July 3, 2008 by Pastor Cutshaw.

What a blessing to live in a free country.  America may not be what she ought to be, but I am very thankful to have been born here.  As we get ready to celebrate a very important holiday for our country I think we ought to remind ourselves that it is God who has made us free.  It was God that inspired and encouraged our founding father’s in their struggle for freedom.  The reason the pilgrims set sail in the first place was for religious liberty.  And through out our nations rich religious (Christian) heritage there have been many men and women who wrote and spoke concerning liberty and freedom and used the Bible as their inspiration.  We can never separate the founding of America from faith in the Creator and dependence on His written word.  Thank God we live in America!  Thank God we have the Word of God!  Thank God for the Christian Heritage of our nation.

 Pastor Cutshaw

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December 3, 2007 by Pastor Cutshaw.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Dear
Church Family & Friends,

It is hard to believe that it is already time to start using the above greetings once again.  It seems that this year has passed by very quickly.  Thank God for His grace and help in each passing year.

With December comes many things.  We gather with family to celebrate the holidays and to exchange gifts.  We put up the tree and other decorations, and we do lots of shopping.  (Or at least our wives do. Smile!)  With all of these good things going on around us it is sometimes easy to forget the real “reason for the season” – Jesus.

I want to give you some thoughts on keeping Christ at the center of this Christmas season.

1.      Spend time in God’s Word as a family.

2.      Be faithful to church as a family.

3.      Come to the Cantata and the Youth Christmas program.

4.      Invite others to church so that they can know the real meaning of Christmas.

5.      Do something kind for someone who will not expect it.

6.      Put Gospel tracts in all of your greeting cards and other mail.

7.      Give Christ a personal gift from yourself this year.

This list is not exhaustive, but it gets us started.  Make the most of your Christmas this year by making the most of Jesus.

In closing I want to remind you of some special dates coming up on our church calendar.

Sunday, December 9………. Cantata

Monday, December 10…… Cantata

Sunday December 16……… Youth Christmas Program

Merry Christmas,

Finley Cutshaw

Pastor

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September 27, 2007 by Pastor Cutshaw.

First let me say, it was Dr. Max Barton rather than Dr. Max Straub that preached our afternoon service last week. Now on with the new blog. 

 1Cor 10:12 “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”

Eph 5:15 “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”

 These two verses have taken on new meaning to me.  Let me tell you a funny story about me.  Last week I was planning to take care of an ant hill that was right outside of the church on the edge of a main walkway that enters the building.  I had recently heard a preacher tell about how his mother would boil water and then pour it onto the pile to get rid of the ants.  So I decided to try it.  I got a large pot out in the church kitchen and began to boil some water.  It boiled for nearly twenty minutes before I went to carry it out.  I was all prepared to totally destroy those little ants, after all I am bigger, smarter and faster than they are.  I picked up the pot with the hot plate holders and started for the door.  Everything was fine until I stepped from the carpet in the fellowship hall to the tile floor in the hall way.  My foot hit a damp spot on the floor and suddenly I was falling boiling water and all.  By the grace of God I did not dump the water on myself, but threw it forward instead.  I went straight to the floor and landed right on my pride.  Boiling water went everywhere.  I am not sure who it scared the most me or my two oldest boys who were right behind me.  They began to yell “Get up dad, get up!”  And due to a very hot floor I took their advice.  Needless to say I thought of the two verse above immediately.  Praise the Lord the only injury I received was a 2 inch square burn on my arm, trust me it could have been much worse. 

Now to the spiritual side of the story.  Isn’t life just like that sometimes we are careening along at high speed prepared to take care of some small problem that is no match for us and BAM we are on the floor and in hot water.  We need to be sure that we acknowledge God in all of life’s situations whether great or small we need the Lord.

So take heed to your need, which is to always seek the Lord’s help in all that you do.  And as you walk through this life walk circumspectly.  That means to watch your step, Satan would love to make you slip and fall and end up in his “hot water.” 

See you Sunday! 

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September 21, 2007 by Pastor Cutshaw.

What a blessing!

The 8th Aniversary/Homecoming Sunday here at CIBC was great.  Thank you for being here to be a part of it.  I know some could not make it and we missed you, but I am sure your prayers were with us.  We had 235 for the main service and raised nearly $8000 for the debt retirement offerring.  We keep chipping away at it and God keeps blessing us.  To add the the blessings of the day the Lord gave us 6 folks come who came forward to join the church and two teen age boys came for salvation, PRAISE THE LORD! 

The afternoon service was also a tremendous blessing with Dr. Max Barton preaching a wonderful message titled, “What’s Right with the Church.”  WOW!  I sure was blessed by it.  We also had special music by the Smith family and even thought they did not get to sing the “Preacher Song” they were a real treat.

Well, I better close for now.  I hope to see you Sunday, please pray for God’s blessing on the services and pray for me as I prepare and preach.

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September 13, 2007 by Pastor Cutshaw.

Faith Is the Victory

That was the title of the sermon I heard on Monday evening at the Eastern North Carolina Sword Conference in Greenville, NC.  Pastor David McCoy was the guest speaker.  He is the pastor of a good church in Georgia.  He gave 3 points about where we get faith and three points about the rules of faith.  They were a tremendous blessing to me and I hope they will be to you as well.  I have listed them below.  By the way you will get much more out of this if you will look up the verses.

Three Sources of Faith

1. God - Eph 2:8-9
2. God’s Word - Rom 10:17
3. God’s Man - Heb 13:17

Three Rules of Faith

1. Faith is not logical. Heb 11:1
   • Noah built a boat before it had ever rained.
   • Abraham looked for a city and had no idea where it was.
   • Abraham offered his son.
   • Moses mother putting her son in a basket and floating him down a crocodile infested river.
2. Faith is not comfortable. Heb 11:13 & 32-38
3. Faith is not negotiable. Heb 11:6

It is never as good to read as it was to hear, but I trust the Lord will still be able to use this in your life as He did in mine.

Pastor Cutshaw

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