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1001 E. MacArthur
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Today
2nd Sunday Fellowship Dinner Menu Includes: Mexican Enchiladas Tacos Burritos Casseroles Beans / Rice Desserts: Cobblers
This Week All-Church Workday is this Saturday. Task sign up sheets are hanging up on office bulletin board, in the foyer. Start off with breakfast at 9:00. All three meals will be served. Upcoming
SCHOOL DAZE LADIES DAY Saturday April 27th 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Bring a sack lunch or salad. If possible bring a school picture of yourself and give it to Linda Smith or Dorothy Pensoneau before the luncheon.
SOFTBALL LEAGUE?? Anyone (male or female) interested in participating in a FUN, low competition softball league with Shawnee area Church of Christ, please see Mike. |
April 14, 2002 Vol. XXIV #15
Teens After bible class this morning, the teens will be going on the van with Jarrod Sanders to Tecumseh, Highland Church of Christ, for worship and the volleyball tournament. Teens that are involved in going on the Wilderness Trek need to have their Trek fees paid by May 12, 2002. The cost for this is $225.00. (If you’ve already paid your $25.00 deposit. If not, it is $250.00) WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE! Please fill out a Northridge Member Profile. These are located on the table in the foyer. Leave copy on the office desk.
Thanks!
Our Thank You this week goes to Dana Shelburne. For not only all the extra help she gives to the teens, but for the Great job she did on the Graduates Bulletin board in the foyer.
FAITH PARTNERS Those of you who were contacted last week, please try to give your reply to Cliff or Mike Brand today. |
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Remember in Your Prayers
Terrell Sanders had an appendectomy at Unity North Hospital last Tuesday. Kate Hembree’s daughter, Cathy Henderson, has been moved to ICU at Baptist Hospital. She is in room 701, bed 7. She has been turned down for a heart transplant, they’re looking for alternatives. Alissa Reed’s friend, Raymond Yotes found out his cancer has returned Jo Beth Parsons will be having a MRI this Saturday. Results will be known later in the month. Susan Douglas had a MRI done on her knee. Melrose Kotts son Michael Finley had surgery Friday at St. Anothony’s Hos. Gary Fisher will have stomach reconstruction surgery next Friday. Pete Craig’s friend, Emily was raped in OK City this week.
Throwing in the Towel
Have you ever been tired of walking the walk? Do you often think about just “throwing in the towel” when it comes to being a Christian? I’ll be honest with you, there have been times when I have thought those very same things. I’m thankful these thoughts have been few and far between, and when they do pop into my head they don’t stay long.
If you are like me, then I’m sure you have had those same thoughts. They might come at a point when you are on a Spiritual low, when nothing seems to be going right, and God seems so far away. Maybe it has come from a time of persecution at work, school, or in you family. If you have ever felt that way you’re not alone, and there are several examples of great men of God who felt the same way.
In the book of Jeremiah we read of a particular instance when Jeremiah thought about “throwing in the towel.” In chapter 20 he was being persecuted for proclaiming a message God had given him. He put into stocks, beaten, and ridiculed. Everywhere he turned people were looking to see if he would slip up. It’s easy to see why Jeremiah felt the way he did in verse 7 and 8. Notice what he says though in verse 9, “But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak anymore in his name, “his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot
Even though Jeremiah probably felt he was at the bottom of his Ministry, ready to give in, he could not! His relationship to God was too deep, too deep to even hold it in. He even realized that it wasn’t his responsibility to get even with the people who hurt him, he put that in God’s hands.
What an awesome example of how our relationship with God should be, especially when we’re ready to “throw in the towel.”
By: John Ricketts
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