Prayer
List
Frank Rhoden
needs our prayers.
Dale Brown a
friend of Kerry and Carla King needs our prayers.
A friend of
Butch Balzen’s, Thomas Mako has been diagnosed with kidney and
pancreas cancer.
A friend of
Kathy Hill, Della Price is in 7 Oaks Nursing Home room 14
Robert
Embry’s niece Yvette Steward is in TMC with high blood pressure.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and Betty
Harris, Don
Hickerson, Lester and Billie Phillips, Dan Tucker, Mary Jean Turner,
Aramanda 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
is in San Antonio.
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…
Our prayers
and sympathy go out to Brenda Low and family in the loss of Lynn.
There will
be a Teachers Meeting today at 5:00pm. All teachers are requested to
be there.
The Men’s
Business Meeting today after evening services. All men are invited
and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Cooking Spray
Tipton Home
will be here Feb.13-16.
Feb. 19th
Prayers: Morning: Robert Embry – Robert Courtney
Evening: Don Harrington – Kerry King
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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Man
Deceives Himself
There is a statement that goes like this: “You can
fool me once, shame on you. If you fool me twice, shame on me.”
There are a lot of folks who are being fooled twice. The easiest man
to deceive is himself.
Paul said, “Let no man deceive himself. If any man
among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool
that he might be wise” (1 Corinthians 3:18). Paul is condemning
intellectual pride, one of the most hurtful of all vanities. He is
simply urging a man to be humble enough to learn. Too often we think
of God like man. The Psalmist said it best, “These things hast
thou done and I kept silent; thou thoughtest that I was altogether
such a one as thyself, but I will reprove thee, and set them in order
before thine eyes” (Psalms 50:21).
We
should be very careful when we think one way is just as good as
another (Isaiah 55:8-9). Some try to change the scriptures.
Jehoiakim took a pen knife to the scriptures (Jeremiah 36).
Remember, you can break the barometer, but you cannot stop the storm.
Man deceives himself when he thinks he can sow one thing and reap
something else. Paul told the Galatian brethren, “Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man sows, that he will
reap also” Galatians 6”7). James wrote, “Be ye doers of the
word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves” (James
1:22). Too many folks are being fooled by what they hear and are not
studying for themselves to see if what they are being taught is so or
not, and when they are deceived, they do not seem to care. Remember,
souls are at stake. Can we afford to be fooled the second time?
(Taken
from Celeste church of Christ bulletin)