WELL IT IS A WELCOME TO A COOL MONDAY MORNING.  IT IS BRIGHT CLEAR AND REALLY NICE…I AM HEARING PECAN FALLING EVERY NOW AND THEM IT IS GETTING CLOSE TO HARVEST TIME FOR THEM. 

  WE HAD GOOD ATTENDANCE AT BOTH CHURCHES YESTERDAY….THE WORLD WIDE COMMUNION SUNDAY IS SO VERY NEAT, JUST THINK, FOLKS AROUND THE WORLD ARE CELEBRATING THE SAME GREAT THANKSGIVING WE DID AND HOW THAT MUST HONOR OUR LORD…I AM GLAD WE COULD BE PART OF THAT CELEBRATION…AND BE THANKFUL FOR IT, TOO!!!

 

READING FOR THE WEEK:

JOB 23:1-9,16-17; PSALM 22:1-15

HEBREWS 4:12-16; MARK 10:17-31

 

SERMON FOR SUNDAY:

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF OUR OLD TESTAMENT SERIES.

 

THE EVENT THE PLACE THE PEOPLE

OCTOBER 14

CREATION  THE GARDEN ADAM  AND EVE

GENESIS 1-3

 

IF YOU DID NOT GET A COPY OF “THE HOMEWORK” SHEET SUNDAY I HAVE ATTACHED IT TO THIS EMAIL.  IT IS MY HOPE THAT THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO SEE WHERE THE SERMON IS HEADED.

 

 

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD….BOXES ARE AVAILABLE   FOR  OUR YEARLY PROJECT…THIS IS ALWAYS A FUN PROJECT.  LAST YEAR WE COLLECTED 34 BOXES…..LET BEAT THAT THIS YEAR!!!

 

the tie that binds……LET’S GET BUSY MAKING SCARVES FOR THE HOMELESS SHELTER IN BATON ROGUE.  OUR OWN KIM DOMINICK OVER SEES THIS PROJECT AND WE HAVE HELPED BY MAKING SCARVES FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, SO LET’S GET BUSY.

 

 

I'LL TESTIFY TO THAT

SEVERAL WOMEN, EACH TRYING TO ONE-UP THE OTHER, APPEARED IN COURT, EACH ACCUSING THE OTHERS OF CAUSING THE TROUBLE THEY WERE HAVING IN THE APARTMENT BUILDING WHERE THEY LIVED.

THE JUDGE, WITH SOLOMON-LIKE WISDOM DECREED, "OKAY, I'M READY TO HEAR THE EVIDENCE...I'LL HEAR THE OLDEST FIRST."

THE CASE WAS DISMISSED FOR LACK OF TESTIMONY.

 

CONCLUSION TO LAST SUNDAY’S SERMON..

THANKS

LUKE 22:14-23

¹⁷ After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said ¹⁹ And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it

 

  BE THANKFUL FOR:

 

 OUR HISTORY…WHILE IT MAY NOT BE THE BEST –IN OUR EYES---IT IS OUR AND AS WE LOOK BACK WE CAN SEE THAT GOD IS WITH US AND THAT HIS MERCY IS OUR….

 

THEN  PRESENT MOMENT WE MUST LIVE IN FOR JESUS TEACHES US TO LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME….

 

THEN WE CAN FEEL SECURE IN OUR HOPE OF THE FUTURE…FOR THAT FUTURE IS SHOWN NOT IN JUST PROMISE…IT IS SHOWN IN ACTIONS OF REDEMPTION, LOVE AND GRACE.

SO…

 

TAKE THE BREAD…GIVE THANKS

TAKE THE CUP AND GIVE THANKS

FOR…WE HAVE MUCH...TO BE THANKFUL FOR AND TO GIVE THANKS FOR…NOW AND FOR EVERMORE….

 

I HOPE THIS WEEK YOU AND I CAN BE THANKFUL FOR OUR LORD HAS DONE AND IS DOING FOR US!!

 

GOD BLESS YOU!!

 

EMILE