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July 17, 2011 Bulletin

July 18th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:  Drew Riffe Family,  Travis and Wanda Hobbs
Continuing Requests: Ashley Osman,  Jason Cox,  George Carver
Cancer Patients:  Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Wanda Barker,  Portia McCane
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Donald Lykins,Sr.,  Lance O’Cull,  Malcolm Roe
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays

July 18 – Victoria Sullivan

July 19 – Justin Ginn

July 24 – Donnie Caudill

Reminders

Sunday Night Bible Study @6:30pm

Vacation Bible School – July 20,21,22 – 6:30 to 8:30pm

Socks and Underclothes for Ready Fest – by July 24

Women’ Christian Rally – Quincy Church of Christ – July 23 – 10:00Am to 2:00PM

The Daisy’s Story

Have you heard the story of the daisy? The daisy is just a common flower……..But hold a daisy in your hand……..It seems to glow with love and sunshine ……..May the daisy’s story bring you hope and renewed faith that the Creator, Who loves you, will bring you through every trial……..

“He Loves Me” ……..The Daisy’s Story

Oh, do not pluck the petals from the daisy’s heart of gold, For daisies have a story that from ages past they’ve told.

Although you pull them all apart and ask about true love, There’s One Who formed them with His hand,
the precious Lord above!

Each snow-white petal speaks of Him, the Savior pure and sweet; The heart of gold, His priceless love,
He lays before your feet.

If God made every daisy small with infinite precision, Then He’s the One Whom you can trust
to guide in each decision.

If He can give the gift of life, from seed to growing flower, He’ll give you life, and strength to grow,
through every trying hour.

There is no question of God’s love ….. without a doubt, it’s true ! And every little daisy tells …..
“Take heart! for God loves you!”

Psalm chapter 9, verse 10 in the Bible, tells us:
“Those who know Your Name will trust in YOU, for YOU, Lord, have never forsaken
those who love You.”

It’s How You See It

Author Unknown

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet.  He had a sign which read: “I am blind. Please Help.”  There were only a few coins in the hat.

When a man came walking by, he took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat.  Then he took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on the back.  He put the sign where it was, so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up.  A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.

That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were going.  The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning?  What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.  I wrote: ‘Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.’”

Both signs told people the same thing… that the boy was blind.  But the first sign simply said the boy was blind.  The second sign told people they were extremely fortunate that they were not blind.  Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story:
Be thankful for what you have.
Be creative.  Be innovative.  Think differently and positively.

When life gives you a reason to cry, show life that you have 100 reasons to smile.  Face your past without regret.  Handle your present with confidence.  Prepare for the future without fear.

Keep the faith and drop the fear… just remember God is Near!

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July 10, 2011 Bulletin

July 12th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:
Continuing Requests: Donna Elkins,  Ashley Osman,  Jason Cox,  George Carver
Cancer Patients:  Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Wanda Barker
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Donald Lykins,Sr.,  Lance O’Cull,  Malcolm Roe
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays

July 12 – Melinda Gibbs

July 13 – Dorothy Stafford

Reminders

Sunday Night Bible Study – Book of Acts

Ladies Meeting – Thursday – July 14 – 6:00pm

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22 – 6:30 to 8:30pm

Socks and Underclothes for Ready Fest – by July 24

Women’ Christian Rally – Quincy Church of Christ – July 23 – 10:00am to 2:00pm

No Where To Hide

The time will come when This world will be here no more. When we that are saved,
Go on to yonder shore.

Things here on earth will be different then. Those not prepared, will not have died. They are here and things have changed.
So they look for a place to hide!

The Bible says that things here on earth, We can’t know how bad they’ll be. Folks will run to the mountains,
Crying, “Come on, fall on me!”

But no matter where they run There’s just no place to hide. Oh, how they’ll wish they had
Chosen Heaven as where to abide!

But for them it will be too late! They will never feel the total love Of our Savior’s forgiveness of sin.
Or know the beauty of Heaven above!

