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August 6, 2023
We are at the eighth month of the year. We have spent 217 days including August 5 which leaves 148 days for the remaining portion of 2023. Variants of the virus that caused the pandemic are still continuing to be discovered. Given the prevalence of disinformation and political gridlock about moving our country forward we are divided as nation and filled with falsehood, untruths and conspiracy theories without any denying facts. Be sure to continue following the directives of healthcare professions rather than conspiracies on the internet and disinformation that refutes what those who are most knowledgeable about curtailing the spread of viruses while mitigating the damages of the negative effects of the politicization that is so rampant in every aspect of our society. Choose carefully whose judgment you trust. Be well and safe.
Thanks to all of you who faithfully remain committed and loyal in fulfilling your obligations to maintain this fellowship of faith. Your consistency and patience has been phenomenal during this protracted situation with the pandemic and the structural damage. We are closer than we have ever been to getting back to our sacred space. Will keep you posted as the work gets closer to completion and the necessary preparations for us to return are made.
Sunday, August 27, 2023 is Young Adult Emphasis Sunday. Our young adults will be leading in worship and presenting messages for the pre-recorded broadcast on KJLH and the in person service at Temple Baptist located at 850 Venice at the corner of Oak Street. Matu Taylor will present the message for both the broadcast and the in person service.
Continue to share with zoom so that as we maintain our connectivity and we can see each other. Be faithful and prayerful. Let us be as faithful to the Lord as the Lord has been faithful to us.
“It is because of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, said my soul, therefore will I hope in him.” Lamentations 3:22-24
Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father; / there is no shadow of turning with thee; / thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; /as thou hast been thou forever wilt be.
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, / sun, moon, and stars in their courses above / join with all nature in manifold witness / to thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, / thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide, / strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, / blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
Great is thy faithfulness! / Great is thy faithfulness! /Morning by morning new mercies I see: / all I have needed thy hand hath provided-- / Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
-Pastor
Dr. William S. Epps, Senior Pastor
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