This document is a newsletter from the First Southern Baptist Church of North Hollywood providing information about upcoming Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve services. It announces that on Christmas Eve there will be services at 8:30AM, 11:00AM and 6:30PM featuring music performances and sermons focused on Jesus as the Prince of Peace. On New Year's Eve there will also be services at 8:30AM, 11:00AM, 6:30PM and 10:00PM with different pastors giving sermons at each service. It also invites members to a special watchnight service at 10PM on New Year's Eve at the church.

1. FIRSTSOUTHERNBAPTIST CHURCHof NORTHHOLLYWOOD (1-818-761-4800) NON-PROFIT
ORG.
“The First Family” (www.fsbcnh.org) U.S. POSTAGE PAID
10853 Victory Boulevard PERMIT #660
North Hollywood, CA 91606-3826 VAN NUYS, CA
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THEBAPTISTVISITOR
Paul D. Whetstone (Interim Senior Pastor) December 14, 2017 Charles Cutney (Minister of
Encouragement)
Check your Calendar: Two “Amazing, Exciting
Eves”
are coming up!--“Christmas Eve” on
Dec.24 and “New Year’s Eve” on Dec.
31!
As you have probably heard,
(From our last “Visitor”??)
on “Christmas Eve Sunday,”--
Dec. 24
we will have all three of our
Worship Services—8:30AM,
11:00AM and 6:30PM!
After singing a few Christmas Songs at the
beginning of our 8:30AM Worship Service, our
Choir will then present a portion of a very beautiful
and inspiring cantata (The title is “Come let us
Worship the King”), and then Pastor Charles will
bring a message focused on Jesus as “The Prince of
Peace!”
The same format will take place at the 11:00AM
Worship Service.
Then, at 6:30PM, we will all gather for our annual
“Christmas Eve Candlelight Service”—a very
warm, touching time when everyone who chooses
to do so can share “What Christmas means to me!”
And then comes Dec. 31 ,
Also Known AS:
“New Year’s Eve Sunday”
Again, we’ll be having a full schedule of Worship
Services that Lord’s Day (8:30AM, 11:00AM,
6:30PM and 10:00PM!)—we don’t want to
cancel any services and then have people show up
expecting to worship the Lord and finding the
churches’ doors locked!!
The sermons for that day will be by three different
preachers: Pastor Charles at 8:30AM (“The
Prince of Peace!”), ReverendSteve Green at
11:00AM (“In Newness of Life” from Romans
6:3) and Reverend Hughlen Johnson at 6:30PM
(“Building up One Another!”)
But what’s that 10PM stuff all
about???
Glad you asked! We have been invited by
Pastor E. V. Hill, Jr.
and the Spirit of Zion Church
(NOTE: This Church has been joyfully meeting
in our Worship Center at 1:00PM each Sunday
for several years now…)
to come join them in a Special New Years’ Eve
“Watchnight Service” in our Worship Center—
one that will begin at 10:00PM on Sunday
Evening, December 31, 2018
and conclude 2 ½ Hours later
—at 12:30AM January 1, 2018!!
First Family Friends Who Will Celebrating
A Birthday or Wedding Anniversary
During the month of December:
01- Walter Rosado 15- Jacob Sealander
02- Doris Jayasinghe 15- Gloria Szentessy
02- Sharon Wright 17- John Marot, Sr
04- Linda Reeves 18- MikeSandy
05- Branden Adams 19- Theresa Maynard
06-Mablene Webster 21- Bob Holder
06- Joy 1 Tortal 21- Richard Mclver

2. 06- Tim & Katie Mann 23- Rick O’Dell
06- Sky Salvador 24- AlyssaCaldwell
06- Mike& Barbara Sandy 26- MarieMarot
09- Ashton Preciado 27- Roseann Meinardus
10- Pastor Charles Cutney 27- Pastor Paul Whetstone
11- Laura Reyes
11- Henry Villarreal
13- Eula Jackson
13-Marvin Reyes
14- MiaReyes
OUR RECORDSPEAKS December3and10, 2017
8:30AM Worship Attendance 18/ 24
9:45AM Bible Study / Sunday School
Attendance 15/ 21
11:00AM Worship Attendance 33/ 31
6:30PM Worship Attendance NA / 13
Budget Offering **$1,907.81 / $1,033.26
(** “2017” Budget Offering Goal**$2,500.46)
Benevolence $00 / $00.00
Children's Ministry 00 /00

