Prayer
List
Faith Balzen
is recovering from foot surgery.
Mark Morris
has been diagnosed with cancer in his kidney and lungs,
Tina Bruce’s
grandmother is not doing good.
Don Boyd’s
cancer has returned.
Thomas Mako
is recovering at home.
Mike
Dickerson has been diagnosed with cancer.
Don
Hickerson’s brother-in-law Louis Horn is in rehab.
R’Cella
Gibbs, a friend of Frank Rhoden is 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, Ronnie Brown,
Billie Bradford, Betty Clark, Doris James, Gary Hickerson, Bobbie
King, Dan LeDane, Carol Moore, Beryl Miller, and Della Price.
Serving in
the military: Faith Balzen, Cody Blomstedt, Travis Counts, and Dakota
Smitherman all are in the U.S..
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 the family of Lester Phillips.
Our prayers
and sympathy go out to the family Dale Brown.
Pantry
Item: Diced Tomatoes
April
23rdPrayers: Morning: Robert Courtney – Robert Embry
Evening: Charles Counts – Kerry King
Scriptures: Don Harrington
Sincere
But Lost
By Louis
Rushmore
Matthew
7:21-23 is one of the saddest Scriptures in the Bible. It reads:
“Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is
in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? And then will I
profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.”
What
could be sadder than to sincerely practice a religion, but be
eternally lost? Yet, Jesus taught that some sincere but lost souls
will plead with him at the final judgment.
Jesus did
not criticize them for being sincere. Other Bible verses teach that
a person must sincerely practice Christianity to please God.
However, Jesus condemned the souls described in Matthew 7:21-23
because they did not do or obey the will of God. Their mistake was
to obey the teaching of men instead of obeying the teaching of God
(which is found in the Bible). According to Jesus, religion that
practices the teaching of men is vain. “But in vain they do
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men”
(Matthew 15:9). His church is the only real church. Further,
the Bible is God’s only teaching for men today; the New Testament
(or Gospel) is the portion of the Bible that tells about Jesus
Christ, the church and salvation.
God does
not want anyone to be lost. Your friends from the churches of Christ
do not want you to be lost either. Contact us today for literature
that will help you study the Bible so you can know whether your
religion is vain or approved by God. The greatest human tragedy
is to be sincere but lost!
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I
was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord
(Psalms 122:1)