Don’t wait and be in that crowd! Now, while there’s time to change, Accept Jesus as Lord and Savior,
So your life He can rearrange!

Your sins He will take and toss them away! The joy you’ll have free from fear! When the time comes for the world to change, Christ our Savior will say, “Come up here!”

Then in that fair city with streets of gold, There will be no more need to hide! For there we’ll be with our loved ones again.
And with Jesus we’ll forever abide!

Just a Little Sin

Many parents are hard pressed to explain to their youth why some music, movies, books, and magazines are not acceptable material for them to bring into the home or to listen to or see.

One parent came up with an original idea that is hard to refute. The father listened to all the reasons his children gave for wanting to see a particular PG movie. It had their favorite actors. Everyone else was seeing it. Even church members said it was great. It was only rated PG because of the suggestion of sex — they never really showed it. The language was pretty good — the Lord’s name was only used in vain three times in the whole movie.

The teens did admit there was a scene where a building and a bunch of people were blown up, but the violence was just the normal stuff. It wasn’t too bad. And, even if there were a few minor things, the special effects were fabulous and the plot was action packed.

However, even with all the justifications the teens made for the PG rating, the father still wouldn’t give in. He didn’t even give his children a satisfactory explanation for saying, “No”, He just said, “No”.

A little later on that evening the father asked his teens if they would like some brownies he had baked. He explained that he’d taken the family’s favorite recipe and added a little something new. The children asked what it was.

The father calmly replied that he had added dog poop. However, he quickly assured them, it was only a little bit. All other ingredients were gourmet quality and he had taken great care to bake the brownies at the precise temperature for the exact time. He was sure the brownies would be superb.

Even with their father’s promise that the brownies were of almost perfect quality, the teens would not take any. The father acted surprised. After all, it was only one small part that was causing them to be so stubborn. He was certain they would hardly notice it.

Still the teens held firm and would not try the brownies.

The father then told his children how the movie they wanted to see was just like the brownies. Our minds are us into believing that just a little bit of evil won’t matter. But, the truth is even a little bit of poop makes the difference between a great treat and something disgusting and totally unacceptable.

The father went on to explain that even though the movie industry would have us believe that most of today’s movies are acceptable fare for adults and youth, they are not.

Now, when this father’s children want to see something that is of questionable material, the father merely asks them if they would like some of his special dog poop brownies.  That closes the subject.

Put the movie you or your kids really want to see to the ultimate test. Would you be comfortable taking Jesus with you?

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July 3, 2011 Bulletin

July 4th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:  David Howard Family,  Jean Kamer,  Wade May Family,  Chuck and Lana McCann
Continuing Requests: Donna Elkins,  Ashley Osman,  Jason Cox,  Steve Fetters,  George Carver,  Courtney Comeaux,  Harry Board,  Joe Mefford
Cancer Patients: Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Wanda Barker
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Donald Lykins,Sr.,  Lance O’Cull,  Malcolm Roe
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays/Anniversary

July 4 – Jeanna Melton

July 6 – Gary Vergne

 

Reminders

Sunday Night Bible Study

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22 – 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Socks and Underclothes for Ready Fest – July 24

 

 

Jesus on the 4th of July

We gather ‘round to celebrate
On Independence Day
Pay homage to our country
As the children run and play.

With barbecues and picnics
And fireworks in the air
The flag we own is proudly flown
To show how much we care.

The stars and stripes spell freedom
She waves upon the breeze
While bursts of colors can be seen
Above the towering trees.

This is all quite wonderful
We revel in delight
But God above in divine love
Has brought this day to light.

With just a stroke of liberty
A touch of His great hand
He gave democracy to us
And helped this country stand.

The stripes upon our stately flag
Were touched by His sweet grace
Each star of white that shines so bright
Reflects His loving face.

So as you turn to face the flag
For battles that were fought
Be filled with pride for those who died
And freedoms that were bought.

But don’t forget to thank the One
That gives the bright display
The reason why we paint the sky
On Independence Day

 

Remembering Independence Day

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

These patriots signed, pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships “blasted” to the bottom of the ocean by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children gone. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.

Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn’t fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought the British imposed government, for the right to govern our own country!

Unfortunately, many Americans take these liberties for granted — but we shouldn’t. Please take a few moments (at least) to remember the price paid for your freedom. Publicly and privately remember the patriots who gave so much, for you and me.

Remember: freedom is never free!

Lets never forget there’s a lot more to the 4th of July holiday than fireworks, picnics, and baseball. At least one day a year, lets show some true patriotism for, this great country, the United States of America.

Help show your appreciation for our freedom and independence, by sharing this messages with as many people as you can.

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June 26, 2011 Bulletin

June 26th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:   Elizabeth Holder Family,  Sharon Poe Family,  Donna Elkins
Continuing Requests: Ashley Osman,  Jason Cox,  Steve Fetters,  George Carver
Cancer Patients: Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, David Howard, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Wanda Barker
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Donald Lykins,Sr.,  Lance O’Cull
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays/Anniversary

June 26 – Russell/Bev Iery

June 27 – Jerry/Mary Love

June 27 – Billy/Jeanna Melton

 

 

Reminders

Youth Group Yard Sale – July 2 – Located at Dr. O’Cull’s Parking Lot

Sunday Night Bible Study – Genesis 45

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm

 

 

Victory In Jesus

Eugene Monroe Bartlett Senior (1885-1941) was born on Christmas Eve of 1885. He dedicated his life to Jesus at an early age. Years later, as a very successful business man, he decided to invest his money into founding the Hartford Music Company and Music Institute. He also became editor of the Herald Song music magazine.

Bartlett’s mission was to publish hymns and teach singers to sight read. He hired instructors to teach voice, piano, piano tuning, rudiments, harmony and stringed instruments. The school attracted many talented artists. Within the first year of business he sold more than 15,000 copies of his hymnbook. He wrote many of the songs himself.

Through this music ministry, Bartlett gave many writers, singers and musicians their first opportunity in Gospel music, including Alfred E. Brumley who wrote I’ll Fly Away and Turn Your Radio On
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Bartlett is considered a founding father of Southern Gospel music, and he was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1979. Throughout his 56 years of life, he composed more than 800 songs, including Everybody Will Be Happy Over There, and Just a Little While to Stay Here. He wrote the words to his last hymn in 1939 – Victory in Jesus.

 

 

Scientist discover proof The Wall of Jericho DID fall!

Wouldn’t it be amazing to witness a miracle of God? Modern scientists have found evidence of a famous miracle that was recorded in the Bible. The ancient city of Jericho was surrounded by a great and mighty wall. The wicked people that lived inside were quite sure that it was impossible to penetrate. But nothing is impossible for God.

Like Indiana Jones, archaeologists are scientists that dig up ancient cities, graves and man-made objects from long ago. Through careful study, archaeologists have discovered that the Bible is extremely accurate. They have dug up the ancient city of Jericho and found that it perfectly matches the eyewitness account given in the biblical book of Joshua.

