NEWS AND NOTES:
MAY 5, 2013
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Prayer Requests:
Amy Petitt is doing better with physical
therapy on her knee.
Geneva Simpson is now in The Bridge at
Highland, and will be there for a little while as
she recuperates and rehabs her leg.
Ritta Willis will be having a CT scan sometime
this week to determine the progress the
chemo treatments have made on arresting
the cancer.
Paul Lundy had his stitches removed this past
week and doing better.
Brandon Lundy is now at home and
recuperating from his surgery.
Steve Searcy underwent heart surgery this
past week, and came through surgery fine.
Roger Johnson
Connie Ferguson
Jane Harris
Wayne Bennett
Jack Culbreath
Lucille Durrett
Doris Culbreath
Lisa Lane
Ritta Willis
Paul Sheppard
Lenora Durrett
Kenny Durrett
Teresa Jackson
Kay Parker
Sonya Petitt
Herman Whited
Helen Sheppard
Wilkie Sheppard
Bill Willis
Lee Runyon
Oneal Gregory
Lendell Huffines
Priscilla Ford
John Honeycutt
Patsy Ferguson
Joanne Moore
Roy Gambrell
Sandra Thomerson
Doug Parks
Gary O’Brien
Andy Bishop
Steve Searcy
Randy Briley
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Mirror, mirror on the wall;
Can you see Christ in me at all?
Upcoming Events:
 This morning after worship, all those who
signed up to work at camp this year will need
to meet with the camp board in the
fellowship hall to receive assignments and
duties.
 There is a sign-up list on the bulletin board for
all those who would like to help with our VBS
this year. Please sign your name and what
you would like to do. Our VBS this year will
be Saturday, July 13th from 9:00 – 2:00.
 This coming Friday night, May 10th, Standing
Stone will have their annual Friday Night
Singing, and Clearview is invited to go. It will
be very encouraging to them if as many as are
able go and support this, since they are one of
our mission efforts.
 Next Saturday morning, May 11th, the ladies
are invited to breakfast cooked entirely by
some of the men of the congregation. This is
to honor all of our mothers, past and present.
The breakfast will begin at 8:30, and if you
have any questions, please see Mike Moore.
 Clearview will be hosting the Third Sunday
Singing on Sunday, May 19th, at 2:30 in the
afternoon.
 The Song Leader Singing Class will meet
Sunday night after service on May 12th.
 The Birthday and Anniversary fellowship for
May will be Sunday evening, May 19th, after
worship. The ladies are asked to bring finger
foods and drinks, and everyone is invited to
stay.
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We flatter those we scarcely know;
We please the fleeting guest;
Yet often we deal a thoughtless blow
To those we love the best!
“The Helpless and the
Helpers”
As all of the miracles of our Lord are
impressive, the one about the healed
paralytic (NKJV) is especially impressive to
me. In Mark 2:1-12 the reader is immediately
taken back to a first century home located in
Capernaum. It was likely just a small flat,
rectangular in shape with an open courtyard
in the center area. There would have been
one door to enter the home, and through the
door an enclosed porch area where the Lord
would have been as he preached to the
people. The roof of the flat would have been
made of tiles.
The man whom the Bible calls a paralytic
(sick of the palsy-KJV), was carried by friends
to the home where Jesus was preaching.
Since there was a massive crowd hindering
this sick man’s friends’ ability to carry the
paralytic near to the Lord, they made their
way to the rooftop and began to break away
those tiles and then lowered their sick friend
to Jesus’ side. As a result of their faith the
man was made whole.
What can we learn from this remarkable
miracle? I only want to mention two things.
The reader first learns that there was one
who was helpless; and second, that there
were some who were helpers. The helpless
was obviously the paralytic. Anywhere he
wanted to go, he had to be carried. Add to
that, he had no ability to heal himself. Like
the paralytic, there are countless souls in the
communities in which we live who are
helpless. They are lost in sin and do not have
the ability to heal themselves (Micah 6:7;
Eph. 2:8-9). Our job as preachers and
Christians in general is to reach out to the
helpless. This naturally leads us to the second
lesson – there were some who were helpers.
Friends of the paralytic each took a corner of
the bed upon which the sick man lay and
carried him to be near the Lord. It’s obvious
that the paralytic was not the only one who
had faith that Jesus had the power to heal.
The text says that he was healed because of
“their” faith. Those who are lost in sin need
Christians to be their friends. They need
people like you and me who will care enough
to show them the way to Jesus and to teach
them of His ways.
-Neil Richey-
What We Believe
Stephen Wiggins – San Augustine, Tx.
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father but
by me” (John 14:6). On another occasion the
apostle Peter stated, “There is salvation in
none other. For there is none other name
under heaven given among men, wherein we
must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Here the Bible
teaches that for one to be saved they must
come to the Father through the Son. There is
no other way to be saved.
One cannot
circumvent Jesus and get to heaven. These
two passages are troubling to liberal
theologians. The reason why is because they
do not like this exclusive claim to Christianity.
The don’t appreciate that Jesus is the only
way to the Father. They want to preach that
people can be saved in other religions as well,
even when those religions deny Jesus is the
Son of God. They want to argue that you can
live and die in the religion of your choice –
Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or not
any religion at all and still go to heaven when
this life is over. Ironically, in doing this they
have rejected the Jesus of the Bible.
Therefore, they have repudiated the only
means by which they or anyone else can ever
be saved.
One of the ways these liberal theologians
try to get around this exclusive claim of
Christianity is by teaching that all people will
have a second chance to accept Jesus after
death.
One preacher in San Augustine
teaches this. He claims those who die lost will
receive a second chance to be saved following
their death. He says that anyone who does
not accept Jesus in this life will get a second
chance after they die. The idea is that if one
dies in an unsaved condition that person will
have another opportunity to embrace the
Savior and be saved after this life is over. The
problem with this theology is that it cannot be
substantiated by the Bible. Nowhere does
God give any hope to anyone that following
death they will have another chance to be
saved.
This so-called “second chance
theology” does not come from God’s word. It
is un-Biblical. Further, it is amazing that those
denominational church members who attend
where this man preaches can tolerate such
heretical theology. Will they continue to
tolerate these unscriptural views without any
disciplinary action? My plea is that none
within the community will be deceived by this
error. Just remember that any religious
message which is not taught by the Bible is a
false doctrine. Don’t believe it. Reject it as
error.
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“God is Still Love”
A man traveling through the country
noticed that the weather vane on the roof of
a farm building bore the phrase, “God is
Love”. He was troubled about it, and asked
the farmer, “Do you think God’s love is as
changeable as that weather vane?” “You miss
the point, sir” replied the farmer. “It is on the
weather vane because no matter which way
the wind is blowing, God is still love!”
“And we have known and believed the love
that God hath to us. God is love; and he that
dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in
him” (1 John 4:16).
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On the Lighter Side:
Finding one of her students making faces
at others on the playground, Ms. Smith
stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling
sweetly, the Sunday School teacher said,
“Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if I
made ugly faces, my face would freeze and I
would stay like that.” Bobby looked up and
replied, “Well, Ms. Smith, you can’t say you
weren’t warned.”