Tom Bean church of Christ
July 26, 2020
209 South Brown Street
Tom Bean, Tx 75489
Phone: (903) 546-6620
Email: tombeancoc@gmail.com
Website: tombeancoc.com
ELDERS DEACONS PREACHER
Charlie Counts Greg Counts Kerry King
Kerry King
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday
Bible Study 9:00 AM
Worship 10:00AM
Worship 6:00 PM
Wednesday
Bible Study 7:00 PM
MONTH
July
ANOUNCEMENTS
Robert Embry
SERVING THE LORD’S SUPPER
Walter McMillen Jerry Harris
PRAYERS TODAY
MORNING EVENING
Jerry Harris Robert Embry
AC Quinn Don Hickerson
SCRIPTURE READING
Robert Embry
PRAYER LIST
Greg Counts is still having trouble with his blood pressure, he has some blockage
in his heart but doctors are treating with medicine.
Joy Fowler has been receiving more treatment. She is doing better.
Lovoe Harber (Charlie’s sister) is getting better. She will be re-evaluated in a few weeks.
Beryl Miller has been having trouble with swelling in her ankles and feet. She is doing some better.
Gordy & Glonda Hicks (friends of Charlie & Helen) have requested our prayers.
They live in Alabama. Gordy is in the last stages of cancer and has pneumonia and the Corona Virus. He is in the hospital in Huntsville. Their daughter, Pam, also is in the hospital with the Corona Virus and his granddaughter, Courtney has the virus, also, but is at home. Courtney’s son Brantlee, who has autism, is being cared for by a family member.
Remember in Daily Prayer:
Cancer: Kathy Hill, Elaine Yniguez, Betty Clark, Lucus Drews, Brayden Counts, Ruth Stone (Greg’s bosses’ wife), Sue Pray, Jesse Farrer (Tom Bean schoolboard president), Sharon Ditto (friend of Jan), Mary Estep.
Macular Degeneration: AC Quinn, Beryl Miller
Others: Florene Griffin (back & hip), Beverly Roberts (MS), Norma Garza, Carmen Loftice, Dannie Baker (severe allergies), Steve Dupuis (heart, AC’s son in law), Bill Davis (stroke), Walter McMillen (TIA), June Witaker (mini strokes), Darril Slone (Mysathenia Gravis), Brenda Loftice (eye surgery).
Remember in Daily Prayer:
Cancer: Kathy Hill, Elaine Yniguez, Betty Clark, Lucus Drews, Brayden Counts, Ruth Stone (Greg’s bosses’ wife), Sue Pray, Jesse Farrer (Tom Bean schoolboard president), Sharon Ditto (friend of Jan), Mary Estep.
Macular Degeneration: AC Quinn, Beryl Miller
Others: Florene Griffin (back & hip), Beverly Roberts (MS), Norma Garza, Carmen Loftice, Dannie Baker (severe allergies), Steve Dupuis (heart, AC’s son in law), Bill Davis (stroke), Walter McMillen (TIA), June Witaker (mini strokes), Darril Slone (Mysathenia Gravis), Brenda Loftice (eye surgery).
Serving Our Country:
Cody Blomstedt (Korea), Kirklynn Hance, Kirk Johnson (Kuwait)
Tyler Davies has been deployed to South Africa,
Jesse Thetford (deployed to Afghanistan).
Serving Our Country:
Cody Blomstedt (Korea), Kirklynn Hance, Kirk Johnson (Kuwait)
Tyler Davies has been deployed to South Africa,
Jesse Thetford (deployed to Afghanistan).
Police & First Responders, Medical Staff & Doctors:
Travis Counts, Dalton Griffin, Chelsie Serrano
Men Serving Next Week July 26, 2020
Prayers:
Morning: Jerry Harris – AC Quinn
Evening: Robert Embry – Don Hickerson
Pantry Item: Canned vegetables.
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.”
(James 5:16)
TIME TO IMPROVE
By Tom Moore
“For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I la-bored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Cor. 15:9-10).
Deep within us there seems to be a need to make progress. We appear to have a basic, built-in drive to get to higher and higher levels of quality — and we are un-happiest when our lives have come to a standstill. The word “frustrated” means
that we have stopped, we have been blocked in our effort to move toward something that’s important to us. The things that frustrate us are often obstacles of our own making, but even so, frustrated people are unhappy people. When we are
not getting better and doing better, we don’t like being a human being.
From the standpoint of spiritual realities, sin is obviously the root of the problem. It is the fundamental explanation for both our failure to grow as we need to and the feeling of frustration that inevitably follows. When all has been said and done, it is God our Creator to-ward whom we must move and in whom we must grow. Apart from a right relationship with Him, no progress we can make will mean any-thing in the end. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psa. 127:1).
Yet even when we acknowledge the primary role God must play in our progress, we some-times still don’t move ahead. We fail to see the need on our part to take the spiritual steps we could take and to make the progress that is available to us each day. We can’t, in this life, be perfect. But we can make progress. We can improve. We can make each day better than the last. We can make the conscious decision to upgrade something about our character and conduct every day. We can reach forward. We can determine that the grace God has shown us will not have been in vain.
One way to understand the corruption by which sin destroys the human spirit is to think of it as a “stagnation.” When we cease to move to-ward God, we stagnate. When we are not improving and making progress, we decay into a motionless death. To be delivered from this stagnation means that we are given God’s help to get up and get going again — toward Him.
Remember, “Holiness is not the end of progress, but deliverance from standing still
Deep within us there seems to be a need to make progress. We appear to have a basic, built-in drive to get to higher and higher levels of quality — and we are un-happiest when our lives have come to a standstill. The word “frustrated” means
that we have stopped, we have been blocked in our effort to move toward something that’s important to us. The things that frustrate us are often obstacles of our own making, but even so, frustrated people are unhappy people. When we are
not getting better and doing better, we don’t like being a human being.
From the standpoint of spiritual realities, sin is obviously the root of the problem. It is the fundamental explanation for both our failure to grow as we need to and the feeling of frustration that inevitably follows. When all has been said and done, it is God our Creator to-ward whom we must move and in whom we must grow. Apart from a right relationship with Him, no progress we can make will mean any-thing in the end. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psa. 127:1).
Yet even when we acknowledge the primary role God must play in our progress, we some-times still don’t move ahead. We fail to see the need on our part to take the spiritual steps we could take and to make the progress that is available to us each day. We can’t, in this life, be perfect. But we can make progress. We can improve. We can make each day better than the last. We can make the conscious decision to upgrade something about our character and conduct every day. We can reach forward. We can determine that the grace God has shown us will not have been in vain.
One way to understand the corruption by which sin destroys the human spirit is to think of it as a “stagnation.” When we cease to move to-ward God, we stagnate. When we are not improving and making progress, we decay into a motionless death. To be delivered from this stagnation means that we are given God’s help to get up and get going again — toward Him.
Remember, “Holiness is not the end of progress, but deliverance from standing still
Men Serving Next Month – August
Announcements & Scripture Reading – Kerry King
Lord’s Supper – Robert Embry, Greg Counts