Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

glory and tribulation as we pick up in Romans chapter 5, verse 3.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. I glory in tribulation because I have learned

that in every trial there is an opportunity for God to manifest himself in my life and to work in my life.

I have learned when there is pressure, when there are problems, to just wait on the Lord.

Took me a long time to learn that.

Right now, we are waiting upon the Lord in regards to the bid that we made upon the site in

Newport Beach.

The school board tells us in two weeks they will make

their decision. I can honestly say that I'm not tense, I'm not nervous, I'm not really concerned.

If we get it, we get it. If we don't, we don't. When we bought the Greenville school from the San

Anna School District, we put in a bid, and we didn't even go to the board meeting where they

were going to have the oral bids once they'd opened the sealed bids that had come in. We just

submitted a bid on the school and let it go at that.

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