January 28, 2007
1. Rick Carpenter – health (cancer)
2. Jim Davis – health (cancer)
3. Family of the two who died last Sunday in the river (New Philly)
4. Tony Williams – recovery from surgery on Friday
5. Kenny Dewitt – broken back
6. Doris Huston – open heart surgery on Tuesday
Men’s Dart League: Thursday, February 1, at 6:30pm.
The Power Team is coming to the Newcomerstown Methodist Church on February 5 & 6 (Monday and Tuesday) at 7pm. This is a great ministry for kids who enjoy “muscle” type stuff. The team turns the eye from man’s strength to Jesus’ strength, which speaks to children of all ages There has been an offer to provide transportation if anyone is interested. See Robin.
Church Yard Sale: Is there anyone interested in heading up the yard sale this year? Does anyone have any space to store yard sale stuff? See Robin.
Gideon Sunday: On February 11 a guest speaker from the Gideon organization will be with us.
Food Fight Exercise Fellowship: Come to the church Tuesday at 6pm to work out to a video (as long as the weather permits). Dress kind of warm because the church will be cool. Of course you’ll generate your own heat once you start moving We will discuss other times that night. (If someone else wants to join us, you are welcome)
A Riddle: What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?
The Neighbor Next Door There was a little old lady who would come out every morning on the steps of her front porch, raise her arms to the sky, and shout, "Praise the Lord!" Well, one day an atheist moved into the house next door. Over time, he became irritated at the little old lady. So every morning he would step out onto his front porch and yell after her, "There is no Lord!" Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way every day. Then one morning in the middle of winter, the little old lady stepped onto her font porch and shouted, "Praise the Lord! Lord, I have no food and I am starving. Please provide for me, oh Lord!" The next morning, she stepped onto her porch and there were two huge bags of groceries sitting there. Praise the Lord!" she cried out. "He has provided groceries for me!" The atheist jumped out of the hedges and shouted, "There is no Lord. I bought those groceries!" The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted, "Praise the Lord! He provided me with groceries, and He made the devil pay for them!"
Happy Birthday
Thursday: Becky Larntz
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT…CHILD TRAINING
continued
By J. Richard Fugate
Continued
from the introduction: Parents
who utilize this system consistently from the time
their children are very young have God’s
guarantee of success. It is possible for even those
parents who have failed in training their child
during the early years to gain control and still
produce an obedient and respectful child.
Proverbs 10:1a “…A wise son maketh a
glad father.”
Proverbs 23:24 & 25 “The father of the
righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that
begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy
father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that
bore thee shall rejoice.”
Proverbs 29:17 “Correct thy son, and he shall
give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy
soul.”
Proverbs 31:28 “Her children rise up, and call
her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth
her.”
God’s
Word often contrasts wisdom with foolishness. One who
acts wisely is one who utilizes truth in living,
while the fool is one who goes his own way in
ignorance or in rebellion. The previous Bible verses
promise great joy and happiness to parents who raise
a wise child. In the Proverbs 31:28 passage, a mother
is shown to receive special honor as her children
grow up and begin to glorify her through their lives.
What a contrast to the conditions in our civilization
today in which the m other is neither respected in
her role nor appreciated for her teaching.
The
present condition in our civilization demonstrates
how far our culture has deviated from the truth of
God’s Word. The Bible is not unrealistic, we
are merely reaping the cursing that results from
man’s failure to utilize God’s truth.
Parents who resort to a human system of child
training will miss the blessings promised by God and
receive instead the natural consequences of cursing
for ignorance of, or disobedience to, truth.
The Cursing
Proverbs
10:1b “…a foolish son is the heaviness
of his mother.”
Proverbs 17:21 “He that begetteth a fool doeth
it to his sorrow; and the father of a fool hath no
joy.”
Proverbs 29:15b “…a child left to
himself bringeth his mother to shame.”
These verses give a clear description of what parents
will experience if they fail in training their
children. The heaviness that the mother will feel in
raising a foolish child is the weight of sadness and
extreme sorrow. She will even experience shame from
raising a child who is sent off to face life without
being properly trained. The father of a fool (one who
rejects both God and the truth of God’s Word)
will also experience sadness and a lack of internal
happiness.