Monday

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father …

[I pray that] you,

being rooted and firmly established in love,

may be able … to know the Messiah’s love

that surpasses knowledge,

so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

~Ephesians 3:14, 17-19, HCSB~

Jesse Dean is doing well. He is working to gain back his strength now.

Kentwood Police Officer Donald Garner will have surgery in Lacombe Wednesday. Please be in prayer.

Mrs. Jeanette Rhodus will have surgery this morning at North Oaks. She was just found to have cancer. Please pray for “Miss” Jeanette and her family.

Jennie Stegall and her family continue to need our prayers.

Pray for Tina Cox and her family as Tina undergoes cancer treatment.

Several people have medical procedures or important appointments today. Please be in pray for each situation.

Lee Thomas Bartholomae Sr.
A retired safety and security director for the U.S. government, he passed away Saturday, April 5, 2008, in Baton Rouge. He was 84, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., and resident of Baton Rouge. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served in the Normandy invasion. Visitation at Ourso Funeral Home, Gonzales, on Monday, April 7, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visitation at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, Whitehall, on Tuesday from 9 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m., with Monsignor Gerald Lefebvre, celebrant. Burial in Whitehall Cemetery. Survived by his wife, Belva Delatte Bartholomae, Baton Rouge; daughter and son-in-law, Loretta B. and William Jeter, Baton Rouge; two sons and daughters-in-law, Lee Thomas “Tom” and Charlene Bartholomae, Kentwood, and James Frederick “Jimmy” and Cindy Bartholomae, Chalmette; and seven grandchildren, Nathan, Katie, Grace, Jamie, Michael, Theresa and Mark. He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and NARFD and an avid woodworker. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Hospice of Baton Rouge, 9063 Siegen Lane, Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70810.

Deacon Hospital Ministry – April 6-12

• Andy Taylor

• Mike Estay
  

Two Rivers Associational Semi-Annual Meeting

• Monday, April 14
  
• Greensburg F.B.C.
• 6:30 P.M.
  

KneEmail

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…”

(Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
APOLOGIZING DOESN’T COME easy for some of us…

We sometimes choke on the words, “I’m sorry.” Well, in fact, sometimes we speak the words, but we do so with such animosity, the message is lost.

I can illustrate. Being a parent of four children, I have had to “moderate” a good number of apologies. On many occasions, I have told one of my children, “Now you tell your brother/sister you’re sorry.” What then comes out of their mouth sounds more like a child who is demon possessed than a sincere apology. Teeth clenched…jaw set…and the words, “I’m sorry” are spoken in a forceful and almost growling tone. (If you have children, you know exactly what I’m talking about).

But now, that’s just kid’s stuff right? Adults don’t behave like that, now do we? Well, maybe we’re not so obvious, but we still have ways of speaking those words with less than sincerity. For example, how many times have you heard people say things like…

— If I have done anything to offend you, I’m sorry.
— I’m sorry, but if you wouldn’t have…
— If you’ll apologize to me, I’ll apologize to you.

Isn’t it time we quit pretending to be sorry? Let us discipline ourselves to be humble enough to graciously and freely say we are sorry when we have offended others. When confronted with his sin, King David didn’t make any excuses, but simply admitted his wrong by saying, “I have sinned against the Lord” (2 Samuel 12:13).

Next time you need to say you’re sorry. Humble yourself and do so, and say it like you mean it. (Steve Higginbotham)

“I said, ‘LORD, be merciful to me;

Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.'”

~Psm. 41:4~

Make today a magnificent Monday!

Anna Lee