FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Volume 10 18 JANUARY 2009 Issue No. 47
Service Arrangements
COMMUNION FOR JANUARY 2009
SOUTH SIDE NORTH SIDE
AM
Bob Hedges
Gene Campbell
David Neal Roger Grimes
Sid Charlton Daniel McCary
PM
Grady Duncan Darrell Cooper
ANNOUNCEMENTS ……………...… Weldon Miller
(Sunday and Wednesday)
SONG LEADER (AM)……………. Randy Eubanks
(PM) …………… Randy Eubanks
Wednesday Nite ….......….. Grady Duncan
PRAYERS —– Sunday
AM First Prayer …….................… Charles Kyle
Closing………….......… Bronson Roper
PM First Prayer………....…............... David Neal
Closing………..…...... Frankie Sargent
PRAYERS — Wednesday Nite
First Prayer…………..............….. Jerry Freeman
Closing………….................… Rhodney Freeman
PRAYER LIST:
Betty Abbey, Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Louis & Nona Bell, Doris Bell, Billye Campbell, Suzanne Charlton, Steele Cooper, Irene Duncan, Amber Kimbrough, Wade Miller, Elna O’Neal, Thelma Reed, Bud Roach
ALSO: Beth Adams, Roy Coats, Wesley DuBose., Wayne Lineberger, Ben McCain, Yvonne Waldrup, Charlie Whitney, Linda Wysinger
Bob Hedges will be our speaker for this morning.
Tonite we resume the film strips entitled “Behold the Lamb of God.”
Men … remember that the Men’s Business Meeting will be held this evening after services in the Multi-Purpose Room. All the men of the congregation are encouraged to attend as your input is important.
Reminder: Bible Bowl practice this afternoon at 5:00 PM. Bible Bowl will be over Judges 13-15. Study hard and be there for practice.
Rance Armstrong and Hal Roper were installed as deacons last Sunday (January 11, 2008). Welcome these men into these important positions and offer your help to them when needed.
Gene and Lawanta Garner placed membership with our congregation on Sunday, January 04, 2008. please welcome them. Their address is as follows:
Gene & Lawanta Garner
1271 FM 1993
Cookville, Texas 75558
Phone: 903-572-1216
On Wednesday, Charles Kyle felt he was coming down with the flu, but turns out was only a cold bug. He took medication and is now feeling a lot better.
Doris Bell’s cancer has returned and we need to keep her in our prayers.
Margaret Reynolds of the Mount Vernon congregation (sister-in-law of Weldon and JoAnn Miller) passed away last week and her funeral was conducted Friday at 1:30 PM by Harvey Funeral Home in Mount Vernon. Please remember this family in your prayers.
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Sunday, January 24th 2009
Children's Bible Hour
In
The Multi-purpose Room
A special class for children ages 3 thru 10 years old
offered the last Sunday of each month
from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm
BIBLE STUDIES ~ GAMES ~ SKITS & VIDEOS
The Children will be provided lunch.
(We hope this will allow the parents and grandparents
to go out to lunch "alone" while the children involve
themselves in Bible Education and Fellowship)
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More Than Enough to Eat
Mark McWhorter
Bulletin Digest—church of Christ—Pell City, AL
In Matthew 14 we are told about Jesus feeding 5000 men and their wives and children. These people had followed Jesus into a desert area. It was evening and everyone was hungry. Jesus took five loaves of bread and two fishes and fed the entire crowd.
It was a great miracle. With very little food Jesus had been able to feed a very large crowd. In fact, He made so much food that when everyone had eaten all that they wanted to eat, twelve full baskets of leftovers were collected. Jesus had made more food than everyone could eat. Jesus had not just made enough for what he knew the people could eat, He had more than what he knew they could eat.
He does the same with spiritual blessings today (Eph 1:3). He has made available more blessings than we can every use. In Ezekiel 34:26, he calls them “showers of blessings.” We can feed on his blessings continuously and yet never use them up. There will always be more available.
Make sure you know how to take advantage of all of the spiritual blessings God gives us. Read your Bible. Study it. Get the wisdom of god.
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Can A Person Change?
Part 5
Floyd Kaiser
The Southwesterner—Southwest church of Christ—Ada, OK
B y purpose I have written these articles about change to coincide with the New Year. It is about how New Year’s resolutions are formulated with all good intentions of bringing them to fruition. We want to lose weight, pray more, be kinder, write more notes and so on. I have never heard a bad resolution.
However, noble aims are rarely enough. By mid-year, at least, the changes have been tried and reversed. Most of us end up right back where we started.
Change is difficult … but not impossible! God’s invitation to change as found in the bible would be mere foolishness if man were not capable of redirecting his life. But, on the other hand, if change were easy then everyone would be doing it. As it is, only a very, very few people change, even in the most challenging of circumstances.
The first step in this difficult journey to a different life begins by being able to ARTICULATE THE CHANGE one needs to make. In some cases where the change is actually a turning from sin, “confess” might be the more appropriate. James wrote, “confess your sins to one another” (5:16).
In Luke 19, the physician wrote of a tax collector who was vertically challenged and, therefore, had to climb a sycamore tree to see Jesus over the top of the crowd. When Jesus saw him He invited Himself to Zaccheus’s house. Then, when Zaccheus heard the crowd complain about Jesus going to the house of a “sinner,” he said to the Lord, ’ Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much” (verse 8). Talk about articulating change!
Why is this so important?
First, it obligates one to others. Whoever heard Zaccheus had not been so exacting about what he was going to do (give half of his possessions to the poor and four times as much to anyone he defrauded), no one would have known if change had really occurred, not even Zaccheus himself. To have promised Jesus, “I’ll do better,” would not have been enough. To constructively articulate change, it takes more than that. In fact, the more specific, the better.
The Old Fiddle
© By Grady L. Duncan
5/22/03
In the loft of an old barn, as I was browsing around one day;
I happened upon an old fiddle, that someone had stored away.
It was all covered with dust, from years of total neglect.
Its owner no longer cared, so it was forgotten, I would suspect.
Nearby I found an old bow. It was hung up on a rusty nail.
From the looks of them both, they weren’t used in quite a spell.
I tucked it beneath my chin, but I found out very soon,
there was no music within. It was so badly out of tune.
Idleness and gross neglect, had stolen away their beauty,
like the children of our Lord, who have fallen out of duty.
They could be the same again, just like the soul of Man.
All it takes is time, and the care of a Master’s Hand.
No matter what the age, nor where it may be found.
If only He’s given a chance, it will make its beautiful sounds.
If only someone might care, and sees what they must do.
life’s symphony can resume, when the Master’s work is through.
