JESUS CHRIST
To the architect, Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone. Ephesians 2:20
To the artist, He is the Altogether Lovely One. Song of Solomon 5:16.
To the baker, He is the Living Bread. John 6:51.
To the banker, He is the Hidden Treasure. Psalm 17:14. To the biologist, He is the Life. John 6:48.
To the builder, He is the Sure Foundation. Isaiah 28:16. To the carpenter, He is the Door. John 10:9.
To the educator, He is the Great Teacher. John 13:14.
To the engineer, He is the New and Living Way. Hebrews 10:20.
To the farmer, He is the Lord of Harvest. Matthew 9:38. To the florist, He is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Song of Solomon 2:1.
To the philanthropist, He is the Unspeakable Gift. 2 Corinthians 9:15.
To the philosopher, He is the Wisdom of God. John 1:14. To the preacher, He is the Word of God. John 1:14.
To the sculptor, He is the Living Stone. I Peter 2:4.
To the servant, He is the Good Master. Mark 10:17.
To the sinner, He is “the Lamb of God. John 1:29 & 36.
He has many other names used in the Bible for description... What name do you use most often to describe the Savior of all true Christians?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Kaye Nicholson (8-12).
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Jody and Melissa Goates (8-15).
SPECIAL EVENTS
October 3, 2020
Youth Rally under the Tent, 5th & Greenwich Church of Christ, Russellville. Speaker: Willie Franklin. Theme: “Looking Unto Jesus” with 2020 vision. Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Grades 7-12. More info on the bulletin board.
PRAYERs
Prayers needed for our country, for our National Leaders, State Leaders, Local Leaders. Do pray for those sick, especially those with the virus. Pray for those who have lost loved ones. Pray that each of us are working and doing the will of God. We need to pray for each other and show our love toward all including our enemies. Pray for the doctors and nurses working with the Covid-19 patients.
SYMPATHY:
Butler Clayton Martin passed away Wednesday. No information as to the service or interment. Funeral Home – Wilson-Robison, England, AR.
PRAYER LIST:
John Harper has started taking chemo since the cancer has reoccurred.
Ronda Sommers got an injection Thursday in her hip and back. This may take a few days for improvement in pain for Ronda.
Ted Knight has completed the isolation for TB and will continue the medication daily for a total of 60 days. Blood tests will determine how often he will take the medication for a total of 6 months.
Jerry Branch is feeling much better. The Health Nurse dresses his neck 3 times per week and the medication daily is given thru a port in his arm. He had a checkup last week and will have another one the 8th of
September.
Bonnie Jean Drewry is taking strong antibiotics to try to kill the bacterial infection. Where this bacterial infection started from is not known but could be even the water at their home.
David Bradley is not doing well at this time due to the cancer.
Mike Shannon had a piece of machinery fall on his hand and cut one of his fingers off. He had surgery and re-attached his finger. No update.
Vic Lovejoy, nephew of Mike Lovejoy, is very sick with the virus. He lives in Georgia.
Steve Crump has been in and out of the hospital but is improving now.
Clara Loveland is very sick with the virus (Covid-19).
Carole Mayes has improved, is home and started therapy last Friday.
Jack Smith is in a hospital in Hot Springs. He is taking a different chemo than he had before.
Service Personnel:
DESTRY BRANCH,
JOHN and KIMBERLY BREWER,
JEFF THOMPKINS,
CLINT WILSON,
J. O. DREWRY,
DAVID SEXSON.
Cancer:
JACK SMITH,
DARANDA GOLDEN,
AIDEN WATERS,
CONNIE WILLIAMS,
BRUCE BLANKENSHIP,
VIRGINIA LOVEJOY,
GLADYS NORWOOD,
TERRY EPPERSON,
RACHEL RAMSEY,
BILL KOONCE,
DAVID BRADLEY.
Health Problems:
MACK and EURA FAYE NORWOOD,
JAMES and RUBY MAE ELKINS,
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS,
SHARON STACKS,
BETTY BLANKENSHIP,
SYLVIA BUSH,
MIKE LOVEJOY,
TED and BARBARA KNIGHT,
TROY DUNHAM,
ODELL and JOAN EUBANKS,
WALLACE WILLIAMS,
JOHN A. LOVEJOY,
WANDA PAYTON,
JIM LOVEJOY,
WILL LANG,
VAGAN BRYANT,
JERRY BOZE,
SANDRA COLLINGS,
COURTNEY ROGERS,
MICAH SEXSON,
DEWITT YINLING,
CLAUDE JEAN,
DIXIE KITCHEN.
