Monday

I do not condemn you either.

Go, but do not sin again.

~John 8:11 (TEV)~

 

Mrs. Annie Bell Harrell is back at home.  Please continue to pray for her and her family.

Mrs. Kathryn Sanders is doing well.  It’s great that she is back at her regular post in Sunday School.

There will be LEAP/iLEAP Testing in public schools in Louisiana this week.  Pray for those responsible for testing and for the students to do well showing what they have learned.

I don’t often recommend a movie, mainly because I go years without seeing even one movie.  I am planning to see Soul Surfer this week and recommend you do the same.  It will be showing through Friday in Hammond and Covington with multiple shows each day.  You probably saw some of the advance advertisement on television.  It is a story of a family’s strong faith that got them through a very difficult situation and how that is giving new opportunities to share their faith.

Pray for those involved in the Easter Drama as they have their final practices this week.  Get tickets to share with others.

Have a fantastic week!

Anna Lee

 

Sunday

“I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere,

lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”

~1 Timothy 2:8~

 

Mrs. Margaret Callihan had surgery this morning.  All went well.  Continue to pray for her.

 

Chloe Neyland is expected to go to a room soon.  Pray for Lisa as he cares for Chloe in the hospital and the rest of the family as they are separated from Lisa and Chloe.

Roger Pittman is home.  Pray for him as he recovers.  Pray for Lois and Karen as they are his caregivers at home.

Frances Gay got another good report.  Thank God for that.

Please continue to pray for Frankie Gehringer as he continues to recover from surgery.

Have a great Lord’s Day!

Anna Lee

Saturday

“Then Jesus said to her,

‘Your sins are forgiven. …

Your faith has saved you;

go in peace.”

Luke 7:48, 50 (NIV)

 

Josh Yarborough arrived from his military base in Japan.  Join with the family in thanking God for his arrival in Kentwood.  Thank God for taking care of him.

 

Mrs. Annie Bell Harrell is back in the Greensburg hospital.  Keep on praying for her and for her family.

 

Baptist Press: Good reading to keep you informed.

http://www.bpnews.net

 

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2.10
Mike Benson, Editor

THERE IS AN old tale, attributed to Aesop, concerning a man who had two wives…

One was old; one was young.

The man was getting gray.

His younger wife did not want to be confused for his daughter, so when he was with her, while he was sleeping, she would pluck out his gray hairs.

The older wife welcomed the gray hairs.  She was tired of being confused for his mother, so when he was with her, while he was sleeping, she would pluck out the dark hairs.

Soon, he was completely bald.

If you try to please everyone, you will please no one.

“Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more,

just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God.”

~1 Thessalonians 4.1~

 

Enjoy another beautiful day and prepare for the Lord’s Day!  Thank God for Alan Benson and others who write devotionals that touch our heart with gentle reminders.

Anna Lee

 

Friday

“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

. . . being confident of this very thing,

that He who has begun a good work in you

will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

~Philippians 1:3-6~

 

Cora Morris is doing well following her heart surgery in Baton Rouge.  Please continue to pray for her.

Ora Lee Wilson had her first physical therapy for her arm that was dislocated.  Pray for her as she goes back today and continues to work to regain movement.

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS PRAYERLINE

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Friday, April 8, 2011

“For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” ~Romans 10:13, HCSB~

Dear Intercessors, this is Eleanor Witcher of the Office of Global Prayer Strategy, celebrating salvation with you.

The circle of eight people moved from casual conversation to a sudden deep discussion. “So what is baptism anyway?” A Bozo Team member said, “K, since you want to be baptized, do you want to answer?” After K finished giving a very good answer, the team member posed a question to root out a common misunderstanding. “After a person is baptized, if they sin, can they be saved?” After a few seconds of silence, the entire group said, “No, they cannot.” He asked, “But if baptism is an outward symbol of what has happened in someone’s heart, then what difference does that make in his or her salvation? When Jesus died as a sacrifice for our sins, He took all of our sins on Himself. He died for our past sins, present sins, and future sins. So if a person sins after that person is baptized, then Jesus died for that sin too.” The group sat amazed by Jesus’ love and sacrifice. They said, “So baptism is a symbol of what has already happened in your heart?” With the clearer understanding of baptism, K was baptized in the river the very next morning!

