March 9, 2008

Prayer Requests:



    You are a chosen generation.

    Soup & Dessert Supper: Thank you so much for attending our fundraiser and showing your support! It’s a joy to know you care enough to help us.
    Music Practice: Wednesday Night at 5:30pm
    Women’s Bible Study: No meeting tonight. See you next week if the weather permits.

    Men’s Darts: Over for the year. Thanks guys for supporting the Women’s Bible Study Group with your donations. You gave us a whopping $532.25! You have blessed us. May God now bless you!
    Great Opportunity for the Men: Honor Bound Men’s Summit. March 14 & 15 in Millersburg. Cost is $25 if paid by March 2nd; $30 after that. A poster is up in the Walnut Street foyer with more information or see Joe Hoover.
    Sale Table: There will continue to be different things placed on the Women’s Study Group’s table in the lobby. New things added all the time. Proceeds are to help us go on our trip this summer.
    Easter Fellowship: There will be a dinner following Easter Service and you are invited! Bring a covered dish of some sort and enjoy the fellowship. If you can bring ham please see Sis. Connie Williams.
    A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.

    When I say...  'I am a Christian' I'm not shouting I'm clean livin'' I'm whispering 'I was lost, Now I'm found and forgiven.

    When I say...  'I am a Christian' I don't speak of this with pride. I'm confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide.

    Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 2 Cor. 1:3-4



     CELL PHONE OR BIBLE?

    I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone.

    What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

    What if we flipped through it several time a day?

    What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

    What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

    What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

    What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?

    What if we used it when we traveled?

    What if we used it in case of emergency?

    This is something to make you go...hmm.

    Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the
    bill.

    Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities?

    And no dropped calls!




    A little boy was overheard praying:

    "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.

    I'm having a real good time like I am."
    A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things." The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside." "Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me." "Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."