Pat Nemmers
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Psalm 145

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The Psalms

Mark Vance
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Psalm 130

Pat Nemmers
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Psalm 116

A big thank you to everyone who volunteered their time last week for Wee Ones. Thank you to everyone who helped the week leading up to the even with move in, cleaning, sorting, and folding. Because of all your help we finished preparations early! And thank you to many volunteers that helped make the day of the event possible. We couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help. Please continue to pray for the seeds that were planted.

John Stott

“I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?” With compelling honesty John Stott confronts this generation with the centrality of the cross in God’s redemption of the world — a world now haunted by the memories of Auschwitz, the pain of oppression and the specter of nuclear war.
Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in shame? Why should an object of Roman distaste and Jewish disgust be the emblem of our worship and the axiom of our faith? And what does it mean for us today?
Now from one of the foremost preachers and Christian leaders of our day comes theology at its readable best, a contemporary restatement of the meaning of the cross. At the cross Stott finds the majesty and love of God disclosed, the sin and bondage of the world exposed.
More than a study of the atonement, this book brings Scripture into living dialogue with Christian theology and the twentieth century. What emerges is a pattern for Christian life and worship, hope and mission.
Destined to be a classic study of the center of our faith, Stott’s work is the product of a uniquely gifted pastor, scholar and Christian statesman. His penetrating insight, charitable scholarship and pastoral warmth are guaranteed to feed both heart and mind.

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Sinclair Ferguson

Noted theologian, pastor, and educator Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson explores aspects of the person and work of Jesus in his latest book, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life. This collection of articles, published earlier in Tabletalk magazine and Eternity Magazine, is designed to help believers gain a better understanding of their Savior and the Christian faith, and to live out that faith in their day-to-day lives. In fifty short chapters arranged in six sections, Dr. Ferguson shows that Christ, who is fully God, took on humanity that He might be the Great High Priest of His people as well as the once-for-all sacrifice; that He now ministers to His people through His Spirit, crowning them with great and precious blessings; and that believers are called to duty, from cultivating contentment to mortifying sin. In Christ Alone is packed full of nuggets of Scriptural truth that will spark and fan the flames of the believer s love for the Savior who is so beautiful in His person and so faithful in His work on behalf of His beloved sheep.

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Don Carson

Partisans on both sides of charismatic issues are challenged by the even-handed consideration of nuances in the Greek text in these three crucial chapters.

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Daniel Wallace and M. James Sawyer

How can one believe in the vibrant real work of the Holy Spirit and yet have cautions regarding the modern Charismatic movement? The authors of this book are non-Charismatic and seek to articulate a Biblical and practical theology of the Holy Spirit.

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R.C. Sproul

“Every Christian who is serious about his or her growth needs to read The Holiness of God. I profited greatly from this book.” – Jerry Bridges, author of The Discipline of Grace

Revised in 1997, The Holiness of God has sold almost 200,000 copies since it was first released in the 1980s. This book is an instant classic on the awesome nature of God.

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J.I. Packer

“A short but exceedingly powerful book. Packer shows that rather than precluding evangelism, God’s sovereignty provides the most powerful incentive and support for it. . . . [C]ontains impressive depth and contains a thorough and satisfying treatment of the subject.” — –Discerning Reader

“I’ve often recommended this book to faithful Christians who are confused about how they are to think about prayer, missions, giving–any area in which our efforts could be wrongly pitted against God’s own necessary action. Packer introduces us to clear truths, handles Scripture with exemplary care, and supplies us with just the right amount of illustrations and application.” –From the foreword by Mark Dever, Senior Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.

Whether you consider yourself a Calvinist, an Arminian, or somewhere in between, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God will stimulate your thinking about evangelism and increase your desire to join God in his work. It is easy to see why InterVarsity Press has republished this book as one of its “IVP Classics.” –Todd Sauve

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During the month of August we will still be having two Sunday morning services at 9:00am and 10:45am with Coffee Cove between the morning services. Enjoy the relaxed schedule and the time with your families.

Pat Nemmers
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Psalm 73

Greetings from Mayville, NY.

Thank you for praying. Thank you for giving.

These have been busy days as I have gone through the 24 note books of plastic sheet slide holders, my parents had in a barrel here in Mayville. Most of the note books were very full of plastic holders. Each plastic holds 20 slides. It has also been a time of many memories as I have viewed the slides of places we lived in the USA while my parents were raising support to go to Brazil, the trip on the ocean liner the SS Brazil and our arrival there. I praise GOD for the experience I had of helping in street meetings and then teaching the children’s Sunday School class as my Parents began the First Baptist Church of Sao Bernardo. What great memories of the meetings in our home for Jewish People. I have been able to organize the slides in chronological order. Many slides are being taken back to the Churches for their history.

It has been great to look back and see what GOD has done. The memory of Benedito’s salvation and the transformation in his life is still very vivid in my memory. God used this in my life and showed me not only the great need people have of salvation but what HE is able to do in a person’s life.

I am in the process of reading Dad and Mom’s news letters. These have been so very helpful as to dates of the organization of the 4 Churches and the Jewish ministry they began. I am copying some of them so that this information is on record. I still have to go back to the slides and see if there are duplicates. It has definitely been a larger project than I imagined.

I was able to share a little of this history at Sherman Baptist Church in Sherman, NY in their evening Service, July 11th. They supported my Parents for many years and are Dan and Val’s supporters now.

Now it is time to digitalize. My nephew Michail and brother-in-law Bill (Jeanette’s husband) are being a real help in this.

Praise the LORD Dan and Val shall be leaving for Brazil the 5th of August. Please pray for the LORD to provide the rest of their monthly support, outfit and passage. The Bet Sar Shalom members are truly rejoicing. So are we.

Dan and Val’s 16 yr. old son Danny, studied French in the Chautauqua Lake High School here in Mayville. He received a 100 on his New York State regents exam. He was given a full Scholarship to study French in Jonquiere, Quebec, Canada. He finishes his course the 6th of August. The Friends who are picking him up will take him to Niagara Falls,NY on the 10th of August. I am delaying my flight plans to accompany Danny back to Sao Paulo, Brazil. We leave at 5:11 PM, August 11th, on Delta from Buffalo, NY with a stop at the JFK airport in New York City and on to Sao Paulo leaving JFK 9:45 PM.

Delaying my flight has given me a few extra days to work on the history project a little more and hopefully finish what I need for for Baptist Mid Mission’s South Region of Brazil history of Sao Paulo. This will also give me some time with my sisters Jeanette Brumfield (in Niagara Falls, where I’ll be staying) and Barbara Quick (who lives near her) and a possible visit with my brother Paul and wife Marjean.

Please pray as I learn to digitalize these slides and use the machine purchased for this purpose. I am also writing the story of my parents for the necessary information to be on the DVD.

Remembering what GOD has done, has given a renewed desire to see what GOD is going to do at Bet Sar Shalom and in reaching Brazilians for HIM.

Thank you,
Serving HIM with you,

Delores Woods

Pat Nemmers
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Psalm 62