Sunday's Coming!!!!

Check out this video!
Thank you Jesus for dying for me so that my sins can be forgiven and I can spend all of eternity with you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzto6khRp7w

10 out of 10 Will Die!

My son and I stopped at Burger King to get an icee and burger after one of his games and again, I pulled out a million dollar bible tract and asked the two guys if they had every received a million dollars? They both laughed, looked at the tract, and back at me, while I told them it was a bible tract and the information on it was WAY better than a real million dollars. They looked at each other and said, "Thanks!"

Anytime I give a tract, my son and I watch the person and see if they actually look at and/or read the tract. Almost 100 percent of the time, the person does stop whatever it is s/he is doing, and looks/reads it. We watch and are so happy that the Holy Spirit is already tugging at his/her heart!

I need to remember to take pictures for our website (like Jennifer always does) and to look at their name tag so we can specifically pray for each individual.

I long to hear these words spoken from our Savior, "Well done thou good and faithful servant." I am a sinner saved by grace that is trying to tell others about the best news of all. 10 out of 10 people will die . . . may the world believe in you, Lord, trust in you,Lord and be with you for ALL OF ETERNITY! May you be glorified in each and everything we do!

Just hand them out!

MMMmmm . . . my daughter and I enjoy a delicious Starbucks Frappuccino every now and then . . .and we ordered our drinks from a highly enthusiastic worker. When I got to the drive thru attendant, she got us our drinks and I paid for them. In my purse, I keep lots of million dollar tracts and give them along with my payments.
I asked the sweet, college-aged worker, "Have you ever received a million dollars?" She replied, "No, not one of these."
I followed my question with a quick, "It's a bible tract and I think you'll really enjoy reading what it says."
She replied, "I absolutely LOVE these!!!"
Hmmm . . . the enthusiasm was so extremely wonderful to see and so I showed her the optical illusion tract AND the BIG MONEY tract and she cried out, "I LOVE YOU! These are so fantastic. I collect these!"
"Well, make sure to read them."
May this wonderful Starbucks worker put her trust in Jesus and share some of her collection with others too! :)

Are You a Good Person?

Last Thursday and Friday, the evening custodian was at a funeral and his daughter, Melissa, was filling in for her dad. I've talked with her several times and knew that she had made many mistakes and was trying to change her life around. After we talked for about 10 minutes, I asked her where she thought she would go when she died. She laughed and replied, "Heaven, I hope."
I asked her why she thought that heaven was her destination and she said that she was a pretty good person.
Next, I asked her if she thought she was a good person and she replied hesitantly, "Well yeah, I try to be good, but keep making mistakes."
You and I both! Can I ask you a few more questions.
"Sure."
Well, have you ever lied before?
Yes, of course!
And if you lie, what does that make you? A liar, right?
Have you ever taken anything before, regardless of the price?
If you have, what does that make you? A thief, right?
Have you ever used the name of our precious Lord and Savior before?
If you have, that makes you a blasphemer.
So, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, blasphemer, and these are three of the ten commandments.
If you stand before God on Judgment Day, will you be sentenced to heaven or to hell, based on God's Laws, the Ten Commandments?
She sort of laughed and then looked at me with all seriousness and replied, "Well, I would go to heaven." (You know it tugs at their heart by the way their face changes at their voice answers this question.)
You're right, you would be sentenced to hell. What do you think about that?
Well, I don't like that idea.
Neither does God, Melissa! Growing up Catholic most people will say, God is a loving God, he would NEVER send me to hell.
God is a loving God, but he is also a just God. Think of it this way, if I committed a crime and was standing before a judge and he was going to sentence me and I plead with him not to send me to jail because I am a good person and really try to do the right thing, he is NOT going to be a very good judge if he says, "Oh all right. You do seem like a good person, except for this crime. I will let you go. That would be absurd.
So, on Judgment Day God is about to sentence me and all of a sudden someone comes into the courtroom from the back of the room and says, "Wait, I will take her place."
If that happened, would you allow this other person to spare you from hell for all of eternity?"
"Well, I don't know. That wouldn't be very nice of me to have this other person to pay my price."
"Guess what, Melissa, God already took care of this for you and me. Do you know who that person is that came up from the back of the courtroom, the person that took your place?"
"Jesus, right?"
"Exactly, Melissa. God sent His one and only Son to die on the cross for you and me, so that we can be with Him in heaven for all of eternity. Now will you accept this FREE gift so you can be in paradise?"
I told her what she would need to do if she wanted to accept Jesus' FREE gift either right then and there or later that evening.
Melissa began to talk about how all of her friends are either Jehovah witnesses or athiest.
We talked for a bit longer and I gave her a million dollar bible tract and told her that I would pray for her and her family, as well as all of the changes that she is trying to put in place in her life. The LORD will be the best choice she will ever make. Nothing else will seem to matter if you have the Lord, other than trying to tell others about the BEST NEWS OF ALL.
10 out of 10 people will die and heaven and hell are real places? Where do YOU want to spend eternity?
Please pray for Melissa, Dave, Lisa, & Anna.