Not that long ago, our prayer for the Jahanka was to see even one person come to faith. Over the past year, the Lord has been faithful and there have been multiple Jahanka who have placed their faith in the Savior. Recently, the first-ever gathering of Jahanka believers took place. A handful came together to study the Word of God and to grow in their understanding of His will.

* Please praise the Lord for His work among the Jahanka people.

* Give thanks for K who, when baptized, said, “People cannot see what is in another person’s heart, but now people know what has happened in mine.”

* Plead for your loved ones who do not know the Savior that they will surrender to His forgiveness.

 

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Megan Elizabeth Stevens
(March 20, 1997 – April 6, 2011)

Megan Elizabeth Stevens was born March 20, 1997 and passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at her residence. She was 14, a native and resident of Hammond.

Megan is survived by mother, Karen Kedney, Hammond; father, Gregory Stevens; brother, Cody Stevens; maternal grandmother, Mary Marchand; maternal great-grandfather, Dave Marchand; paternal grandparents, Julius and Barbara Stevens; paternal great-grandmother, Frances Lambert all of Amite; 5 uncles, Terry Stevens and wife, Tracey, Richard Hayden and wife Fran, Timmy Hayden and wife Donice, Carl Kedney and wife Dawn, all of Amite and Johnny Kedney and wife Sam, Diamondhead, MS; 2 aunts, Allyson Cook and husband Robbie, LaGrange, GA and Lynda Vance and husband Bill, Natchitoches; niece, Amber White; nephew, Andrew White.

Preceded in death by paternal grandparents, Everett and Genevia Stevens; paternal great- grandfather, Vic Hayden; maternal great-grandmother, Barbara Marchand; great uncle, Lloyd Marchand.

Visitation at McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, on Friday, April 8, 2011 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at Wilmer Missionary Baptist Church, Wilmer, from 9:00 a.m. until Celebration of Life Services at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Mike Foster, Bro. Joe Lott, Bro. Jason Skipper, Bro. Glen Erwin and Bro. Richard Magee officiating. Interment in Wilmer Cemetery, Wilmer, LA.

An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy 16W next to Hood Automotive and behind Mr. Tom’ Car Wash and Holiday Inn Express.

THE STORMS OF LIFE

The following quote comes from Kim Sherer:

“One night while my young son, Ryan, was sleeping, a storm began brewing outside.  After a loud clap of thunder, I heard him wake up so I headed toward his room to comfort him.  He asked me to stay with him until he fell asleep.  As I lay there I realized he hadn’t asked me to make the storm go away, but to stay with him.  How many times, I wondered, have I asked God to take away the storms of life, when instead I need to ask him to stay with me and help me weather them more peacefully?”

What a beautiful thought!

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our tribulation,

that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble,

with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

~2 Corinthians 1:3-4~

Father, we do indeed pray for your comforting presence in the storms of our lives.  As much as we might desire for the storms to go away, it is much important to us that you remain with us and see us through the storms.  Thank you for your assurance that you will do that for us.  In Jesus’ name, amen.

Have a great day!

Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina

That devotional touched my heart so much I had a hard time waiting until today to post it.  I pray it will touch your heart too.

 

Tickets for the Easter presentation at First Baptist Church, Kentwood are available in the church office or by calling 987-229-8111.  The cost is $2.00.  The dates are April 17 (two times), April 18, and April 19.  Come and have your heart “touched.


Anna Lee

Thursday Addition

Blood Needed

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

 


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Megan Elizabeth Stevens

(March 20, 1997 – April 6, 2011)

Megan Elizabeth Stevens was born March 20, 1997 and passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at her residence. She was 14, a native and resident of Hammond.

Megan is survived by mother, Karen Kedney, Hammond; father, Gregory Stevens; brother, Cody Stevens; maternal grandmother, Mary Marchand; maternal great-grandfather, Dave Marchand; paternal grandparents, Julies and Barbara Stevens; paternal great-grandmother, Frances Lambert all of Amite; 5 uncles, Terry Stevens and wife, Tracey, Richard Hayden and wife Fran, Timmy Hayden and wife Donice, Carl Kedney and wife Dawn, all of Amite and Johnny Kedney and wife Sam, Diamondhead, MS; 2 aunts, Allyson Cook and husband Robbie, LaGrange, GA and Lynda Vance and husband Bill, Natchitoches; niece, Amber White; nephew, Andrew White.

