January 13, 2008

Prayer Requests:
1. Let’s pray Psalm 20
2. James Green – Needs a new job
3. Josh Mourer – Unspoken
4. Sharhonda Brown – Unspoken
5. Norma Eckelberry – Eye Health
6. Bill & Becky Treat – safety while traveling
7. Kim Shada – breast cancer (Margarette Stochay’s daughter)
8. Our country
9. Joe Hoover – Health
10. Cindy Coakley – Recovery from a fall

Women’s Bible Study: Tonight at the church at 6pm. Don’t forget your books.

Men’s Darts: Thursday at 6:30pm.

Food Fight 2008: If you are going to participate this year I need your starting weight. It would help me if you wrote it down and gave me the paper. Thanks.

FYI: Any time services are cancelled, it will be announced on WTNS.

Guest Speaker: Next Sunday Sheldon Mencer will be with us Sunday morning service.

Riley Chapel Baptist Church in Howard, Ohio is having a Spring Free Day. Here is what they posted: Open to everyone!
 Please bring boxes or bags to take home your items.
 This will be most likely the 2nd and 3rd Wednesdays of March.
 We will post weekly updates on this board. You may also e-mail for more information.
 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/knox_co_allthingsfree/

 
Happy Anniversary: Dave & Renee Corbett on Tuesday
Happy Birthday: Makenna Brown on Friday John Eckelberry on Saturday


A prayer by Minister Joe Wright to open the new session of the Kansas Senate:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek

your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who 

call evil good," but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our

 spiritual

 equilibrium and reversed our values.

 We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and
called
it Pluralism.
 We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery,

 We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare,

 We have killed our unborn and called it choice,

 We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable,

 We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building

 self-esteem,

 We have abused power and called it politics,

 We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition,

 We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it

 freedom

 of expression,

 We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called 

it

 enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin

 and set us free. 

 Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent: to direct us to 

the

 center of Your will and to openly ask these things in the name of Your 
Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen!"



ONE NATION UDER GOD


"If

 you

 don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."


When the 13 colonies were still part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler, a Scottish historian, wrote about the fall of the Athenian

 democracy

 over 2000 years earlier.  "A democracy can not exist as a permanent form 

of

 government.  It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority

 always vote for the candidates promising them the most money from the

 public

 treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal

 policy followed by a dictatorship. The usual sequence is as follows: 

 From Bondage to Spiritual Faith

 - From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage

 - From Courage  to Liberty

 - From Liberty to Abundance

 - From Abundance  to Selfishness - From Selfishness to Complacency - From Complacency to Apathy

 - From Apathy to Dependency

 - From Dependency back to Bondage"