Sunday

“Watch therefore, and pray always

that you may be counted worthy

to escape all these things

that will come to pass,

and to stand before the Son of Man.”

~Luke 21:36~

Latest post from Emily Panter

One of the pros of being a P.K.

by Emily Panter
This past Sunday night we had our monthy mission meeting at church. As the good Baptists that we are, we met in the fellowship hall and had food. There is a room of to the side where the kinds can play during the meeting. Noah came up to Luke while we were eating and said: “Dad, Becca is doing ….(I can’t remember).” As usual, when Noah taddles od someone Luke sent him away with a “go on son.” But then Luke happened to be walking by the room just as Noah went back in and he overheard Noah say: “Becca, I told the pastor!” Ha! I thought that was priceless:)

On a more serious note, please contine to pray for my kiddos, especially the older two. I got the stomach bug that has been going around this past week and I could see the concern of Hannah’s face. She asked me if I was sure I would be ok, and then she apparently had a very vivid and scary dream of me screaming and the whole ordeal happening again. It has really been hardest on her to deal with. She understood the implications of what might have been. I appreciate the prayers.

I continue to get stronger, and learned this week that a plus of this whole thing is that it has helped me deal with my obsesive dread of throwing up. I can now handle it much more gracefully.

Lawrence Dale “Larry” Sibley
A native of Holden and a resident of Pride living in Zachary Manor Nursing Home, he passed away at Lane Regional Medical Center at 7 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. He was 86, born on Dec. 5, 1922. Self-employed in the finance and railroad maintenance business for many years, he was past master of Plains Lodge No. 135, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Acacia Shrine Temple in Baton Rouge. Visiting at Charlet Funeral Home Inc. in Zachary on Sunday, Jan. 18, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a Masonic service at 7 p.m. Visiting resumes at the funeral home on Monday from 11:30 a.m. until religious service at 1 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Greg Davis. Graveside service at Pine Grove Methodist Church Cemetery in Pine Grove at 3 p.m. Monday. Survived by his daughter, Laura E. Sibley, of Pride; and a brother, Lemuel “LeRoy” Sibley, of Denham Springs. Preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Frances Dutsch Sibley; father, Lemuel Sibley; and mother, Lessie Phenald Brown Sibley; half sister, Ellen Sibley Smith, who was of Kentwood; half brother, Elvin Sibley, who was of Central; half brother, Walter Brown; half sisters, Tincey Marie Brown Booker and Flossie Brown Vickers Sibley; and adopted brother, James “Junior” Sibley, who was of Pride. Pallbearers will be Thomas Harrison, Kelvin Johnson, Lee Smith, Mark Mitchell, Henry Baxter and Robert Snider. Honorary pallbearers are Richard Harrison and Arthur Schabla. Share sympathies, condolences and memories at www.CharletFuneralHome.com.
Today is set aside as Santity of Life Sunday. I thought you might enjoy reading some of these Baptist Message articles:
Baptist Press
January 16, 2009

TEXAS–ADOPTION: Couple advocates adoption in word & deed. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29675

GEORGIA–‘Sanctity of Human Life Sunday’ set for Jan. 18. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29676

KENTUCKY–ADOPTION (Russell D. Moore): Finding Jesus in a Russian orphanage. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29677

TENNESSEE–ADOPTION (Michael Foust): Journey through infertility was worth it. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29679

TENNESSEE—ADOPTION (Dwayne Hastings): Celebrating God’s gift of life during Chinese New Year. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29678

VIRGINIA–ADOPTION (Shawn Hendricks): A few fatherly thoughts for daughter Laura. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29680

TEXAS–ADOPTION (Thomas White): The heart of the Gospel. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29681

WASHINGTON–Bush: Acted for U.S. ‘best interests.’ http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29682

WASHINGTON–LIFE DIGEST: ‘Culture of life’ made progress, Bush says; … http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29683

NEW YORK–Planned Parenthood cuts HQ staff. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29684

EL SALVADOR–Open doors abound in El Salvador. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29685

LOUISIANA–FIRST-PERSON (Kelly Boggs): Heroes for life. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29686

Don’t forget:
-the baby shower for Lauren H. Fowler today at 2 P.M.
– WMU meeting at 4 P.M.
-Soup Drive
– Lottie Moon Chirstmas Offering
KneEmail
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
HAVE YOU EVER felt truly alone…?
After my father died, I gathered with our family at a funeral home to choose the casket and arrange specifics for the memorial service. As I drove away from the funeral home, I made it only about two hundred yards before I broke down and wept, and had to pull the car over and stop.
This wasn’t the first time I’d cried after my father’s death, but it was the first time I’d cried alone, and the tears and the grief were so strong. Cars streamed past me, their passengers and drivers unaware of what was taking place in my car, and I vividly remember how alone I felt.
But in truth I wasn’t alone, because only two hundred yards away were people who loved me with all their hearts. To be comforted, all I needed to do was turn around and go back to the funeral home. I felt alone–but I really wasn’t.
For me, personally, the sense of aloneness in that moment was overwhelming; yet I know that many others have experienced far worse than anything I went through. Many have wept as I did, but could never be assured there was someone nearby they could turn to for comfort, whether two hundred yards away or two hundred miles.
And yet, even in comparison to such unbearable experiences, there’s Someone else whose pain of isolation and abandonment goes infinitely deeper.
Before being nailed to the cross, Jesus already knew what it meant to be forsaken; He had become intimately acquainted with being rejected or abandoned by men. Yet whenever it happened, He could always say, “Though forsaken by men, I am not alone, for My Father is always with Me.”
But not now.
He who for all eternity has never been alone is now wholly abandoned. Such utter desolation has never existed before in all eternity, because of the infinite love and fellowship of the Godhead, which can never be broken. But not the incarnate Son must be forsaken by the Father…because the Father is holy, and there in the Father’s sight is “the most grotesque display of ugliness imaginable.” It’s the monstrous sight of the unbounded totality of human sin resting upon one Man.
Therefore that Man must be utterly removed from the presence of the holy God, utterly separated, as far as the east is from the west.
Jesus didn’t just feel forsaken; He is forsaken. (C.J. Mahaney)
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?'” (Matt. 27:46).
Have a special Lord’s Day today.
Anna Lee

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