Preceded in death by paternal grandparents, Everett and Genevia Stevens; paternal great- grandfather, Vic Hayden; maternal great-grandmother, Barbara Marchand; great uncle, Lloyd Marchand.

Visitation at McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, on Friday, April 8, 2011 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at Wilmer Missionary Baptist Church, Wilmer, from 9:00 a.m. until Celebration of Life Services at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Mike Foster, Bro. Joe Lott, Bro. Jason Skipper and Bro. Richard Magee officiating. Interment in Wilmer Cemetery, Wilmer, LA.

An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy 16W next to Hood Automotive and behind Mr. Tom’ Car Wash and Holiday Inn Express.

 

Thursday

“As she stood behind Jesus at his feet weeping,

she began to wet his feet with her tears.

Then she wiped them with her hair,

kissed them and poured perfume on them.”

~Luke 7:38 (NIV)~

Chloe Neyland

Our baby girl Chloe is doing very well and making progress. She came off the vent Tuesday morning and they began feeding her with a feeding tube today. I was able to hold her this afternoon for the first time in 5 days. Feeling very blessed!!

 

 

Stacey Scarle

Stacey sees the Radiology oncologist today Please say a prayer for her.

 

Please continue to pray for Mrs. Bill Hughes as warmer weather approaches.  She has more difficulty breathing when the hot summer weather.

 

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2.10
Mike Benson, Editor

A FLORIDA COUPLE A made the news some time ago for the extraordinary job they were doing instructing their teenagers on the ins and outs of the family business…

The family business, however, happened to be armed robbery.

Husband and wife were schooling their sons in such tools of the trade as AK-47 rifles, police scanners, escape routes, surveillance and surivial gear, etc. They carefully taught them hand-to-hand combat, and expected them to memorize police codes and map layouts.  After each robbery the boys were debriefed, and their mistakes were spotted and corrected.

Are we serious about teaching and training our children about living for God?  Raising godly children is perhaps the most challenging task God bestows upon parents.

“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul,

and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house,

when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

~Deuteronomy 11.18-19~

 

Thank-you for praying today.  Your prayers mean so much to so many!

Anna Lee

Wednesday Afternoon

Vernon Cutrer
(July 21, 1919 – April 6, 2011)

A resident of Kentwood, he died at 12:28 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at his home. He was born July 21, 1919 in Kentwood and was 91 years of age. Mr. Cutrer was a U. S. Army Veteran of WWII having received Bronze Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 3 bronze service stars, World War II Victory Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge 1st Award, Honorable Service Lapel Button WWII, Expert Badge with Carbine Bar, and Parachutist Badge – Basic. Visitation at Spring Creek Baptist Church from 10 a.m. until religious services at 2 p.m. Friday, April 8, 2011. Services conducted by Dr. Danny Smith. Interment Spring Creek Cemetery, Spring Creek. Survived by 2 sons, David Cutrer and his wife, Mary, and Randy Cutrer and his wife, Allyce, daughter, Pamela Smith and her husband, Rusty, 3 grandsons, Marshall Smith and his wife, Joni, Michael Dakota Smith, and Jarrett Cutrer, 1 great-grandson, Colin Smith, Preceded in death by, wife, Mae Kliesch Cutrer, son, Michael Eugene Cutrer, parents, Roy Cutrer, Sr. and Arie Ricks Cutrer, 6 brothers, Monroe Cutrer, Winston Cutrer, Roy Cutrer, Jr., Walter Cutrer, Willard Cutrer, and Milton Cutrer, 3 sisters, Joyce Crowe, Dorothy Giordano, and Dewila Carbo. McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements.

