We had another great day yesterday at the Canaan Baptist Church of Covington, LA. It is hard to believe that we are celebrating our one month anniversary. Wow, time sure does fly. The Lord has been blessing us with great services and we are so thankful for that. Yesterday, in honor of Valentine’s Day (I thought about preaching something for President’s Day, but went with Valentine’s Day instead), I preached all day on one of the greatest love stories in the Bible, the story of Ruth and Boaz. We title the whole day The Romance of Redemption. Yes, it is a borrowed title but it still fit. Yesterday morning I preached on Grace Exceeds. We thought about Ruth as she entered Boaz’s field. When she entered the field, she was only looking for a little corn to eat. By the time the book of Ruth concludes, grace has given her far more than she could have ever imagined. Grace exceeded her wildest dreams. The same is true with us, my how grace exceeds all of my hopes and dreams. Now, we all know that every good love story must have a happy ending, so we preached on Happily Ever After. As a result of Ruth’s redemption, she was able to live happily ever after. The same is true for us. After we have been redeemed, we can certainly count on living happily ever after. It was a great time and the Lord helped us immensely.
Please continue to pray that God would provide us with a public building to meet in. We are praying that God would give us a place of our own. We know that He is able to do just that. We have looked at a couple of places, but just didn’t feel that they were right. Please help us pray that we would find just the right place.
