One Moment, Please
March 30, 2014
Volume 04
Number 12
To Consider Matters of Interest to the
Tallmadge Church of Christ
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Bible Study
10:00
Morning W or ship
10:45
Evening W orship
6:00
W ednesday Bible Study
7:00
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Dock Hagler
Jim Vaughn
DEAC ONS
Tony C atalano
Glenn R eeder
Jam es R oss
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EDITOR: Lewis Willis
Our Spring
GOSPEL MEETING
Begins Today!
“A sower went out to
sow his seed...The seed
is the word of God.”
Luke 8:5,11
March 30—April 2
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Worship
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Bible Study
Speaker: Harry Osborne
10:00
Morning Worship
Bible
Study
10:45
10:00
Evening
Worship
6:00
Morning Worship
Wednesday Bible Study
10:45
7:00
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Jim Vaughn
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Tony7:00
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Glenn Reeder
James Ross
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THINK THINGS ARE BAD TODAY?
Many good faithful brethren are rightly
troubled and heart-sick over the current advocacy towards homosexual marriage. Godly
and moral people rightly grieve over the acceptance of wickedness whenever it occurs.
Jeremiah exemplifies the rightful lamenting by
the follower of God at the disobedience and
rebellion of his fellow-countrymen.
However, let us not allow our sorrow at
sin’s advance get to the point that we give up
and fail to speak in defense of truth
(Ephesians 5:11-12). As bad as it is in our society, imagine what it must have been like for
Lot, “oppressed by the filthy conduct of the
wicked,” in Sodom and Gomorrah (2 Peter
2:6-8). Abraham could not even find 10 righteous souls in that place to prevent God’s
judgment against it (Genesis 18:23-32; 19:2325). Though the number of morally-minded
people is declining, we still have more than
that! In Noah’s time, “the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and every intent
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). Out of all the earth,
only 8 were seen by God as fit to save, yet
Noah continued on as a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:4-8).
The Christians of the first century lived
in a world dominated by the wicked Roman
Empire. Their blood-lust led them to revel in
public exhibitions of violence for entertainment. The vast majority of the Roman Emperors during the first century were known for
practicing homosexuality. Public officials were
openly corrupt. Sexual immorality was paraded in public throughout an idolatrous world.
Faith in Christ was opposed by the government and despised by the vast majority of the
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ity of the populous. Good was condemned as intolerable while evil was
applauded and commended. In this
kind of godless environment, Paul gave
a clear and powerful admonition to the
younger man who would be left behind
when Paul was executed for his faith:
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince,
rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will
come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according to
their own desires, because they
have itching ears, they will heap
up for themselves teachers; and
they will turn their ears away from
the truth, and be turned aside to
fables. But you be watchful in all
things, endure afflictions, do the
work of an evangelist, fulfill your
ministry (2 Timothy 4:2-5).
Let us not give up, but continue to
speak out in defense of truth and biblical
morality! God will take care of His part in
ruling over the kingdoms of men, but let us
do our part as tireless preachers of righteousness!
Harry Osborne
RESPONSE: Last Sunday Bro. Gerald
Gates confessed sin in his life. The
church prayed for our good brother!