3 Questions to Answer

1. Who am I?
2. Why am I here?
3. Where am I going?

On Tuesday my wife and I met a college student named Nick.
We asked Nick the 3 questions above and he said he had never been
asked about them but had wondered what the purpose of life is.

We pointed out that if you do not believe that GOD is real, does it
matter? Nick said that would make all the difference in the world.
We reminded him that not only in this world, but in the world to come
We were interrupted so we gave him a good person tract. Nick said he
would read it and visit our website.

On Thursday I had to run to the grocery store.
While checking out, the girl noticed that a sticker was missing from
one of the packages, so another girl went to get it

Meanwhile, a lady came up in line behind me. I said to the
checker,college girl, "What is the most well known philosophical
enigma, comprised of three questions?" She said she did not know. I asked her the questions and said "If you do not believe that GOD is real, does it matter?" Before she could answer, the lady behind me said, if GOD is not real, life would have no meaning and everyone should ask themselves those questions and answer them honestly.
The checker and the lady thanked me for asking the questions and
said they wanted to know more I directed them to our website and gave them a tract.

Be doers of the Word. Go out and tell the GOOD NEWS!
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Nicodemus at the cross by John Fischer

The last two days have been narratives of people and events surrounding holy week as we approach the celebration of Christ's death and resurrection this weekend. Though these are fictional pieces, they are based on imagining what could have happened given what we know about the people and events as reported in the New Testament. The purpose of this imagining is to bring these events closer to home by making them more human. If these conversations and feelings didn't happen, certainly what did happen was something like this, leaving much the same effect on us. Sometimes we exempt biblical characters from being human. That won't do at all. These are people like us—made up of the same hopes, dreams and fears we all have. So use your imagination, it will bring everything closer to home.

For instance, use your imagination to imagine what must have transpired on the last meal Jesus shared with his disciples. In fact, you might want to celebrate the Lord's Supper around your own table tonight. You don't have to have credentials to do this. Jesus used what was common to all meals in that culture, and he said to do this as often as we eat the bread and drink the cup, which would have been every day.

And in the spirit of imagining, we will return to the cross and look at Christ through the eyes of Nicodemus, the Pharisee whom Jesus spoke with about being born again, and who most likely did come to believe in the end that Jesus was the Messiah.

Nicodemus brought himself up to the edge of the circle of torchlight. It flickered in his eyes. Like a cautious cat, he moved in and out of the circle of light, wanting to get closer, but afraid.

Suddenly a tear-stained face filled his vision as if out of nowhere.

"Aren't you…?"

"Nicodemus." He finished it for the man. "I have followed from afar. I wanted to come closer, but I've been foolish and afraid. Now I am too late."

"No, you aren't. You are here," said John, newly named son of Mary. "Come."

John gently took Nicodemus's arm and guided him closer to the women who were still huddled near the cross. They were in shock, out of touch with everything, even grief. They sat quietly, stunned from staring too long at the impossible. Nicodemus had resisted John, but once he was in the light and in the company of the others, he broke into a thousand pieces inside and started to cry uncontrollably. Suddenly he was touched and held and surrounded by people he did not even know, and they all seemed thankful for a fresh supply of tears.

