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WEDNESDAY INVITATION Please join us for our September 6, 2017 Ben Born

August 27, 2017 68 a.m./30 p.m. Monday, September 11, 2017 at $3,382.00 10:00 a.m. in the annex.

Robert Martin will give his report September 10, 2017 He will teach Bible Class and present the assembly message ~ please plan to attend. He needs encouragement and support. Before the reward there must be Monroe Church of Christ Homecoming September 10, 2017 labor. ~ Ralph Ransom Walking With Jesus Buford Church of Christ Speaker: David Lipe September 10 – 13, 2017

Fayetteville Gospel Meeting September 17 – 21, 2017 Speaker: Allen Webster

Gospel Meeting Shannon Church of Christ September 25 – 27, 2017 Speaker: Larry Acuff Prayer LAMENTATIONS 3:25-27 Requests The LORD is good to those who Prayers are requested for Bill and Irene wait for Him, Dempsey ~ Bill will have a spot removed on To the soul who seeks Him. his face and Irene is in the hospital with It is good that one should hope double pneumonia. Cards can be sent to: and wait quietly 63 Oak Court For the salvation of the LORD Toccoa, GA 30577

Anthony Pileggi, friend of the Uebele Family, has kidney cancer and will have surgery to remove the affected kidney..

Shirley Queen is undergoing tests ~ please keep her in your prayers.

Barbara Whitmire will be having bypass surgery soon (the date will be determined on September 11) ~ please remember her and her doctors in your prayers.

OUR MEMBERS:

Frank Billingsley, Brenda Born, Dean Bruce, Sue Collins, Allen Dailey, Gwinnell Goss, Willard Mann, Sonny Vaughn

MISSIONS:

Robert Martin ~ Pacific Islands Church of Christ at Madison, GA Todd Storks ~ Tanzania, Africa Fairview Church of Christ

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 September 3, 2017

Minister: Jerry Whitmire Attitude 678-432-4953 Home 678-492-0383 Cell How can one develop a proper attitude toward God? First, our attitude toward God Church Info: must be based on our conviction that “He is,” 1048 Swan Lake Rd. and that “He is a rewarder of those who Stockbridge, GA 30281 Phone: 770-474-7107 diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). This Fax: 770-506-0136 kind of faith will produce a good attitude of Email: [email protected] godly fear, and “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). Services: Second, God is absolutely holy, absolutely Sunday perfect, and absolutely wise. He is grieved by Bible Study . . . . 9:30 a.m. evil. He loves man and wants us to love and Worship . . . . . 10:30 a.m. obey Him. All of this should motivate us to Worship ...... 6:00 p.m. want to be true to Him all the days of our life. Wednesday Our attitude toward God will then be such as Bible Study . . . . 7:00 p.m. expressed by the heavenly hosts: “Worthy are thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the Worship Assignments September 10, 2017 glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will Announcements/Opening they were, and were created,” (Revelation Prayer: Jeff Weathers 4:11).

Lead Singing: Ted Brown

Lord’s Supper: The churches of Christ David Samples, Courtney Atchison, Jack White, Charles greet you. Killian Romans 16:16 Reading: Dennis Brown

Prayer: Ben Born Not too long ago, I heard a story about a king who had a close friend with whom he had grown up. This friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life, whether positive or negative, and remarking, "This is good!"

One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition, and the friend's job was to load and prepare the guns for the king to fire. Unfortunately, he did something wrong in preparing one of the weapons because, after the king took it, it misfired and the king's thumb was blown off!

Examining the situation, the friend remarked with his usual, "This is good!" to which the king swiftly replied, "No, this is not good!" And he proceeded to send his friend to jail.

About a year later, the king was hunting in an area that he should have known better than to venture into because the area was full of cannibals. Sure enough, the cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied him up, stacked some wood, and set up a stake so they could begin the barbeque.

As they came near to set fire to the wood, however, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, this tribe never ate anyone who was less than whole, so they hastily untied the king and sent him on his way. Upon returning home, the grateful king was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with him.

"You were right," the king said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." He proceeded to tell his friend all that had just happened. "And so I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this." "No!" his friend replied, "This is good!" "What do you mean, 'This is good?' How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?" "If I had NOT been in jail", the friend exclaimed, "I would have been with you!"

When we go through difficult times, when we are standing on the edge of what appears to be sure defeat, or when things happen that throw off our plans...the last thing on our minds may be, "This is good!” Yet Romans 8:28 says "we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Although the Bible doesn't tell us that all things will be good, we do have the assurance that God can make all things work for our good and His glory...even those things that on the surface do not appear to be good at the time. The simple message: God loves us and is in control. Our circumstances may not always seem good, but our God is always good. ~ Submitted