HELL
The prison house of despair.
Here are some things that will not be there. No flowers will bloom on the banks of HELL,
No beauties of nature, we love so well;
No comforts of home, music, and song,
No friendship or joy will be found in that throng.
No children to brighten that long dreary night,
No love or peace, not one ray of light;
No blood-washed soul with face beaming bright,
No loving smile in that region of night;
No mercy, no pity, pardon, or grace,
No water, O God, what a terrible place!!
The pangs of the lost no human can tell,
Not one moments ease, there is no rest in HELL!
HELL! The prison house of despair, Here are some things that will be there;
Fire and brimstone are there, we know, For God in His Word hath told us so;
Memory, remorse, suffering and pain, weeping and wailing, but all in vain; Blasphemers, swearers, haters of God,
Sinners who refused to be washed in the blood;
Lovers of pleasure more than of God,
Christ-rejectors while here on earth trod;
Murderers, gamblers, drunkards, and liars, Will have their part in the lake of fire;
The filthy, the vile, the cruel and mean. . . What a horrible mob in Hell will be seen;
Yea, more than humans on earth can tell, Are torments and woes of ETERNAL HELL!
TOP TEN SIGNS YOU MAY NOT BE READING YOUR BI
* The preacher announces the sermon is from Galatians. . .and you check the Table of Contents.
* You think Abraham, Isaac and Jacob may have had a few hits during the 60's.
* You open to the Gospel of Luke and a WWII Savings Bond falls out.
* Your favorite Old Testament patriarch is Hercules.
* A small family of woodchucks has taken up residence in the Psalms.
* You become frustrated because Charles Heston isn't listed in either the Concordance or the Table of Contents.
* Catching the kids’ reading the Song of Solomon, you demand: “Who gave you this trash?”
* You think the Minor Prophets worked in the quarries.
* You keep falling for it every time the preacher tells you to turn to First Conditions, (that is what you thought was the name of one of the books.)
* The kids keep asking too many questions about your usual bedtime story: “Jonah the Shepherd Boy and His Ark of Many Colors.” You can't figure out what makes them laugh. (This was not for a good laugh but to remind us that if we don't read, study and practice what is in God's Word that we are not ever truly educated if we lack in the knowledge of the Bible. There are two parts of the Gospel: BELIEVING IT and BEHAVING IT. Behaving include reading and studying plus practice. Are we spending as much time as we should feeding on the Bread of Life? The degree of our spiritual vigor will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
MONEY
The trouble is that too many people are spending money they don't have for things they don't need to impress people they don't like. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. Getting riches brings care, keeping them brings trouble; abusing them brings guilt and losing them brings sorrow.
It is a great mistake to make as much of riches as we do.
From the Lips of Millionaires Who Were Married to Money:
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness – Rockefeller.
The care of $200,000,000 is enough to kill anyone. There is no pleasure in it – Vanderbilt.
I am the most miserable man on earth – John Jacob Astor.
What can I say? I only know I am desolate. - J. Paul Getty. I was happier when doing a mechanic's job – Henry Ford.
Millionaires seldom smile – Andrew Carnegie.
Money Will Buy...
A bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not appetite, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not culture, amusements but not happiness, a crucifix but not a Savior, religion but not salvation. A good life but not eternal life.
A REAL HOME IS. . .
A real home is a gymnasium. The ideal of a healthy body is a basic one to give a child.
A real home is a lighthouse. A lighthouse reveals the breakers ahead and shows a clear way past them.
A real home is a playground. It is a place where the family can enjoy good, clean fun together.
Areal home is a workshop. Pity the boy without a kit of tools and the girl without a sewing basket. They haven't learned the fun of doing things---and there is no fun like it.
A real home is a forum. Honest, open discussion of life's problems belong originally in the family circle.
A real home is a secret society. Loyalty to one's family should mean keeping silent on family matters.
A real home is a health resort. Mothers are the natural physicians.
A real home is a cooperative league. Households flourish where the interest of each is make the interest of all.
A real home is a business concern. Order is a housewife's hobby, but order without system is a harness without a horse.
A real home is a haven of refuge. The world does this for us all, it makes us hunger for a loving sympathy and a calming soothing touch.
A real home is where the Bible is taught. This is taught daily and love of each family member is shared with all members.
A real home is where everyone has the same aim. Each and everyone wants eternal life with Jesus Christ and their aim is to reach that goal.