THE MESSENGER The Weekly Newsletter of the Mountain Home Church of Christ July 26, 2015

FROM KEN’S PEN

SHEPHERD’S CORNER….Wayne Camp

How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts? In Psalm 119, the longest chapter of the Bible, the Psalmist asks the question, “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” Another way of expressing this is, “How can the youth keep their ways pure?” As a young man I recall the song of Isaac Watts entitled “How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts?” was often sung at church services. He captured, in my opinion, the answer to the question when he penned within the song the words: “How shall the young secure their hearts, and guard their lives from sin? They word the choicest rules imparts To keep the conscience clean…” The Word of God provides the best of all rules to keep one’s life pure, thereby resulting in both a better life now and the great blessings of salvation in eternity. Youth has never been an easy time in a person’s life to get through, especially today. There is a kind of “good news-bad news” aspect to it. Youth is a time of rapid change, experimentation, searching, and having fun. It is a time of ener-gy, strength, idealism, and life. Young people are at a time in their lives when they are making decisions that will affect much of the rest of their lives. Youth is the crossroads of life. God can help young people through their youth. He can help them make the right decisions. He can teach them how to truly enjoy their youth and be happy, avoiding despair. God is truly concerned about young people and has given instructions in His Word to help them. Both our youth, as well as our elderly, would profit greatly in our personal lives, if we will give time to meditate upon the following words from Psalm 119:1-6. “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” By taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed are thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.” During my youthful years I was given a poem by a dear Christian lady who was a great influence in my life. It was writ-ten by the poet Rudyard Kipling, and simply entitled, “IF.” I wish to share certain portions of it for consideration, as it relates to this article.

We are blessed with such fine and talented young people in our congregation. A special thanks to all our parents, Bible teachers and role models they have among our congrega-tion. You young people are such a blessing to us. May they always prove to be a blessing to God on their journey through life.

IF—

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting. Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can met with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, —you’ll be a Man, my son!

ARTICLES......ACTIVITIES.....

We are glad to have you with us today and hope

you will be blessed by having been here. For your

convenience, we have an attended nursery down-

stairs for 2-year-olds & under and a training room

in the east foyer for small children. Please fill out

a visitor’s card and place it in the collection plate

so we can have a record of your attendance.

FROM KEN’S PEN

Sunday Mornings

Room A-15

“Running the Race

Set Before Us”

Aug. 2

Perfecting our race

Teacher — tim burnley

Devo at Baxter

Retirement Village —

Wednesdays at 1:30

ORDER

OF WORSHIP

MORNING

WELCOME Ethan Wright

SONG LEADER Alan Sollis

OPENING PRAYER Ron Peterson

SCRIPTURE READING James Richey

LORD’S SUPPER Frank Wallis

LESSON Ken Burton

“Is Your Loyal Banner On Display?”

Galatians 5:22,23

SHEPHERD’S PRAYER Frank Daniels

CLOSING PRAYER

Dick Young

WELCOME Ethan Wright

SONG LEADER Roger Fisher

OPENING PRAYER Cleo Wyatt

SCRIPTURE READING Logan Smith

LESSON Ken Burton

“Confidence in the Face of Doubt” Romans 8:5-11

SHEPHERD’S PRAYER Frank Daniels

CLOSING PRAYER Joe Messick

SUMMER SERIES

CONTEMPORARY MESSAGES FROM THE ANCIENT PROPHETS

Wednesday, July 29, 6:30 p.m.

Speaker: Steve Powers, Harrison

Topic: When God Has Had Enough!

Be sure to come and bring someone with you!

AMAZING GRACE!

“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.”

These words, written by John Newton (1725–1807), are so familiar as to be almost meaningless. We can sing them from memory, and often do so without considering the depths of God’s truly Amazing Grace. The author of this hymn, however, never took these words for granted, nor lost sight of their meaning.

Newton had once worked in the African slave trade, and was as far from the Word of God as one could possibly be. However, his life changed, and he gave up his ill-gotten liveli-hood and began to preach. In a devotional book titled One Year Book of Hymns, (available at www.laridian.com), the following words from his tombstone are recorded:

John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and Libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, pre-served, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had so long labored to destroy.

One other saying of Newton’s is worthy of our thought, and they complement the song “Amazing Grace.” At age 82, it was suggested that he retire from preaching due to poor health and a memory that sometimes failed him when he was delivering his sermon. His re-ply was, “My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior!”

May we also remember those two things! Read 2 Peter 3:18 in light of these words. I be-lieve the older we get, the more meaningful these words become!

If you could help with making bread for Ladies’ Day, please see Linda Rucker.

Single Sisters will meet at the home of Barb Mearing on Friday, July 31, at 6:30 for devo, salad supper and fellowship.

PRAYER LIST......NOTES......

Geneva Kiser, wife of Bob Kiser who preached here in the past, has passed away in Texas. Funeral services were held on July 17. Memorials may be made in her name to the Vidor Church of Christ Manna Project, P. O. Box 1178, Vidor, TX 77670. Their daughter is Karen Knight, 204 Herberta, Pottsboro, TX 75076.

