Prayer
List
Betty Harris
has been moved to Homestead of Sherman.
Randy Miller
needs our prayers.
Barry Cox is
recovering from hip surgery.
Kerry King’s
mother Bobbie King needs our prayers.
Mark Morris’
cancer has come back. He has begun treatment.
Brenda
Williams, A.C. Quinn’s daughter has had a heart attack and a blood
clot in her leg.
James Horn,
Don Hickerson’s brother-in-law has kidney stones.
Don Boyd’s
cancer has returned.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, James and Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry
Harris, Don Hickerson, Lester and Billie Phillips, Dan Tucker, Mary
Jean Turner, Aramanda family, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark,
Doris James, Gary Hickerson Dan LeDane, 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
is in California.
Cody Blomstedt is in El Paso, Texas.
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: Chunk Pineapple
Nov. 27th
Prayers Morning: butch Balzen – Robert Embry
Evening: Kerry King – Don Harrington
Scriptures: Robert Courtney
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What About
Sin?
By
Luke Shira
The first
teaching we have concerning sin is that everyone does it. There is
no perfect person. Romans 3:23 tells us, “For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God.” Since the time of
Adam and
Eve, sin has been a curse of man, not because he sins, but because he
refuses to repent of the sins he committed. James writes that a man
has tried to blame God for his sins. “Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempted he any man” (James 1:13).
Sin will be
revealed in three ways: 1. A guilty conscience – Joseph’s
brethren (Genesis 42:21); Jesus reached the conscience of those who
were about to stone the woman taken in adultery in
John 8:7,
“…He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at
her.” “And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one.” 2. The scriptures say the
effects of sin will make some “Weak and sickly” (1Corinthians
11:29, 30). Paul told Timothy, “Some men’s sin are opened
beforehand, going before to judgment, and some men they follow after”
(1Timothy 5:24). 3. All unforgiving sins will meet us in the day
of judgment. “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of
men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel” (Romans 2:16).
Luke 12:2
says the sins will be exposed, “For there is nothing covered,
that shall not be revealed, neither hid, that shall not be known.”
In Ecclesiastes 12:14, we read. “For God shall bring every work
into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or
whether it be evil.” Sin can be easily classed in several
ways.
1 Open sins,
those that everyone knows about (1Timothy 5:24).
2. Personal
sins, the sins of Ananias and Sapphira; they lied to the Holy Spirit.
3. Congregational sins mentioned in 1Corinthians such immorality,
puffed up, no mourning. Many sin today – feel secure, but they
should remember the words of the Master in Luke 12:2. Nothing
covered that will not be revealed.
What should
we do with our sins today? Try not to hide them (Proverbs 28:13; 2.
Confess them according to 1John 1: ask God’s forgiveness. 3. Live
a forgiven life.