The Vision
Feb. 10, 2010/Vol. 12 No. 06
Every time I’m asked to pray, I think of the old fellow who always prayed, “Lord, prop us up on our leanin’ side.” After hearing him pray that pray many times someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently. He answered, “Well, sir, you see, it’s like this…I got an old barn out back. It’s been there a long time; it’s withstood a lot of weather and it’s gone through a lot of storms, and it’s stood for many years. It’s still standing…But one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit. So I went and to some pine poles and propped it up on its leaning side so it wouldn’t fall.
Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was like that old barn. I’ve been around a long time…I’ve withstood a lot of life’s storms. I’ve withstood a lot of bad weather in life; I’ve withstood a lot of hard times; and I’m still standing, too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning at times.
Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger; leaning toward bitterness; leaning toward hatred; leaning toward cussing; leaning toward a lot of things that
we shouldn’t. So we need to pray, ‘Lord, prop us up on our leaning side, so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.’”
Reprinted from The Lakeside Messenger
Higden, AR Church of Christ
Author Unknown
Record for Jan. 31, 2010
Sunday School Attendance..................................42
Sunday Morning Worship Attendance..........54*
Sunday Evening Worship Attendance...........42*
Offering.......................................................$812.00*
*The attendance and contribution show the effect of the snow and ice storm that came through on the weekend.
TO OUR GUESTS: We welcome you to our worship assembly! We are glad that you have come to be with us today. Our prayer for you is for God to be leading you in your life and in your search for a church home. We are continually praying for God to send more people to help us with His work. If you want to be a part of this loving Christian family, please fill out one of our visitor cards and place it in
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SICK:
Please continue to remember the
following individuals in your daily prayers: Bill Abernathy, Bob Baker, Raymond
Barton, Jack Brown, Louise Chronister, Lois Galloway, Sue Griffin, Tim Green,
Jerrie Hare, Lillian Hare, Leon Harris, Lilden Hefley, Mike Hickman, J. L.
Martin, Jerry Porter, Joyce Poynter, Jamie Rees, Lloyd Sills, Anthony Sweeney,
Etoile Sweeney, Sandy Sweeney, Emmett Wade,
Dan Woods.
PRAY REQUEST: Please pray for Anthony Sweeney as he goes through tests at UAMS to determine the full extent of his health problems.
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MILITARY PERSONNEL:
Derek Jones, Phillip Sweet, SPC Destry Benton
Branch, Ben Woods (in Bagdad, Iraq).
MILITARY ADDRESSES: Jones, Derek: Derek, Stefanie & Kylie Jones 614 Tappanzee Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. SPC Destry Benton Branch, C. Co., 2-8 Cav. Bn CAMP LIBERTY 1st Calvary Division, APO AE09344
DEVOTIONAL SPEAKERS FOR THE MONTH: Feb. 3rd -- Ben Hare, Feb. 10th -- Adam Sweeney.
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2010 CHRISTeens….is scheduled for February 26-28, 2010 at Westside Church of Christ in Russellville. Registration is $25 per person and limited to the first 1000 registered 9th – 12th graders and their sponsors. The theme of this year’s program is “X Marks the Spot”.
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