HANCOCK
COUNTY
CHURCH
OF
CHRIST
www.hancockcountychurchofchrist.org
Bulletin Editor:
Donald P. Ames
Sept. 11, 2011
Vol. 1, No. 23
P. O. Box 560
(4197 S. 600 W.)
New Palestine, In. 46163
(317) 894-3888
WORSHIP SERVICES:
SUNDAY:
AM Worship….....9:30 AM
Bible Classes…10:30 AM
2nd Worship……11:20 AM
WEDNESDAY:
Bible Classes…...7:30 PM
EVANGELIST:
Royce U. DeBerry
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Working!
It is easier to leave angry words unspoken than to mend a heart
those words have broken.
---0--Alcohol makes a man colorful: it gives him a red nose, a white liver, a yellow spine, and a blue outlook.
---0--If you can laugh at it, then you can live with it.
[P. 45]
Godly Wives
Rebellion Will Ruin You
A man’s work is from sun to sun,
A wife’s work is never done;
She rises early and stays up late,
And teaches to love and not to hate.
For her family, she cooks their meals;
She’s always concerned how everyone feels;
She keeps the house with love and care
And when one’s ill, she’s always there.
She leads her family with love and joy
Keeps them close whether girl or boy;
Her life is given to her family’s good,
She always acts like we knew she would.
She loves her husband with a tender love
As she’s taught to do by God above.
He’s her anchor and compass too—
When things go wrong, as they sometimes do.
She’s the source of strength that makes life
bright
She’s the queen of her home and her family’s delight.
Her home’s a refuge and a paradise
As she provides good, and all things nice.
--Author Unknown
Sixpence To The Good?
Every faculty you have, your power of thinking
or of moving your limbs from moment to moment,
is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service,
you could not give Him anything that was not in a
sense His own already. So when we talk of a
man doing anything for God or giving anything to
God, I will tell you what it is really like. It is like a
small child going to its father and saying, “Daddy,
give me sixpence to buy you a birthday present.”
Of course, the father does, and he is pleased
with the child’s present. It is all very nice and
proper, but only an idiot would think that the
father is six-pence to the good on the transaction.
--C. S Lewis
(Vegas Valley; Las Vegas, Nev. bulletin)
The great challenge of life is to learn what’s
important and disregard the rest.
---0--A company is known by the men it keeps.
[P. 46]
Man is a “free moral agent,” we say. No passage of Scripture uses those exact words, but the
concept is everywhere in the Bible. Men were
not made as slavish robots, unable to exercise
personal will. God knew that giving us freedom
could result in our choosing to rebel against Him.
Many have chosen to do so in the past, and their
stories are often told in the Scriptures. Many will
choose to rebel in the future, too.
Before we decide to rebel, however, we must
become aware of this significant fact: rebelling against the Lord is costly! The divine law of consequences is that a person reaps what he sows,
more than he sows, and later that he sows (Gal.
6:7-9). And the principle is unchangeable whether you believe in God or not.
A prevailing attitude of our modern culture is
that rules prevent people from having a good
time. That is certainly not the Lord’s intention. In
fact, He offers true freedom through a relationship with Him. Our loving heavenly Father desires to keep His children growing in their faith
and safe from the devil’s temptations and worldly
influences. He does this by limiting our actions
and commanding that we follow certain laws and
principals, which He has designed for our good.
Deut. 6:24 informs us that God’s statutes are “for
our good always.” There is no greater pleasure
or source of contentment that serving Him.
On the other hand, rebellion is a form of slavery. By defying God’s authority in some area of
our life, we allow Satan to shackle us. We may
not feel the constraint of his trap at first, but keep
in mind the divine law of consequences (Gal. 6:79). Eventually we will be heavily burdened by
our sin. Whether the penalty ends us being carried in the body, mind, heart, or spirit, we still find
ourselves distracted from wholly serving the Lord
(Mk. 12:30).
Whether or not we see the rebellion as serious, God takes disobedience seriously, because
our consequences are grave. As the Sovereign
of the universe and our loving Father, He has
only our best interests at heart. He knows what
is good for us and what is bad for us, yet He
allows us to make the choices.
So rebelling
against Him is foolish. It will ruin us! Wise men
and women live by His word and obey it (Psa,
119:9).
--Mark W. White
(Via Southside; Woodland, Miss. bulletin)