Prayer
List
Charlie
Counts’ ankle is continuing to heal.
Monte
Randolph will have PET scan to determine further treatment.
Eddie
Roland, no update on hip surgery.
Rebecca
Van Deren is awaiting a colonoscopy and gallbladder surgery.
Zack
Folkes, from Howe, has started chemo.
Gary
Yowell's wife, Debbie, is home waiting to have gall bladder surgery.
Billy
Joe Wheeler (Mark Bickenbach’s father in law) has requested
prayers.
Kerry’s
Mother received a good report from PET scan.
Gaylon
Pasley has prostrate cancer.
Kathy
Hill (cancer), Don Hickerson (Arterial problems), Nonie Tucker (hip
replacement), Betty Clark (in remission from cancer), Beryl Miller
(macular degeneration).
Serving
in the military:, Josh Van Deren, Kirklynn Hance and Kirk
Johnson in the USA. Cody Blomstedt is in Korea. Tyler Davies
scheduled to go to Dubai.
Fellowship
meal has been postponed until next week June 2 after morning
worship.
Confess
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.
James
5:16 (KJV)
Pantry
Item: liquid laundry detergent - or other non-perishable
items.
Men
Serving Next Week June
2, 2019
Announcements
Don Harrington
Morning
Prayers Jerry Harris Kerry King
Evening
Prayers Don Baker Charles Counts
Scripture
Don
Harrington
Does The Devil Make Us Do It?
By
Mike
Riley
When
Eve succumbed to Satan’s ploy (Genesis
3:1-6),
he played a role in her choices, but she had some faulty thinking
about temptation and sin.
The devil tempts us, but he doesn’t make us sin.
James
tells us that God isn’t to blame either: “Let
no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God
cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone”
(James
1:13).
The
inspired
writer
James answers:
“Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed” (James 1:14).
Just
as a fisherman uses bait to lure his prey, our unchecked desires lead
us to giving in to temptation and sin.
When
we disobey God by sinning (1
John 3:4;
cf. Romans
3:23),
let us not shift the blame or try to justify our actions with any
faulty “the devil made me do it” theology (cf. Exodus
32:19-24).
Instead,
let us take full
responsibility for our actions (2
Samuel 24:10),
confess our sins to a gracious and forgiving Father (1
John 1:9;
cf. Psalm
32:5),
and then pursue godly living again (1
Timothy 4:8;
cf. 1
Timothy 6:1-6).
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Answer
to last weeks question!
What
epistle mentions Tryphena, a faithful church worker? (Romans
16:12)
Trivia
Question What made the seven
hundred men of Benjamin special?