The Bible reports… Archaeologists discovered…
Jericho had a wall, and was tightly shut up (Joshua 2:15,5; 6:1,20). To escape the city, two spies had to use a rope to get down the wall. Jericho was a real city. It had a high wall and was heavily fortified, at the time when the Israelites entered the country.
Trumpet. Photo copyrighted. Courtesy of Films for Christ. “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets… and the people shouted with a great shout… the wall fell down flat…” (Joshua 6:20). Fallen bricks from Jericho's destructed wall. Photo copyrighted, ABR. Archaeologist Dr. Bryant Wood stands beside piles of bricks from the collapsed city wall that were found in 1997 at the base of the city ruins, proving that “the wall fell beneath itself.”
Wall with dirt embankment. Photo copyrighted. Courtesy of Films for Christ. “…so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city” (Joshua 6:20). A large mound of earth were piled around the city for protection. So, the Bible was right when it said the Israelites had to go “up into the city”.
Rahab and the spies. Illustration Courtesy of Films for Christ. A woman (Rahab) lived in the city wall; her house was part of the wall. She let Israelite spies escape down a rope through her window. Her house was later spared by God when the wall fell. Houses were found, built against a portion of the city wall that did not collapse, verifying the Bible’s account of Rahab’s house that was built against the city wall Joshua 2:15), and that her house was spared (Joshua 2:14-21; 6:22-23).
Photo copyrighted, Eden Communications.The Israelites “burned the whole city and everything in it” (Joshua 6:24). A layer of ash 3-foot thick with burned timbers and debris was found.
The Bible reveals the time of the Israelite conquest of Jericho Photo copyrighted. Courtesy of Films for Christ.and the land of Canaan (I Kings 6:1; Judges 11:26; I Chronicles 6:33-37) at the end of the 15th century B.C. Jericho’s destruction happened at the end of the 15th century B.C., precisely the time when the Bible says it happened.
Photo copyrighted. Courtesy of Films for Christ.This happened at the time of the harvest (Joshua 3:15; 2:6). 

It only took a week for the Israelites to conquer Jericho.

God told them not to take anything from the city.

 Many large jars full of charred grain were found in the destroyed buildings. This is a very rare find since, because of its value, grain was normally taken from a conquered city. The large amount of grain found at Jericho shows that the harvest had just been taken in / the city was surrounded for only a short time (seven days, Joshua 6:15) / the Israelites did not plunder the city (Joshua 6:18).

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June 12, 2011 Bulletin

June 14th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:   Tom Ginn,  Kathy Evans,  Ann Bertram Family
Continuing Requests: Elizabeth Roberts,  Steve Fetters,  Terrie Howard
Cancer Patients: Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, David Howard, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Sharon Poe
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Bill Tom Clark,  Donald Lykins,Sr.,  Lance O’Cull
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays/Anniversary

June 14 – Jenny Wills

June 16 – Scott/Anna Sullivan

June 17 – Rob/Jennifer Sullivan


Reminders

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22 – 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

 

 

Flag Day – June 14

The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America’s birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as ‘Flag Birthday’. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as ‘Flag Birthday’, or ‘Flag Day’.

On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.

Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as ‘Flag Day’, and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag.

Two weeks later on May 8th, the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution unanimously endorsed the action of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames. As a result of the resolution, Dr. Edward Brooks, then Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on June 14, 1893 in Independence Square. School children were assembled, each carrying a small Flag, and patriotic songs were sung and addresses delivered.

In 1894, the governor of New York directed that on June 14 the Flag be displayed on all public buildings. With BJ Cigrand and Leroy Van Horn as the moving spirits, the Illinois organization, known as the American Flag Day Association, was organized for the purpose of promoting the holding of Flag Day exercises. On June 14th, 1894, under the auspices of this association, the first general public school children’s celebration of Flag Day in Chicago was held in Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, with more than 300,000 children participating.

Adults, too, participated in patriotic programs. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, delivered a 1914 Flag Day address in which he repeated words he said the flag had spoken to him that morning: “I am what you make me; nothing more. I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself.”

Inspired by these three decades of state and local celebrations, Flag Day – the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 – was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. While Flag Day was celebrated in various communities for years after Wilson’s proclamation, it was not until August 3rd, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.

 

The Christian Flag

The featured speaker failed to arrive for the Sunday School Rally in a Coney Island Chapel in 1897, and – the Christian flag was born:
Like so many of the great and memorable things of history, a Christian flag was not contemplated or pre-designed. A fortuitous happenstance gave it birth. The Sunday School was holding an old-fashioned Rally Day of the kind which was so much the custom in years past. For this occasion, a favored speaker had been engaged, but for some reason undisclosed did not show up. Superintendent Charles C. Overton, in the emergency, called upon his own gifts of innovation to fill in the time. An American flag lay there across the pulpit. Overton addressed his words to the flag and its symbolism. Then like a flash came the thought, why not also a Christian flag? His impromptu but constructive ad-libbing was to produce a verbal picture of what is today, and for the past one hundred years has been, the Christian flag.

