Prayer
List
Nell Hall
was in the hospital to have fluid drained from her lungs. She is
home now.
Don
Harrington will have surgery on his right eye October 10th.
Wanda
Peterson is in the hospital. She is having problems with her legs.
Leta Embry
will have to have more tests sometime in September.
Kerry King’s
mother has stage 4 cancer. She has begun treatment.
Robert
Embry’s uncle Glen Durham has swelling of the leg as well as
cancer.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, James and Florene Griffin, Jerry and Betty Harris, Don
Hickerson, Larry Lee, Lester and Billie Phillips, Mary Jean Turner,
Aramanda family, Jack and Diane Arnold, Don Boyd, Betty Clark, Glenn
Durham, Doris James, Dan LeDane, Gary Hickerson, Carol Moore, Beryl
Miller, Dean and Della Price Dan Tucker, and Terry Turner.
Serving in
the military:
Dakota Smitherman has been deployed to Afghanistan.
Travis Counts has been deployed to Kuwait.
Faith Balzen
Cody Blomstedt
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…
Our prayers
and sympathy goes out to Kim Counts and family in the loss of her
grandmother.
Fellowship
is Sunday Sept. 25 after morning worship services. Everyone is
invited and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Canola Oil
Sept. 25h
Prayers: Morning: Don Harrington – Robert Courtney
Evening: Don Hickerson – Charles Counts
Scriptures: Greg Counts
Jesus
Made a Blood Donation for You
By Allen
Webster
Most of
us would be touched if someone volunteered to donate blood so that we
might live.
In a
sense, Jesus donated His own blood for each of us. No blood is
offered by the world’s other religions--- no founder of a world
religion ever offered his blood for his followers. Christ did.
Jesus’
blood reaches men in every race and rank; every class and country,
every tribe and tonque (Hebrews 2:9-10; Revelation 5:9; cf.
Johnn1:29; 1232; 2Corinthians 5:15; 1Timothy 2:4,6). He embraces
every race (Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16; Galatians 3:28). In the
New Testament, we see people of all nations and circumstances
responding to His love (Ethiopian, Acts 8, Jews 2; Gentiles, Acts 10;
Europeans, Acts 16: Lepers, Luke 17). God loves everyone. He “is
not willing that any should perish” (2Peter 3:9).
Have you
been to give blood? Let’s contrast our blood donations with His.
OUR PINT
IS A DONATION; JESUS’ GIFT WAS A SACRIFICE
After we
give blood, we enjoy a snack and returned to normal activities.
After He gave blood, Jesus died. “An Jesus cried with a loud
voice, and gave up the ghost” (Mark 15:376). We give what we can
easily spare; Christ gave His blood. Man has sinned away his right
to live: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Since
all have sinned (Romans 6:23), and sin demands the death of the
sinner (Ezekiel 18:4), how can anyone be saved?
Jesus
died for us. “But this man, after he offered one sacrifice for
sins for ever, sat down on the right hand od God” (Hebrews 10:12).
(Modified
from Allen Webster’s writing in House to House.)
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“Behold,
the Lord’s hand is not so short that it cannot save; neither is His
ear so dull that is cannot hear. But you iniquities have made a
separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His
face from you, so that He does not hear (NAS< Isaiah 59 1:2.