ATTENDANCE/CONTRIBUTIONS
August 7, 2016
66 a.m./ 29 p.m.
$1,961.00
Ladies Day
Forest Park Church of Christ
October 14 & 15, 2016
Ladies Day
The Church of Christ at Moreland Avenue
October 15, 2016
WE CARE ADDRESSES
The Willard Family
1145 Flat Rock Road
Stockbridge, GA 30281
You can send a card,
say a prayer or make a phone call
to let our members know we care.
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
I Corinthians 12:25-26
Please join us for a pot-luck lunch today after the morning service ~ we will return to the auditorium after the meal. There is no 6:00 p.m. service.
There is a story they tell of two dogs. Both at separate times walk into the same room. One comes out wagging his tail, while the other comes out growling. A woman watching this goes into the room to see what could possibly make one dog so happy and the other so mad.
To her surprise she finds a room filled with mirrors. The happy dog found a thousand happy dogs looking back at him while the angry dog saw only angry dogs growling back at him.
What you see in the world around you is a reflection of who you are.
Prayer
Requests
Alice Guzman has Stage 3 breast cancer ~ please see Wyn Miller for details.
Cathy Keener, friend of Betty Uebele, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Rekco, Jr., Joan Samples’ grandson was born prematurely ~ he is doing better ~ see Joan for an update.
CONTINUE TO REMEMBER: Louella Alley, Lula Childs, Vern Morris, Gertrude Musslewhite
MISSIONARIES: Robert Martin (Pacific Islands)
SHUT-INS: Gwinnell Goss; Sonny Vaughn
Mercy Odhiambo
Staicy Odhiambo
Erick Suarez
Jasmine Sweeting
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. James 5:16
WEDNESDAY INVITATION
August 17, 2016
Jerry Whitmire
PSALM 147:8
Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
Fairview Church of Christ
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
August 14, 2016
Minister:
Jerry Whitmire
678-432-4953 Home
678-492-0383 Cell
Church Info:
1048 Swan Lake Rd.
Stockbridge, GA 30281
Phone: 770-474-7107
Fax: 770-506-0136
Email:
Services:
Sunday
Bible Study . . . . 9:30 a.m.
Worship . . . . . 10:30 a.m.
Worship ...... 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday
Bible Study . . . . 7:00 p.m.
Worship Assignments
August 21, 2016
Announcements/Opening Prayer: Ted Brown
Lead Singing: Darrell Cooper
Lord’s Supper:
Bill Queen, Jack White,
David Samples, Charles Killian
Reading: Erick Suarez
Prayer: Jeff Weathers
Attitude
How can one develop a proper attitude toward God? First, our attitude toward God must be based on our conviction that “He is,” and that “He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). This kind of faith will produce a good attitude of godly fear, and “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). Second, God is absolutely holy, absolutely perfect, and absolutely wise. He is grieved by evil. He loves man and wants us to love and obey Him. All of this should motivate us to want to be true to Him all the days of our life. Our attitude toward God will then be such as expressed by the heavenly hosts: “Worthy are thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created,” (Revelation 4:11).
The churches of Christ greet you.
Romans 16:16
The Prayer of an “Old Preacher”
Dan Jenkins
We may not think of that shepherd boy as a preacher, but perhaps we should. When David arrived at the battlefront, almost every word he spoke proclaimed the power and majesty of God. His words give great insight into the heart that God described as being like His own heart. David’s older brother saw him as a youth who had abandoned the sheep and said David was filled with pride and was insolent in his heart (1 Sam. 17:28). But he was wrong.
That young man had seen the providence of God when he killed a bear and a lion that were ready to kill a helpless lamb. David knew God’s nature and the challenge of Goliath had to be answered. He was not concerned about how big that giant was, for he knew how big God was!
As a youth he had also faced sin’s temptation and dealt with it. He showed how a young man could cleanse his heart “by taking heed according to Your word” (Psa. 119:9). It was in the sheepfold that he learned of God’s green pastures, still waters, the rod, the staff and the cup overflowing with oil.
Yet he was not always a young man. His words in Psalm 71:17-18 give us great insight into the devotion he had first as a youth and the devotion he had in his old age. Look at the words of that psalm: “O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.”
David knew God and he unashamedly taught others about Him. What was he like as he grew old? “Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.”
David understood that the truths which he had used to cleanse his young heart were the same truths that following generations needed to cleanse their hearts. They needed them because God’s words are eternal and truth does not change. David said, “The entirety of Your word is truth and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever” (Psa. 119:160). He had taught those truths as a young man and now as he grew old he asked God to continue using him.
Read his words again. Every generation needed God’s words, and David emphasized that they needed the entirety of His words ~ every single one of His righteous judgments. Mankind does not change. The needs of every generation are the same. God’s remedy for sin does not change.
It was an older generation who taught young David. He owed them a great debt. The same is true of you!