Today the Christian flag is one of the oldest unchanged flags in the world. It was conceived at Brighton Chapel, Coney Island, New York, Sunday, September 26, 1897, and was presented in its present form the following Sunday by its originator. Call it chance, or providence, serendipity, or the plan of God. On that day, the Christian flag was born.

 

We Need God in America Again

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, first Chief Justice John Jay; names synonymous with the spirit of our country: the Founding Fathers of the USA. Over Two Hundred years ago, they shook off the chains of tyranny from Great Britain; by Divine call. Citing 27 biblical violations, they wrote the Declaration of Independence; with liberty and justice for all. But, something happened since Jefferson called the Bible the cornerstone for American liberty, then put in our schools for the light ~ or since “Give me liberty or give me death,” Patrick Henry said, “Our country was founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

We eliminated God from the equation of American Life; thus, eliminating the reason why this nation first began. From beyond the grave, I hear the voices of our founding fathers plead, “You need God in America, again” Of the 55 men who formed the constitution, 52 were active members of their church. Founding fathers (like Noah Webster, who wrote the first dictionary) could literally quote the Bible; chapter and verse. James Madison said, “We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the 10 commandments, with all our heart.”

These men believed that you couldn’t even call yourself an American if you subvert the word of God. In his farewell address, Washington said, “You can’t have national morality apart from religious principle,” and it’s true. ‘Cause, right now, we have nearly 150,000 kids carrying guns through these war zones we call public schools. In the 40′s and 50′s, student problems were chewing gum and talking. In the 90′s, rape and murder are the trend. The only way this nation can even hope to last, this decade, is to put God in America, again.

The only hope for America is Jesus. The only hope for our country is Him; If we repent of our ways, stand firm, and say, “We need God in America, again.” Abe Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the school room, in one generation, will be the philosophy of government in the next.” So, when you eliminate the word of God from the classroom and politics, you eliminate the nation that Word protects. America is now number 1 in teen pregnancy and violent crime; number 1 in illiteracy, drug use, and divorce. Every day, a new holocaust of 5,000 unborn die, while pornography floods our streets like open sewers. America’s dead and dying hand is on the threshold of the church, while the spirit of Sodom and Gomorra vex us all.

When it gets to the point where people would rather come out of the closet than clean it, it’s the sign that the judgment of God is going to fall. If there has ever been a time to rise up, church, it’s now. And as the blood bought saints of the living God proclaim, that it’s time to sound the alarm from the church house to the White House and say, “WE WANT GOD IN AMERICA, AGAIN.” I believe it’s time for America to stand up and proclaim that one nation under God is our demand and send this evil lifestyle back to Satan, where it came from, and let the Word of God revive our dying land! For Jesus Christ is coming back again, in all His glory, and every eye shall see Him on that day.

That’s why a new anointing of Gods power is coming on us, to boldly tell the world … You must be saved, because astrology won’t save you. Your horoscope won’t save you. The Bible says these things are all a farce. If you’re born again, you don’t need to look to the stars for your answers; ’cause you can look to the very one that made those stars. History tells us, time and time again, to live like there is no God makes you a fool. If you want to see kids live right, stop handing out condoms and start handing out the word of God in schools.

The only hope for America is Jesus. The only hope for our country is Him; If we repent of our ways, stand firm, and say, “We need God in America, again.”

 

 

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June 05, 2011 Bulletin

June 5th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:   Mike Vergne Family,  Terrie Howard,  Tammy Cooper
Continuing Requests: Jenny Sullivan
Cancer Patients: Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, David Howard, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Sharon Poe
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Bill Tom Clark,  Malcolm Roe,   Donald Lykins,Sr.,  Lance O’Cull
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Reminders

Sunday Night Bible Study – Genesis 35

Ladies Meeting – 6:00 pm – Thursday, June 9

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22 – 6:30 to 8:30 pm

 

God’s Promises

Our precious Lord never promised us an easy road in life. But He promised He’d be with us to help us face the strife.

