FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Volume 10 29 June 2008 Issue No. 18
Service Arrangements
COMMUNION FOR JUNE 2008
SOUTH SIDE
NORTH SIDE
AM
Wayne Pickrel Weldon Miller
Doug Abbey Jon McCain
Jody Sparks Cody Sparks
PM
Ron Traughber Tim Jones
ANNOUNCEMENTS …...…...…..…. Not Furnished
SONG LEADER (AM…….........……...... Hal Roper
(PM) ……….............… Hal Roper
Wednesday Nite ……........ Wade Miller
PRAYERS —– Sunday
AM First Prayer …...…............... Glenn Parham
AM Closing………..................……...Doug Abbey
PM First Prayer……................... Wayne Pickrel
PM Closing………..…..................Ronnie Stewart
PRAYERS — Wednesday Nite
First Prayer………….…................ Fred Harkrider
Closing……………….....…................. Jon McCain
And now for … FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
SYBSNET (Summer Youth Bible Series of Northeast Texas) meets Monday evening (June 30) at Atlanta, Texas with Joey Davis teaching. If you wish to carpool meet here at the building about 5:50 PM.
Gene and Lawanta Garner were able to be out Wednesday evening. It was good to see Lawanta, and Gene.
Patsy Duncan went to Tyler Thursday for treatment on her back. At the printing of this bulletin Grady reported “she is able to take nourishment.” and today (after the shot) she received in her back she is feeling much better. Patsy is in hopes the procedure will last for a while.
At the printing of this bulletin Julia Terrell was still in Titus Regional Medical Center, Room 432, for treatment after having fallen at home a couple of weeks ago.
Update on Pat McIntosh’s dad … the tumor in his colon was removed and tests show it was benign. That is good news. However, he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's and is now getting treatment for that. Pat’s wife, Cheryl, stated Pat has been experiencing some hip problems and is scheduled to see a doctor soon to see if he can get some relief from his problem.
Remember the following for this afternoon:
Wedding Shower For Laura Jordan and Jacques Glover
Sunday, June 29
2 to 4 PM
Multi-Purpose Room
North Jefferson church of Christ
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AND please remember; Baby Shower For Keely & Daniel McCary
Sunday, July 13th
Beginning at 2;00 PM
In the Multi-Purpose Room
North Jefferson church of Christ
PRAYER LIST:
Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Doris Bell, Louis & Nona Bell, Winell Blackard,
Billye Campbell, Patsy Duncan, Joyce Lee, Georgia Lide, Ben McCain, Julia Terrell, Rebecca Tippitt
ALSO: Wesley DuBose, Betty Newman, Whayln Payne, Don Shuette, Paul Unger
NO VISION
It’s doubtful that all the social ills America faces today can be attributed to any one shortfall. No doubt there are many factors that have brought us here. However, Proverbs 29:18 probably comes as close to an explanation as any. “Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, but happy is he who keeps the law.”
It seems to me that “unrestrained” is a fitting description of what I see every day. Men walk around as if it is open-season to sin … license not required. Homosexuality, pornography, gross immorality, lying, dishonesty and wanton selfishness are everywhere because men don’t feel a need to restrain or bridle evil tendencies.
The proverb reminds us that living without restraints is an effect of living without what is called, “vision.”
But, what is this “vision?”
In my Bible there is a footnote to Proverbs 29:18 which suggests that “vision” can also be translated “revelation.” The vision that restrains the behaviors of men is something that comes from God. It is a revelation, a prophecy. In practical terms, what it’s referring to is the word of God, the Bible.
If the bible was more prominent in America, sin would be far less.
Trusting God
By Floyd Kaiser
[Guest Article from The Southwesterner—Southwest church of Christ—Ada, OK]
The history of humanity as well as the history of a single person, may be described in terms of conflict. All of life is a story of one drive, power or philosophy in opposition to another.
At each one’s beginning, the struggle or conflict is to be born or stay in a mother’s womb. After that, conflicts increase at al exponential rate. For instance, there is the conflict to eat in a world that doesn’t automatically supply food to the mouth. There is the conflict for warmth and shelter, as man has to be protected from the natural elements of the world. (This is one reason, by the way, that evolut5ion is wrong. There is little about nature that is conducive to maintaining human life without the aid of god. Humanity has always needed a Parent.)
In James 4:13-15 it’s written, Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
James is telling me that my spiritual life is the conflict between resting my life on my own resour4ces and plans or resting it on god’s power and will. What God says is, “Leave it to Me. Trust tomorrow to Me.”
Once upon a time a minister sat with a father and mother beside the bed of their little child who was near death. He talked with the parents about life and death and the hope of immortality. Before he offered prayer he asked, “What shall we ask god to do?” There was a moment of silence. Then, the father very simply and trustingly replied, “We would not dare to decide. Leave it to him.”
Leave it to Him!
This story and the response of the father describe how a person of faith enlists oneself to the side of God in Life’s constant procession of conflicts. He surrenders to God. He leaves his tomorrow to Him. He rests in the awareness that God knows best and does what is best.
“C ease striving and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10).
