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Family News and Notes

World Bible School Action News is received periodically by Grady & Patsy Duncan who wish to share the news with you. Please check the round table in the foyer for the updates.

Clarksville Bible Quiz is scheduled for Tuesday evening November 02, 2004. Topic will be from Zechariah Chapters 8 thru 10 from the KJV of the Bible. Everyone is invited to go and participate.

Young People "Amazing Race" November 13th from 4PM to 6PM with a meal and fellowship to follow, at the building. There is a Sign-up Sheet in the foyer for all young people who want to participate. Pre-School High School.

David McCain and family are away this weekend at a Youth Rally on Saturday and Family Day on Sunday with the Chalmette Congregation in New Orleans, LA.

We need to remember the following in our prayers:

Narci Cooper' is now scheduled for surgery to correct her condition on Friday, October 29 at Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler.

Johnny Barrett is scheduled for surgery here at Titus Regional Medical Center on Tuesday morning, October 26.

Edith Shiflet is in Titus Regional Medical Center, Room 325.

Marie Holloway of Odessa (sister of Nelda Dunn and Elna O'Neal) is not doing well following her heart attack. Nelda is still with her in Odessa.

Perry Cooper was admitted Thursday to the VA Hospital in Shreveport, LA for tests. He will be there for 3-4 days and should be able to come home early this week and will be able to take his REHAB at Titus Regional Medical Center. His phone number at the VA Hospital is:

1-800-863-7441 Ext. 3610

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PRAYER LIST

Justin Barker, Louis Bell, Annah Brown, Sue Browning,

Josephine Cooper, Perry Cooper, Zenith Hargrove, Bonnye Horton, Howard Horton, Ruby Lawhon, Winnie Patton, Dorothy Sargent,

Alva Mae Sheets, Edith Shiflet, Ola Mae Simpson

ALSO: James & Marie Butler, Tom Dooley, Wesley DuBose, Marie Holloway, Lavon McClish, Patricia McCracken, Kelsey Meyers, Lynn Parker & his family, Lois DeWahl, Joan Williams

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A FOOL IN GOD'S SIGHT

I am sure most of us are aware of the prohibition Christ placed on the use of the word "fool" as a label of disdain for our brethren (Mt. 5:22). Certainly, a part of His reasoning in prohibiting such language, must have been because of our inability to fairly and accurately judge another human being's intellect, motives, and intentions (Mt. 7:1).

In regard to the Lord's prohibition of using the appellative "fool" to describe a brother, someone once asked me, "Why is it that God calls some men fools, when His Word prohibits us from doing so?" I think the answer is obviously that God is capable of fairly and accurately judging the thoughts and intentions of a man's heart, and therefore knows exactly who is, and who is not, a fool. Since God's Word does refer to certain types of people as fools, perhaps it would be good for us to note these categories of foolishness, so we might avoid being thought a fool by God.

First, there is the atheistic fool. In Psalms 14:1 we read, "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God." What a tragedy that many in our world today, through their agnosticism, skepticism, or atheism, display their foolish ignorance of the great reality that God was, and is, and is to come. Because of their refusal to acknowledge God, they place themselves in a most pitiful category, because in judgement they will willingly confess Him (Rms. 14:11-12)), but by then it will be everlastingly too late.

Another category of foolishness, which God disdains, is the egotistical fool. One example of this kind of foolishness is to be found in the man identified as the rich fool, in Luke 12:15-20. Because this man thought he could fend for himself and satisfy his soul with material possessions, he left God out of his planning. He thought he had a perpetual lease on life, but God thought otherwise, and counted him a fool for his lack of spiritual preparedness. Another example of the egotistical fool is found in those people mentioned in Romans 1:21-22, who would not listen to God. Proud and vain because of their worldly wisdom, they supposed themselves to have surpassed their need for God. Because of this, God gave them up and marked them as fools (vss. 22-23).

One last category of foolishness, which is noted by God in the Scriptures, is the disobedient fool, mentioned in Matthew 7:21-27. Familiar to us as the story of the wise and foolish builders, Jesus here divides humanity into two classes: those who are wise enough to hear and obey His will for our lives, and those who are so foolish as to hear His will, but refuse to obey it. Those who refuse to heed the Lord's commands are counted as fools because they fail to build upon the only solid foundation for eternity, which is, of course, Jesus the Christ (I Cor. 3:11).

God calls all of these folks fools. What does He call you? When it comes your time to quit the walks of this life, what would be better: to be thought a fool by God, or to be thought a fool for Christ's sake by the world? Paul thought the latter would be a nobler end (I Cor. 4:10). What do you think? More importantly, what does God think about you? David McCain

Please Remember To Lovingly Greet All Of Our Visitors!

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DEVIL'S BEATITUDES

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend even one hour a week with their fellow Christians they are my best workers.

Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expect to be thanked I can use them.

Blessed are the touchy who stop going to church they are my missionaries.

Blessed are the troublemakersthey shall be called my children.

Blessed are the complainers I'm all ears to them.

Blessed are those who are bored with the minister's mannerisms and mistakes for they get nothing out of his sermons.

Blessed is the church member who expects to be invited to his own church for he is part of the problem instead of the solution.

Blessed are those who gossip for they cause strife which pleases me.

Blessed are those who are easily offended for they will soon get angry and quit.

Blessed are those who do not give their offering to carry on God's work for they are my helpers.

Blessed is he who professes to love God but hates his brother and sister for he shall be with me forever.

Blessed are those who compromise God's word for they will spend eternity with me.

Blessed are those who make excuses for their sins for they obey me.

Blessed are you who, when you read this, think it is about other people and not yourself for I've got you too!

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IN CHRIST WE HAVE ..

.. A love that can never be fathomed.

.. A life that can never die.

..A righteousness that can never be tarnished.

.. A peace that can never be understood.

.....A rest that can never be disturbed.

..A joy that can never be diminished.

.....A hope that can never be disappointed.

..A glory that can never be clouded.

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" Romans 8:32

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