He never promised us that we would never suffer grief. But He promised He’d be with us to help provide relief.

He never promised us that we’d never have a broken heart. But He promised to be with us to help ease the aching part.

He never promised us our life would be free of pain. But He promised He’d be with us to help ease our suffering.

He never promised us that our life would be free of stress. But He promised He’d be with us to help put our souls at rest.

He never promised us an abundance of earthly treasures. The ones He promised are up above in unbelievable measures.

God will never break His promises, on that we can depend. The most important promise was the Son He sent.

By trusting all His promises and by trusting in His only Son, We’ll overcome our earthly perils for the battle we have won.

 

In God’s Time

God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs:

  • the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days
  • those of the canary in 14 days
  • those of the barnyard hen in 21 days
  • The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days
  • those of the mallard in 35 days
  • The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days

(Notice, they are all divisible by seven)

 

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.

 

God’s wisdom is seen in the making of an Elephant, the Horse & the Cow:

  • Elephant – The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.
  • Horse – The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first.
  • Cow – The cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!

 

God’s wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains:

 

  • Each watermelon has an even number of strips on the rind.
  • Each orange has an even number of segments.
  • Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
  • Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
  • Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.
  • The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.
  • All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and a hundredfold – all even numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day, so that Linneus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

 

Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is entrusted to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and plans, and will be fragrant with His presence.

 

Only the God-planned life is successful.

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May 29, 2011 Bulletin

May 29th, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests:   Paul Hampton,  Tyler Cropper and Mother,  The Parson family
Continuing Requests: Lance O’Cull,  Shannon Gilbert,  Jenny Applegate,  Jessica Pugh
Cancer Patients: Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, David Howard, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Sharon Poe
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Bill Tom Clark,  Malcolm Roe,   Donald Lykins,Jr.,  Otha Goodwin
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays

May 29 – Carmaleta Miller

May 31 – Ryan Wolfe

 

Reminders

Sunday Night Bible Study – Genesis 35

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22 – 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

 

Congratulations to Jeanna and Billy


Baby Girl

Emily Rae

7 lbs. 20 1/4 inches

May 26 – 8:05am

 

The Price of Freedom

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”~ Bejamin Franklin

Our forefathers knew perilous times
of spilt blood on the sod,
They battled to preserve the creed:
one nation under God. 

Since then the bold and brave have fought
on land and sky and sea,
courageous, valiant heroes died
to keep this country free.

For freedom is a priceless thing,
a gift beyond compare ~
A privilege immeasurable,
maintained by fervent prayer.

Americans, take heed
to what our forefathers held fast:
Unless our faith be firm in God
this nation shall not last.

~ Connie ~

 

Stop To Salute On Memorial Day

EAGLE BASE, Bosnia and Herzegovina — It was raining “cats and dogs” and I was late for physical training. 

Traffic was backed up at Fort Campbell, Ky., and was moving way too slowly. I was probably going to be late and I was growing more and more impatient.

The pace slowed almost to a standstill as I passed Memorial Grove, the site built to honor the soldiers who died in the Gander airplane crash, the worst redeployment accident in the history of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

Because it was close to Memorial Day, a small American flag had been placed in the ground next to each soldier’s memorial plaque.

My concern at the time, however, was getting past the bottleneck, getting out of the rain and getting to PT on time.

All of a sudden, infuriatingly, just as the traffic was getting started again, the car in front of me stopped.

A soldier, a private of course, jumped out in the pouring rain and ran over toward the grove.

I couldn’t believe it! This knucklehead was holding up everyone for who knows what kind of prank. Horns were honking.

I waited to see the butt-chewing that I wanted him to get for making me late.

He was getting soaked to the skin. His BDUs were plastered to his frame. I watched-as he ran up to one of the memorial plaques, picked up the small American flag that had fallen to the ground in the wind and the rain, and set it upright again.

Then, slowly, he came to attention, saluted, ran back to his car, and drove off.

