Come and be BLESSED!
For in-person attendance please pre-register at https://rsvp.church/r/ozijqg6s. PLEASE register by 5:00 pm on Friday, October 22, 2021. Service will also be live streamed on YouTube at Beacon Light SDA Annapolis.
Beacon Light Church is inviting you to a scheduled ZOOM meeting beginning at 7:00 pm Wednesday, October 20, 2021 nightly through Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 7:00pm-7:45pm.
ZOOM Link: Please email the church clerk at blsdaclerk@gmail.com, type "Interested" in the Subject line and we will be happy to send you our link.
DOWNLOADABLE 7 DAY PRAYER & FASTING GUIDE
Prayer and fasting guidelines!
1. Select what time frame you will fast. Example: 7am-7pm
2. Fast from something that will actually be a sacrifice for you! 2 Samuel 24:18-25
3. Select specific times (at least 3 times) to stop and pray over the topic selected for each day in the booklet
We have reached our in-person capacity for this special event. However, we are streaming live on YouTube at Beacon Light SDA Annapolis. Please join us and be blessed!
Pre-registration for this special event will be begin Monday, October 11, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.
https://rsvp.church/r/ozijqg6s
Church @ Zoom
Our church doors are now open!! But we are still on ZOOM for those who cannot make it in person. Please continue to join us every Saturday morning and every Wednesday evening.
ZOOM Link: Please email the church clerk at blsdaclerk@gmail.com, type "Interested" in the Subject line and we will be happy to send you our link.
Saturday
Bible Study - Zoom only:
9:30 AM
Worship Service - In Church and Zoom:
11:30 AM
Wednesday
Prayer Meeting - Zoom only
7:00 PM
INSPIRATIONAL SPOT
Have you tasted Jesus?
At the University of Chicago Divinity School, each year, they have what is called "Baptist Day." On this day, each one is to bring a lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area. Every "Baptist Day" the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center.
One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich. Dr.Tillich spoke for two and one-half hours attempting to prove that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo... because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions.
After about 30 seconds, an old, dark skinned preacher with a head of short-cropped, woolly white hair stood up in the back of the auditorium. "Docta Tillich, I got one question," he said as all eyes turned toward him.
He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple and began eating it. "Docta Tillich... CRUNCH, MUNCH... My question is a simple question... CRUNCH, MUNCH... "Now, I ain't never read them books you read... CRUNCH, MUNCH... and I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek... CRUNCH, MUNCH... I don't know nothin' bout Niebuhr and Heidegger... CRUNCH, MUNCH..."
He finished the apple... "All I wanna know is: This apple I just ate... was it bitter or sweet?
Dr. Tillich paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion... "I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted your apple."
The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly, "Neither have you tasted my Jesus."
The 1,000 plus in attendance could not contain themselves. The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers.
Dr. Tillich thanked his audience and promptly left the platform.
Have you tasted Jesus?
"Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. If you have, rejoice in the hope of the resurrection that your faith in Him brings." -- Psalm 34:8
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