Overwhelmed at God's goodness in His church  

Posted by Gregg Potts

As we come to the close of the fall and move into Thanksgiving, Christmas and the holiday season, it's led me to reflect on the fall months. The fall of 08 has been absolutely great at FBCD. God has blessed His church.

First, our Sunday School attendance has increased. Several of our classes have grown this fall. I love to see good attendance in Sunday School and, I look forward to reaching the point where we average 300 in Sunday School. We aren't that far away now.

Second, God is blessing and blessing and blessing us with additions. I love to see additions to the church. God has poured out additions to FBCD during these fall months.

Third, I am very excited about our Wednesday nights. Harold Stokes has taken on the coordination of Wednesday night meals and our Sunday School classes have provided the meals. This has been a great asset on Wednesday nights. It's helped the fellowship and it has helped increase our attendance. Also, Word of Life has gone well with our children. Children's attendance on Wednesday nights has just about quadrupled. Praise the Lord!

And, there is a new spirit in the church. Our worship has been good and people are excited about new ministries that are being started.

"God is good, All the time, God is good." That definitely applies to FBCD. God has been good to us.

I'm excited about Christmas and about the future of the church. If we are willing to work, pray, share the love of Jesus and adopt a "whatever it takes" attitude, we will continue to reach people.

I am thankful, for what the Lord is doing in His church. Join me this Thanksgiving, in giving thanks for the Lord's blessings.

The leaves are gone  

Posted by Gregg Potts

We are about to conclude the fall months. For the past couple of weeks, the foliage in this area has been absolutely beautiful. I have especially admired the foliage on the trees that line Hardy street just before it merges with Merchants Drive. That bank of trees has been a beautiful gold for a couple of weeks.

But yesterday, as I drove past that line of trees... the beautiful gold had turned to rust and many limbs were bare. The leaves are gone for the year. Fall is basically over. Oh, there are still a couple of football games left to be played but winter weather is almost here.

I love the fall but I also enjoy the cold of the winter. I enjoy reading a book and listening to a fire crackle and pop in the fire place. I enjoy drinking hot chocolate.

With the winter comes the Christmas season. With the Christmas season comes egg nog. I love egg nog. Especially a egg nog latte at Starbucks. My wife is not a coffee drinker but... she loves egg nog lattes. I think they should sell those year round but, if they did, I guess it wouldn't be special when they have them. I like the Christmas music. I like the Christmas lights. Those are good things about the winter.

I enjoy going to a basketball game and that season comes in the winter.

I enjoy eating good, hot soup.

And, if we are fortunate enough to get some snow.. I like that about winter.

So, fall is over. The beautiful color is gone for the year. So, do we just hibernate until next fall? No, we enjoy the next season. Winter is here. There are good things about winter. It will be followed by spring when God's creation comes to life and then summer.

The scripture says "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven..." (Ecclesiastes 3:1).

The scripture also says, "This is the day the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it" (Psalms 118:24).

Enjoy today. Enjoy this season. Thank God for today.