Worship Schedule for 4/4/04
Announce – Brian
Witty
Sing A.M. – Stephen
Powell
Read – Oscar
Parton
Pray – Keith
Bowman
Table – Joey
Ferrell
Larry
Powell
Jerry
Powell
Doris
Hibdon
Dismiss – Maurice
Powell
Sing P.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Pray P.M. – Maurice
Powell
* If unable to serve, please call Joey Ferrell @
615-765-7620 or Doris Hibdon @ 931-939-2689.
Wed. Night Schedule for 3/31/04
Sing – Stephen Powell
Read – Brian Witty
Prepare Communion for April
Doris
Hibdon
Last Week’s
Attendance -
88
Contribution -
$1015.51
Visit the Shut-ins Today
Larry
Powell, Maurice Powell
Visit the Shut-ins Next Sunday
Joey
Ferrell, Jerry Gilley
4th Sunday Speakers for March
A.M. – Stephen
Powell
P.M. – Brian
Witty
Pray for the Sick
Lucille
Grizzle, Ann Parker, Molly Parton, Carlene Rains,
Sherry
Wynne, Neal Medley,
Oran
and Lorene Byford, Clarence Mears
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
Alberta
Taylor, Matt Jennings, Aubrey Allen Byford Jr.,
Deborah Lynn
Foster, Lillie Stacey, Dollie Spry
Last Week’s Bible Question
Q:
What emperor had a bevy of magicians and psychics who could not interpret his
strange dreams?
A:
Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:10)
This Week’s Bible Question
Q:
What fish-shaped god of the Philistines was disgraced when his statue was
broken by the presence of the ark of the covenant?
Congratulations!
Norman
and Nancy Pelham have a new grandson, Ethan Tye.
Current
Events
27th Annual
Ladies Day
Central Church of Christ
McMinnville, TN
Sat., April 3rd
Speaker: Faye Watkins
Topic: “Balancing Your Life”
Registration: 9:30 A.M.
School of Bible Emphasis
Mt. Leo Church of Christ
McMinnville, TN
Mon., April 12th – 7:00 P.M.
3rd Annual Youth
Rally
Smyrna Church of Christ
Sat., April 24th
– 8:30 A.M.–2:30 P.M.
Speaker: Glenn Colley
Fellowship Meal
Pleasant View Church of
Christ
Sun., April 25th
Immediately following the
morning service in the old school building.
Spiritual Renewal Week
Tennessee Bible College
Cookeville, TN
Wed., April 28th
– Sun., May 2nd
Schedule is on the bulletin
board.
Birthdays & Anniversaries This Week
Sun.,
March 28th – Earl & Eva Hollis
Tues.,
March 30th – Dale Payne
Fri.,
April 2nd – Dolly Coppinger
Sat.,
April 3rd – Mayne & Eva Youngblood
Editor’s
Note:
The following is an article written by Jerry Falwell. While I don’t agree with most of Mr. Falwell’s teaching and
beliefs, I think he has hit the nail on the head with this article. This is part 1 of 2.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GOD RESTS
IN THE HANDS OF THE COURT
I recently examined T.H. Matteson's engraving
depicting the first prayer in Congress, September 24, 1774, in Philadelphia's
Carpenters Hall. In the illustration, Jacob Duche kneels at a podium, his
eyes raised toward heaven as he recites his legendary prayer. Members of
Congress, many of them on their knees, humbly participate in the beseeching of
God to grant His blessings on the young nation.
While the etching is an embellished account of the
event, Mr. Duche's earnest prayer reveals the godly fervor that inhabited that
august body that day:
"Lord our Heavenly Father, High and Mighty King
of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers
on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the
Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech thee, on
these our American States, who have fled to thee from the rod of the oppressor
and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth
dependent on Thee, to Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their
cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou
alone
canst give; take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care;
give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious
designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their
Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring
justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war
from their unnerved hands in the day of battle! Be Thou present, O God of
wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable
assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That
the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be
effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and
flourish amongst Thy people. Preserve the health of their bodies and
vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent,
such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and
crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask
In the Name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen."
Fast forward now nearly 230 years to present-day
America, where the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments on whether
the diminutive phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is a
violation of the so-called "separation of church and state." We
have reached this low point in our nation's history because a federal appeals
court actually ruled last year in favor of an egocentric atheist named Michael
Newdow who abhors our freedoms of religious expression.
Falwell Confidential, Part 1 of 2
March 25, 2004
