Leflore Baptist Association

LBA Pastor's Fish Fry-DOM, Neil & friends preparing fish!

Preparing for pastor's Fish Fry!

Homemade ice cream is on the menu! Thank you Terry & Debra!

Retired pastors join in the festivities.

Carrying the Cross starts in the South Zone from Albion

Crosses Across the County ~ From Arkoma

Jerry Clark from Hodgen gets involved in carrying the cross.

The crosses have reached their destination.

The Crosses are brought to Ruinestone Park for joint outdoor worship service.

...and the crowd grew!

Praise & Worship Service starts at Ruinstone Park with dulcimer music-Wonderful!

Welcome by Pastor Sam Dyer from Heavener FBC

Power message of Truth brought by Evangelist Marty Brock.

Brock Harden led in some praise music.

2012 VBS Ideas from Training

More ideas go to Photos >VBS 2012

 LeFlore Baptist Association Office in Poteau, Oklahoma 

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Are You Ready for Judgmental Day?

Romans 14:10-13
10 But why do you judge your brother.  Or, why do you show contempt for your brother?  For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written: “As I live says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.

Do you know someone with a critical spirit?  Maybe you can look in the mirror and see one. The only time I find a person with a critical spirit is useful is when I am trying to by a car.   You know what I mean.  You are negotiating with someone, and you need someone there that can tear down what you want to buy so that you can get a few dollars knocked off the price.    

People that have a critical spirit can really bring you down.  Wait a minute!  Am I being critical of people who have a critical spirit?  Oops.  Maybe I would be better if I just make a quick observation on what the Bible is saying to me here and leave my critical spirit in the closet.

What the apostle Paul is really trying to get us to realize is that we need to spend our time working on ourselves and let other people handle their own problems.  I heard someone say, “why don’t you try mowing your own yard and stop worrying about whether your neighbor’s yard is mowed?”  That is our problem isn’t it?  We spend a lot of our time fretting over everybody else’s mistakes, but God inspired some men over 2000 years ago to write down His Words and they basically tell us to tend to our own Knitting. 

It is true you know?  There will be day coming when we all have to stand before the judgment seat of Christ and answer for ourselves.  I mean, can you imagine Jesus standing there, in all His glory, listening to you elaborate on what is wrong with everyone else?  Do any of us really think that Jesus will be asking us about what has happened in other people’s lives?

The apostle Paul says that “each will give an account of himself to God”. 

I have to tell you, when I read that statement it makes me reflect on who I am, what I have been, and where I am headed with the rest of my life.  It is a sobering thought when I realize that the creator of the universe will have me answer for my life one on one, by myself.  I thank God that I will be able to stand before Him covered with the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ.  I break out in a cold sweat at the thought of having to stand before God without Jesus;    

Maybe the answer to having a critical spirit is to walk around all day long with a pair of mirrored glasses on with the mirror turned around backward so that we are always looking at ourselves.  Or maybe we should just spend some time each day asking God to reveal our sin to us so that we might be in a state of repentance all of the time.

Psalm 139:23-24