WE CARE ADDRESSES Dot Harbin 225 Wildwood Drive Stockbridge, GA 30281 BUDGET MEETING You can send a card, TODAY say a prayer or make a phone call to let our members know we care!
Gospel Meeting Special Hartley Bridge Road Church of Christ Macon, GA Contribution April 23 – 27, 2017 Please make plans to participate in a Speaker: B. J. Clarke special contribution for Richard Barnes’ mission work ~ envelopes will Gospel Meeting be at the rear of the auditorium, Central Church of Christ throughout April, for your donation. Covington, GA No amount is too small! May 7 – 9, 2017 Speaker: Herbert Moore
WEDNESDAY INVITATION April 26, 2017 Carlton Smith GRADUATION We will honor our Graduates, SERVICE SATURDAY Kaitlyn McKee and Jayland Fowler on Sunday, May 7th If you would like to pass out Bibles to after the evening service ~ our community, please meet here on boxes will be available April 29th at 9:00 a.m. for your cards, gift cards, and monetary Church of Christ at Madison, GA gifts. Please plan to attend! GET READY FOR VBS April 9, 2017 July 9 – 12, 2017 66 a.m./39 p.m. $3,157.00
April 16, 2017 80 a.m./28 p.m. $1,699.01 Prayer Requests JOB 28:26-28 Kari Clark, friend of Jerrie Weathers, traveled to Indiana for cancer treatments ~ When He made a law for the rain, they will remove some of her cancer cells, And a path for the thunderbolt, along with some of her white blood cells and Then He saw wisdom and declared it; will train the white cells to attack the cancer, He prepared it, indeed, He searched it then reinfuse the white blood cells back into out. And to man He said, her body. After a few weeks, they will test ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is the white blood cells to make sure their wisdom, And to depart from evil is “memory” of the cancer is still in effect. understanding.’ Amazing technology given by an amazing God!
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OUR MEMBERS: Brenda Born, Dean Bruce, Lula Childs, Sue Collins, Tom Collins, Allen Dailey, Gwinnell Goss, Willard Mann, Sonny Vaughn
FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Sue Ellwood (Barbara Cooper’s sister/lymphoma) Myrt Hunter (Wyn Miller’s aunt/blood disease)
MISSIONS: Robert Martin ~ Pacific Islands
Fairview Church of Christ
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 April 23, 2017
Minister: Reading: Allen Dailey Jerry Whitmire 678-432-4953 Home Prayer: Ted Brown 678-492-0383 Cell Attitude Church Info: 1048 Swan Lake Rd. Stockbridge, GA 30281 How can one develop a proper attitude Phone: 770-474-7107 toward God? First, our attitude toward God Fax: 770-506-0136 must be based on our conviction that “He is,” Email: [email protected] and that “He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). This Services: kind of faith will produce a good attitude of Sunday godly fear, and “the fear of the Lord is the Bible Study . . . . 9:30 a.m. beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). Worship . . . . . 10:30 a.m. Second, God is absolutely holy, absolutely Worship ...... 6:00 p.m. perfect, and absolutely wise. He is grieved by Wednesday Bible Study . . . . 7:00 p.m. evil. He loves man and wants us to love and obey Him. All of this should motivate us to Worship Assignments want to be true to Him all the days of our life. April 30, 2017 Our attitude toward God will then be such as expressed by the heavenly hosts: “Worthy are Announcements/Opening thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the Prayer: Courtney Atchison glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will Lead Singing: Darrell they were, and were created,” (Revelation Cooper 4:11).
Lord’s Supper: Carlton Smith, David Samples, Jack White, Charles The churches of Christ Killian greet you. Romans 16:16
A BIG NAME By: John Gipson
When Walter P. Paepeke started a carton company and called it the Container Corporation of America, his attorney said it was “a big name for such a small company.” Mr. Paepeke’s reply was, “We’ll take the name and grow into it.”
That’s the task we have before us. We have taken a big name ~ the name of Christ. Now we must grow into it.
There was a wonderful promise given in Isaiah 62:2: “Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.” Think of it. A new name. Given by the Lord! We see the fulfillment of that promise in Acts 11:26: “And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.”
Under the name Christian we are to glorify God (I Peter 4:16), but we know that the name is too big for us. We are an unfinished product, slowly growing into that name. The Bible constantly calls upon us to become more and more like Christ, to “grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).
Are we making progress? Do others recognize Christ in me? Do they find some grace, or receive a kind thought when in contact with me? Am I concerned about the welfare of all those about me? Am I ready to love all people without partiality? Do I show compassion, tenderness, and concern? Am I willing to step out of selfishness into selflessness? Am I kind and gentle to those who are in distress?
How to dress before shopping for clothes:
1) Put on faith and love (I Thessalonians 5:8); 2) Put on the armor of light (Romans 13:12); 3) Put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14; Galatians 3:27); 4) Put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24); 5) Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil (Ephesians 6:11); and, 6) Put on love for others (Colossians 3:12-14).
If we put on the proper spiritual clothing before we purchase our physical clothing, we will not purchase clothing that is too short, too tight, too low cut or too see-through. We will not purchase clothing that will be a bad influence on those that look up to us and are watching us. If we expect to be clothed in white robes when Christ comes again, we will take seriously how we dress before our Heavenly Father in this life.