3. “Hallowed be Thy
name!”
Article #13 of “What is ‘Revival,’
and how does it happen?” (Dec. 14, 2017)
We’re continuing this week with our
search for “Revival Principles” in the first part of what is
commonly called “The Lord’s Prayer”—specifically, what
we can learn from Matthew 6:9-10 (AMP): “Pray,
therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed
(kept holy) be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.”
“Pastor Chuck, that business about ‘hallowed be
Your name’ has always kind of spooked me!”
Why is that?
“Well, I think it’s because sometimes I don’t know
if I’m even ABLE to ‘keep God’s name holy’—‘cause
goodness knows, I’m not very holy myself!”
I see where you’re coming from. I guess all of us
believers have run into the same kind of dilemma from time
to time. But the good news is that God KNOWS we are
human beings who struggle with temptation every day of
our lives—and that even the BEST of God’s people still
have a long way to go in their spiritual experience.
“That’s it exactly! The question is: ‘What can we
do to make up for all the stuff we lack’??”
I’m glad you asked! Let’s begin by finding out
what “hallowed,” or “holy,” is all about in the first place.
The word is “aJgiavzw” (“ha-gee-ADZ-oh”) in the
Greek. It means, according to Vine’s, “to make holy (from
hagios, ‘holy’), signifies to set apart for God, to sanctify, to
make a person or thing the opposite of koinos,
‘common’...”
This is why the practice of “using God’s name in
vain”—as in cursing, or sloppily connecting it with
worthless things, etc. (NOTE: Remember that Exodus 20:7
warns us not to “...take the name of the LORD your God in
vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who
takes His name in vain.” [NASB])—is so wrong: instead of
“exalting Him,” we are actually (whether we are conscious
of it or not) “dragging His name through the mud”!
Doing the following three things will go a long
way towards seeing Revival happen in our lives:
A. We must begin to see God as
absolutely HOLY!
In other words, the Word is very clear about the
fact that God is NOT holy merely because He ACTS
holy—He IS HOLY and therefore everything He thinks,
does or says is holy for that reason. Psalm 99:9 (NASB)
tells us “Exalt the LORD our God, And worship at His holy
hill; For holy is the LORD our God.”
And Isaiah 6:1-4 (NASB) gives us the following
dramatic picture: “In the year of King, Uzziah's death, I
saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the
train of His robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood above
Him, each having six wings; with two he covered his face,
and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3
And one called out to another and said,
"Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts,
The whole earth is full of His glory."
And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice
of him who called out, while the temple was filling with
smoke.”
Some things that will help us to develop this
understanding of God’s holiness are (1) saturating
ourselves with the Word, (2) meditating on His power and
glory, (3) giving Him thanks for everything He brings into
our lives, and (4) listening to others praise and glorify Him.
B. We must then see ourselves as
Isaiah saw himself:
Listen to the Message translation of Isaiah 6:5:
“I said,
“Doom! It’s Doomsday!
I’m as good as dead!
Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—
blasphemous even!
And the people I live with talk the same way,
using words that corrupt and desecrate.
And here I’ve looked God in the face!
The King! GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies!”
Does that mean that we’re hopelessly doomed? Of
course not! Here is Isaiah 6:6-7—again, from the Message:
“Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live
coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He
touched my mouth with the coal and said,
“Look. This coal has touched your lips.
Gone your guilt, your sins wiped out.”
In other words, as we have preached and taught so
often, when we repent of our sins and receive Christ into
our lives, we are forgiven of all of our sins!
C. Finally, we must “adjust our
lives” to Him:
Henry Blackaby, in his powerfuland challenging
book, “Experiencing God,” makes this point over and over
again: He emphasizes that it isn’t enough to KNOW
ABOUT God’s holiness and power and wisdom—which
includes His WILL for our lives—we must then proceed to
make the necessary (and sometimes, very painful)
adjustments in our attitudes and behaviors to BRING
THEM INTO CONFORMITY WITH HIS WILL. As they
say in business, this is a “non-negotiable item.”
It is also why so many of God’s people—people
who have been saved by grace, and blessed in so many
ways by the love and goodness of God—end up their lives
in frustration and disillusionment: They have not been
willing to take the trouble to “get out of their comfort
zone” and begin to take God seriously enough to make
whatever sacrifices are necessary to obey Him!