Nicodemus looked into the faces of people he would have judged hours earlier and wondered at what he saw in their eyes. These were unlearned peasants, but they seemed to know and understand this grief better than he.

Then he looked at the body of Jesus, and in the lifeless form on the cross he saw himself—a tired old self-righteous man, weary of justifications and the foolish arrogance that kept him from people. He saw the ugliness of his pride and the lies by which he tried to maintain his superiority. He saw it all and hated himself in that moment, and he wept bitterly, alternately abhorring and longing for the touch he was receiving from those around him.

"He spoke of you often," said John with his arm on Nicodemus's shoulder. "He said you were one of the few in your position who could see."

"He did?" Nicodemus raised his wet eyes and wiped them with the sleeve of his robe. "I didn't know myself… until now."

"What will you do?" Nicodemus asked after a long pause.

"Breathe in and breathe out," said John mechanically, his eyes fixed on the body of Jesus. Then he turned to Nicodemus and added, "If I can."

"I will help bury him," said Nicodemus. "Joseph of Arimathea is coming."

In Pilate's chambers by John Fischer

"I'm sorry to disturb you, Pilate, but there's someone here to see you… says he wants to do something with the body."

"What body? Don't you know it's after hours? Send him back tomorrow."

"The body of that Jewish messiah," said the temple guard with the slur of a man who had already started on his happy hour before he left the office. Pilate looked at him with disgust. He would have ripped the man's job out from under him right then and there if he hadn't been one of Caesar's appointments. All of his problems, it seemed to Pilate, were Caesar's appointments.

"I wouldn't have bothered you except that he is a rather prominent man from Arimathea. I'm sure he will make it worth your while," he said, patting his coin belt and pulling back his lips to reveal a Cheshire-cat smile fat with the feathers of its own fresh bribe.

"All right. Bring me my robe and send him in. Wait a minute… you aren't talking about that Jesus character, are you? The one we crucified this afternoon?"

"Yes," said the guard, as Pilate's personal valet help him into his robe. "That's the one."

"Impossible. No one dies that quickly on a cross. Have you any confirmation?"

"No, sir."

"Well, I'm certainly not going to give anyone the body of a criminal without confirmation of death. Get me the centurion in charge of today's operation." He waved the guard away.

"Jesus… the 'King of the Jews,'" he reminded himself under his breath. "Will I ever be done with this man?"

Pilate adjusted his robe and strolled to the window while the footsteps of the guard disappeared down the hall. It seemed to him that the sun went down early on this day. It was one day he would just as soon forget anyway. He wondered why it felt like the middle of the night.

"Gaius," he said to his valet, "what time is it?"

"It's time to close the office, sir."

"But why is it so dark?"

"It's been this way since the middle of the afternoon, sir. I don't know why. Nothing but dark clouds without rain."

Suddenly a centurion guard appeared at the entrance to the room.

"How did you get here so fast? Why aren't you at the site? What's going on here? Am I the only person who knows it's not the middle of the night?"

"Sir, we left the site an hour ago. I gave most of the men the night off. We broke the legs of two of them. Strangest thing, though. The other one is already dead."

"The Jew?"

"Yes, sir."

"Will you vouch for that?"

"Sir, I personally shoved my spear right up to his heart. He was dead. No breath. No movement. Strangest thing: Blood and water came out. Never saw that before."

"Blood and water?" Pilate walked back to the window and thought. Lots of things happening today that people had never seen before. What was going on?

"How many guards are there now?"

"Two, sir. The crowd has fairly dispersed. Only a couple of women crying over the dead one."

"Very well. You may go. Guard, bring me Mr. Fat Belt from Arimathea."

The temple guard flashed his toothy smile again, but Pilate only stared at him.

"Thank you, Your Honor, for seeing me after hours," Joseph said nervously as he hurried into the room. "I am prepared to make it worth—"

"No need. I have already washed my hands of this matter, and I do not wish to dirty them again. What is it you want?"

