Monday

“Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of God in them.” (1 John 5:10a GW)

Emily Panter is improving slowly. Read the latest posts on Emily Panter
http://www.emilypanter.blogspot.com/

Debbie Miller continues to improve. Thank-you for your many prayers for her.

Pray for Mr. J.D. Smith. He’s in North Oaks with some heart problems. Your prayers will be appreciated.

The church will still be accepting Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes today if you didn’t turn yours in yesterday.

KneEmail by Mike Benson

Jackpot

WHO HASN’T DREAMED of hitting the jackpot and buying a new car and taking the vacation of a lifetime…?

Not all that long ago, Nevada was the only place you could legally play the slots or poker, and New Hampshire had the only legal lottery.

By 1999, thirty-seven states had lotteries, and gambling was legal in some form in all but three states (Utah, Tennessee, and Hawaii). Collectively, we Americans now spend more on gambling then we do on movies. Gross revenues for gambling exceeded fifty billion dollars just nine years ago.

However, the cost to society is even greater. A University of Illinois study found that the social and criminal cost to states is three times as high as the profits gained from gambling. Between fifteen and twenty million of us are now in danger of becoming problem gamblers. (Brad Knickerbocker)

“Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need” (Eph. 4:28).

Posted by Mike Benson at October 10, 2008 10:59 AM

Have a wonderful day!
Anna Lee