“Continue earnestly in prayer,
being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.”
~Colossians 4:2~
Please add Mrs. Maxine Turner to your prayer list. She is hospitalized at North Oaks. As you pray for her, please remember to add her family, especially her sister, Frances Strickland. I know your prayers will be greatly appreciated.
Continue to pray for David Allen. Pray for his lungs to improve today. Also, pray for his family, especially Fannie, the children, and his parents. The family is very thankful to know you are praying.
Pray for those who are undergoing tests and/or treatment for various problems.
Continue to pray for my family as we are in the midst of numerous appointments for my parents and continual monitoring of my mother. I’m thankful for the progress that has been made and the assistance from my sisters. It’s a real blessing that we all live in this area. Keep us in your prayers.
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Eddie Jean Hodges
(March 29, 1926 – October 11, 2009)
Died at 7:10 p.m. on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at Kentwood Manor Nursing Home in Kentwood, LA. Age 83 years.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. More information will be added when available.
McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements.
Shortfall stirs quick response; 25 more missionaries able to go overseas
http://www.imb.org/main/news/details.asp?StoryID=8115&LanguageID=1709&cid=imbel
I know of one area church that took on the challenge of sending one of this missionary units above and beyond their usual mission offering. One Sunday they collected more than enough to meet the needs for an entire year. That’s what missions is about! Those who cannot/do not go can support others through prayer and giving.
Kne
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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10
Mike Benson, Editor
BOOKSTORE SHELVES ARE full of books on marriage, many of them describing the reasons marriages fail…
Such books are usually written by therapists, who spend their time working with clients whose marriages are experiencing meltdown. A great deal can obviously be learned from marital pathology. We need to know why marriages fail. But the absence of death doesn’t mean the presence of health. Many marriages are sick but never die in divorce or separation. So the most important question is why some marriages thrive and enjoy vigorous good health. Models of succes are priceless in a world filled with failures. That’s why Ephesians 5 helps us, by illuminating three essential qualities of a thriving marriage: sacrifice, intimacy, and Christ. Gary Inrig
“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”’ This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” Ephesians 5:21-33
I’m thankful for models of long-time, Christ centered marriages. What a blessing these folks have been on my life!
Anna Lee
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