"We would like the body of Jesus of Nazareth for burial. I have a tomb on my property already prepared."

"Why tonight? He can come down tomorrow with the others."

"Your Honor, if you would, please. Our custom is that no work be done on the Sabbath. Today is our Day of Preparation. I have made all the proper arrangements. I will take care of everything."

Pilate noticed Joseph's clothes and wondered what interest a well-to-do businessman would have in a poor country preacher whose luck had obviously run out.

"Are you related to him?"

Joseph hesitated and then surprised himself with what on the one hand was a lie but on the other was the most certain truth he had ever spoken.

"Yes."

"All right. You may have your dead man, but you will have two guards with you to ensure that the body gets put in that tomb and sealed properly. Guard, fetch me the centurion again!"

At the cross by John Fischer

The wounds on his hands bled slowly. Pressure from the weight of his body held back the flow. If there had been no other sounds that afternoon, it probably would have sounded like the slow, steady drip off the eaves of a mountain cabin on a damp foggy night.

But there were many sounds. Taunts from the soldiers, weeping and wailing from the women near the feet of Jesus, even careless laughter from children playing haphazardly around the perimeter of the crucifixion hill, oblivious to the significance of this particular execution. Small dark puddles would gather briefly under the top beam of the cross, only to be covered by the shuffle of a guard's feet. And then it would start in again: drip… drip… drip—little droplets seen but not heard.

Mary saw them. She stared at the puddle through her bloodshot eyes while his life flashed before her, and it seemed to her that the earth swallowed his blood as if it had been created for this. As if it were drinking its fill and would thirst no more.

Then she slowly turned her eyes up to his face, and her breath failed her. He already had her in the grasp of his eyes. It was the first time he had looked at her from the cross, and his eyes were full of the deepest despair and the deepest love she had ever known. In his eyes, it seemed as if she were falling—falling into a bottomless abyss. She looked until she could bear it no more and turned her eyes away so she could catch her breath again. Once more her gaze went to the small puddle in the dirt, and it seemed now that she, and only she, could hear the droplets landing, loud enough to shut out all other sounds.

Then she heard the words spoken to her: "Dear woman, here is your son." And to the disciple he loved, "Here is your mother."

"Remember me…" by John Fischer

I just had an epiphany while replying to a reader's comment about yesterday's Catch. Sylveen from Argentina had responded to my childhood road trip story with memories of her own dad, and regrets that at his deathbed, she didn't know Jesus yet, so she couldn't tell him about the plan of salvation. That led me to remind her, as I have written here before, that you never know what transpires in those last moments before death. God is a God of second, third, fourth, awe heck… many chances. Right up until the end. And John said that Jesus was "the true light that gives light to every man" (John 1:9), which would lead me to believe that everyone has some light to respond to, however great or small that might be.

And then I thought of the thief on the cross next to Jesus—the one who believed. That was what you might call a "last breath" conversion. And just what did he say? Did he pray the sinner's prayer? Did he receive Jesus into his heart as his personal Lord and savior? Did he agree to the four spiritual laws?

He simply said, "Remember me…" and that was enough.

Think of that guy. What a way to go. Right next to Jesus, and on into eternity. There's no way he could have known the profound significance of this particular death—that he was hanging next to the only begotten Son of God in the vortex of human history—that he was sharing something all the prophets pointed to, and all the apostles built upon.

All he knew was that Jesus was some sort of king, he had a kingdom, he was dying as an innocent man, and he had just forgiven the ones who put him wrongfully on the cross. From that he concluded that this guy wasn't like the rest of us. This guy was different. He must really be a king. And so he said, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom."

And Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise."

Those with evangelical backgrounds are no doubt familiar with all the various ways of making sure your prayer of salvation really "took." Depending on your particular denomination there were certain catch phrases to use, verses to quote or prayers to pray. In the end, I don't think God is that picky. Anyway, He can see our hearts, so He knows.

Actually, I think "Remember me…" will do just fine.

