Worship Schedule For 8/15/04
Announce – Jerry
Gilley
Sing A.M. – Larry
Powell
Read – Jerry
Powell
Pray – Oscar
Parton
Table – Brady
Bogle
Stephen
Powell
Jeff
Wimberley
Maurice
Powell
Dismiss – Joey
Ferrell
Sing P.M. – Stephen
Powell
Pray P.M. – Larry
Powell
* If unable to serve, please call Joey Ferrell
or Doris Hibdon.
Wed. Night Schedule For 8/11/04
Sing – Brian
Witty
Read –
Larry Powell
Prepare Communion For August
Keith
Bowman
Last Week’s
Attendance -
Contribution -
Visit The Shut-ins Today
Oscar
Parton, Jerry Powell
Visit The Shut-ins Next Sunday
Larry
Powell, Maurice Powell
4th Sunday Speakers For August
A.M. –
Stephen Powell
P.M. –
Brian Witty
Pray For…
…The Sick
Maggie
Wimberley, Alta Jones, Molly Parton, Rodney Caine
…The
Shut-ins
J.D. Lorance, Alta
Jones, Ona Prater, Dovie Wood,
William
Condra, Sarah Mayo, Alberta Cook,
Clarence
Mears, Ailene Morgan
*
Those in BOLD are
currently on the visitation route.
…Those
Serving Our Country
Seth Powell
…The
Families Of Those Bereaving Over The Loses Of
Flakson Alexander Davenport
Last Week’s Bible Question
Q:
For the following strange quotation, name the book, chapter, and verse
where it is found.
“The
mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.”
A:
Psalm 114:4
This Week’s Bible Question
For
the following strange quotation, name the book, chapter, and verse where it is
found.
“All
faces shall gather blackness.”
Current Events
15th Annual
Lectureship
Bybee Branch Church of
Christ
McMinnville, TN
Sun., Aug. 8th –
Wed., Aug. 11th
Theme: Prepare To Meet Thy God
Sunday Speaker: Billy Bland
Monday Speakers: Mark Blackwelder & Chuck
Morris
Tuesday Speakers: Winford Claiborne &
Brandon Britton
Wednesday Speaker: Garland Elkins
Sunday Evening Service: 6:00 P.M.
Weeknight Services: 7:00 P.M. & 7:45 P.M.
Gospel Meeting
Curlee Church of Christ
Sun., Aug. 8th –
Wed., Aug. 11th
Sunday Speaker: Malcolm Hill
Monday Speaker: Kerry Duke
Tuesday Speaker: Paul Wilmoth
Wednesday Speaker: Glenn Ramsey
Services Nightly: 7:00 P.M.
Gospel Meeting
Mount Ararat Church of
Christ
Sun., Aug. 8th –
Wed., Aug. 11th
Speaker: Kenneth Mears
Services Nightly: 7:00 P.M.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
This Week
(No birthdays or
anniversaries to report.)
Flattery
is soft soap, and soft soap in ninety percent lye.
An Amazing Thing!
Two boys grew up together as the closest of
friends. As they grew older, however, they went in different
directions. For years they did not see one another. One day they
met again - in tragic circumstances. One was a CRIMINAL, the other the
JUDGE in a courtroom. The case was heard and the criminal was clearly
guilty....
What could the judge do? Could he DISMISS the
matter because the criminal was his friend? Justice would not permit that
course of action. However, the judge did AN AMAZING THING! He
pronounced the criminal GUILTY! He stated the heavy fine that the
convicted man had to pay - a fine that the judge knew his old friend would not
be able to pay. Then the judge arose from his bench, removed his judicial
robe, stepped down and stood beside his friend and said, "I'll pay the fine
for you." So the judge paid the fine that he himself had imposed,
and the criminal was set free.*
YOU and I are a lot like that criminal! "For
ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans
3:23). We are GUILTY, and we deserve the punishment: "the wages
[heavy fine] of sin is DEATH" (Romans 6:23).
JESUS, the One who will judge ALL mankind on the
last day (Acts 17:30-31), because of His GREAT love for us, temporarily removed
His heavenly "robe" and took for himself a "robe" of human
flesh. He then came and stood in OUR place, and paid the debt of OUR sins with
His own life. "He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the
tree [i.e., the cross], that we, having died to sins, might live for
righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed" (1 Peter 2:24).
Those who accept this incredible gift are set free
from their sins. Jesus pays the debt of those who: place their trust in
Him (Hebrews 11:6), repent of their sins (2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess Him
before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) in His name (Acts
2:38). His payment will CONTINUE to be sufficient for those who CONTINUE
to follow Him (1 John1:7).
"Greater love has NO one than this, than to lay
down one's life for his friends" (John 15:13). Jesus demonstrated THIS LOVE for
you and for me.
How will YOU respond to His AMAZING love?
God bless you!
David A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
Via Living Water; June 10, 2004
* Ben
Ramsbottom (adapted)
If we all daily stand for the Truth and Right,
Peace
of mind if ours when we retire at night.
