Prayer
List
Corey Miller
is scheduled to have surgery August 28.
Gary Hodges
is scheduled to have surgery September 1.
Robert
Embry’s niece son Ryan Pattie is having health problems.
Jim Hallman
is having severe back pain.
Jessica
Rhoden has had a mini-stroke.
Ron Hunter
is in TMC.
Eddie
Griffin, Tabitha Griffin, Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and
Betty Harris, Billie Phillips, Billie Bradford, Betty Clark, Doris
James, Jo Gordon, Gary Hickerson, Bobbi King, 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…
Fellowship
is today following morning services. Everyone is invited and
encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Paper Towels
September
Announcements: Robert Embry
Lord Supper:
Butch Balzen, Robert Courtney, Don Harrington
September 3
Prayers: Morning: Greg Counts – Don Harrington
Evening: Don Baker – Charles Counts
Scriptures: Robert Embry
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What Howard Learned in Heartbreak
Howard
Rutledge, a United States Air Force pilot, was shot down over North
Vietnam during the early stages of the war.
He spent
several miserable years in the hands of his captors before being
released at the war’s conclusion. In his book In the Presence of Mine
Enemies, he reflects upon the resources from which he drew in
those arduous days when life seemed so in tolerable:
“During
those longer periods of enforced reflection, it became so much easier
to separate the important from the trivial, the worthwhile from the
waste. For example, in the past, I usually worked or played hard on
Sundays and had no time for church. For years Phyllis {his wife} had
encouraged me to join the family at church. She never nagged or
scolded—she just kept hoping. But I was too busy, to preoccupied,
to spend one or two short hours a week thinking about the really
important things. Now the sights and sounds and smells of death were
all around me. My hunger for spiritual food soon outdid my hunger
for a steak. Now I wanted to talk about God and Christ and the
church. But in Heartbreak [the name POWS gave their prison camp]
solitary confinement, there was no preacher, no Sunday-School
teacher, no Bible, no hymnbook, no community of believers to guide
and sustain me. I had completely neglected the spiritual dimension
of my life. It took prison to show me how empty life is without
God.”
It took the
presence of a POW camp to show Rutledge that there was a center to
his private world that he had been neglecting all his life.
(Gordon
MacDonald, House to House, Heart to Heart)
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The Best
Way to Pray
Three
ministers were discussing the best positions for prayer, while a
telephone repairman worked nearby:
“Kneeling
is definitely the best way to pray,” the first one said.
“No,”
said the second. “I get the best results standing with my hands
outstretched to Heaven.”
“You’re
both wrong,” the third said. “the most effective prayer position
is Lying down on the floor.”
The
repairman could contain himself no longer. “Hey, fellas,” he
interrupted. “The best praying I ever did was when I was hanging
upside down from a telephone pole.”
“A
merry heart doeth good.”
Proverbs
17:22