Prayer
List
Ben
Harrington is home and will have additional tests next week.
Leta Embry
is recovering from surgery. Her next surgery is Thursday Oct. 9 th.
Beryl Miller
is undergoing eye treatment and is doing some better.
Sue Morgan
is in Greenville Specialty Hospital.
Dale Counts
still needs our prayers.
Nell Hall had surgery on her toe and is recovering at home.
Nell Hall,
Jerry and Betty Harris, James and Florene Griffin, Don Hickerson,
Lester and Billie Phillips, Shirley Quinn, Jack and Diane Arnold,
Betty Clark, Jerry Foster, Debbie Kluge, Sonny and Doris James, and
Dean and Della Price.
Serving in
the military: Travis Counts, Cody Blomstedt, Dakota Smitherman
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
We are pleased
to announce that Christina Counts was baptize into Christ. Let us
rejoice with her and her family.
September’s
Fellowship has been moved to October 4th to coincide with
the beginning of our Fall Meeting. This will be last Fellowship
until January 2016.
There will be a
Work Day next Saturday Oct. 3 at 8:00am to prepare the buildings and
grounds for the upcoming meeting and Fellowship.
Our Fall
Meeting will be Oct. 4-7 at 7:00pm each night. Sunday evening
services will be at 2:00pm instead at 7:00pm.
Pantry
Item: Canned Chicken
October
Announcements: Robert Courtney
Lord Supper:
Butch Balzen, Greg Counts, and Robert Embry
Oct. 4 Prayers
Morning: Butch Balzen – Jack Cawthon
Evening: Don Harrington – Greg Counts
Scriptures:
Robert Courtney
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RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF A NATION
By
Robert Courtney
“Righteousness
exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs
14:34
The
nation of Israel is a lesson, in which we need to take to heart. We
can read of its turning away from God time and time again throughout
its history, and the results of their turning away, the final
destruction of their nation.
The
destruction of Israel did not begin with the people but with its
leaders and those who counseled the leaders. The leaders encouraged
false worship of idols and immorality in which the people readily
accepted and followed.
Jesus
said in Luke 6:39, “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they
not both fall into the ditch?”
In our
nation today, that which was right has now become wrong, and that
which was wrong has now become right. Our government has now become
one of immorality; murder, lies, homosexual, fornication, adultery
and stealing have become the norm of acceptability. Public praying
and the mentioning of God or Christ are now being regulated to such
an extent that people are avoiding mentioning their names less they
are persecuted.
“There
is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death.”
Proverbs 14:12
We, as
Christians should look at ourselves and decide just whom we are going
to follow. As John said in 1 John 4:1, “Beloved, do not believe
every spirit, but test the spirit, whether they are of God; because
many false prophets have gone out into the world.”