February 2004
   Happy Valentines everyone. Be sure you remember that special someone this Feb. 14th, I'm talking to those ladies too! Believe it or not, some men love to receive flowers also. How did the first month of the new year set with you? Surely Gods' blessing were upon you, He is SO good to us. Let's remember our annual church dinner at Hometown Buffet on Thursday, Jan. 29th. Please bring family and friends, and remember our dress code. We always have a great time together! Information is located in the foyer (Didn't Bro. Tim do an excellent job on the flyer, or was that Diana?). Congratulations to Bro. Tim and Diana for 24 years of marraige. May God continually bless them for many years to come. Ladies, Hat Sunday will be on the 8th this month. Welcome to Sister Paula who has joined the choir. She is definately a breath of spring up there. If anyone else is interested in the choir, we would gladly receive you as well. No auditions required, just show up one Sunday morning!Everyone have a wonderful month, don't let that ugly thing called the IRS get you down! Just remember, "This is the taxing part of the year" nyuk nyuk!! Art Kinsey 2-02 February |  Persistent Prayer by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman "Men ought always to pray and not to faint" (Luke18:1). "Go to the ant." Tammerlane used to relate to his friends an anecdote of his early life. "I once he said, "was forced to take shelter from my enemies in a ruined building, where I sat alone many hours. Desiring to divert my mind from my hopeless condition, I fixed my eyes on an ant that was carrying a grain of corn larger than itself up a high wall. I numbered the efforts it made to accomplish this object. The grain fell sixty-nine times to the ground; but the insect persevered, and the seventieth time it reached the top. This sight gave me courage at the moment, and I never forgot the lesson. --The King's Business Prayer which takes the fact that past prayers have not been answered as a reason for languor, has already ceased to be the prayer of faith. To the prayer of faith the fact that prayers remain unanswered is only evidence that the moment of the answer is so much nearer. From first to last, the lessons and examples of our Lord all tell us that prayer which cannot persevere and urge its plea importunately, and renew, and renew itself again, and gather strength from every past petition, is not the prayer that will prevail. --William Arthur Rubenstein, the great musician, once said, "If I omit practice one day, I notice it; if two days, my friends notice it; if three days, the public notice it." It is the old doctrine, "Practice makes perfect." We must continue believing, continue praying, continue doing His will. Suppose along any line of art, one should cease practicing, we know what the result would be. If we would only use the same quality of common sense in our religion that we use in our everyday life, we should go on to perfection. The motto of David Livingstone was in these words, "I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose." By unfaltering persistence and faith in God he conquered.  The Burglar A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried a creative defense to get his client off the hook. "My client," he told the judge, "merely inserted his arm into the window and removed paltry items. His arm is not himself, so I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed solely by his arm." "Well put," the judge replied with a grin. "Using that same logic, I sentence the defendent's arm to one year's imprisonment. Your client can accompany the arm or not, as he chooses." The defendent smiled. With this lawyer's help, he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out. |
