I hope you are having a great President's Day (or technically, Washington's-Birthday-celebrated-a-week-early day), remembering the great presidents of the USA. As a Springfield native, personally I'm partial to celebrating Lincoln's Birthday, but I'll take any day off of work that I can get! For you unlucky folks who didn't get the day off, you can follow this link to get some President's Day factoids to impress your co-workers with.
I think we all can be thankful to live in a country where the government has established and maintained the freedom of religion, where we enjoy the legal right to worship God freely and openly. Not all Christians get to enjoy that privilege. Persecution of Christians was prevalent in the early church and still is a daily worry for Christians in some countries today. And even in America, we as Christians sometimes experience ridicule from non-believers for our faith.
Persecution will be the topic of discussion for our next small group meeting on Tuesday February 16th at 7:30pm at the Shelleys' home (address is listed in the calendar below). As we continue our series on the book of Acts, JC will be leading in a discussion of persecution of the early church and of the modern church. We hope to see you there!
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