Prayer
List
Betty has
been move to Homestead of Sherman.
James
Griffin has been moved to Carrus.
Randy Miller
surgery has been delayed.
Joyce Rhoden
is in Homestead of Sherman room 401.
Dale Brown a
friend of Kerry King needs our prayers. He seems to be improving.
A friend of
Butch Balzen’s, Thomas Mako has been diagnosed with kidney and
pancreas cancer.
Friends of
Kathy Hill, Dean and Della Price need our prayers.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, 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, Don Boyd, and Ronnie Brown.
Serving in
the military:
Dakota Smitherman is back in the U. S...
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…
Fellowship
will be next Sunday June 29th after morning services.
Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Hamburger Helper
Jan. 29th
Prayers: Morning: Don Harrington – Greg Counts
Evening: Robert Courtney – Charles Counts
Scriptures: Robert Embry
THE FIRST
DAY OF THE WEEK
The first day of the week
is a great day in the hearts of Christians. On this day God created
light. On this day the light of the gospel was first preached to men
in the name of the resurrected Lord. Jesus rose from the dead on this
day. “And when the Sabbath was past, Mary
Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus, and Salome, had brought sweet
spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the
morning FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK came
they unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun. And they said among
themselves, who shall roll away the stone from the door of the
sepulcher? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled
away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulcher, they
saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white
garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not
affrighted: ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was crucified: HE
IS RISEN…” (Mark 16:1-6).
The resurrected Lord
appeared to the apostles and others on the first day of the week
“Then the same day at evening, being the
first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples
were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the
midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you” (John 20:19).
“To whom (the apostles) also he shewed
himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being see
of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the
kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3).
The Church of Christ was
established on the first day of the week. On this day for the first
time, sinners were commanded to “repent and be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38).
The disciples of the
first century observed the Lord’s supper on the first day of the
week (Acts 20:7). They were also commanded to give on this day (I
Corinthians 16:1-2).
By J.
K. Gossett, Gospel preacher, retired Jonesboro, Arkansas)