Nile Street Notes

Anna Church of Christ

104 Nile Street, Anna, Illinois 62906

833-5815

 

 

Website: www.annachurchofchrist.com

 

Vol 24.                                                   Issue 21                                      May 23, 2010

 

WHAT MEN PREFER

 

- Selected

 

SERMON TOPICS

A.M. – “Lessons From Israel”    

            (Deut. 8:18-20)

 

P.M. – “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”

            (Gen. 4:9)

 

Those For Whom We Are Praying:

Kathleen Ritchey

Jerry Ward

Bonnie Mangum

Bill Whitnel – recovering from a stroke.

Charles Dillow – Cancer has returned.

Virginia McIntyre

Jerry Toler – battling prostate cancer.

Haley Inman – Ann’s granddaughter. Remember Ann in your prayers as well.

Sue Thornsberry’s father.

Wardell’s brother, Carroll, is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

Nellie Childers - Mellie's sister.

 

 

Quotable Quote:  “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Wisdom From Proverbs: “Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.” (Prov. 12:25).

 

Welcome! If you're visiting with us, we extend you a special welcome and invite you to come back at every opportunity. If our worship seems unusual to you, please let us know what you find different. We endeavor to worship “in Spirit and in truth” (Jn. 4:24) and do only what scripture authorizes (Col. 3:17, Deut. 4:2; Rev. 22:18-19).

 

 

 

NEWS & UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

* Please remember to mute or turn off cell

   phones.

* Ladies’ Bible class will meet the 4th Monday in May at Rebekah’s.

* Change collection cans for Schults-Lewis Children’s Home are on the shelf in the back of the auditorium.

* Please clip “Box Tops For Education” & put them in the box in the Preacher’s office.

* Please continue to drop any Bible questions in the Question & Answer box in the foyer.

* Campbell Soup has not discontinued support for the homosexual agenda. Please continue boycotting them.

* 4th Sunday singing here, today, at 2:30.

* Benjamin Yates, son of Alan & Deborah Yates, grandson of John & Margaret Shelton and Larry & Kittie Yates, was

  graduated from Vienna  H.S.on May 21st at 8 p.m.

* There will be a brief meeting concerning Ladies'Day after the a.m. service.

* The new teaching assignment lists are in the  foyer.

* Change collection cans for Schults-Lewis Children’s Home are on the shelf in the back of the auditorium.

 

* Hearing assistance available upon request.

 

 

BIBLE QUESTION/ANSWER:

 

Last week’s answer:  Gamaliel (Acts 22:3).

 

New question: With what is confession made unto salvation?

 

Sentence Sermon: “You cannot get eye strain from looking on the bright side of things.”  

 

 

Birthdays &Anniversaries

Kittie Yates - 5/23

Ann Toler - 5/26

Wayne & Sandy Schultz - 5/26

Donna Bell - 5/29

 

 

 

 

From The Preaching Pen…

The Lost

            I really hate to lose anything. About six years ago, I cashed a check worth around $600 and brought the money home in the inside pocket of my coat. When my wife went to get it, it wasn’t there. I called every place I had been that day to see if anyone had found it (and would be honest enough to report it), but I had no luck. Luckily, it had slipped out of my pocket when I laid my coat over a chair at home and when we moved a few items, we found it. It was only missing for a few days. Fortunately, I’ve never lost anything of great value for an extended period of time– until recently.

            I had finished my sermons on a Thursday night two weeks ago and removed my memory stick from the computer and thought to myself, “I need to go and put this on the dresser right away so I’ll have it tomorrow.” I have yet to find it. Where did I put it? I’m sure only God knows, but I’m also convinced it must be in the house, so the search continues.

            I’m reminded of the woman of Luke 15 who had 10 pieces of silver, but lost one. She lit a candle and swept the house until she found it. When the lost item was found, she rejoiced and called her friends over to celebrate. In Luke 15:10, Jesus says, “Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.”

            Now, it may seem improper to compare something as mundane as a coin or a “memory stick” to a lost soul, but that’s the point of the parable of the coin – rejoicing over the lost coming into the light and being saved. The coin is inanimate, which may suggest the lifeless spiritual condition of the sinner – dead in his sins. Finding that one lost coin brought its owner more joy than the 9 which had never been lost, and so it is with God. When one confesses his sin and seeks forgiveness on God’s terms, Heaven rejoices.

            Are you like that coin – lost and in need of a Savior? Don’t trust the creeds, the catechisms, and the “think-so’s” of man, but look to God’s Word for salvation. In it we find “all things that pertain to life and Godliness…” (II Peter 1:3). Let us help you if we can.

 

R.W. McAlister, Minister

Anna church of Christ

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

Heaven rejoiced last week at the baptism of Katie McAlister into Christ (Luke 15:10). Please encourage and support this young Christian lady all you can, for it should be our prayer that her fire for the Lord will only continue to grow and never be put out. If you have yet to contact the cleansing blood of Christ through baptism and become part of the Lord's body, we pray you'll follow this courageous example. 

 

- R.W.

 

 

It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint



On this day in 1978, Mavis Hutchinson, at the age of 53, became the first woman to run all the way across the United States.  Beginning in Los Angeles, she finished her run 2,871 miles later in New York City.  If that weren’t amazing enough, she completed this race in only 70 days, which required her to average 41 miles a day! 

I don’t know about you, but I find this accomplishment hard to believe!  But it’s true; it really happened.  Talk about stamina and perseverance!  As I reflected on her accomplishment that occurred 32 years ago today, a spiritual application came to my mind.

You know, an important truth that we should remember is that as Christians, we are not in a sprint, but in a marathon.  Discipleship requires pace more than speed; calm constancy more than frenetic activity; daily commitment more than emotional highs; and a sustained candlelight more than a momentary fireworks display. 

It couldn’t have been easy for Mavis Hutchinson to run all the way across the United States, but she did it.  And likewise, it cannot be easy for a child of God to daily deny self, take up a cross and follow Jesus, but there is a great cloud of witnesses who testify to us that it can be done (Hebrews 12:1)!

Steve Higginbotham via MercEmail