i came that they may have life and have it abundantly...
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Service Times For the Record - 10.16.16
AM Worship - 8:15 a.m.
Sunday School – 9:30 a.m.
AM Worship – 10:30 a.m.
PM Worship – 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday – 7:00 p.m.
Contribution – $15,519.10
Sunday School – 235
AM Worship – 275
PM Worship – 187
Wednesday – N/A
Oct. 30th 10:30 AM PM
Song Leader Kim Cline Youth
Opening Prayer Warren Sims Youth
Scripture Reading Spencer England Youth
Closing Prayer Elders Youth
Nursery TBD TBD
(Monthly) Audio-Visual Stace Fauske Vaughn Anderson
Presiding at the Table Scott Winter
Greeters England/Wilson
Card Pick-up Jackson Parker
Ashley Glen - 8:30 a.m. Youth Group
Opening Prayer TBD
Song Leader TBD
Devotional TBD
Closing Prayer TBD
(Monthly) Communion Preparation Terri Foshee/ Tabitha Trammell
(Monthly) Building Lock-up Stace Fauske/ Ed R. Ingram
YOUTH EVENTS
10/23 Area Wide Devo
10/30 Ashley Glen & Youth Lead P.M. Service
11/11-13 Fall Retreat
11/21 Skyzone
Shepherding Your
Teen’s Heart w/
David & Travis
was great!
Assisting in Worship
Announcements
Phil Baus
Song Leader
AM Ken Weinhardt
PM Ken Weinhardt
Opening Prayer
AM Ron Truelove
PM Ernie Menet
Scripture Reading
AM Paul Anderson
PM Jeremiah Holloway
Presiding Ed Stone
Table Servants
Dale Boyd
Brandon Copeland
Lance Fetner
Clark Johnson
Mike Parsons
Joel Pritchett
Rodney Rich
Mason Rich
Carl Schmidt
Ed Stone
Eddie Stone
Scott Winter
Card Pickup
Reece Long
Closing Prayer
AM Elders
PM Jeff Richardson
Nursery
AM 8:15 TBD
10:30 TBD
PM TBD
Greeters
Richardson/Cagle
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly –John 10:10
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October 23, 2016
Today’s Sermons - October 23
AM - In the Image of God, Chris Parker
PM - TBD
W e’ve been thinking much about the state of our country. Economic woes, fear of enemies, health concerns, natural disasters, spiritual decline, and confused morality call for our attention; and we continually ask what God’s will is for this country.
We are perplexed but not surprised that the fastest growing religious group in Amer-ica is the group that identifies themselves as having “no religion.” According to the American Religious Identification Survey taken in 2001, adults who do not subscribe to any religious identification has more than doubled from 14.3 million in 1990 to 29.4 million in 2001; their proportion has grown from just eight percent of the total in 1990 to over fourteen percent in 2001. Only 77 percent of Americans now claim to be Christians.
Many of those who claim to be Christians have convictions far different from the teaching of the New Testament. For instance, the Pew Forum recently released a survey saying that 65 percent of American Christians say that many religions can lead to eternal life, a fact that contradicts Jesus’ plain statement in John 14:6 (see also Acts 4:12; Ephesians 4:4-6).
What America needs most is the gospel, the old story of the death, burial, and resur-rection of Jesus Christ our Lord. That divine story will lead them to change their hearts and lives in repentance and to unite with Christ in baptism. The gospel will open their hearts to faith, hope, and love.
The Greatest Need in America, Phil Sanders, The Gospel Advocate, Bulletin Bites
Is It Crazy to be a Christian?, Jack Wilkie, “Focus Press”
T here are plenty of people in this world who would have you believe
that it’s crazy to be a Christian. With atheists, agnostics, and
“nones” (those who don’t affiliate with any religion or belief system)
on the rise in America, open mockery of the Bible is something that is becom-
ing more common by the day. Many of them identify themselves that way
because they’ve bought into the belief that it is simply ridiculous to accept
the Bible’s claims, arguing that some of the Bible’s accounts are far too ab-
surd for them to accept the Bible’s bigger claims (such as those on morality
or sin and justification). To paraphrase, the argument that comes up so often
looks something like this:
“We’re supposed to listen to your rules about sex or abortion or the afterlife when you believe in a talking snake, a talk-
ing donkey, the Red Sea parting to create a path of dry ground, and people coming back from the dead? Haha, sure.”
The implication, of course, is that Christians operate on blind faith and that we’ve accepted absurd beliefs in order to
maintain our trust in biblical inerrancy. Admittedly, no one in today’s world has ever seen a talking snake, or a talking
donkey, or any of the other miraculous occurrences the Bible describes. But what isn’t being considered is the truth
claims that are implicit in the popular beliefs held by most today. Are Christians the only ones accepting difficult to ex-
plain beliefs? Of course not.
Consider the implications that underlie the very foundations of the beliefs held by many of those who mock Christianity.
There was nothing… and then, for no good reason, nothing became something.
That something (small amounts of matter) randomly exploded.
That explosion set the entire universe in motion.
Life on earth either started as chemicals in a pond that turned into amino acids and somehow came to life OR it was
planted here by ancient aliens (whose origin we can’t even begin to explain).
Macroevolution turned single celled organisms into every life form we see today.
Apes and humans shared a common ancestor, despite our inability to find the missing link that proves this claim and
despite the fact that the proponents of this belief have so little to go on that they’ve repeatedly been caught fabricating
evidence for it.
The complexity in every created thing we see – the complexity that dwarfs man’s greatest supercomputers and
spaceships – was a total accident.
Mankind developed our own code of morality that is subject to change depending on culture and time period. And
yet it’s still rigid and enforceable.
Now you tell me – who’s operating on blind faith? Who’s accepting absurd claims at face value? What’s harder to be-
lieve, a talking snake or a random explosion creating everything? We’re all accepting certain things in our belief systems
on faith. The key is to examine the core foundations of a belief system and then weigh the harder to explain details from
there. And that’s where disbelief loses. It is the very pillars of evolutionary belief that discredit it as impossible. The Bi-
ble, on the other hand, acknowledges the absolute necessity of a supernatural being (spoiler alert: God) for its claims. If
there is a God, the Genesis account (and all of the other biblical accounts) make sense. If there isn’t a God, no set of be-
liefs makes sense.
So, no… it’s not crazy to be a Christian.
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Scholarships, Nicaragua (Pedro and Otoniel Morales), Pike County church of Christ (Brian
Simon), Rainbow Omega, Raintree Village, Tanzania East Africa Mission (Todd Storks)
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10/27 Hill Toppers trip to The Addams Family
10/30 Trunk or Treat/ Chili Cook-off
11/5 Jesus Lambs Fall Party (Rock Ranch)
11/6 Serving Those Who Served Luncheon
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11/15 Raintree Village Children’s Home Food Truck
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