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Friday, November 6 - Devotional from Pastor John

“No Reserve! No Retreat! No Regrets!” 
Born in 1887, as an heir to the Borden dairy fortune, Bill Borden converted as a youth to Christianity and went on to graduate from Yale University and attend Princeton Seminary. While a student there, he came under the influence of the Student Volunteer Movement and a man named Samuel Zwemer, known as “the Apostle to Islam.”
Bill Borden wound up giving away his portion of the family fortune, and then went to Cairo to study Arabic in order to take the gospel to some of the hardest places on earth. But then Bill Borden got sick with cerebral meningitis and he died at the age of only twenty-five.
Memorial services were held for him at Princeton and Yale, in New York, Chicago, Cairo, Japan, Korea, India, and South Africa. And while Bill Borden did not leave behind many possessions, he did leave behind a Bible in which he scrawled three memorable resolutions: “No Reserve! No Retreat! No Regrets!” 
When we examine our own lives, how many of us can say those words of Bill Borden? How many of us are making each day count, even if we have to do 80% of it on zoom? How many of us are boldly living lives of faith in honor and glory to Jesus Christ, -- not just paying lip service to what we believe, but really living it out in deeds and actions?
This is what I will be talking about in worship this Sunday, as we come down the homestretch in my sermon series on the beatitudes of Jesus, with the eighth, where Jesus says, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” 
So please join us for worship this Sunday, November 8, at either 8:00 am or 10:30 am.  The link for the 10:30 service is also in this email. See you Sunday!    
Pastor John
Quote of the Week
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship has been described as a modern classic.