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December 20, 2020 Vol. L 24, No. 50

Record for December 13, 2020

Bible School No Classes

Worship Service 0

Sunday Evening No Services

Wednesday Evening Service Online

Contribution $1,860.32

Cleaning Team for the week of December 20: Team #4

You Can Find Our Worship Service On:

Central’s Facebook Page:

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Central’s YouTube Channel:

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Central’s Webpage:

http://www.shawneecentralcofc.org/

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If you would like to mail your offering, mail it to:

Central Church of Christ

P.O. Box 1228

Shawnee, OK 74802

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communion supplies, pick up your contribution,

or have any other needs please call the Church

office at 405-273-3065, or you can contact one of

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Tenth and Bell—P.O. Box 1228—Shawnee, OK 74802-1228

Office: 405-273-3065

Email: tenthandbell@sbcglobal.net Website: shawneecentralcofc.org

Minister:

Logan Edmison

ELDERS:

Paul Harris

Steve Kelly

Bob Perry

Bob Stephens

DEACONS:

Dale Beard

Joe Curtis

Tracy Gettle

Keith Lawrence

Ron Taffe

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MISSIONS:

Haiti Children’s Home

Hope Harbor Children’s Home

Liflyfield Christian & Adoption

Nicaragua

Search

Southern Africa Bible College

Our recorded worship services will be ready by 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. You can find this on our Church website.

Blake Carter is having some health concerns.

Doctors are working on getting a plan set for him.

Billie Horton’s -procedure was postponed.

Betty Stephens - Had hip replacement surgery

on Tuesday December 15.

TIPTON HOME

Our Tipton Home collection for the

month of December is Toothpaste.

Please place these items in the barrel in the foyer. Thank you.

CONTINUING PRAYER CONCERNS

All these members and friends have continuing health concerns or other special circumstances.

They appreciate your interest and prayers.

Don Mack Rita Romberg Fredith Hanifan Chad Beard John Sullivan Hayden Leonard Carla Dame Thelma Divine Selene Williams Carl Weeks Reginald Ford Diane Lawerance Emma White Frank Romberg Harold Carothers Boyd Cheney Sandra Pollard Thearlene Morris Debbie Taffe Debra Campbell Dorothy Strickland Blake Carter Sandon Hilditch

The Word and Will of God Logan Edmison When Jesus was tempted in the Wilderness, He responded three times to the devil using the book of Deuteronomy. He had the entire Old Testament to draw from but He could single handedly ward off every temptation with only one book. A preacher once asked the question, “What if your response to temptation was solely based on your knowledge of the book of Deuteronomy? How would you do?”

At the beginning of the book of Deuteronomy, Moses recounts the journey that the Israelites had made thus far. God says, “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him… you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment God’s’” (Deuteronomy 1:16-17). What I love so much about this passage is the courage that God wants His people to have in enforcing His word. He is telling them that if they enforce His word, then when they make a decision according to His word, it is not really their decision at all. The decision we make is God’s when it is from His word. Obviously, the passage is in the context of resolving conflict, but the principle seems potentially much broader in application.

When Jesus responded to the Devil using the word of God, Jesus was making a decision. Whose decision was it? Well it was Jesus’ decision. But because He was making His decision according to God’s word, it was God’s decision. Thus, when Jesus acted according to God’s word, He acted according to God’s will. The evidence of this point is conveniently summed up in the phrase, “As it is written…” Now consider what Jesus says, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). We can know God’s will by knowing His word. “Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17). Consider when Jesus said, “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” (John 5:30).

“He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1 John 2:6). Jesus’ decisions were God’s decisions. When you and I make decisions, are they also according to the will and word of God?

LOOKING AHEAD

Sunday morning worship service will be at

10:30a.m.

Wednesday Night service Will be online.

Answer to Quiz B see Matthew 2:1-12

OUR CHURCH FAMILY SHUT-INS “A new commandment I give to you, that you love

one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”

John 13:34

Harold Carothers—Shawnee Care Center, #109

Thelma Divine—Brookdale, #132

Rachel Hall—Avonlea Cottage, #4

Lola Mullinax—1712 Grace Court

Geraldine Outlaw—221 N. Pesotum

Jean Pointer—Colonial Estates, #27B

Winona Seikel—Brookdale, #102

Dorothy Strickland— 1129 Quail Hollow

Emma White—43 Doyle

Billie Horton– BelFair, 216 A

Join us Wednesday Night where Logan Edmison will bring a study on the book of Ecclesiastes

entitled “A Full Life”

This will be available online

DUST TO DUST

“Come you who are blessed by my Father,

take your inheritance, the kingdom pre-

pared for you since the creation of the

world.” Matt. 25:34

A young boy impressed by his Bible School lesson

from Genesis that man had come from dust and

would return to dust, called his mother to his room

to view the upswept floor under his bed. He said

to her, “I don’t know if he’s coming or going, but

there’s someone hiding under there.”

We sometimes forget that we are essentially a

composite of dust. In moments, we live as if we

would live forever and forget that our return to

dust is inevitable. Ecclesiastes 3 tells us there’s “…

a time to be born and a time to die.” (Eccl 3:2). But

dying does not have to be a moment to dread. We

are told in Ecclesiastes 12 “Remember your creator

in the days of your youth…” With the proper

preparations, focus and perspective, the moment

of departure from this life in reality is the door

through which we go to receiver eternal blessings.

C. S. Lewis observed, “If I find in myself a desire

which no experience in this world can satisfy, the

most probable explanation is that I was made for

another world.”

May we mature in Christ so that our desires have

no worldly satisfaction.

Thoughts taken from F. LaGard Smith’s “After Life”

CONGRATUALTIONS

Lynn Stephens and Betty Emery were

Joined in Marriage on

Friday December 11, 2020

Lynn and Betty Stephens 16009 Rock Creek Road

Shawnee, OK 74801

Quiz In the story of the Magi, what word is used to give a sense of Jesus’ age when the wise men visited? What does it tell us? A. “baby”; Jesus was still a newborn in a

manger. B. “child”; when the wise men visited,

Jesus had grown past infancy C. “youth” Jesus was probably between 10

and 14 D. No word is used to suggest Jesus’ age

at the time of the wise men visit.

A gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great. Proverbs 18:16