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One Another Group Leaders Will meet at 4:20pm.
2nd Sunday Fellowship Dinner Tonight Menu Includes: Fried or Baked chicken, gravy, potatoes, vegetables, hot rolls Dessert: Pies or Cobblers Reminder to teachers and others, please return all borrowed supplies back to the office, such as dry erasers, markers, staplers ect.
LTC- Parents or Kids Please check and initial if your name is on the correct event. This is posted on the foyer table. Fees for events are $20.00 per child. Thanksgving Baskets This is the time for our Thanksgiving Project, if you know of anyone that needs help during this time, please write down their names and addresses and turn into office. See Cliff or Bill Schweikhard if you would like to donate any amount. The cost for each basket is $20.00
This Week There is a sign-up sheet for Nursery Workers on the door of the Nursery, if you would like to volunteer to help during worship hour.
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Ladies Bible Class at 10:30am on Tuesday.
Bible Class at 6:30am on Thursday.
Craft Encouragement Operations Lunch at 12:00p.m. Thursday, October 24.
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November 10, 2002 Vol XXIV #45 Teens Teens will meet here at 4 PM to go to OKC Area Wide!!! __________________________________ We are happy to announce that we have three new people that placed membership here at Northridge. Archie & Del Parker 214-6466 4401 Bryant Shawnee, OK 74801 & Renee Osborn 878-9665 13 Robby Rd. Shawnee, OK 74801 Moved Steve & Lisa Searle have moved to 1011 Wonderworld Dr. #401 San Marcos, TX 512-396-1283
UPCOMING
Craft Encouragement Operation Lunch Is Nov. 21st around 12:00 PM
Kids in the Kingdom The date has been changed to Nov. 24. After morning services, will meet for pizza, then will make crafts for the Thanksgiving Baskets
*************************************** Thank You A huge thanks for the extra time spent the last several weeks to make One Another Groups possible: James Cole, Bill Schweikhard, Joe Haslam, Mike Shelburne, Robert Pettyjohn, Terrell Sanders, Jake Jones, Jonathan Gauss, and Chris Estes. __________________________________
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Remember in Your Prayers Mark Smith asks for prayers concerning his job. Jean Edwards, Jim Gregory’s sister is in critical condition. Zelda Tolleson fell last week she has suffered a lot of bruising. Euthene Burdick has been feeling poorly. Cecil Pensoneau had a colonoscopy last week. Aidan, Gary & Linda Smith’s grandson, is having more health problems. ************************************************************************** HEAVEN, Part 2 - Cliff Isaiah, John, and Peter promise “new heavens and a new earth.” These will replace the “former things,” the “first,” that is, our current universe. This existence will be destroyed. (See last week’s bulletin article.) The “new heavens and new earth” is heaven. The Bible writers just named describe it as perfect, idyllic, forever - a place where righteousness dwells and no evil, curse, fallen nature or its consequences exist. The crowning point is the fact that God and His people are together, inseparable, with all things partaking of the nature of God - good, right, pure, and holy (Rev 21:2-4,7,9,22; 22:5). We will have new bodies, imperishable, glorified, in power, and spiritual (1 Cor 15:35-44; our body redeemed from the effects of sin, Rom 8:23). The physical body is the seed for what will become something much more. We will have bodies in heaven for a reason. “New heavens and new earth” implies a renewed universe. Since biblical descriptions of it rely heavily on the perfect and beautiful nature of physical things, do we have to rule out the idea that heaven contains (at least some kind of new) perfect and beautiful physical things? If we have a newly made form (body), why not anything else? Romans 8:18-23 has that very thought. Creation was subjected to the curse by man’s Fall, frustrated by having its pristine state taken away. So it waits breathlessly for children of God to receive full and final sonship from Him. Why? So it can also be liberated from this “bondage to decay,” the physical laws of running down, and “be brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God” - delivered from the curse! (See also Rev 22:3.) Creation is redeemed so that redeemed man has a fitting environment. I do not pretend to comprehend all this. But the Word is saying that I will have a remade body and the world will also be delivered from the curse into glorious freedom, remade, “new heavens and a new earth.” If my body can be remade flawless and superlative, why not anything else God made? And if my body is, then what for, if not for some use in a new state? The One on the throne says, “I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5); He does not say, “I am making all new things.” This helps with what we might do in heaven. Being made in the image of God is basic to all the rest of scripture: God gave man capacities to know, fellowship, and be like Him. Couple that with the emphasis on one-another-ness and we see God preparing us here for something perfected there - fellowship (Rev 21:2-3). God set man on that path in Eden and He will bring His people back to it - to a “paradise,” a park. Heaven is not some nice situation unconnected to what we know and do here. It is the perfect extension of anything good here It is not where we exist as spirits in some airy way, in an eternal church-like assembly, wondering how we can stand it forever! It is not where we turn holy ghost-like, all of us having the disposition of Casper, the friendly one! We will praise forever by everything we do because everything we do will be pure, good, joyful, and unselfish - the kind of praise God wants from our every action here.
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