Worship Schedule for 5/2/04
Announce – Brian
Witty
Sing A.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Read – Larry
Powell
Pray – Maurice
Powell
Table – Joey
Ferrell
Jerry
Powell
James
Neeley
Oscar
Parton
Dismiss – Johnny
Powell
Sing P.M. – Larry
Powell
Pray P.M. – Stephen
Powell
* If unable to serve, please call Joey Ferrell @
615-765-7620 or Doris Hibdon @ 931-939-2689.
Wed. Night Schedule for 4/28/04
Sing – Larry Powell
Read – Maurice Powell
Prepare Communion for May
Maurice
Powell
Last Week’s
Attendance -
88
Contribution -
$1094.05
Visit the Shut-ins Today
Oscar
Parton, Jerry Powell
Visit the Shut-ins Next Sunday
Larry
Powell, Maurice Powell
4th Sunday Speakers for April
A.M. – Jerry
Gilley
P.M. – Larry
Powell
Pray for the Sick
Lucille
Grizzle, Doris Powell, Wilma Thomas, Irene Lorance,
Clark
Rains, Pearl Fults, George Whittle, Justin Bowman
Remember the Shut-ins
Alta Jones,
J.D. Lorance, Ona Prater, Dovie Wood,
William
Condra, Pearl Fults, Sarah Mayo,
Alberta
Cook, Clarence Mears
* Those in bold are currently on the visitation route.
Deaths
Ione Nichols, Delter Lee &
Myrtle Sissom Tenpenny
Last Week’s Bible Question
(For the meanings listed
below, supply the proper name as found in the Scripture.)
1.
Sons of thunder
(Boanerges – Mark 3:17)
2.
God with us (Immanuel
– Matt. 1:23)
3.
The place of the skull (Golgotha – Matt. 27:33)
4.
King of peace
(King of Salem – Heb. 7:2)
5.
Teacher
(Rabboni or Rabbi – John 1:38; 20:16)
6.
Son of encouragement (Barnabas – Acts 4:36)
7.
Sorcerer
(Elymas – Acts 13:8)
8.
Little girl
(Talitha – Mark 5:41)
9.
Be opened
(Ephphatha – Mark 7:34)
10.
Sent (Siloam
– John 9:7)
This Week’s Bible Question
Who
said: “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”
Current
Events
Fellowship Meal
Pleasant View Church of
Christ
Sun., April 25th
Immediately following this
morning’s service in the old school building.
Gospel Meeting
Woodbury Church of Christ
Sun., April 25th
– Wed., April 28th
Speaker: Kirk Brothers
Theme: Reviving the Stones
(Nehemiah 4:2)
Sunday Evening Service: 6:00 P.M.
Weeknight Services: 7:00 P.M.
Family and Friends Day
New Hope Church of Christ
Sun., April 25th
Speaker: Kevin Williams
Sunday Evening Service: 6:00 P.M.
Gospel Meeting
East Main Church of Christ
Murfreesboro, TN
Sun., April 25th
– Wed., April 28th
Speaker: James Watkins
Sunday Evening Service: 6:00 P.M.
Weeknight Services: 7:00 P.M.
School of Bible Emphasis
Mt. Leo Church of Christ
McMinnville, TN
Mon., April 26th – 7:00 P.M.
Spiritual Renewal Week
Tennessee Bible College
Cookeville, TN
Wed., April 28th
– Sun., May 2nd
Theme: For Such A Time As This
Schedule is on the bulletin
board in the back and on our website.
Pleasant
View Cemetery Meeting
Sat.,
May 1st - 10:00 A.M. in the old school building.
All Brethren Business Meeting
Sun., May 2nd
Immediately following the evening’s service
in the old school building. All
brethren are invited to attend.
Birthdays
& Anniversaries This Week
(None
to report this week.)
TO WHOM DO WE PRAY?
Gilbert Goins
People pray to Jesus. They pray to the Holy Spirit.
They pray to God the Father. That there is a tremendous amount of confusion
about where to address our prayers is not difficult to observe. Literally
thousands of religious bodies in the United States are teaching different
things about where to address our prayers. We know God is not the author of
confusion (I Cor. 14:33); so therefore, He is not the origin of denominations
and their doctrines. One particular doctrine that has been on the rise is that
a person is saved from sin through “the sinner's prayer.”
Each denomination has a different slant about this,
but one way or another they pray to Jesus to receive forgiveness of sins; by
this they "accept Jesus." His followers asked Jesus, "Lord,
teach us to pray" (Lk. 11:1). He taught that if we ask anything
according to His will, he hears us, answers our petitions (I Jno. 5:14,15).
Only Jesus forgives sins. He came for that purpose (I Tim. 1:15). While walking
the earth, Jesus forgave sins immediately (Mt. 9:1-6). Jesus ascended
into heaven, so now we pray directly to the Father through Christ (Heb. 4:16).
Jesus is our heavenly advocate before the Fathers throne of grace (l Jno.1:8 -
2:2). Now before the throne of grace we approach in the name and by the
authority of Jesus (Col. 3:17; Acts 4:7).
In the mountain sermon, Jesus told the crowd to pray
to the Father in heaven. Prayers are to be directed only to the Father in
heaven through the name of Jesus (Mt. 6:5-15). Again He said, "And
In that day you will ask Me nothing, Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you
ask the Father in My name He will give you" (Jno. 16:23). We do not
pray TO Jesus, nor TO the Holy Spirit, nor BY any authority the Spirit might
possess. We pray TO the Father THROUGH Christ. God gave all authority in heaven
and in earth to Jesus only (Mt. 28:18). That authority is enabled in the all
authoritative words of Jesus. And His Words will be the basis and standard of
judgment on the last day (Jno. 12:48-50). It is at repentance and baptism
one loses his sins by the blood of Jesus, not through prayer. Kindly take
notice to carefully observe Acts 22:16 - "And now why are you
waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of
the Lord."
P.O. Box 375
Hillsboro, TX 76645
Via Bulletin Briefs – January 2004
Crossville Church of Christ
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither
physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love
for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.”
Sydney J. Harris
(1917-1986)
Writer