THE ELUSIVE MEANING OF LIFE

ECCLESIASTES 1:12-2:11

TODAY PEOPLE LOOK FOR THE TRUE MEANING OF LIFE IN MANY DIFFERENT PLACES.
LIKE THE PEOPLE OF SOLOMON'S DAY, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR PURPOSEFUL PLACES.
LIKE THE PEOPLE OF SOLOMON'S DAY, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACES.

THE MEANING OF LIFE IS NOT FOUND IN HUMAN PHILOSOPHY (WHAT I THINK)
12 I THE PREACHER WAS KING OVER ISRAEL IN JERUSALEM.
13. AND I GAVE MY HEART TO SEEK AND SEARCH OUT BY WISDOM CONCERNING ALL THINGS THAT ARE DONE UNDER HEAVEN: THIS SORE TRAVAIL HATH GOD GIVEN TO THE SONS OF MAN TO BE EXERCISED THEREWITH.
14. I HAVE SEEN ALL THE WORKS THAT ARE DONE UNDER THE SUN; AND, BEHOLD, ALL IS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT.
15. THAT WHICH IS CROOKED CANNOT BE MADE STRAIGHT: AND THAT WHICH IS WANTING CANNOT BE NUMBERED.
16. I COMMUNED WITH MINE OWN HEART, SAYING, LO, I AM COME TO GREAT ESTATE, AND HAVE GOTTEN MORE WISDOM THAN ALL THEY THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE ME IN JERUSALEM: YEA, MY HEART HAD GREAT EXPERIENCE OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE.
17. AND I GAVE MY HEART TO KNOW WISDOM, AND TO KNOW MADNESS AND FOLLY: I PERCEIVED THAT THIS ALSO IS VEXATION OF SPIRIT.
18. FOR IN MUCH WISDOM IS MUCH GRIEF: AND HE THAT INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH SORROW.
SOLOMON MADE A SEARCH OF HUMAN WISDOM "UNDER THE SUN". HE LOOKED AT WISDOM THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE GOD AND FOUND IT TO BE "VEXATION OF SPIRIT" (VS. 17). HE ALSO FOUND IT TO CAUSE GRIEF (VS. 18)
THIS IS NOT A CONTRADICTION TO SOLOMON'S DECLARATIONS OF THE VALUE OF WISDOM IN PROVERBS.
IN ECCLESIASTES SOLOMON TALKS OF HUMAN WISDOM.
IN PROVERBS SOLOMON TALKS OF GOD'S WISDOM 4:5-7, 9:10)PROVERBS 1:7
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE: BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.

PROVERBS 2:1-9
1. MY SON, IF THOU WILT RECEIVE MY WORDS, AND HIDE MY COMMANDMENTS WITH THEE;
2. SO THAT THOU INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO WISDOM, AND APPLY THINE HEART TO UNDERSTANDING;
3. YEA, IF THOU CRIEST AFTER KNOWLEDGE, AND LIFTEST UP THY VOICE FOR UNDERSTANDING;
4. IF THOU SEEKEST HER AS SILVER, AND SEARCHEST FOR HER AS FOR HID TREASURES;
5. THEN SHALT THOU UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF THE LORD, AND FIND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
6. FOR THE LORD GIVETH WISDOM: OUT OF HIS MOUTH COMETH KNOWLEDGE ANDUNDERSTANDING.
7. HE LAYETH UP SOUND WISDOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS: HE IS A BUCKLER TO THEM THAT WALK UPRIGHTLY.
8. HE KEEPETH THE PATHS OF JUDGMENT, AND PRESERVETH THE WAY OF HIS SAINTS.
9. THEN SHALT THOU UNDERSTAND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND JUDGMENT, AND EQUITY; YEA, EVERY GOOD PATH.


