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Our church has long said we minister specifically to the poor, the addicted and the incarcerated. That wasn’t our idea but that is where God has placed us. So, here are two pretty easy ways you can do just that.

1) Our church food pantry needs to be restocked. It has been utilized several times lately. We need the usuals like peanut butter and jelly, mac n cheese, soup, crackers, cereal, and other things that don’t necessarily need to be cooked. Not everybody has a way to cook so that kind of thing works best. We also have a freezer that we can put meat and bread and milk and other necessities. 

2) I am enclosing a copy of our Carolyn’s Ministry list. (NOTE: Come to church and pick up a hard copy.) This is a list of men and women in prison all around Texas. Most rarely, if ever, get any kind of mail. It will make their day if you just sent a quick note to let them know somebody was thinking of them and even praying for them. If nothing else, tell them your favorite Bible verse and why. That’s all. No big deal. Can you do that for one or two of these?

We have a special day coming up this Sunday! I can’t wait to see you. I love you all! — Todd

I am so scatterbrained. I have said before I wish I had a helper just to help me remember stuff. He would be crazy bored most of the time but would help me remember what day it is and where I left my keys and stuff like that. Don’t you wish you had a helper? Well, we do and His name is the Holy Spirit. We get the Holy Spirit of God when we become believers in Jesus and the Spirit lives inside of us for all time. But what is the difference in being filled with the Spirit? What else does the Spirit do for us? Is He just there to help us find our keys, or what? Let’s talk more about this Sunday morning at 10 and Sunday evening at 6 at Christ Fellowship! I love you all and can’t wait to see you! — Todd

The phrase “mental health” is all over the place these days. I think it’s time we brought it into the church. Since so many of us struggle with some form of it, let’s see what scripture says about it. Mental health is different for everybody. The symptoms are different, the treatments are different and the recovery is different so we could talk about it for months and never do it justice. But I would encourage you to review the great story of Elijah in 1 Kings 17- 19. It is great reading and will encourage you just by his story. Then Sunday morning and evening we will see what there is to learn about keeping our minds healthy.

I can’t wait to see you there! I love you all! — Todd

Proverbs 16:18 says, “Pride goes before destruction,
    a haughty spirit before a fall.”

Psalm 10:4 says, “In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
    in all his thoughts there is no room for God.”

Pride has been brought to our attention this month so let’s talk about it Sunday at Christ Fellowship. I love you all and can’t wait to see you! — Todd

Lots to do this weekend and we need your help. First, Saturday is the Chico Spring Fling and we need people to man the booth, make cookies, pass out the cookies, pass out fliers, talk to people, set up, tear down, etc. Even if you can only be there an hour or two, that will be a great help. It runs from 9-4 and is on the square in Chico. I plan to start getting set up about 8:30. 

Sunday is a big day as well! We will learn more about the Day of the Lord (not the same as the Lord’s Day) and then after our worship time, we will have our Chili Cook-off. I don’t remember how many years now we have been doing this but it’s always fun! Remember, there will be three prizes given. The three categories are “Best Tasting”, “Spiciest”, and “Most Exotic.” There will be no evening service.

I can’t wait to see you at both places! I love you all! — Todd

I used to date a girl who was lactose intolerant.

We broke up because she couldn’t stomach my cheesy jokes.

But that’s not the kind of date I wanted to tell you about. Please keep these dates in mind:

May 20th is the Chico Spring Fling and our church will have a booth there. We need some folks who can make cookies or other treats to hand out and… somebody needs to hand them out. 

May 21st is our big Chili Cookoff at the church after the morning service. There will be three amazing prizes awarded. Best Tasting, Spiciest and Most Unusual will be the categories.

And we have a date set for our Vacation Bible School this year. We need all hands on deck for July 15th and 16th as we “Knock on Heaven’s Door”!

I can’t wait to see y’all this Sunday! I love you! — Todd

In 1 Thessalonians 4, Paul puts in a nutshell how we should live to make God happy. It’s not a long, drawn-out monologue. It’s pretty plain. It’s to the point. (I know. It’s like, who is the author and what has he done with Paul?!) But I’m glad to know what God wants. Now, doing it is the part that is difficult. Thank you, Holy Spirit, who lives inside of us for your power!

We will talk about this more Sunday morning at Christ Fellowship. So make plans right now to join us at 10 (or so) in the morning and 6 in the evening. You can catch us online at Facebook ((4) Todd Blair | Facebook) or on our website at (christ-fellowship.church) and now on YouTube you can see previous sermons at christ fellowship sermons.

I love you all! — Todd

Is Christ Fellowship a real church? How do you know? If you Google churches in Wise County, our name will pop up but does that make us a church? What does? What does a real church do? What does it look like? How does it run and work? 

The Apostle Paul has a few words to say about that in 1 Thessalonians 1 and we will see half a dozen ways to know if we are a real church by reading that this Sunday morning and evening.

Also, this Sunday, we will have the Lord’s Supper right after the message and then after that, we will go into one of our rare as hen’s teeth business meetings. It will be very short. I promise. I love you and can’t wait to see you at 10 and 6.

— Todd

The Apostle Paul wrote lots of letters. We have several of them in scripture. He wrote to various different churches that he had started over the years, sometimes just to encourage, sometimes to scold them for not living right and sometimes to answer their questions. If we got a letter in the mail from ol’ Paul, what do you think he would say to Christ Fellowship? 

I think it would be very similar to the first letter he wrote to the church in Thessalonica. It is a book of encouragement in several ways and includes practical advice for how to live but also what to look forward to as the times get short. We are going to work our way through the book of 1 Thessalonians starting this Sunday, April 16 and I think it will be enjoyable and helpful.

I know you’re busy. I know work demands a lot from you. But when you aren’t in church, you miss out and the church misses out. You are missed when you aren’t there. Yes, YOU! I love you all and can’t wait to see YOU! — Todd

David felt it and prophesied it a thousand years before Jesus was born. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Psalm 22) Maybe you have felt that way too. If you have, it is probably because sin has put a barrier between you and God. But for Jesus there was no sin, not of His own. He had been tempted in every way we are and yet had lived His whole life in absolute purity.

But God the Father said that where there was sin, something had to die. (Heb. 9:22) So, Jesus was obedient to the Father’s plan and sacrificed Himself that Good Friday. For your sin and my sin and the sins of the whole world, Jesus died on that cruel cross. I can’t comprehend the physical pain He suffered but can you imagine the feeling of loneliness and shame He felt taking all those sins on Himself?

In Matthew 27 it records Jesus recalling the words of David from all those years before.

 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

Yes, Sunday is coming. We know the story and it ends gloriously and wonderfully but today on Good Friday, meditate for a while on what Jesus was going through as He paid your price for your sins.

— Todd