Prayer
List
Kerry and
Carla King’s niece’s father, Larry Lee is recovering from heart
surgery. He is schedule for pancreas surgery.
Robert
Embry’s uncle, Glenn Durham has been diagnosed with cancer.
Butch
Balzen’s cousin Stanely Sugg has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
Also, another cousin Melissa Lightfoot has spinal and neck problems.
Melissa’s sister’s son, Calvin is recovering from surgery.
Leta Embry’s
aunt Peggy Taylor is having eye problem.
The Aramanda
family needs our prayers.
A friend of
Don Hickerson, Don Boyd, a church of Christ preacher is being treated
for cancer.
Florene
Griffin, Jerry and Betty Harris, Nell Hall, Don Hickerson, Lester and
Billie Phillips, Mary Jean Turner, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty
Clark, Doris James, Dan LeDane, Gary Hickerson, Debbie Kluge, Beryl
Miller, Wanda Peterson, 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…
The next
Texomaland Summer Youth Series is June 21st at 7:30pm at
the Tom Bean church of Christ. We need to plan to invite others as
well refreshments.
There will
be a 60th Wedding Anniversary Come and Go party for
Charles and Helen Saturday June 25th from 2-4:00pm at the
Western Height church of Christ. It is located 800 Baker Road in
Sherman.
Fellowship
is next Sunday June 26 after morning services. Everybody is invited
and encouraged to attend.
The next
Teachers Meeting is Sunday June 26 at 5:00pm. We will be assigning
VBS responsibilities. Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Canned Tomatoes
June 26th
Prayers Morning: Jack Cawthon – Greg Counts
Evening: Don Harrington – Don Hickerson
Scriptures: Butch Balzen
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Blind Men
of Hindustan
Most are
conversant with the famous poem concerning the blind men of Hindustan
who went to “see” an elephant. Since each was sightless and
stationed at a different vantage point surrounding the huge creature,
the six men came away with vastly different concepts regarding the
elephant.
The first
said, “An elephant is like a rope,” because he had felt the tail.
Another, stationed at the ear, concluded it was like a fan.
Another, feeling of its leg, said it was like a tree. Another
thought an elephant was like a wall.
A partial
view of the Bible is like that. Prejudice blinds many a person to
the whole truth. Sectarian dogma, shallow teaching, emphasis on
tradition, narrow thinking, and emotional persuasion contribute to
spiritual blindness.
As John
Saxe said of the blind men in his striking poem:
Each
in his own opinion exceedingly
stiff
and strong though each was partly
in
the right, and all were in the wrong!
We must
pursue “all the counsel of God” (Acts 20:27) and desire to be
fully instructed on every Bible subject. The sum of God’s Word is
truth (Psalm 119:160). Taking all that the Bible says on any
doctrine forms the best commentary on the sacred Scriptures. This
allows us to see the harmony and blend in God’s grace and man’s
obedience.
(from House to
House, Heart to Heart)