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Email Update
May 2012
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  Malachi -- God Speaks (May 125k)
...It's not enough to understand the message
of Malachi. We must change to conform to what God wants of us. Failure and apathy in certain areas of our relationship
with God overshadow the other things we might be doing right. Our awesome God wants to bless His people; so out
of love, He speaks.
Malachi is one continual, scathing rebuke
from beginning to end from the God who loves and saves His people.
It is out of God’s grace that He warns through His prophets in order that they might repent and return to Him in
order that He might bless them. Thus, Malachi presents the indictment of the Lord and warns of God’s curse. Malachi’s
audience lived in moral degradation and indifference to their spiritual condition. He comes against the people’s
objections and protests (which are actually prayers) in forcible and unbending terms (Malachi 1:2-5; 2:14-17; 3:7-13).
He comes with this burden of the word of the LORD sometime after Nehemiah. The reconstruction of the temple had
been completed long enough for abuses to creep in, for corruption to spread, for people to ignore the ways of the
LORD.
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Message of the Month
April 2012
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 When God Turns Against
You
When we feel far from God and wonder whether
He has cast us off or forsaken us, we just need encouragement. When
we are broken in the pain of it all, embroiled in turmoil, up against ungodliness and injustice, our hearts cry
out for a deliverer; we need a real God.
Such is the case for the writer of Psalm 43; he's in a situation and struggling in his response.
Judge [vindicate] me, O God,
and plead my cause against
An ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful
And unjust man. For You are the God of my strength:
Why do You cast me off? Why go I mourning
Because of the oppression of the enemy? (v. 1, 2)
The psalmist wants God to vindicate him, take
up his defense, change the circumstances. He wants to be rescued and cries out for a deliverer. He's like a lot
of us right now, believers and unbelievers alike. He's oppressed but taking refuge in God; and yet he feels like
God is forsaking him. He's miserable, questioning God on the issues of life. His soul is divided. He's in a struggle
between faith and feelings, between circumstances and the constancy of God, between pain and patient endurance.
We've all been there....
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 Life in Christ: Who's in
Your Wallet???
(Mission to South Africa, Jan. 2012)
by David Patten
Life in Christ: Who's in Your Wallet???
(Mission to S. Africa)
In America, we talk a lot about our God-given rights: The right to practice our faith, the right to a presumption
of innocence in court, and the right to free speech. Our
inalienable rights, we are told, include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But there is another right,
a right we also receive from God when we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior, that in some ways is the foundation
for every other right that we enjoy. It is the right to be defined by who we are in Christ....
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 Witnessing to Children
by Mary Craig
Witnessing to Children 3/28/12
People were bringing their
little children to Jesus so that He would put His hands on them, and pray. The disciples rebuked these people; but Jesus said, “Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto Me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid His hands on them, and departed
thence. Matthew 19:13-15
It’s important for parents and extended family (including the family of God) to rear children in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord. Deuteronomy 6:6, 7 sits in a passage dealing with remembering God every day and tells us
what to do:
And these words, which I command you this
day,
Shall be in your heart: and you shall teach them diligently
To your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house,
And when you lie down, and when you rise up.
In the course of everyday life we are to teach, tell, show, and example to children the Word of God and Jesus,
the Living Word. So, the story goes like this.
Recently, our daughter was visiting with her three children. The oldest was three at the time. There was just this
sense that the Holy Spirit was moving in Lauren, so one night we gathered in the living room and I told the story
of Blister the Lamb and presented the gospel with the help of the “wordless book.” We knew the Holy Spirit was
in it because Lauren sat there through the whole thing with rapt attention; and then she wanted Jesus in her life.
I told the story at Craighouse® and shortly after another grandmother wanted her grandchildren to hear the
story of Blister the Lamb and the gospel. So one Friday night the family came to Craighouse® and we gave over
the teaching time to tell the gospel story to the children.
We’ve had many respond to the recording of that night and have decided to send it out to you and also to have it
available on our web site, www.marycraig.org. It’s a live broadcast, folks, so keep that in mind. It’s unedited!
Keep that in mind.
Here it is for you to learn from, listen to, and let the children come to Jesus....
"Blister
the Lamb" as told by Mary Craig
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MCM Catalog Featured Books
The teachings in the MCM catalog are designed
to help you fulfill God's purpose for your life. You
are created for God. He made you. Be open to God's creative purpose. He desires you to be a vessel in whom He is
glorified, one who worships and serves Him, one who enjoys Him forever.
From the
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Prayer
Manual Series
by Dr. Mary Craig
Mary Craig's books and study manuals consist
of intense Bible-based prayer, strategic warfare, and studies.
You can pray the prayers in the prayer manuals (Prayers I - IV), gain breakthroughs and overcome the enemy through
understanding and making Bible- based appeals to God. We have heard and received numerous testimonies of answered
prayer and deliverance from people who have used these in their prayer life.
Who
is Jesus Christ?
by Dr. Mary Craig
An in depth study of the gospels, Acts, and
Revelation in chronological order examining the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The 21 lessons include a teaching portion and a "Digging
Deeper" section for individual search and discovery.
118 pages.
Wilt
Thou Be Made Whole?
by Dr. Mary Craig
12 sessions on wholeness according to the
Word of God, including repentance, forgiveness,
restoration, faith, prayer, and more! Includes readings, principles, discussion questions, and personal response
sections.
75-page manual for study groups.
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