Then read the Bible and obey what it says. (Contact us for a free one if you need one.) Jesus will never let you down. Tell others of your decision. Join a Bible believing church near you or call us to have one referred.

Joe Ortiz is assistant pastor of evangelism and outreach at the Bloomingdale Alliance Church in Bloomingdale. Rev. Ken Otto, senior pastor, Rev. Rick Rosati, youth pastor. 501 W. Hwy. 80 Bloomingdale GA Phone, 912-748-6351 or visit our website at

www.bloomingdalealliancecma.org.

Q: What's wrong with cussing once in a while? My wife gets after me and says I shouldn't do it, but I find it's a pretty good way to let off some steam when I'm upset. Anyway, you hear so much profanity on TV and in movies today that no one thinks anything about it. - L.S.

A: Sadly, you may be right; our society has become so saturated with profanity and coarse language that we seem to have grown almost indifferent to it. We have become like the people of Jeremiah's time: "They have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush" (Jeremiah 6:15).

But that doesn't make it right in the eyes of God - and He is the one you should be seeking to please. When we use the name of God thoughtlessly or blasphemously, it shows that we don't respect Him or love Him as we should. When we angrily condemn someone in God's name, it shows that we are trying to put ourselves in God's place - for only He is the true judge. Our language also reveals our hearts - and if we constantly use filthy language, it demonstrates the impurity of our inner lives.

This is why one of the Ten Commandments says, "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name" (Exodus 20:7). The Bible also says, "Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place" (Ephesians 5:4).

The real issue is this, however: What place does God have in your life? Have you committed your life to Christ - or have you left Him standing on the outside? Face your need of Christ today, and then open your heart and life to His cleansing power.

(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.)