I’ll never forget that incident. That soldier, whose name I will never know, taught me more about duty, honor, and respect than a hundred books or a thousand lectures.

That simple salute — that single act of honoring his fallen brother and his flag — encapsulated all the Army values in one gesture for me. It said, “I will never forget. I will keep the faith. I will finish the mission. I am an American soldier.”

I thank God for examples like that.

And on this Memorial Day, I will remember all those who paid the ultimate price for my freedom, and one private, soaked to the skin, who honored them.~ Captain John Rasmussen ~




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May 22, 2011 Bulletin

May 22nd, 2011

Prayer Request

New Requests: Granville Little Family,  Ruby Kegley
Continuing Requests: Lance O’Cull,  Shannon Gilbert,  Jenny Applegate,  Jessica Pugh
Cancer Patients: Tammy Doyle, Lanny Cooper,  Earl Cooper, David Howard, Maurice Kennedy, Steve Harris,  Sharon Poe
Elderly and Shut Ins: Maxine Soards, Carrie Edington, Helen Dixon, Ina Hurst, Leland Roberts, Sammy Ginn, Gardena Ginn,  Flora Wells, Charles Riley,  Bill Tom Clark,  Malcolm Roe,  Marcella Hamm,  Donald Lykins,Jr.,  Otha Goodwin
Our Troops, Unspoken Needs, Missionaries, the “Lost”, the Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually Troubled”

Birthdays

May 26 – Anna Sullivan

May 27 – Bobby Gibbs

May 29 – Carmaleta Miller

 

Reminders

Vacation Bible School – July 20, 21, 22  – Time 6:30pm to 8:30pm

 

Congratulations To Melinda and Bobby Gibbs

They were married May 21, 2011

 

 


Comparison of the Old and New Testament

Old Testament 

(Begins)

 New Testament 

(Ends)
In a Garden In a Garden
First Creation A “New” Creation
Paradise – Lost Paradise – Restored
Promise of a Redeemer Redemption Perfected
Tree of Life – Fruit NOT to be Eaten Tree of Life – Fruit to be Eaten
The Devil Victorious The Devil Vanquished
Sorrow, Sin, Sickness “No More Death neither sorrow
Crying, Pain, and nor crying, neither shall there
Death be any pain” Revelation 21:4
Men and Women driven out Men and Women welcomed by God as children

400th Year Anniversary of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible – May, 1611 – May, 2011

1611 – 2011: 400 Years of the King James Bible

The 1611 King James Bible is described as one of the most important publications in history. King James I of England gathered the greatest religious scholars and linguists together for a new Bible translation in order to establish the most accurate and most dignified English translation to date. He appointed 54 scholars to work on the translation, and 47 worked in six groups at three locations for seven years. The 1525 Geneva Bible served as a point of comparison from which some of the 1611 King James Bible text was based.

Upon completion, the King James Bible was printed for the first time in 1611 by by Robert Barker, the king’s printer. The Bible was a large scale 16 inch tall folio Bible. Because of the high cost and value, it was said to be secured to church pulpits with chains.

The 1611 Bible was appointed (or authorized) to be read in churches, which is why it is called the Authorized Version. The printing continued for the next year until most churches had a copy.

 

Interesting Bible Facts

  • About 50 Bibles are sold every minute.
  • Christianity is the world’s most widespread religion – and continuing to grow
  • The Bible was written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek
  • The 12 disciples were not were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.
  • Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, and lions 55 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned at all.
  • The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book.
  • The oldest almost-complete manuscript of the Bible still existing is the Codex Vaticanus, dating from the first half of the 4th century, now held in the Vatican library.
  • The word “Christian” appears only three times in the Bible: Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16.
  • The word “Lord” appears 1855 times in the Bible.
  • The word “God” appears in every book except Esther and Song of Solomon.
  • The word “grandmother” appears in the Bible only once: 2 Timothy 1:5.
  • The word “eternity” is mentioned only once: Isaiah 57:15.
  • Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.

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