Where
were you?
Sunday
Morning Class: 13
AM
Sermon: 20
PM
Sermon: 12
Wednesday
Evening Class: 15
Prayer
List
We
need to keep Kathy Hill in our prayers.
Dale
Counts did not receive a good report after his surgery.
Brian
Scott is recovering at from his burns.
Robert
Embry’s cousin Paul Daugherty is recovering from a house wall
falling on him.
Floyce
Hunter is recovering at home from surgery.
Eddie
and Tabitha Griffin , Florene and Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and Betty
Harris, Billie Phillips, Billie Bradford, Betty Clark, Eddie
Hickerson, Gary Hickerson, Dorothy Hodges, Bobbi King, Audrey McKin,
Beryl Miller, Della Price, and Eddie Rollins.
Serving
in the military:
Faith Balzen,
Cody Blomstedt,
Travis Counts,
Tyler
Davies, and
Josh Van Deren, all are in the U.S...
Chris Johnson has
been deployed to 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…
Todays
Evening Services have been canceled. Kerry King will be preaching at
Howe tonight and we need to support him. Howe evening Services will
begin at 7:00pm for singing and 7:30pm for services.
The
Men’s Business Meeting is next Sunday Feb. 18th
after evening services. All Men are invited and encouraged to
attend.
Pantry
Item: Canned
Chicken
February
18 Prayers: Morning: Alex Miller – Don Hickerson
Evening:
Jerry Harris – Don Baker
Scriptures:
Robert Embry
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ARE
CHRISTIANS CULTISTS?
By
A. C. Quinn
It
is sad but true, we Christians are cultists—according to the
world’s definition of the term. The following is a quotation from
Janet Reno, Attorney General in the Clinton administration:
“A
cultists is one who has a strong belief in the
Bible
and the second coming of Christ; who frequently
attends
Bible studies; who has a high level of financial
giving
to a Christian cause; who home schools their
children;
who has accumulated survival foods and
has
a strong belief in the Second Amendment; and
who
distrusts big government. Any of these may
qualify
a person as a cultist but certainly more than
one
of these would cause us to look at this person
as
a threat, and his family being in a risk situation
that
qualified for government interference,”
“60 Minutes”
June 26, 1994 via ”Texarkana
Gazette”
AG Reno’s statement is quite typical of the anti-Christian sentiment
which has developed over the last twenty years or more. It appears
that Christianity is the only religion which may be attacked with
impunity by the atheistic, secularist world. That, however, should
not come as a surprise to Christians.
Jesus
taught his followers while he was upon the earth that they would have
to endure the hate and wrath of men: Matthew 5:11 Blessed
are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say
all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice,
and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so
persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Jude
continued the warning that there would be mockers: Jude 1:17
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told
you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after
their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate
themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved,
building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Ghost.
So,
the world sees folks who believe in the Bible and the message of
salvation it brings as cultists, let it be. Christians can live above
and beyond such, because there is a crown awaiting those who live and
die by its precepts (2 Tim. 4:8; Rev. 2:10). That is enough for us to
“…earnestly contend for the faith” (Jude 3). May God help us
stand.