Prayer
List
Charlie
Counts’ has appointment with heart specialist.
Jennifer
Cox has heart valve problems
Kerry
King has cellulitis in legs.
Zack
Folkes, from Howe, has started chemo.
Gaylon
Pasley (Frank’s friend) has prostrate cancer.
Joy
Fowler (Charles sister) has pulled groin and back muscles
Ben
Harrington (pancreatic cyst), Evette Stewart (Robert’s niece) has
COPD., Walter McMillen (traveling), Billy Joe Wheeler (Mark
Bickenbach’s father in law) is in Woodlands, Kathy
Hill (cancer), Don Hickerson (Arterial problems),
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.
Howe
church of Christ is hosting meal for Jerry Foster’s Memorial
Service Saturday June 15th See Note on Bulletin Board or
call Renae Phillips-Goyne at 903-744-3608
Fellowship
meal is today after Morning Worship (June 2). Hope to see
you all there.
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: mustard - or other non-perishable items.
Men
Serving Next Week June
16,
2019
Morning
Prayers Kerry King Don Baker
Evening
Prayers Charles Counts Greg Counts
Scripture
Don
Harrington
Living With What We Have
Jeremy
Hodges
It
is a common refrain that I have heard to saddle all of humanity with
the base and sinful desires that God has told us to avoid, as if they
are an indelible part of our existence. This is a clam is that
“human nature” is always just as bad as the sins that are
committed the most frequently. Because it is common, therefore, it
is referred to as natural.
Part
of this is based in the modern naturalism movement that says we are
all just evolved animals and are motivated by various instincts and
impulses with no real moral compass. Another influence is the
Calvinist doctrine that pervades much of the religious world that
claims that all humans are born with an innate “sin nature” that
is part of the curse of Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden.
In
either case, it is not only an ignorance of the fact that all humans
are not mere animals, and we bear the “image of God” in us
(Genesis 1:26-27; 9:6; James 3:9-10), but it is a patent refusal to
heed the expectations God has communicated in His word (Deuteronomy
6:25; I John 3:23). We must call sin what it always is, and that is
a violation of God’s will, and a failure to live as He has designed
us to live.
One
particular shade of this slander that is is common comes in the form
of making discontentedness and thanklessness natural. “People
always want what they can’t have.” With this aphorism, we not
only undermine the life that God has called people to live, we often
blame God for our failure. Even the sin in the garden was not really
the fault of the first people, because God forbade eating from the
tree, and was thus responsible for their disobedience. Nothing could
be further from the truth.
It
was God who provided “every
tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food” and
told the man, “From
any tree of the garden you may eat freely” with
only one exception. (Genesis 2:9-16) It was not until the influence
of the serpent did either of the people consider disobedience.
(Genesis 3:1-13) Therefore, it was the deceit of Satan that caused
sin, not human nature.
The
repeated direction of scripture is to avoid coveting
(Exodus
20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21; 7:25; Joshua 6:18; 7:21; Micah 2:2; Mark
7:22; Acts 20:33; Romans 7:7-8; 13:9; I Corinthians 5:10-11; 6:10;
Ephesians 5:5), envying
(Proverbs
3:31; 23:17; Romans 1:29; Galatians 5:21, 26; I Timothy 6:4; Titus
3:3; I Peter 2:1), and being greedy
(Numbers
11:4, 34; Psalm 10:3; Proverbs 11:6; Luke 12:15; Ephesians 4:19; 5:3;
Colossians 3:5; II Peter 2:3, 14) so that we do not violate God’s
command, and will.
Let
us instead be thankful for what God has given us in contentedness
(Philippians 4:11; I Timothy 6:6; Hebrews 13:5), including a life
that is above what “people always” do. This is not only
possible, but it is better for us, and provides a graceful way of
living. God knows what is best for His people, and His commands help
us to attain what we all truly need.
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Answer
to last weeks question!
Who
was the wife of Haman of Persia? Zeresh
(Esther 5:10)
Trivia
Question Who were
the first 2 women to here that there husband had killed a man?