THE MEANING OF LIFE IS NOT FOUND IN PLEASURE (WHAT I ENJOY) 2:1-3

1. I SAID IN MINE HEART, GO TO NOW, I WILL PROVE THEE WITH MIRTH, THEREFORE ENJOY PLEASURE: AND, BEHOLD, THIS ALSO IS VANITY.
2. I SAID OF LAUGHTER, IT IS MAD: AND OF MIRTH, WHAT DOETH IT?
3. I SOUGHT IN MINE HEART TO GIVE MYSELF UNTO WINE, YET ACQUAINTING MINE HEART WITH WISDOM; AND TO LAY HOLD ON FOLLY, TILL I MIGHT SEE WHAT WAS THAT GOOD FOR THE SONS OF MEN, WHICH THEY SHOULD DO UNDER THE HEAVEN ALL THE DAYS OF THEIR LIFE.
SOLOMON TRIED TO FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE IN THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD, AND FOUND THAT IT WAS "VANITY". ALTHOUGH GOD IS NOT OPPOSED TO OUR ENJOYING OURSELVES, OVERINDULGENCE IS ALWAYS DISCOURAGED. THE FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS "TEMPERANCE" OR SELF-CONTROL (GALATIANS 5:22-23).


THE MEANING OF LIFE IS NOT FOUND IN PROJECTS (WHAT I DO) 2:4-6
4. I MADE ME GREAT WORKS; I BUILDED ME HOUSES; I PLANTED ME VINEYARDS:
5. I MADE ME GARDENS AND ORCHARDS, AND I PLANTED TREES IN THEM OF ALL KIND OF FRUITS:
6. I MADE ME POOLS OF WATER, TO WATER THEREWITH THE WOOD THAT BRINGETH FORTH TREES:
SOLOMON INVOLVED HIMSELF WITH GREAT BUILDING PROJECTS, SUCH AS THE TEMPLE, HIS OWN PALACE, AND THE BUILDING OF CITIES. THESE DID NOT BRING TRUE SATISFACTION. THE BIBLE ENCOURAGES US TO WORK (COLOSSIANS 3: 17, 23), BUT WORK IS NOT TO BE OUR GOD.

THE MEANING OF LIFE IS NOT FOUND IN POSSESSIONS (WHAT I HAVE) 2:7-11
7. I GOT ME SERVANTS AND MAIDENS, AND HAD SERVANTS BORN IN MY HOUSE; ALSO I HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS OF GREAT AND SMALL CATTLE ABOVE ALL THAT WERE IN JERUSALEM BEFORE ME:
8. I GATHERED ME ALSO SILVER AND GOLD, AND THE PECULIAR TREASURE OF KINGS AND OF THE PROVINCES: I GAT ME MEN SINGERS AND WOMEN SINGERS, AND THE DELIGHTS OF THE SONS OF MEN, AS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND THAT OF ALL SORTS.
9. SO I WAS GREAT, AND INCREASED MORE THAN ALL THAT WERE BEFORE ME IN JERUSALEM: ALSO MY WISDOM REMAINED WITH ME.
10. AND WHATSOEVER MINE EYES DESIRED I KEPT NOT FROM THEM, I WITHHELD NOT MY HEART FROM ANY JOY; FOR MY HEART REJOICED IN ALL MY LABOUR: AND THIS WAS MY PORTION OF ALL MY LABOUR.
11. THEN I LOOKED ON ALL THE WORKS THAT MY HANDS HAD WROUGHT, AND ON THE LABOUR THAT I HAD LABOURED TO DO: AND, BEHOLD, ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT, AND THERE WAS NO PROFIT UNDER THE SUN.

SOLOMON DID NOT FIND TRUE SATISFACTION AND THE MEANING OF TRUE LIFE IN WHAT HE OWNED (LUKE 12:15).
HE WAS AN EXTREMELY RICH MAN (1 KINGS 9:10-28).

THE MEANING OF LIFE IS FOUND IN A PERSON (WHO I KNOW)
COLOSSIANS 1:13-20, JOHN 14:6, PHILIPPIANS 1:21, 3:4-11
WE GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT TO FIND THE TRUE MEANING OF LIFE. IT IS FOUND IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST!
WHEN WE KNOW CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND LORD WE KNOW THE REAL MEANING OF LIFE.

Sowers Class April 5th Update

Be encouraged to tell others about the Lord! Give glory to God by sharing your witnessing encounters!

