Daily Prayer List
Cornerstone Village: Hester Pickle
St. Luke’s Nursing Facility: Nellie Blankenship
Silver Oaks, Room #118: Ethel Metcalf
For information see:
Howard Williams
Josh & Hailey Workman Chris or Sigred Shaw
Dot Doyle’s grandniece Dot Doyle
Michelle Rider Ervin or Wilma Hill
Ethel Metcalf Marlene Cox
Doug McDermitt Rod or Jo Jurgens
Porge Jurgens Rod Jurgens
Ken Doyle Dot Doyle
Hazel Yount Max or Donna Stratton
Betty Foster Russell or Teresa Foster
Welton Thera Selmer Schow
Judy Fast Max or Donna Stratton
All of our missionaries as they spread the gospel.
Please welcome Nathan Ross and his family! Nathan will be trying out as preacher today. Please pray as we search for a new preacher.
Please pray for Donna Hatcher, Gary Shaw’s sister. Her throat is closing, causing breathing problems. She will be having surgery soon to correct it. Please pray in the coming weeks.
The Carthage church of Christ will be holding a Fall Gospel Meeting October 25-28 on the Topic of Practical Life Lessons. The speaker will be Ray Sullins from the Kansas Expressway church of Christ. On Sunday, lesson times are at 9:30, 10:20, and 6:00. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, lessons begin at 7:00. There will be a Youth Night on Sunday evening at 6:00 titled “God Loves a Cheerful Giver.”
Cyrus Nelson will be celebrating his first birthday at lunch today. Please join his family in the fun!
There will be a Men’s Business Meeting after the noon meal.
Pantry Item for Fair Haven Children’s Home: antibacterial wipes
Pantry Item for Benevolence Closet: canned soups
October 15, 2009 Devotional—In Search of the Lord’s Way
Scripture Reading: Matthew 21-22
Memory Verses: Matthew 22:36-40 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
According to the Lord, the essence of true religion is consuming love for the Lord God and loving your neighbor as yourself. Everything depends on these two. There is no true religion without them.
Love for God does not relieve responsibility to keep the Lord’s commandments; they ensure it. One who passionately loves the Lord God will not be content to give lipservice to the commandments, while he does as he pleases. Love for the Lord constrains him to pay attention to every commandment of the Lord.
“For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). A whole-hearted lover of God will not hold back from God. Whatever God says, he will do; and wherever God sends, he will go.
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
Love changes our hearts to look at others differently. Love expands the soul so that one may live for a larger purpose than fulfilling selfish desires. Love is the grand motivator. It is the essence of what God desires from us and through us.
Thought Questions: Do I love God more than anything? Is my love for God consuming? Is my love for my neighbor to the same extent that I love myself?
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