Where
were you?
Sunday
Morning Class: 13
AM
Sermon: 20
PM
Sermon: 13
Wednesday
Evening Class: 18
Prayer
List
We
need to keep Kathy Hill in our prayers.
Patrice
Counts is having problems with her knee.
Dale
Counts is recovering from surgery. He will have another surgery once
he has healed from this one.
A
friend of Kerry and Carla King Brian Scott is recovering from burns.
Robert
Embry’s cousin Paul Deaugherty is recovering from a house wall
falling on him. His sister is in the hospital with the flu.
Floyce
Hunter scheduled to have surgery Feb. 6th.
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…
Evening
Services for Feb. 11 have been canceled. Kerry King will be
preaching at Howe that night 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 will Sunday Feb. 18th
after evening services. All Men are invited and encouraged to
attend.
February
11 Prayers: Morning: Don Harrington – Robert Courtney
Scriptures:
Robert Embry
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One Code of Morality
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Dave
Miller, Ph.D. |
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The social turbulence of the
1960s created a revolution in societal mores among the baby boomer
generation. The stated philosophy of “do your own thing”
literally has “gone to seed” in American society. The result is
that many Americans live their lives and make their day-to-day moral
decisions on the basis of a hodge-podge of values drawn from a
variety of sources. Situation ethics is the order of the day, and the
average person simply acts on his feelings and personal opinions.
Morality is now individualistic—with each person formulating his
own belief system and then measuring his behavior against that
subjective, personal, moral framework. Concomitant with the
development of this circumstance is the corresponding sentiment that
no one should “judge” anyone else’s beliefs or actions, and
everyone should be “tolerant” of the diversity of viewpoints that
permeate society. When such a state of affairs holds sway, one should
not be surprised to encounter jurors who are lenient with a woman who
murdered her husband in cold blood. One should not be surprised when
millions of law-breaking, illegal immigrants are tolerated and even
excused. One should not be surprised that repeat offenders who rape,
maim, and murder are allowed to circumvent the criminal justice
system and perpetuate their atrocities on innocent citizens.
The
Founding Fathers of the American Republic would be deeply saddened to
see the extent to which our civilization has slumped from its
original high moral ground. In a letter from Paris dated August 28,
1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison: “I know but one code
of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively” (1789).
He was simply expressing the widespread view of the Founders as well
as the populace of the United States at the time. Indeed, he merely
articulated biblical reality, in which moral value, good, and evil,
are defined by the Creator in His Word, the Bible. By that Word and
by that standard, every human being’s life will one day be
measured. In the words of Jesus Christ: “He who rejects Me, and
does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that
I have spoken will judge him in the last day” (John 12:48). Indeed,
the day is coming when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with
His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do
not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when
He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be
admired among all those who believe (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10).