Prayer
List
Dan Tucker
is recovering from heart surgery.
Barry Cox
will have hip surgery November 11.
Don
Harrington will have surgery on his right eye October 10th.
Leta Embry
will have a biopsy of her thyroid Oct. 5.
Kerry King’s
mother has stage 4 cancer. She has begun treatment.
Robert
Embry’s uncle Glen Durham is home. He is still having swelling of
the leg as well as cancer.
Robert
Courtney’s cousin’s daughter is recovering from a stroke.
Nell Hall,
Andy LeDane, Eddie Griffin, James and Florene Griffin, Jimmy 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, 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 go out to Charles and Helen Counts and family in the
loss of his sister Wanda Peterson.
Reminder:
Our Fall Meeting begins today and goes through the 5th.
Services will be 7:30pm each night including Sunday night. Preston
Boles will be teaching on the “God Head”. Flyers are on the
table in the back. Let us plan now to attend and invite others.
The Men’s
Business meeting is next Sunday October 9th after evening
worship services. All men are invited and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Diced Tomatoes
Oct. 9
Prayers: Morning: Robert Embry – Kerry King
Evening: Jerry Harris – Robert Courtney
Scriptures: Don Harrington
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Judgment
Day Excuses That Won’t Work
Roger
Campbell, Cleveland, Tennessee
Jesus
will come again (John 14:3). On the same day, He will judge all men.
That day is called both “the last day” (John12:48) and “the
day of judgement” (2 Peter 3:7).
What
excuses might be given that day?
“But,
Lord I Thought…” This sounds like Naaman when he was told to
dip in the Jordan to be rid of leprosy (2 Kings 5:11). He thought he
knew how things ought to happen, but God thought differently. On
judgment day it might be, “But I thought that all a person had to
do to be saved was believe in Jesus as God’s Son.”
The Bible
says, “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone…by
works a man is justified, and not by faith only” (James 2:17-24).
Jesus will judge us by the Bible (John 12:48).
“But,
Lord, I was always told…” In the religious realm, all kinds
of faulty messages are given. Only God’s word is truth (John
17:17). Some might say, “I was told that one church is as good as
another.” God’s Word teaches that there is only one body or
church (Ephesians 4:4), that Jesus promised to build one church
(Matthew 16: 18), and that He purchased and saves only one church
with His blood (Acts 20:28; Ephesians 5:23, 25).
“But,
Lord, my pastor always said…” It is amazing how many people
hang their soul’s destiny on what a preacher has to say. The only
Pastor whom we should accept as final authority is “our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd of the sheep” (Hebrews 13:20). He alone has
all authority (Matthew 28: 18-20). At the judgment, some may plead,
“But my pastor said that it doesn’t matter how you worship, just
as long as you worship the Lord.” The Master said, “God is
Spirit: and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in
truth” (John 4:24).
Think about
it.
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“Prepare
to meet thy God”
Amos 4:12