Tom Bean church of Christ
January 31
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
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MONTH
January
ANOUNCEMENTS
Kerry King
SERVING THE LORD’S SUPPER
Kerry King Greg Counts
PRAYERS TODAY
MORNING EVENING
AC Quinn Greg Counts
Robert Embry Walter Millen
SCRIPTURE READING
Kerry King
Lucas Drew (friend of Frank) is in Children’s Hospital in Houston, he is having problems with an infection. His grandmother, Regina Netling had brain surgery and is now at home but is having headaches.
Those that have or have had the Covid 19 virus:
Kelly Lusk (Superintendent of Tom Bean) is in Texarkana hospital with Covid. Shirley Smith (Lisa Courtney’s mother) is in TMC with Covid and Pnuemonia.
Gary Gibbs (friend of Frank) has been sent home and is on Hospice.
Kenya Hefner (AC’s niece) is to see a neurologist.
Lavoe Harber has been taken to the hospital with fluid on her lungs.
Ray Hall has had leg surgery to restore circulation in his legs.
Doug & Ruth Walker (Ruby’s sister) – Doug fell and is in a Plano hospital. He has a mass on his kidney, bleeding in the brain and Leukemia.
Remember in Daily Prayer:
Cancer: Lucas Drew, Betty Clark, Ruth Stone (Greg’s bosses’ wife), Jesse Farrer (Tom Bean schoolboard president), Mary Estep.
Macular Degeneration: AC Quinn, Beryl Miller
Others: Florene Griffin (back & hip), Beverly Roberts (MS), Don Baker (back), Dannie Baker (severe allergies), Steve Dupuis (heart, AC’s son in law), Bill Davis (stroke), Bridgett Lee, Jennifer Campbell (Frank’s daughter - MS), Lovoe Harber (Charlie’s sister), Anna Lois Farris (heart).
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Serving Our Country:
Cody Blomstedt (Korea), Kirklynn Hance, Kirk Johnson, Tyler Davies
Jesse Thetford
Police & First Responders, Medical Staff & Doctors:
Travis Counts, Dalton Griffin, Chelsie Serrano, Kim Counts
Men Serving Next Week February 7, 2021
Prayers:
Morning: Jerry Harris – Walter McMillen
Evening: Charlie Counts – Don Hickerson
Men Serving Next Month
Announcement & Scripture Reading – Robert Embry
Lord’s Supper – Jerry Harris, Robert Embry
Serving Our Country:
Cody Blomstedt (Korea), Kirklynn Hance, Kirk Johnson, Tyler Davies
Jesse Thetford
Police & First Responders, Medical Staff & Doctors:
Travis Counts, Dalton Griffin, Chelsie Serrano, Kim Counts
Pantry Item: Paper Towels
Men Serving Next Week February 7, 2021
Prayers:
Morning: Jerry Harris – Walter McMillen
Evening: Charlie Counts – Don Hickerson
Men Serving Next Month
Announcement & Scripture Reading – Robert Embry
Lord’s Supper – Jerry Harris, Robert Embry
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The Lord Your God Is Testing You
By Dan Jenkins
“The Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul” (Deut. 13:3). The most important question is how do I respond to the tests that the Lord sends? If I fail the test, then it makes no difference how fervently I may claim to love the Lord. It makes no difference how deeply I might feel that I love the Lord with all my heart. When I fail the test, God knows that this failure shows I really do not love Him.
What was the test God gave? Read the rest of the chapter, and you will see it involved false teachers and religious leaders who tried to keep men from obeying God. The test is simple. Does my love cause me to obey the Lord or to ignore what He says? “Christians” in America are failing the test!
“Christendom” in our land struggles how to deal with homosexuality. A quick Google search will reveal how many denominations are changing their teachings. Within the last year, the United Methodist Church has a major doctrinal shift and two distinct Methodist groups now exist. Others who have ordained homosexuals as church leaders included the Evangelical Lutheran Church (since 2010), the Presbyterian Church USA (since 2012), the Episcopal Church, the Disciples of Christ, the Reformed Church in America, the Mennonite Church in the USA (2013) and a host of others in our land are struggling in their conventions about what they should teach.
Internationally, the same is true. Ordination of homosexuals is practiced in the Anglican Church of Canada (since 2016); The Anglican Church in New Zealand; the Anglican churches in South Africa, Brazil, Wales, Ireland and South India. The same is true of the Reformed churches in Switzerland; the Protestant Church in the Netherlands; the Church of Sweden; The Danish National Church; the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland; the Church of Iceland and scores of others.
Homosexuality is just one aspect of the fact that mankind, while claiming to deeply love the Lord, has failed God’s testing of their love. The very basis of religious division and denominations is when we are ignoring what God says about a matter and then failing the test. Our world has failed the test of how to worship, baptism, the Lord’s supper, the role of women in the public assemblies and most important of all in teaching what one must do to be saved.
Let me appeal to every member of the Lord’s church. Read Deuteronomy 13, and see that those who are advocating changes in His church are failing the test. If we truly love the Lord, we will realize that God’s tests will confront us to allow us to visually see if our understanding of it means to know the depth of our love for Him. Pray about these matters.