Please keep all of these people in your prayers as they contend with illness and

other situations in their lives…Nell Williams and family....Anne Heenan...Ellis

Jones...Debbie Baird...Betty Lute......Larry Pitts...Bill & Kari Martin...Sherry McGol-

drick...Charlotte Bradley... Judy Dunn...LeRoy Jones...Carolyn Camp... John R.

Sims... .Jimmy Horton

Family and Friends….

...Myrtle Jones (Adam’s grandmother), Stan Johnson; Robert Thompson, cousin of

Liz Oden and Maxine Garner; Deidree Smalec’s daughter Andrea; Carl Tindall

(Dennis Tindall), Jeffrey Townsley (Terri Holsonbake), Nancy Pippin (Sylvia Hard-

en), Janet Smith (Frances Hodges), Joyce Lansdown (Deloris Larson), Aubrey Wil-

liams, Sophia Wright (Oma Oswalt), Hugh Dewey (Chad Dewey), Peggy Covington

(Rodney’s mother), Thelma Pendergrass (Mickey’s mother), Jim McCord (Clarene

Morrow), Hunter Bailey (Steve & Clarene Morrow), David Burleson (Jessie Camp),

Margaret Ellis (Brad Ellis)

Sympathy…

Curtis Williams passed away Wednesday. A memorial service was held on

Saturday. We offer our deepest condolences to Nell, Ken, Pam, Lonnie and

all of their family.

We also express our sympathy to Jackie Jones and her family in the passing

of her niece, Rebecca Hathcock. She had been on our prayer list for some

time.

Baxter Retirement Village Mike Nash, Deidree Smalec, Danny Phelps, Troy Massey

Care Manor Jimmy Horton, Lozell Pitchford, Loudene Foster, Mary Scheer

Good Samaritan Naomi Britt

Hiram Shaddox Estelle McDaniel

Homebound Veneda Hayes, Bessie Saxion

Monroe House Charlotte Burton, Doyle Hammack

Pine Lane LeRoy Jones, Juanita Stone

River Lodge Fay Miculka

“A Recipe for a Sweet Life”

Ladies’ Day

Saturday, September 12

Our speaker will be

Amanda Ketchum from

Mayfield, Kentucky.

All ladies are encouraged

to make plans to attend!!

CHRIST QUEST

August 7th-9th

Keynote: Lonnie Jones

Song Leader: Daniel Hudgeons

Teaching: Jacob Mayfield,

Haley House, Stan Dauck,

Amy Lance, Nick Mayfield,

Angela Almond

Hannah Strider was baptized last week while at

Green Valley Bible Camp. She is the daughter of

Hank & Lorri Strider.

Special thanks to Dennis Tindall and Katy Strider

for helping our young people during our session at

Green Valley.

We still need 10 homes for our Christ Quest guests!

Mountain Home Church of Christ

380 North College

Mountain Home, AR 72653

A friendly cha with a vital message!

Phone: 870-425-4330 Fax: 870-425-8118

E-mail: church@centurytel.net

Service Times

Sunday Morning Bible Class............. 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship................ 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Evening Worship...................5:00 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Class............6:30 p.m.

T.V. Programs

“In Search of the Lord’s Way”

With Bro. Phil Sanders

Sunday Morning 7:00 A.M.

KOLR Channel 10, Springfield, Missouri

Our Shepherds

Wayne Camp 404-3000

Frank Daniels 405-9821

Cameron Davis 404-7367

David Pitchford 425-8554

John Schuhknecht 404-0114

Dennis Tindall 481-5063

Our Servants

Our Staff

Minister, Ken Burton 405-0865

Youth & Family, Michael Lance 404-2516

Secretary, Donna Smith (M-T-W) 425-4330

Secretary, Kelda Jones (Th-F) 425-4330

A friendly church with a vital message!

SERVICE ROSTER

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 MORNING EVENING

SONG LEADER Michael Lance Larry Pitts

OPENING PRAYER: Wayne Camp Bobby Lance

SCRIPTURE READING: Richard Pyeatt Joe Messick

CLOSING PRAYER: Caleb Burnley Tony Bunch

GREETERS: Barney & Hattie Barnhart

Jim & Pam Estes

FOR THE RECORD July 19, 2015

MORNING ATTENDANCE 378 EVENING ATTENDANCE 169 CONTRIBUTION $10,557 GIVEN TO DATE $319,438 BUDGET TO DATE $335,936

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Mountain Home Church of Christ, Inc., 380 N. College, Mtn. Home, AR 72653

The Word of God says... Hear...Romans 10:17

Believe...Hebrews 11:6 Repent...Luke 13:3; Acts 2:38; 17:30

Confess...Matthew 10:32,33; Romans 10:10 Be Baptized...Mark 16:15,16; Galatians 3:27;

I Peter 3:21; Romans 6:3,4 Be Faithful...Revelation 2:10

Andy Bell Tim Burnley Bruce Caldwell JR Camp Lloyd Camp Rodney Covington Chad Dewey

Delbert Dover Jim Estes Ellis Jones Jerry Maleare Landon Pitchford Dennis Priborsky George Rowlett

Monday Night Ministries meets each week

at 6:30 in building B

SONG LEADER: Cameron Davis

CLOSING PRAYER: Frank Daniels