The Visitor » The Visitor – August 24, 2008

Here and There
by Wes Price
I know you will be blessed with a good message from Spencer Ross on Sunday morning and from Paul Lawrence on Sunday evening.
My wife and I will be away for a week attending a preaching confer- ence in Sevierville, Tennessee. We were blessed with a wonderful experience last year when the conference was held in Montgomery, Alabama and a great program of speakers and teachers are lined up for this year’s event.
Keep us in your prayers, and we will look forward to being with you on Sunday morning, August 31st.
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Mack Lyon’s lesson Sunday morning, August 31, will be “The New Life in Christ.” We keep saying that the Lord’s way to live is the best way to live this life that has ever been introduced to the family of man. Oh yes, men have their ways. Paul Kurtz wrote “Forbidden Fruit, the Ethics of Humanism.” But it is neither a comparison or a suitable alternative to our Lords’ way. The Lord’s way is THE BEST!
Join Mack for this lesson at 7:00 a.m. on Channel 27, KDFI-TV.
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I got to thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic who
passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back.
From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more flexible.
How many women out there will eat at home because their
husband didn’t suggest going out to dinner until after something had
been thawed? Does the word ‘refrigeration’ mean nothing to you?
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while
you watched ‘Jeopardy’ on television?
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said,’How about going
to lunch in a half hour?’ She would gas up and stammer, ‘I can’t. I
have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday,
I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.’ And my personal favorite: ‘It’s
Monday.’ She died a few years ago. We never did have
lunch together.
Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule
our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to
ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
We’ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get the kid toilet-
trained. We’ll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We’ll
go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of
college.
Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter,
and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we
awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of ‘I’m going
to,’ ‘I plan on,’ and ‘Someday,’ when things are settled down a bit.
When anyone calls my ’seize the moment’ friend, she is open to
adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new
ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five
minutes, and you’re ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of
Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It’s
just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula
and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car
and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way
home, I would have died happy.
Now…go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to…not
something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon
and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and
what would you say?
And why are you waiting?
Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent
this to you.
Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened
to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic
flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through
each day on the fly? When you ask, ‘How are you?’ Do you hear the
reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred
chores running through your head? Ever told your child, ‘We’ll do it
tomorrow.’ And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch?
Let a good friendship die? Just call to say ‘Hi’?
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened
gift…Thrown away…Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the
music before the song is over.
E. Ralph (Hank) Barnett
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You are invited to see our weekly bulletin on the church’s web site at
jeffersonblvd.org
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What a wonderful way to begin Sunday mornings. Watch “In Search of the Lord’s Way” on Channel 27 at 7:00 a.m. followed by “The Truth In Love” at 7:30 a.m. on Channel 52.

Prayer List
Pray for Wes & Alma Faye that they will have a safe trip back from Tennessee.
Lillian Rowland – Charlton Methodist – Room 303 East. She has conjestive heart failure. She does not need visitors at this time.
Dorothy Mooney, Jimmy’s mother, will have surgery this week.
Ed Horn spent a day at Methodist Central after falling at home this past week. No broken bones.
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Joyce Locke, Jack & Oleta Armstrong, Grady Theobalt, Jimmy Mooney, Larry Reynolds, Jim & Ada Couch, Lula Murray, Jennie Wright, Doris Henry, Roger Schrum, Catherine Coronado, Robert G.Bell, Evelyn Dillon, Angie Sabedra, Fran Womelsdorff, Morris Miller, Nancy Spurgeon, Carmen, Sylvia & Muriel McMillion, Vertie Lee Stanley, Treva Traylor, Urbanelle Cox, Billie Morgan, Bea Dipprey, Ruby Faas, Lois Rodriquez, John Rowland, Ida Smith, Weldon Siler, Holly Lee, Cathy Wood, Catherine Jayroe, Marjorie Moore, Geraldine Hurley, Joe Benedick, DrJ.& Dorothy Coats.
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THANK YOU NOTE
Can’t begin to tell you all the things this ought to say, but there’s a world of meaning in the thanks it brings your way! Thank you all for your kindness, cards and prayers. It helps to have such a family as all of you. May God Bless us all. The Locke Family.
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VITAL SIGNS: Aug. 17
Bible Study 62
Morning Worship 89
Afternoon Worship 50
Offering $3,239.00
Budget $3,410.46
Wed. July 13 36
Urbanelle Cox new phone #: 214-946-5042 – Cell #: 214-500-5175
Lula Murray’s address correction:
Lula Murray
% Mary Bearden
The Villages
18316 Whipporwill
Flint, TX 75762

Reflections
by Jack Armstrong
Oleta and I have missed two weeks of church services, and being with all of our friends over at the JBCOC, and it feels more like a month. My heart goes out to all of our dear shut-ins, and all who can’t be with us on a regular basis, because of health reasons and other problems beyond their control.
We heard Bro. & Sis. Bell had a beautfiul re-newal of their vows on August 10, 2008 to celebrate 60 years of marriage. To make it even sweeter, the ceremony was done by their fine grandson, Robet Guinn, who is a graduate of Brown Trail School of Preaching in Fort Worth. This family epitomizes everything as it should be in a close Christian family. Jean Lovell called and brought us up to date on the goings on and said Robert did a great job bringing the lesson at the morning service on August 10, 2008.
I don’t like to repeat myself, but seeing all these young men over at Brown Trail School doing so well, just makes me feel good about the future of the Lord’s church, to know they will carry on for men like Bro. Wes, Dan Manuel, Ramsey Wright and all of our fine preachers who are preaching God’s Word as it should be, strictly by the Bible! “To speak where the Bible speaks and to be silent where it is silent,” just as the Good Lord meant it to be as he said in Rev. 22:18-19.
Oleta and I received some great news on August 11, another of our sweet granddaughters is due to have a blessed event sometime in March of 2009. Her mom and dad are Scott & Cindy Wright and the sister of Laura. Her name is Keri Quigley who lives in the McKinney area with her husband, Doug.
Sometime when I see these little ones coming into the world, I often wonder, how much of their lives will I get to take part in, and what can I do to get their moms and dads to get them started in the Lord’s church as it should be. One thing I know we can all do is pray to that end daily. I’m a firm believer in the Bible Scripture that says “The effective fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much”! The reason I believe in it so strong is because prayer brought me through a horrible World War and 63 years of marriage, and still in one piece, (well sorta one piece). Anyway, if God is for you, who can be against you?

Semper Fidelis

(Always Faithful)
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We want to offer our sympathy to the family of Charlie Mais, a long-time member ot Sunset church. He passed away Monday. His funeral was Friday, 08/22/08 at Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home in Colleyville, TX and Graveside Services at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas, TX.
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