FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Volume 10 06 July 2008 Issue No. 19
Service Arrangements
COMMUNION FOR JULY 2008
SOUTH SIDE NORTH SIDE
AM
Jim Duncan Gene Campbell
Wade Miller
Daniel McCary
Jimmy Jay Fox Bronson Roper
PM
Frankie Sargent Grady Duncan
ANNOUNCEMENTS …...……..… Grady Duncan
SONG LEADER(AM…………..... Hal Roper
Wednesday Nite …... ??? ??? ???
PRAYERS —– Sunday.
AM First Prayer …..... Rance Robison
AM Closing………..…. Wayne Pickrel
PM First Prayer…..… Grady Duncan
PM Closing……...…. Frankie Sargent
PRAYERS — Wednesday Nite
First Prayer…………….… Jim Duncan
Closing…………..…… Ronnie Stewart
LESSON & INVITATION
Grady Duncan
And now for … FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Bro Dalton Graves of Mount Vernon will be teaching the morning Auditorium Bible Class and preaching this morning and this evening in the absence of David.
TODAY is the Sunday set aside each month as Building Fund Sunday. So, if you are willing and able you may contribute toward retiring the debt on our building. Thanks.
SYBSNET (Summer Youth Bible Series of Northeast Texas) will be Monday evening in DeKalb, Texas beginning at 7:00 PM, with Michael Gilbert teaching. The topic will be “Principle of Evasion.” This continues our on-going series of “Learning How to Choose What’s Right In a World Gone Wrong.” Attendance at the first five (5) gatherings has been outstanding with the following crowds: 196, 154, 174, 199 & 154. Attendance varies due to Bible Camp sessions and VBS meetings, but every session has been outstanding and a thrilling uplift to young and old alike as we study God’s Word together to bring glory to honor to Him.
Indian Creek Youth Camp (ICYC) News: Bronson Roper won the Best New Rookie Camper Award at ICYC. Bronson also responded to the Lord’s invitation at one of the services at camp to ask for prayers and to rededicate his life to the Lord. We are thankful for Bronson and his love for the Lord, and good influence towards others. Ben McCain was awarded the Mr. ICYC Award while at camp last week. He also won one of the scholarships from Faulkner University that were given by the Faulkner representatives to the boy and girl who the representatives thought would best uphold the principles of Christian living on which the University was founded. Wile Dave and Janice are gone this week on vacation, Ben will be going back for another week of camp at ICYC. Please keep the McCain’s in your prayers while they are traveling.
For those who have not heard … Ercell Duncan, while she and Keith were enroute back home, stopped at a motel in Joplin, MO for the night. As they were preparing to continue the trip home, she fell and broke her hip. They did replacement surgery and it was reported that all went well, but they will have to stay in Joplin for a few days, maybe five, then they will go home when released from the hospital. Keith has a son that lives about 25 miles from the hospital so Keith will have a place to stay while Ercel is ready to go home. Ercell’s address is:
Ercell Fetters
626 South Avenue
Clairton, Iowa 50049
If you wish to send cards.
Alice O’Neal (George’s mom) passed away on Thursday in Houston. Her funeral will be at 1:00 p.m. Monday in Commerce, TX conducted by Jones-Walker Funeral Home. Visitation will be Sunday evening from 3 to 5 p.m.
Judy Freeman has requested that we place Mr. & Mrs. Cook of Sulphur Springs on our prayer list (parents of Leslie Cook, a friend and co-worker of Judy and Janaan Parker), who were hit by and eighteen wheeler while on the way to Branson, MO.
Please pray for Lacy Farmer (Pam’s daughter). Her weight has dropped to a critical stage because of her problems with diabetes. She is at Baylor hospital and has had a feeding tube put in. Pam and the rest of her family are very worried and need our prayers.
Billie Miller (Aunt of Tina Brown) passed away last week and her funeral was at 2:00 PM Saturday. Please remember Tina and the rest of the family in your prayers.
THANK YOU … “To the Called Out of North Jefferson: Your calls, cards, visits and especially your prayers after my recent accident have been and continue to be greatly appreciated. I have no doubt these prayers have been heard and answered. The doctors, nurses and therapists continue to be amazed by my rapid recovery and healing. When asked about this uncommon healing process, I tell these people about a Great Physician that overlooks and cares for His people. Your concerns continue to uplift, encourage and edify me daily. Thank you again for everything.
PRAYER LIST:
Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Doris Bell, Louis & Nona Bell, Winell Blackard, Billye Campbell, Patsy Duncan, Joyce Lee, Georgia Lide, Ben McCain, Rebecca Tippitt
ALSO: Wesley DuBose, Ercel Duncan, Dana Morton, Betty Newman, Whayln Payne, Don Shuette, Paul Unger
Guilt
—Floyd Kaiser
[Guest Article from The Southwesterner—Southwest church of Christ—Ada, OK]
We shall know by this that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before Him, in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
1 John 3:19-20
One frequent theme of counseling is guilt. It is a predictable symptom of depression, not an occasional tinge but a pervasive, morning to night gnawing at one’s conscience.
Guilt can be devastating. It can rob one of peace, sleep and healthy relationships. It fills one with self-doubt for the present and gloom for tomorrow. It leads one to dismiss any compliment and act of kindness from another as insincere. It brings into question God’s grace and rejects the possibility of salvation.
A definition of guilt found in Webster’s New World Dictionary is, “a feeling of self-reproach from believing that one has done a wrong.” clearly, it says that guilt is a feeling, an emotion. In most cases one would correctly observe that it results from committing a violation of the law of god.
However, Webster’s definition rightfully goes farther by saying that it is a feeling “from BELIEVING one has done a wrong.” It is not just about doing wrong, but more importantly it is about a BELIEF of wrongdoing. Bid difference!
You see, it’s easy for a person to experience certain emotions from what they believe to be their immediate situation rather than what it is in reality. For instance, the one who has been the victim of a car wreck might feel extreme anxiety the first time in a car after the accident, even without any rational indication of imminent ganger. Why? Because the belief that there is going to be another accident is so strong. Our emotions are as tightly tied to our BELIEFS of danger as they are any REALITIES of our immediate situation.
Guilt is like this; it is very much tied to belief. The stabbing pain in the conscience might not be the result of a real violation of the law of God. A father might hold himself responsible for a child who goes awry when, in reality, he did the best he could. A wife might blame herself for a divorce when, thought not perfect, she did as well as she know how. Sometimes a grown woman might feel extreme self-reproach because of what she was manipulated into doing as a child. She might feel guilt for an abuse that wasn’t her fault at all.
Regarding the text, John encouraged that one who struggles with self-inflicting guilt when he writes, “God is greater than the heart and knows all things.” Thank God! No man will be judged lost because of unjustified guilt. Everyone will e judged by a God who knows! Therefore, if we sin, we need to repent. However, if we have not sinned but feel like we have, we need to accept the reality that our guilt is groundless and God’s mercy is so much greater than a our self-inflicted pain.