 

Avis Sue Hicks Neal

(January 20, 1932 – April 6, 2011)

She was born January 20, 1932, was a native of Dodson, LA and a resident of Loranger, LA. She passed away April 6, 2011. She was married to Harvey Neal on June 28, 1950. Mrs. Neal is survived by her sister, Mary E. Pier, her daughters, Linda Diane Ferguson, Virena “Rena” Bethel and son-in-law, Ed Bethel, and Rose Johnson and son-in-law, Roger Johnson, her son, Lynel Neal and daughter-in-law, Joanette Neal, her daughter-in-law, Wendy Neal, 14 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild. She is preceded in death by her husband, Harvey Neal, her son, Warren “Tuffy” Neal, her mother, Tressie Jenkins, her father, Howard Hicks, her sister, Winifred “Wimpy” Jennings, her brother, Sonny Hicks, and great-granddaughter, Patience Wallace. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 9 a.m. until religious services at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2011. Services conducted by Rev. John Deschner. Interment Briar Patch Cemetery, Loranger, LA. lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Richard Murphy Hospice Foundation.

Wednesday

“It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer;

and while they are still speaking, I will hear.”

~Isaiah 65:24~

 

 

 

 

Acting President Announced at Louisiana College

Marc Taylor, Chairman of the Louisiana College Board of Trustees, announced that Timothy Johnson, Vice-President of Institutional Advancement at LC, will be the acting president until Dr. Aguillard returns after his surgery and recovery. For additional information visit www.lacollege.edu.

Update on Dr. Aguillard 4.4.11

April 4th, 2011

Pineville, LA. … The latest update on Louisiana College President, Dr. Joe Aguillard, is that he is recovering in the Cardiac ICU at Rapides Regional after successful quadruple by-pass surgery.  Dr. Aguillard was taken to Rapides Regional after suffering a heart attack on March 28.

 

The Office of College Communications will issue official updates regarding Dr. Aguillard’s condition as it becomes available. Please direct all questions to Amy Robertson, Director of College Communications at LC (318) 487-7194 or (318) 542-8688 or arobertson@lacollege.edu

 

Pray for Roger Pittman and Cora Morris as they recover from heart surgery also.

 

I’m headed back to physical therapy this morning.  Pray I haven’t regressed too much.

 

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2.10
Mike Benson, Editor
WHAT DOES JESUS say about tradition…?

 

The Pharisees referred to it as “the tradition of the elders” (Mark 7.3, 5).  But Jesus called it “the precepts of men” (v. 7) and “the tradition of men” (v. 8).

 

Now this immediately cut the ground from under the Pharisees’ feet.  They believed that Scripture and tradition were equally ancient, equally Mosaic, equally divine.  Christ did not share their view.  On the contrary, He drew a sharp distinction between the two.  One the one hand there was what “Moses said” (v. 10), and on the other what “you say” (v. 11).  At first sight one might suppose that this was simply to set two Jewish teachers or schools of thought in opposition to each other, Moses and the elders.  But this is not at all how Jesus saw the disagreement.  To Him Moses and the elders were not comparable, for the elders were fallible men with human traditions, while Moses was the spokesman of God.  So what “you say” is equivalent to “your tradition” (vv. 9, 13) or “the tradition of men” (v. 8), whereas what “Moses said” is “the commandment of God” (vv. 8-9) and “the word of God” (v. 13).  To put this beyond question we may observe that the phrase “Moses said” in verse 10 is rendered in Matthew 15:4 “God said”, and this was the consistent custom of Jesus and His apostles.  For them “Scripture says” and “God says” were synonymous.

 

Thus we have our Lord’s own authority for distinguishing between Scripture and tradition as between God’s Word written and all human interpretations and accretions.

 

Put another way, we may say that the only “tradition” which Scripture recognizes is Scripture.  For “tradition” (Greek – paradosis) is what is handed down, and God’s purpose has been that His Word, His unique revelation given to prophets and apostles, should be transmitted from generation to generation.  John R. W. Stott, “Authority: Tradition or Scripture?”, Christ the Controversialist, 70

 

“And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses,

commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”

2 Timothy 2.2


Have a blessed day!

Anna Lee

 

Tuesday Updates

Roger Pittman‘s surgery went well.  He will be watched closely for the next 24 hours.  He told us earlier that he expected to be in the hospital for five days.  I’ll try to keep you posted.

Cora Morris‘ surgery also went as expected.  Pray for her as she recovers.

Lots of people are counting their blessings because they had no problems or very little problems with the weather last night.  Did you take time to thank Him?