Prayer
List: August 18, 2019
Don
Baker is still having problems with his back.
Don
Hickerson’s brother is doing some better. He is on medication to
treat his heart.
Brenda
Williams (AC’s daughter) is doing better.
Carmen
Loftice has requested our prayers
Eddie
Roland is having some trouble with infection (sinus and other
places). Doctors are trying to figure out what is needed. He will
have his other hip surgery done and then plan for his shoulder
surgery.
Brayden
Counts (Charlie & Helen’s great grandson) has been moved to St
Judes in Memphis Tennessee. He has begun his treatments to fight the
cancer.
Rebekah
Van Deren is having problems with her enzymes in her pancreas.
Joy
Fowler, Charlie’s sister is responding to treatment and doing some
better.
Remember
in Daily Prayer:
Charlie
Counts (heart), Zack Folkes (cancer), Evette Stewart (COPD),
Kathy
Hill (cancer), Betty Clark (cancer – in remission), Beryl Miller
(macular
degeneration), Jennifer Cox (heart), Lucus Drews (rare cancer),
Florene
Griffin (back & hip)
Serving
Our Country:
Cody
Blumstead (Korea)
Josh
Van Deren, Kirklynn Hance, Kirk Johnson (US)
Tyler
Davies is scheduled to deploy to Dubai.
Pantry
Item: Non-Perishable
Items
Luncheon
is next week August 25th
after morning services
Men
Serving Next Week August 25, 2019
Prayers:
Morning: Robert Embry – Jerry Harris
Evening: Kerry
King – Greg Counts
“No
God — No Potatoes!”
By
Mike Riley
In
the former Soviet Union, peasant farmers often enjoyed telling
humorous stories to lighten their dreary lives. The following is such
a story:
One
day, a government commissar
visited a farmer and inquired about the year’s potato crop. “Oh,
it was wonderful,” the farmer replied slyly. “It was so big, it
reached up to the very foot of God.”
The
commissar’s countenance quickly changed. With a scowl, he said,
“But comrade, this is a communist state and we are atheists. You
must not forget, there is no God!”
“Ah,
that’s my point,” the farmer replied. “No God — no potatoes!”
Yes,
whether we
believe it or not, God is the source of all things (Psalm
136:25). The apostle
Paul once told a pagan audience, “In Him we live and move and
have our being” (Acts 17:28). And in Colossians 1:12-18, Paul gives
emphasis to the great creating and sustaining work
of God in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Without His sustaining power, we couldn’t draw a single breath
(Hebrews 1:1-3).
As
Christians, do we who confess faith in a personal God, to whom we owe
our very existence, respond with thanksgiving, worship, and praise?
If not, we differ little from that commissar who saw no connection
between God and potatoes.