Prayer
List
Nell Hall is
having problems with one of her toes again.
Charles
Counts’ sisters; Debbie Kluge and Wanda Peterson are having health
problems. They are doing some better.
Kerry and
Carla King’s nieces father is scheduled to have pancreas surgery.
Butch
Balzen’s sister Stacy Rogers is having heart problems.
Jerry and
Betty Harris, James and Florene Griffin, Nell Hall, Don Hickerson,
Andy LeDane, Lester and Billie Phillips, Mary Jean Turner, Michael
Armanda, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark, Doris James, Dan LeDane,
Gary Hickerson, Beryl Miller, Dean and Della Price, and Terry Turner.
Serving in
the military: Travis Counts Faith Balzen
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…
April 24th
there will be a “Pounding” for Ashlyn LeDane at the house next
door from 2-4:00pm. Additionally, she has requested one or more of
your favorite receipts.
Faith Balzen
will be home on leave April 29th. Therefore we have moved
April’s Fellowship to May 1st to celebrate her being
home.
Pantry
Item: Canned Peaches
April 24th
Prayers Morning: Butch Balzen – Barry Cox
Evening: Robert Embry – Don Hickerson
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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Can
A Child of God Be Lost?
By
Luke Shira
Can one become a child of God, have the forgiveness of
sins, and then be lost? Every day I come in contact with such
people, they seem to believe the old denominational doctrine “once
saved always saved.” It is time we had a wake-up call
and realize that Christianity is a way of life, and if we do not
follow that way we will never get to heaven. “I am the way,
the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me”
(John 14:6).
Why does the child of God have so many warnings if it
is impossible for him to be lost once saved? In Galatians 5:4,
Paul charged those Christians who were turning back to the Law of
Moses that they have “fallen from Grace.” Why do
Christians live as though they cannot lose their inheritance? Again,
“Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed
lest he fall” (I Corinthians 10:12). Being a
Christian is much more than being baptized (although one cannot be a
Christian without being baptized).
Why then do so many follow “ways” which are not the
Way of Christ? Why does man bring in strange things in service to
God, things that are not authorized in His Word? Why are there so
many warnings from God? Possibly the saddest and most
vivid pictures in the Bible are the ones Peter paints in II Peter
2:20-22, where he compares the apostate Christian to a clean washed
sow that goes back into the mud, and the dog that returns to eat his
own vomit. Why are we warned if things cannot happen? Just like
this one who has been washed in the blood of Christ can return to
a sinful life or a false religion and be lost. “How shall we
escape: if we neglect so great a salvation?
For
if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; they are again
entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to
turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(II
Peter 2: 20-21).