Announcements
Detergent--
We
continue to collect detergent for the Samaritan Center. Linda
Brandon tells me Purex is buy 1, get 2 free at Walgreens again!
Trunk
or Treat--
Saturday,
October 26 from 2-4!
Join
us for this celebration! Bring your car and decorate your trunk to
give away candy. If you'd like to donate candy to be given away,
please speak with Lynne Brock or Judy Smith. Also, they're looking
for donations of Little Debbie items for a cake walk.
Money
Matters--
We're going to spend the next three weeks talking about money in the
church and what God's Word has to say about it. This week?
Why
We Give
Room
in the Inn--
Tonight!!
Chattanooga
Room in the Inn
will be celebrating their anniversary from 5-8pm at Lyndsay Street
Hall. Speak with Lizz if you're interested.
Community
Kitchen Spot
There
are a lot of hungry and homeless children of God and the community
needs some help feeding them. If you would like to help out, please
bring the following items to church this Sunday & put them on the
bookshelf.
#10
cans - mixed vegetables / peas
#10
cans fruit
Dinner
napkins
Plastic
forks / spoons
Dry
milk
New
Hope News
Sunday
School—This Sunday, we'll continue our study the 5th
chapter of Matthew, which is the beginning of the Sermon on the
Mount.
Elder
Nominations—Please be in prayer for our nominating
committee as they seek out leaders for Christ's church. If there is
someone you would like to see be an elder, please speak with them
before nominating them. Rosie Sanislo is heading up the committee
this year.
Wednesday
Bible Study--
We start our Bible study at 6:30 and will be exploring the kings of
Israel.
Pray
For:
Robert
Gerskin, Max's dad, who went through surgery yesterday
The
church, that it might be ever faithful
Our
government, that God might lead them with a spirit of wisdom and
humility
Links
Keith's
Random Thoughts
Know
what's crazy?
In
8 years, I'll be almost 40.
In
14 years, Caleb will be driving.
In
35 years, my daughter will be ready to be married.
It's
easy to do this—to look into the future and wonder about what might
be. When we do this, we get anxious. (Well, at least I get anxious.
I think it's a pretty safe assumption to say that you might get
anxious, too.) We worry about what might come to pass. We worry
about things that will never be. We invest nervous energy in things
that are far off in the distance.
I
freely admit my anxieties. I've been seeing a therapist at a minimum
of once a month for the past 9 years to help me get through them.
Lately, I've really turned a corner in the struggle. The key?
Gratitude.
When
I start worrying about the future (or the lack thereof), I stop
myself and say thank you to God for the fact that there is a present.
When I worry about tomorrow, I thank God for today. When the
entirety of my energies is focused upon things that may come to pass,
I redirect them into recognizing all the wondrous things that
actually are. At night, when I'm in bed awake at 3 a.m. &
wondering if I'm about to die, I give thanks to God for the fact that
at that moment, I am alive. I give thanks for a roof over my head
and the relationships that surround me. I give thanks for a Savior
to shepherd me through the shattered veil of death, and I give thanks
for the endless love of God.
When
I get anxious about Caleb's future, I give thanks for his present.
When
tomorrow seems too big to handle, I give thanks to God for taking
care of today.
When
I worry about Danielle and those filthy men that will try and ask her
out, well, then I research convents.
Nobody's
perfect.
Text
for this Sunday
Revelation
4:1-6
(ESV)
After
this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the
first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said,
“Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after
this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in
heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3 And he who sat there had the
appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a
rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
4 Around the throne
were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four
elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings[a] and
peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of
fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 6 and before the throne
there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.
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