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When you come to Church Sunday morning you will notice some new banners welcoming everyone to our Church. We have new front doors that are absolutely beautiful. Our new Sunday School class has quickly become one of our largest classes. Also, Sarah will join Matthew in leading this class as Mary Lynn Worsham has stepped up from assistant to teach. We have a new class for Children on Wednesday nights. We have a new bulletin format. I want to encourage everyone to get a bulletin this Sunday and every Sunday as there will be a section that goes along with the sermon. This Sunday, IRead More →

Lakeview Baptist Church

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Dear Awesome Church Family, After hearing from the governor, the deacons and I have recommended the following: In order for us to have the fullest effect of worship we will be moving our worship service to our parking for two weeks (May 31st & June 7th), then our worship will move back to our sanctuary. Gary Parker and Debby Tucker are working hard to make this a wonderful worship experience for everyone. Gary will have speakers set up so that everyone will be able to hear and Debby is working on the music and I will be bringing a message. If the weather prohibits us from worshiping in the parking lot, we will cancelRead More →

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from Bro Leroy: A personal note to my Awesome Church Family … As many of you know the Gov. of Kentucky has asked churches to cancel their services this Sunday. I will not go into what I think about this in this email as that is not the purpose of this email. What I want to say is this … We will be having our normal scheduled services this Sunday. The author of Hebrews wrote, “Let us firmly hold the profession of our Faith without wavering, for He who promised is faithful [and] Let us not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner ofRead More →

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Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things … Philippians 4:8 We treat our thought life as if it’s something that just happens. The Bible says, “Take every thought captive.” This tells us that God has given us the ability to have charge over our thought life. You have the ability to bind and loose them, cut them off and lead them in the right direction. But what if it’s just something you feel? “I can’t control my feelings,” you might say. InRead More →

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No longer will there be any curse … Revelation 22:3 You and I have something in common. We live in a mixed-up, tarnished world and we have never known anything different.  Adam and Eve, however, could remember what life was like before the curse. They could recall the world as God intended it to be—free of death, hardship, and pain (Gen. 3:16-19). In pre-fall Eden, hunger, unemployment, and illness did not exist. No one questioned God’s creative power or His plan for human relationships. The world we have inherited resembles God’s perfect garden only slightly. To quote C. S. Lewis, “This is a good world goneRead More →

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But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” … Joshua 24:15 A mother was correcting her daughter. The mother said, “Young lady, are you going to do this? Yes or no?” The daughter replied “OR, I choose OR.” Totally rebellious, not good behavior, but clever. Strange? Not really, we do that in the Lord. The Lord says if Baal is god,Read More →

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I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus … Philippians 3:14 Each of us can aim for that same prize, knowing that we honor the Lord  in pursuing it. Every day, in our ordinary duties, we are moving toward “the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us”  So dear brothers & sisters … keep pressing on ahead and remember … you will be rewarded in heaven! … LeroyRead More →

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Last night we looked at Jesus being thankful and one of our discussion topic’s was praying in public over our food. I couldn’t believe it when I read this article this morning and I thought wow! Just had to send it to everyone! When I saw the headline, I braced for bad news: “A Mom and Her Sons Bowed Their Heads to Pray at a Restaurant.” I assumed that someone objected to their public prayer, and wondered if I was going to read about another challenge to religious liberty. Instead, here’s what happened. After the Oklahoma family prayed over their food, an anonymous benefactor paid forRead More →

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Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.” … John 4:13-14 Jesus knew the Samaritan woman who met Him at the well had searched for satisfaction and come up short. He knew her heart was empty, without love or self-worth or meaning or fulfillment or happiness. And so He gently pointed out to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.” What was “this water”? The woman took it to mean the water in Jacob’s well, but Jesus was speaking to her heart. All those who look to draw their satisfaction from theRead More →

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Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God … Luke 9:62 There’s a story of a famous battle where the general ordered the destruction of his ships so that there would be no turning back for his army. They could not turn back; they could not retreat. They realized that they had no ship to go back to so they had to go forward and fight all the way.  We need to have the same attitude. When we go forward in God, we have nothing to lose. God commanded the people ofRead More →