BEACON BAPTIST CHURCH
BEACON BAPTIST CHURCH
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BEACON BAPTIST
A CHURCH SERVING MELBOURNE
PREACHING THE WORD, REACHING THE WORLD
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BEACON BAPTIST CHURCH
3185 Aurora Road, Melbourne, FL 32934
Sunday Morning Adult Bible Studies: 9:30 AM
Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Sunday Evening Service: 6:00 PM
Wednesday Evening Study & Prayer: 6:30 PM
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DEVOTIONALS
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OUR SIMPLE PRESENCE
2-10-25
Many a Christian has gone through unspeakable heartache. Perhaps it was a miscarriage or the loss of a child. Maybe it was total financial ruin. It might have been the loss of a career just weeks before retirement. You can add to that list, I’m sure.
In her book “Friend-ish,” Kelly Needham writes of a difficult time in her life as she grappled with her third miscarriage. One night shortly afterward, she and her friend Abbey were in their church’s prayer room at the same time. “When she asked me how I was, something inside me broke. I don’t remember what she said to me or what she prayed for me,” Kelly wrote. “I just cried. I’ve never cried so hard in front of anyone the way I did with her that night. Her arm around my shoulder and her simple presence in that hard place was a balm to my soul. It was so sweet that words fail to do it justice. I’ll never forget it. The Lord met me that night through her.”
Jackie Robinson was the first black to play major league baseball. Breaking baseball's color barrier, he faced jeering crowds in every stadium. While playing one day in his home stadium in Brooklyn, he committed an error. The fans began to ridicule him. He stood at second base, humiliated, while the fans jeered. Then, shortstop Pee Wee Reese came over and stood next to him. He put his arm around Jackie Robinson and faced the crowd. The fans grew quiet. Robinson later said that arm around his shoulder saved his career.
The Apostle Paul wrote, in Romans 12:15, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.”
What a blessing to have Christian friends to encourage and support us as we serve Christ! Our loads are too heavy to carry alone, and we need someone to rejoice and to weep with us. It begins when we make ourselves available to rejoice and weep with someone needing us. Today the Lord may bring across your path someone needing your simple presence.
Be there!
- ALAN MURPHY
WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU