“I
was glad when they said to me, let us go into the house of the Lord.”
Psalm 122:1
Prayer
List
Greg Counts
is home recovering from shoulder surgery.
Jack and Kay
Cawthon’s grandson Gabriel continues to improve.
A.C. and
Shirley Quinn are ill.
Leta Embry,
Jerry and Betty Harris, Nell Hall, James and Florene Griffin, Eddie
Griffin, Ben Harrington, Don Hickerson, Andy LeDane, Lester and
Billie Phillips, Jack and Diane Arnold, Christel Balthrop, Betty
Clark, Steven Courtney, Jerry Foster, Debbie Kluge, Sonny and Doris
James, Beryl Miller, Wanda Peterson, Dean and Della Price, and Terry
Turner .
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…
Pantry
Item: Ranch Style Beans
January
Announcements: Robert Courtney
Lord Supper:
Butch Balzen, Jack Cawthon, Barry Cox
Jan. 3rd
Prayers Morning: Butch Balzen – Don Harrington
Evening: Barry Cox - Kerry King
Scriptures: Robert Courtney
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The Indestructible
Bible
By A. G. Freed
The Bible is the oldest book the world has. It antedates the Chinese bible. It has come down to us through the ages. Its enemies have sought to destroy it. Its pages are stained with the blood of martyrs. Empires, kingdoms and states have crumbled around it. How do you account for the Bible surviving the wreck of time? The answer is that God is with it and in it.
It was Mears who said, "The lyric poetry of the Hebrews
was in its golden age nearly a thousand years before the birth of
Horace. Deborah sang a model of a triumphant song a full five hundred
years before Sappho was born. The book of Esther was a venerable
fragment of biography, more strange than fiction, at least twelve
hundred years old at the dawn of the romantic literature of Europe.
The proverbs of Solomon are by eight hundred years more ancient than
the writings of Seneca."
Though it has been exploded, demolished, and made ready for the grave countless times, it goes on its triumphant way, giving light, hope, and salvation to unnumbered millions in many lands and many tongues.
Though it has been exploded, demolished, and made ready for the grave countless times, it goes on its triumphant way, giving light, hope, and salvation to unnumbered millions in many lands and many tongues.
The Bible lives in spite
of men. False theories of religion profess to be built upon it. A
relentless war is waged upon it by those who hate it, and friends to
it have become lukewarm. Yet the Bible is here. It is the deathless
book. It is as eternal as God. "The word of the Lord endureth
forever."
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Every Good
Gift
A poor man was given a loaf of bread. He thanked the baker, but the baker said, “Don’t thank me. Thank the miller who made the flour.” So he thanked the miller, but the miller said, “Don’t thank me. Thank the farmer who planted the wheat.” So he thanked the farmer.
But the farmer said, “Don’t thank me. Thank the Lord. He gave the sunshine, rain, and fertility to the soil, and that’s why you have bread to eat.”
Regardless of how sophisticated, how advanced we may be scientifically, we still can’t create; we still can’t make a kernel of wheat.
That has to come from God. God gives us the things we need in order to live on this planet.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights….” (James 1:17; Acts 17:24).
- via House to House, Heart to Heart