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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 February 17, 2008 Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Bro. Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: pastor.sgmbc@countrybaptist.org Web Site: www.countrybaptist.org/sgmbc "Where the truths of God’s word are taught" |
| You Were Asked To
Pray For: All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East, Zee Mink Fuller and Family, Her son’s Bryan Armstrong and Hunter Hackie, Daughter Shannon, and Brother Philip & Sondra Thornsberry, Virgil & Alice Hoskins, Andrew Preston, Helen Maggard, Renee Jackson, Larry & Linda Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Shawn Bradford, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Verna Mae Allen, Nita Bookout, Justin Bookout, Mrs. White, Thomas White, Wendell Henderson, Sarah Henderson, Judy Dunn her parents Elmer & Francis Harvey, Joshua Kidd, Donnie Henderson, Kevin Henderson, Rosalie Graves, Joe Henderson, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Larry Platt, Edna Garvin, Bro. George & Lena Kluth, Brother & Sister Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, Kathy Rosinbaum, Brother Keith & Susie Kennison, Brice baby, Brenda Galusha, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, Bobby Walker, Luann Reynolds, Bro. & Sis. Pugh, Timothy Fails, Jim & Linda Meier, Ernie & Lynn Ashworth, Brother David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother David & Susan Hitt, Manuel Seymour, Zach Seymour, Betty Beck, Robert Goodwin, Letha Langford, Billy Upson, Leacho Tittle, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia. |
| A Thought From C.
H. Spurgeon: Mercy to the Undeserving O fair reward of trust! My LORD, grant it me to the full! The truster
above all men feels himself to be a sinner; and lo, mercy is prepared
for him: he knows himself to have no deservings, but mercy comes in and
keeps house for him on a liberal scale. O LORD, give me this mercy, even
as I trust in Thee! |
| From the minds of
young men: The believer's life The believer's life, though short and passing as a vapor, is eventful of circumstances of the greatest significance. It is a period allotted to him to prepare for another world. And oh, what a blessed thought that there is another and a better world! We shall soon leave our present abode, full of sin and full of sorrow, changeful as the wind. Friends change, circumstances change, age changes; soon the light and joyous childhood of our youth begins to taste the bitters of life, and his sincere and happy brow becomes wrinkled with anxiety and care; old age creeps on, and we apparently are insensible of it. But soon it will be over, and a happy eternity follows. The Christian has his happiness to anticipate; the sinner his eternal misery to look forward to. Oh, it is better to be at the disposal of God than at any moment to have the full control of ourselves! Christ's unchanging love and tenderness Christ's unchanging love and tenderness scatter all the gloomy mists and dark clouds of our pilgrimage, and gladden the drooping spirit. Cheer up, tried and tempted Christian! A blissful eternity will make up for all the crosses and trials, the bitters and woes of the present. Then shall real happiness dawn upon your spirit, warming and delighting your soul through eternity. Strive not for the world's smiles; they are deceitful. And fear not its scorn while God smiles upon you. By Whitmore Winslow, His journal, which was previously unknown to his
family, was found among his papers after his unexpected death, at the
age of 21. He died in 1856, and was the son of Octavius Winslow. These
two were written at the age of 15. |
| Thought for the
week: A Christian's habits Christian parents should resist the entrance of worldly conformity
into their families. True religion will not dwell amid such scenes; her refined and
spiritual taste is soon offended, and she retires. If it is his aim to approach as nearly as possible to the manners of the world without actually being numbered with its votaries, his children will be restrained with difficulty, on the godly side of the line of demarcation, and be perpetually longing and trying to push onward towards worldliness. The miserable efforts, made by some professing Christians, to be thought people of taste and fashion, show how badly they bear the Christian yoke, and how nearly they are resolved to cast it away as an encumbrance. We would despise these things wherever we see them, if they did not demand claims upon our pity, still stronger than those upon our scorn. When a worldly temper has crept into the circle of a Christian family, piety retires before it, and the spirit of error soon enters to take possession of the desolate home. From the works of John Angell James |