Prayer
List
Barry Cox is
recovering from hip surgery.
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.
Don Boyd’s
cancer has returned.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, James and Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and
Betty Harris, Don Hickerson, Lester and Billie Phillips, Dan Tucker,
Mary Jean Turner, Armanda family, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark,
Doris James, Gary Hickerson, Bobbie King, 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: Evaporated Milk
1St
Sunday Singing: Parkview church of Christ at 2:30pm
December
Announcements: Greg Counts
Lord Supper:
Butch Balzen, Don Harrington, Kerry King
Dec 4th
Prayers: Morning: Robert Embry – Robert Courtney
Evening: Charles Counts – Don Hickerson
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (Psalms
32:1)
THE
LAW OF CHRIST
In
the Greek
The
perfect law of liberty (James 1:25) was specifically designed for man
by his Creator. It teaches man he can truly have liberty in law: the law
of Jesus Christ (Gal. 6:2). When a law provides no liberty for those
under it, it is a cruel dictator, but without law there is no
liberty. Simply put, could a man drive his car in a great city if
there were no traffic laws?
It is a
law of faith Romans 3:27). It is a system of ethics based on love.
The love called agape in the Greek New Testament. It was this
love that constrained God to give His Son for His world,
(John 3:16).
As it is written, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans
5:8).
This love required Christ to lay down His life (John
15:13).
And God
expects man’s love in return for His love, for it is written,
“THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL
THY SOUL, WITH ALL MIND. This is the first and great
commandment. And the second is like unto it, THOU SHALT LOVE THY
NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF” Matthew 27:37-39).
This
kind of love expects obedience for the Master said, “If ye love me,
keep my commandments,” (John 14:15) and again “If a man
love me, he will keep my words…” (John 14:23). The apostle
of love wrote, “But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected” (1John 2:5). “For this is the love
of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not
grievous” (1John 5:3).
When
Christians insist that the New Testament of Jesus must be obeyed they
are often accused of legalism. But the New Testament is so
constituted that he who obeys it will not be a legalist. He will
instead be a lover of God and man. We must know it is God’s “law”
to be written in the heart (Jeremiah 31:33).
(Taken from
Is There A Universal Code of Ethics?)