January 9, 2022

209 South Brown Street

Tom Bean, Tx 75489

Phone: (903) 546-6620

Email: tombeancoc@gmail.com

Website: tombeancoc.com

MONTH

January

ANOUNCEMENTS

Kerry King

 

SERVING THE LORD’S SUPPER

                             Greg Counts              Kerry King              

                

PRAYERS TODAY

            MORNING                                                   EVENING

Charlie Counts                                           AC Quinn

            Walter McMillen                                         Don Hickerson

 

SCRIPTURE READING

Kerry King


PRAYER LIST

Don Baker – is recovering from heart surgery at home.  He is doing better.

Frank Roden’s son and grandson had tested positive for Covid, but are now doing better.

Brenda Williams (AC’s daughter) needs to have to have a pacemaker installed but will have to be weaned off of heart meds before that can happen..

James Campbell (Frank’s son-in-law) is having severe back problems. He had a CT scan and is waiting treatment plans.

Barry Petrie (Linda’s son) has kidney cancer and is scheduled for surgery Jan 17th.

AC Quinn will have a nuclear stress test on Jan 6th.

Jerry Harris is having problems with his arthritis.

Jerry Dickison needs our prayers.

 

Remember in Daily Prayer:

Cancer: Frank Roden, Betty Clark, Ruth Stone (Greg’s boss’ wife), Debbie Brown (Jan’s cousin), Sue (Charlie & Helen’s friend).

Macular Degeneration: AC Quinn, Beryl Miller

Others: Charlie Counts, Florene Griffin (back & hip), 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), Lisa Courtney (hole in her lung), Steven Wilkerson (Lexy’s great grandfather) is on Liver Transplant list, Carol Moore, Billy Clinton, Daniel White (Jan’s nephew – seizures).

 

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:  Honey

 

 

Men Serving Next Week Jan 16, 2022

Prayers:

Morning:                                   Jerry Harris – AC Quinn

Evening:                                   Kerry King – Greg Counts


He Is Our God!

It is difficult for us to wrap our minds around the concept of an omniscient God. Because God’s knowledge is perfect, there is no fact so obscure as to be beyond His awareness. This is a far cry from Hollywood’s rendition of God. Some are just not comfortable with attributing to God qualities which are super-human. Even religious people seem bent on taking the punch out of God’s power. Famous scholars have sought to explain away Bible miracles as merely natural events. They say that the ancient Israelites merely crossed over the Red Sea on swampy ground – that the Egyptians were unable to follow in their heavy chariots without getting stuck in the mud. Others have suggested that Jesus did not actually die on the cross, but that He merely passed out under the stress and later revived in the coolness of the tomb. It would be better if such critics would reject the Bible altogether than cast shadows on its reliability. After all, if the Bible teaches falsehood in one area, how can we rely on it in other areas?

God knows all things – past, present, and future. By comparison, we are limited to what we are able to learn from the past and what we can experience in the present. God’s perfect knowledge can be disquieting to the one who prefers to dwell in darkness. But, “There is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Heb. 4:13). We cannot hide from God.

On the other hand, the perfect knowledge of God can be quite reassuring to the one who has placed his or her trust in Him. The God who knows every time a sparrow falls to the ground and can name every star in the heavens is certainly able to watch over His people. He knows our needs better than we and is aware of our requests even before we are able to put them into words. He is the God who created the heavens and the earth. He is the God that we must serve and worship. Because we are limited in resources, we do not understand everything that happens in this life. But, we can trust in the wisdom of our all-knowing God who says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts” (Is. 55:8-9).

He is our God and we must acknowledge and accept Him for who He is without trying to bring Him down to our own level in our thinking. He is the all-knowing, highly exalted, self-existent, eternal King over all things and He is our God!

— Glen Elliott —