Prayer List
Don Hickerson is recovering from cataract surgery.
Corey Miller is scheduled to have August 28.
We need to keep Kerry King’s mother in our
prayers.
Tabitha Griffin is taking cancer treatments.
Gary Hodges is scheduled to have surgery September
1.
Robert Embry’s niece son Ryan Pattie is having
health problems.
Eddie Griffin, Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin,
Jerry and Betty Harris, Billie Phillips, Billie Bradford, Betty
Clark, Doris James, Jo Gordon, Gary Hickerson, Thomas Mako, Audrey
McKin, Beryl Miller, Carol Moore, Della Price and Loretta Rhoden.
Serving in the military:
Faith Balzen,
Cody
Blomstedt,
Travis Counts, and
Dakota Smitherman all are in the U.S.
Chris Johnson is in Kuwait.
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…
Men’s Meeting will be next Sunday August 13
after evening worship service. All men are invited and encouraged to
attend.
August 20 Prayers: Morning: Greg Counts – Robert
Courtney
Evening: Don Baker
– Charles Counts
Scriptures: Don Harrington
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Look
What Has Come to the World
An English writer has said, “The early
Christians did not go around saying, “Look what the world had come
to.” Rather they with great joy said to all men, “Look what has
come to the world!”
There is a great difference between these two
attitudes. Yes, the world is in bad shape---But read the second
chapter of Romans and you will find the world was in an awful
condition in Paul’s time. The unique Gospel of Jesus Christ offers
the solution to man’s problems. See what has come into the
world---God’s revelation of Himself in all power, wisdom, and love
through Jesus Christ, His only be gotten Son. This is indeed
glorious news! This is a message which we cannot keep to ourselves,
but we must tell everybody about it. No wonder Christians are
radiant with joy. They have found the treasure all are seeking.
They have seen what has come into the world in the advent of Jesus
Christ, and they are working for the advancement of His kingdom until
He comes.
“In this was manifest the love of God toward
us, because that God has sent His only begotten Son
into the world, that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9)
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Nobody
Made It?
Sir Isaac Newton once
had an exact replica of the solar system made in miniature. At its
center was a large golden ball representing the sun, and revolving
around it were small spheres attached at the ends of rods of varying
lengths. They represented Mercury, Venus, Earth Mars, and the other
planets. These were all geared together by cogs and belts to make
them move around the “sun” in perfect harmony.
One day as Newton was
studying the model, a friend who did not believe in the biblical
account of creation stopped by for a visit. Marveling at the device
and watching as the scientist made the heavenly bodies move on there
orbits, the man exclaimed, “My, Newton, what an exquisite thing!
Who made it for you?” Without looking up, Sir Isaac replied
“Nobody.” “Nobody?” his friend asked. “That’s right!
All of these balls and cogs and belts and gears just happened to come
together, and wonder of wonders, by chance they began revolving in
their orbits and with perfect timing.”
The friend got the
message. It was foolish to suppose that the model merely happened
(Psalm 14:1), but it was even more senseless to accept the theory
that the earth and the vast universe came into being by chance. How
much more logical to believe what the Bible says, “In the
beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
(author unknown)