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 begun radiation and chemo.
A friend of
Kathy Hill, Della Price is in 7 Oaks Nursing Home, room 14
Robert
Embry’s niece Yvette Steward is recovering at home.
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
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…
Fellowship
is next Sunday February 26 after morning services. Everyone is
invited and encouraged to attend.
Reminder:
Spring Meeting is April 2- 5 at 7:30pm each night
VBS
is July 5th
Fall
Meeting will be October 1- 4 at 7:30pm each night.
Let us plan
now to attend each of these Meeting’s.
Pantry
Item: Canola Oil
Feb. 26th
Prayers: Morning: Robert Embry – Butch Balzen
Evening: Don Harrington – Robert Courtney
Scriptures: Greg Counts
Blessed
is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. (Psalm
128:1)
TO TELL
THE TRUTH
“Wherefore
putting away all lying, speak every man the truth with his neighbor”…
(Eph. 4:25)
It is not
always comfortable to live with the truth. Today’s attitude has
been warped and twisted with a show of “tact and diplomacy. Truth
should be highly prized and scrupulously followed. Solomon said,
“Buy the truth, and sell it not.” (Prov. 23:23) Our Lord
made this statement regarding truth: “And ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free.” (Jno.8:32) It is a
shame, but all too often the truth is ignored or evaded, and people
remain in bondage to ignorance and error.
Many
times the man who declares the whole counsel of God, clearly and
openly, is branded as one who is devoid of understanding, love,
compassion, and even good etiquette. Paul asked the question, “Am
I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?” (Gal.
4:16) There can be nothing good coming from adding error.
Anything short of the whole truth is deception.
The
gospel must never become adulterated because of our evasion of sound
doctrine! Basic truth must not be camouflaged with soft sounding
words and fancy phrases that take away from its demands. Christians
cannot afford to indulge in evasion, ambiguity and double talk.
Sometimes it seems people want more time spent on “homiletic
organization and preparation” than simply speaking the purity and
force of the gospel message. Paul said, “But speak thou the
things that become sound doctrine.” (Titus 2:1) Let us pray
for courage to answer every man with clarity of speech; and let the
truth be spoken by all and tempered with love. Only then have we
truly discharged our responsibility to God and our duty to dying man.
- Selected -
“Let the
lying lips put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and
contemptuously against the righteous.” (Ps. 31:18)
“Remove
from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.” (Ps,
119:29)