1. Saturday, April 18th is our Mexican Fiesta! Ole'! Mark the date!
FOOD, FUN, & FELLOWSHIP!
We will meet in the Sunday School class at 5:30.
There is a sign up - please let us know what you plan on bringing! :)
We hope to see you there!

2. April 19th Sunday School Treats: Glennie
If you would like to bring treats, please email me back.

3. 10:00 Service on Sunday

4. Prayer Requests:
-Vicky's aunt, Joyce, has a mass on her breast. We pray that she has peace and comfort during throughout her treatment.
-Please keep 7th grader, Levi, in your prayers. He has had a few set backs this week in his recovery as 7" clamps were left
inside of him during his last surgery and those sites were infected. Please help his body to heal and give this family comfort.
-Donna's daughter, Tracy, is having problems in her marriage. Pray that the Lord will keep her safe and help her through some difficult decisions.
-Mr. & Mrs. Good's son-in-law, Greg, traveled back from Texas yesterday. He will have treatments in Texas and hope to find out what caused the
bleeding in his brain, as well as the spinal fluid. We pray for wisdom for the doctors and peace of mind for the entire family.
-Keep Amy from LeRoy in your prayers as she is going through a very difficult time with the loss of her two precious sons.
Pray for comfort, healing, and that the Holy Spirit will work on her heart for the need of salvation.
-Jeff's friend, Lonnie, died on Saturday and leaves behind a wife and three children. Please give this grieving family strength and comfort.
-Tim's aunt, Debbie, has been cancer free for ten years and now her cancer levels came back high after she had a PET scan. She will get
the results of the testing this week and find out if there is any course of treatment. Pray for peace of mind as she awaits her results.
-Lori's friend has a fifth grade son that has been on some inappropriate sites. We pray that he is able to make the right decisions
and turn his heart toward the Lord.
-Laurie is having more tests done this week. We pray for good results, peace of mind, and healing.
-Please pray for Angie, the music teacher at Amy's school as she has been struggling with vertigo and other health issues throughout the year. She has been
seeing specialists throughout the year and they are perplexed about her situation. Angie is feeling helpless, hopeless, and extremely down about her current situation
and her inability to teach and be at school. May she put ALL of her trust in our wonderful Lord and Savior and ask Him for comfort and healing.

5. Praises:
-Tim's sister-in-law had leukemia as a child and has had a high blood count all of her life. Until just recently, when she had a blood test come back normal for the
very first time in her life!
-Deanna's parents have finally sold their home in Texas.
-Amy had the wonderful opportunity to witness to the daughter of her custodian at school last week Thursday. We were able to talk about the Lord for about 45 minutes,
free of interruptions, and I was able to leave her with some bible tracts. May the Holy Spirit work on her heart and see the need for salvation!

6. Lesson:

Ecclesiastes 1:12
Three Great Philosophical Questions to ask yourself:
1. Who am I?
2. Why am I here?
3. Where am I going?

Try to answer these questions as if you are an unsaved person.

Once you come to know the Savior and are saved you will:
1. become a child of a king
2. have a purpose for your life
3. glorify God and spread His Good News to everyone that you meet

The meaning of life is elusive if you are not living for God.
Meaning in life is not found in what you THINK.
Meaning in life is not found in PLEASURE.
Your pleasure cannot become your God.
Your pleasure cannot be found in projects.
Your pleasure cannot be found in possessions.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

There is no safer place than in the hands of Jesus, our Lord and Savior!
Have a blessed week!

Prayer Request, April 1st

Sole PROVIDER, Sole Comforter
"Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

Mr. & Mrs. Good's son-in-law, Greg (Jody's husband) drove his mother to Mississippi for a family funeral.
While he was there he got very sick and was taken to a hospital.
They care-flighted him to Hattesburg, Mississippi and operated on him last night. He had blood on both sides of his brain.
He does recognize Jody and his mother, and will be allowed to go back to Dallas on Sunday or Monday and be under the care of a neurologist there.
He will have to under go more testing there to understand the cause and effect of the problem. We would appreciate your prayers.
THANK YOU!