Category: Praises, Requests, & Updates

Thursday

“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.

Caring Bridge sites

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.

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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

Wednesday

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing,

in everything give thanks;

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

~1 Thessalonians 5:16-18~

Sherry called last night to report David Allen is being treated for double viral pneumonia.  Plans are to keep him less sedated.  Eli, his son, posted on David’s facebook page,  Your prayers are greatly appreciated.

Please continue to pray for Ronnie Hayden as he recovers from surgery at North Oaks.

Caring Bridge Sites

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/calliecole

http://www.caringbridge.org/visitadriunnacavanagh

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/larkindorris

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/coltonfrazier

Baptist Press

October 13, 2009

PHILIPPINES–Manila relief teams ‘git busy, git ‘er done’.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31450

TENNESSEE–Pew study aligns with previous data to fix Muslim population at about 1 in 4 persons globally.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31451

WASHINGTON–Sen. panel OKs abortion-funding health care bill.
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31456

CALIFORNIA–Calif. schools to learn about, honor gay pioneer.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31452

VIRGINIA–25 more missionaries to go overseas.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31453

TENNESSEE–CP EMPHASIS: Profiles of passion for cooperation.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31454

LOUISIANA–FIRST-PERSON (Keith Manuel): Introduce Jesus at your fall festival.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31455

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10
Mike Benson, Editor

“IT IS MOST likely that in the Apostolic age when there was but ‘one Lord, one faith, and one baptism,’ and no differing denominations existed, that baptism of a convert by that very act constituted him a member of the church, and at once endowed him with all the rights and privileges of full membership…
In that sense, ‘baptism was the door into the church.’  Now it is different…” (Edward T. Hiscox, The Standard Manual For Baptist Churches, Published by The American Baptist Publication Society, 1890, p. 14).
Kind questions:
.  Why is it different today?  Should it be different?
.  Why do we have so many different churches today, when it is freely admitted that there was only one system of faith (cf. Ephesians 4:5) in the Apostolic age?  (Denominationalism, by its own admission is composed of thousands of religious groups, often wearing different man-made names, teaching conflicting religious doctrines, and endorsing contradictory practices).
.  Since Jesus prayed for unity and oneness (cf. John 17:20-21), how can we justify religious division today?
.  How did Paul respond on those occasions when weak and immature brethren in the first century attempted to denominate and fracture themselves (1 Corinthians 1:11-13; cf. 3:1ff)?
.  How many churches did Jesus promise to build (Matthew 16:18)?
.  Since Christ is the bridegroom and the church is His bride, how can He be married to thousands of different churches and not be guilty of polygamy?  Did Jesus endorse “one man for one woman for life” (cf. Matthew 19), yet practice “one Man for thousands of women” Himself?
.  Since a bride wears the name of her bridegroom, why would anyone wish to wear any name other than that of Christ’s?
.  How many approved denominations can you read about in the New Testament?
.  Did the apostles, who were guided into all truth (John 16:13), ever encourage men to join the church of their choice (Galatians 3:27; cf. Acts 2)?
Consider the words of John Wesley, noted Methodist leader of long ago.  He wrote, “Would to God that all party names and unscriptural phrases and forms which have divided the Christian world were forgotten: and that we might all agree to sit down together as humble, loving disciples at the feet of a common Master, to hear His word, imbibe His Spirit, and transcribe His life in our Own” (Wesley’s Notes on the New Testament, p. 7).
“Now I plead with you, brethren,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the same judgment.”
1 Corinthians 1:10

Monday Evening Update/Addition

Mark Thursday night at 6:30 on your calendar.  The share group will meet at the cabin.  Come join us for supper, fellowship, and a devotional time.

Mason Carter went for a check-up today.  He doesn’t need additional surgery at this point.  Lawana thanks you for your prayers for Mason.

Herbert Martin Casanova
(January 6, 1932 – October 11, 2009)

Died at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. He was a native and a resident of Husser, LA. Age 77 years. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Wednesday and from 8 a.m. until 9:15 a.m. on Thursday. Religious Services at St. Dominic Catholic Church, Husser, at 10 a.m. Thursday. Interment St. Dominic Cemetery, Husser. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Brenda Dunnington Casanova, Husser; 2 sons, Daniel Casanova and his wife, Robin, Husser, and David Casanova and his wife, Marsha, Amite; 5 grandchildren, Hallie and Ethan Casanova and Emilee, Ellee and Enslee Casanova. He was preceded in death by his parents, Emile and Alice Casanova; infant daughter, Jeanette Marie Casanova.