ベサニー・キリスト教会

English service at the Bethany Christ Church
On Sunday the 9th of November from 4:00pm, we will be hosting our English serivice. It is an informal get together, praising and worshipping the Lord with our brothers, sisters, and friends. The service is conducted in English, with Japanese interpretation, so no one would be feeling left alone.
Remember, this service will be the last one to be held in this year, as we will not be having the service in the month of December. Please come and join us. We also enjoy chatting over coffee and cookies after the service. See you there!


ベサニーキリスト教会　英語集会
11月9日（日）の午後4時から英語集会を行います。兄弟・姉妹・友達と共に、リラックスした雰囲気で賛美と礼拝をおこないます。集会は英語で行いますが、もちろん日本語の通訳も付きますので、どなたが参加して頂いても大丈夫。
今回の集会が今年最後となります。12月の集会は予定されていません。是非ご参加ください。集会後のコーヒータイムでおしゃべりするのも楽しみの一つです。お待ちしています。

Patti Davis speaking about her father, Ronald Reagan

"He did have something special with God; he talked to God all the time. It didn't mean that he was anymore special in God's eyes or that he believed that. We are all special with God. It's not that God's speaking to anybody more than anyone else, it's that some people choose to listen. And talk back. And my father talked to God. That's what I got as a child, I got that he just talked to God all the time. He just had conversations with God."

Page 154 of "When Character Was King" by Peggy Noonan

愛する教会の皆様。私達は昨日夕方、無事にテネシーに着きました。主人は皆様のお祈りに支えられて来たと言うしかありません。色々ありましたが、守られました。本当にありがとうございました。こちらはとても寒いです。主人の両親のアパートはとても小さい為、近くのモーテルに宿泊しています。ダイニングがありますので、朝昼はこちらで食事をし、昼から両親の家に行くつもりでいます。皆様の為祈っています。特に悲しみの中におられる家族の兄姉を思います。寒さに向かいますね。どうかお体大切にしてください。心から祈っています！ＲＳ

The New Testament exhortation is for Christians to be always ready to defend our claims against anyone who asks a reason for the hope we hold. (1 Peter 3:15) Hope without reason has little in common with the Christian hope which is focused on Jesus Christ, who has come and is coming again. True Christian hope is always Christological in its foundation.

From the Introduction to "God, Revelation, and Authority" Volume I by Carl F. H. Henry

Reiko and I are now in Maryville, Tennessee for Thanksgiving. My doctor gave me the ok for this trip and so we are very thankful to God that is has worked out. However, traveling is very hard on my system and I have had one very bad night here. By God's grace I am now all right but I can tell that taking this trip was a challenge to say the least. I would ask all of you who support us in prayer to please pray that I will have the needed strength for the return trip on the 6th of December.

My brothe, Dave, is now here with my folks and we are enjoying daily fellowship together. For my health, Reiko and I are staying at a motel in Maryville. I am looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner with my family-we have a lot to be thankful for. Of course, for me personally, my biggest thanks is that by God's grace I am still alive! I will be visiting my doctor here in Tennessee and also catching up with friends in America.

Thank you for your prayers and please keep praying for us. I need prayer about my physical condition and Reiko needs prayer for her mental and spiritual condition as she supports me in my fight against cancer.

Modern scientific culture thinks that the great problem of human history is the control of man's external environment and that man himself has the wisdom and skill to achieve an ideal heaven and earth. Christianity holds that the problem of the universe centers in man himself, contemporary man included, who does not recognize the revelation of his transcendent Creator and Lord, and who subdues nature not according to God's spiritual mandate and purpose but in quest of his own comfort and wealth. Man the sinner presumes to displace the divine Creator; he exploits nature for his own use, indeed, for personal security in flaunting moral and spiritual imperatives. He shuts he eyes and heart to the revelation of the Logos in nature and conscience and reason, as well as in the Word incarnate and written.

Page 42 of God, Revelation, and Authority Volume I by Carl F. H. Henry