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Women’s Ministry Spring Bible Studies Begin March 31

Calling all ladies! The EHBC Women’s Ministry is gearing up for its Spring Bible study series. These studies include topics from Beth Moore, Angela Thomas and Kay Warren and range from four to seven weeks long and meet at EHBC. There will also be two Precepts studies by Kay Arthur and led by Judy Ray. Below is a list of topics but feel free to view our calender for more details. We hope to see you at one of this studies.

Stronger: Finding Hope in Fragile Places by Angela Thomas

God is stronger than every single struggle you will ever face

Begins March 31  //  7 weeks
Mondays @ 1:30 pm
Led by Susan Lanthrip

Choose Joy, because happiness isn’t enough by Kay Warren

Discover the path to experiencing soul satisfying joy no matter what you are going through.

Begins April 1  //  4 weeks
Tuesday @ 9:30 am
Led by Bobbie Owens

Sacred Secrets by Beth Moore

Find out what happens when we let God teach us “wisdom in the secret heart”.

Begins April 1  //  6 weeks
Tuesday@ 6:00 pm
Led by Jane Chandler

Precepts: Genesis—Study on Joseph by Kay Arthur

Begins April 1  //  5 weeks
Tuesday @ 9:30 am; 6:30 pm
Led by Judy Ray

Meets in Judy’s home at 6:30 pm

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FOCUSED

One of the casualties of aging to which I find myself a victim is the dimming of the eyes.  Ecclesiastes 12 counsels the young person to remember God, their Creator, in their youth before the aging process takes over and various faculties, as listed in verses 1-7, are diminished.

Clear eyesight when we are young may be something we take for granted. However, as we age the realization that our vision is not as sharp as it once was takes hold. “Readers” become standard fare for all intricate tasks. Our once keen laser sharp focus is now blurry and in need of help to restore its youthfulness. That restoration is found through glasses or some sort of rejuvenating surgery. Especially in the early stages of this degenerative eye problem we may be able to fake it and get by, but eventually we must relent and do something to correct the problem.

There is a parallel between physical and spiritual vision. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was written in the early 20th century. The hymn writer, Helen Lemmel, was strongly influenced by the artist and later little-known missionary, Lilias Trotter. Miss Trotter started off as an aspiring artist but early on felt a call from God to reach the lost. She began her ministry by rescuing prostitutes from the streets of London. Later she went to Africa, without missionary funding, and served for over forty years. While there she penned a poem that would greatly influence the writing of the hymn “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.”  The poem was entitled “Focused: A Story and Song.” 

The poem centers around focusing one’s attentions fully and completely upon God. She writes that Satan knows that if a person uses all their powers of concentration on being led by God’s Spirit, they will have a great intensity and impact upon those to whom they are called to minister. Lilias Trotter, writing in a more formal use of the English language than we are accustomed, shares some timeless insights which could very easily have been written today but with a different accent. She writes: “Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen good harmless worlds at once—art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the ‘good’ hiding the ‘best’ even more effectually than it could be hidden downright frivolity with its smothered heartache at its own emptiness.”

The “good” hiding the “best” leads us to emptiness.  Could this be true of us today especially as American Christians? Have we sought the “good” while missing the “best”? The chorus of the hymn, which we will be singing in worship this Sunday, says it best.

                Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face,                                                                                                                                        And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

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