Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Celebration”
Our Bible verse for today: “Shout joyfully to God, all the earth! Sing about the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.” Psalm 66:1-2 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “Celebration is often noisy.”
When God’s people celebrate together it can get noisy, and that’s a good thing. When the time of group worship truly assumes a spirit of celebration the singing is louder and more robust, hands are raised in the air, faces light up with smiles, and frequently there are hearty “amen’s!”. When the people of God are enjoying good fellowship there is commonly lots of laughing, animated conversations, plenty of good-natured kidding, and it can get pretty loud. All of that is a joyful noise unto the Lord.
Although I’m personally fairly quiet and a bit reserved in my own times of worship, I love being surrounded by a group of people who are animated and expressive. While you probably won’t see me dancing in the aisle with a tambourine, I don’t mind if others do. And as a Pastor I love it when our Fellowship Hall is packed with people enjoying a good meal, and each others company. I’ll often just stand back and survey the noisy scene and enjoy the sight.
This Sunday at Oak Hill Baptist we’ll be holding our annual Christmas worship service. It will include congregational singing of some of our old time favorite Christmas hymns; along with some special music from the choir; and a couple of numbers from our children as well. That will be followed by our annual Christmas dinner. And yup, it will be noisy. But it will be that joyful noise made unto the Lord. We would love to have you join us!
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 