Worship
Schedule For 2/12/06
Announce
– Larry Powell
Sing
A.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Read
– Maurice Powell
Pray
– Keith Bowman
Table
– Oscar Parton
Joey
Ferrell
James
Neeley
Bob
Hayes
Dismiss
– Stephen Powell
Sing
P.M. – Stephen Powell
Pray
P.M. – Jerry
Powell
Wed.
Night Schedule For 2/8/06
Sing
– Stephen Powell
Read
– Doris Hibdon
Prepare
Communion For February
Larry
Powell
Last
Week's
Attendance
- 88
Contribution
- $1252.10
Visitation
Team This Week
Stephen
Powell, Brian Witty
Visitation
Team Next Week
Odell
Powell, Doris Hibdon
4th
Sunday Speakers For February
A.M.
– Stephen Powell
P.M.
– Jerry Gilley
Prayer
List
Sick
Christine Ash, Linda
Haley, Melissa, Brittany, & Gabriella Powell,
Joy
Gilley, Kellie Payne, Rodney Caine, Jimmie
Johnston,
Jerry Barrett, Sue Chumbley,
Sarah Mayo,
Greg
Smithson, Neil Medley
Shut-Ins
J.D.
Lorance, Alta Jones, Ona Prater, William Condra,
Sarah Mayo,
Helen Banks, Alice
Youngblood,
Josephine Ferrell,
Maggie Wimberley, Leburn Pelham
Military
Duty
Seth
Powell, Mark Byars, Eric Burke
Birthdays
and Anniversaries This Week
(None to
report this week.)
Last
Week’s Bible Question
Q:
What
prophet ate a book and found it sweet?
A:
Ezekiel (2:9-3:3)
This
Week’s Bible Question
Which
of the four horsemen in Revelation spreads famine on the earth?
Current
Events
School
of Bible Emphasis
Mt.
Leo Church of Christ
(McMinnville)
Mon.,
Feb. 13th – 7:00 P.M.
Fellowship
Meal
Pleasant
View Church of Christ
Sun.,
Feb. 26th
Immediately
following the morning service in the school building.
CLIMB
THE WALLS
"OH,
I SURE AM HAPPY TO SEE YOU," THE LITTLE BOY SAID TO HIS GRANDMOTHER
ON HIS MOTHER'S SIDE.
"NOW MAYBE DADDY WILL DO THE TRICK HE HAS BEEN PROMISING
US."
THE GRANDMOTHER WAS CURIOUS.
"WHAT TRICK IS THAT?" SHE ASKED. "I
HEARD HIM TELL MOMMY THAT HE WOULD CLIMB THE WALLS IF YOU CAME TO
VISIT," THE LITTLE BOY ANSWERED.
Mother-in-laws
have been the source of many a joke over the years.
Situation comedies on TV especially love to pick on
mother-in-laws.
But poking fun at mother-in-laws cannot be found in the Bible.
When
Abraham’s servant found a wife for Isaac through the providence of the
Lord, and Rebekah’s family agreed to let her go back with the servant
to be a wife for Isaac, it is said that “the servant brought forth
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to
Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious
things.” (Gen. 24:53)
The servant treated Isaac’s future mother-in-law with respect,
for it was because of her that Rebekah had been born and that all of the
nations of the earth would be blessed.
One
of the Ten Commandments given to the children of Israel was to “honour
thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
(Ex. 20:12).
I think that our in-laws deserve this same honor as well.
Ruth
so loved her mother-in-law Naomi that after the death of their husbands,
Ruth begged Naomi not to send her away but to let her stay with her.
“And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return
from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where
thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God
my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the
LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”
(Ruth 1:16-17)
Ruth so loved and respected Naomi that she wanted to die and be
buried in the same place that Naomi would die and be buried.
Jesus
healed Peter’s mother-in law.
“And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's
house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they
besought him for her.
And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her:
and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.” (Luke
4:38-39)
No doubt Peter was one of those who “besought” Jesus,
for he knew that Jesus could heal her with just a touch of His hand.
(Mark 1:31)
Jesus
has commanded us to “love one another; as I have loved you, that ye
also love one another.”
(John 13:34)
This includes mother-in-laws!
May
God bless you!
--Larry
Powell
