Bulletin/Prayer List
October 3, 2021
209 South Brown Street
Tom Bean, Tx 75489
Phone: (903) 546-6620
Email: tombeancoc@gmail.com
Website: tombeancoc.com
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday Tuesday
Bible Study 9:00 AM Ladies
Class 10:00 AM
Worship 10:00AM Wednesday
Worship 6:00 PM Bible Study 7:00 PM
MONTH
October
ANOUNCEMENTS
Kerry
King
SERVING THE LORD’S SUPPER
Kerry King Greg Counts
PRAYERS TODAY
MORNING EVENING
AC Quinn
Greg
Counts
Don Hickerson Jerry
Harris
SCRIPTURE READING
Kerry
King
PRAYER LIST
Don Baker – the dermatologist and foot doctor have both said
Don is clear of infection. Just waiting for his heart surgery to be scheduled.
Greg Counts is now in a hard cast for at least 6 weeks.
Carol Moore (friend of Charlie & Helen) is not doing very
well.
Debbie Brown has developed an abscess in her stomach. She has
a drain tube and is receiving IV antibiotics.
Daniel White (Jan’s nephew) will see a neurologist next week
for his memory loss.
Lavona Clintion broke her hip and had surgery last Monday.
Remember in Daily Prayer:
Cancer: Frank Roden, Betty Clark, Ruth Stone (Greg’s bosses’ wife), Debbie Brown (Jan’s
cousin).
Macular Degeneration:
AC Quinn, Beryl Miller
Others: Florene Griffin (back & hip), Gary
Yowell, Beverly Roberts (MS), Dannie Baker (severe allergies), Steve Dupuis
(heart, AC’s son in law), Jennifer Campbell (Frank’s daughter - MS), Anna Lois
Farris (heart), Skylar Carr, Christina Morris (AC’s granddaughter), Lisa
Courtney (hole in her lung), Steven Wilkerson (Lexy’s great grandfather) is on
Liver Transplant list, Billy Clinton, Sheryl Pasley (friend of Frank)
Sympathy For Lost Loved Ones:
Joe Walker (fried of Frank) passed away
last week.
Serving Our Country:
Cody Blomstedt
(Korea), Kirklynn Hance, Tyler Davies, Jesse Thetford
Police & First Responders, Medical Staff &
Doctors:
Travis
Counts, Dalton Griffin, Chelsie Serrano, Kim Counts
Pantry Item:
Breakfast Cereal
Men Serving Next Week Oct
10, 2021
Prayers:
Morning: Charlie Counts – Walter McMillen
Evening: Don Hickerson
– Greg Counts
God Is Not
to Blame
When
something bad happens, our natural tendency is to look for someone to
blame. Think about children. When something breaks while the
children are playing or someone gets hurt or they get caught doing something
wrong, they always seem to look for someone else to blame. “Billy did it! Darla made me do it! It wasn’t my
fault!” That inclination seems to stay with us, unfortunately,
into adulthood.
However,
too often, as adults, when something bad happens in people’s lives, they look
to blame God. This happens for a variety of reasons: sometimes the pain
is unbearable, sometimes there doesn’t seem to be a reasonable explanation for
the events, sometimes we listen to what others are saying. Let us take a
moment and remember something about our God.
Everything
about our God (read that again: E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G about our God) is
GOOD. That is the essence of His very nature. Throughout the Old
Testament it is repeatedly stated, “The LORD is good”
and “He is good.” David said, “Oh, taste
and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the
man who trusts in Him!” (Psa. 34:8).
When the rich young ruler came to Jesus and called Him, “Good Teacher,” you remember how Jesus
responded. “Why do you call Me good? No one
is good but One, that is, God” (Matt. 19:16-17). Jesus
affirmed for us that the very nature of God is goodness.
This is borne out in how God deals
with man. The commandments that the Lord gives for us to observe and to
follow are “for our good always” (Deut. 6:24; cf. 10:12-13). When it comes to
His children, our “Father who is in heaven” is ready to “give good things to those who ask Him” (Matt. 7:11). For, the reality
is, “Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there
is no variation or shadow of turning” (Jas. 1:17). The special
providence of God for His children ensures that “all things work together
for good” (Rom. 8:28). The very nature
of God is goodness!
So,
when bad things happen, let us not blame God, for He is not to blame! Bad
things do happen to good people—just ask Job. They happen because “time
and chance happen to them all” (Ecc. 9:11). They happen as a
result of choices that we make or choices that others make (Deut. 30:19; Prov. 3:31; 12:26). They happen because
of the evil, deceptive, conniving nature of the devil (2 Cor. 11:3; John 8:44; Gen. 3:1-4), who is seeking to
“devour” us (1 Pet. 5:8).
They happen because our world is full of evil people who lie “under the sway of
the wicked one” (1 John 5:19).
Our
God is good always! Let us give thanks for that!