The Encourager. January 7, Sunday Service s Bible class 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am Afternoon 2:00 pm Tuesday Ladies Class 11:00 am

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1 The Encourager Church of Christ 140 West 15th Street Front Royal Virginia FrontRoyalChurchofChrist.com SimpleBibleLessons.com We Welcome Our Guest! We are so glad you ve come for worship today! Our prayer is you will be blessed by your time with us. Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have concerning our worship. January 7, 2018 Sunday Service s Bible class 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am Afternoon 2:00 pm Tuesday Ladies Class 11:00 am Wednesday Service 7:00 pm Personal Bible Study SimpleBibleLessons.com Online Correspondence In Home RSW Jail Ministry Correspondence 2nd & 4th In House Food Pantry By Appointment Minister John Stephen Smith ministerfrcoc@gmail.com Men s Meeting 3 Sunday Monthly rd

2 A Good Outlook Sermon Title Teachers Speaker Date Scriptures Used : Sermon Points _ Notes _ Needed Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and TEACHERS, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the

3 In Need of Our Prayers & Our Benevolence Brenda Born Bill Adams Doug Ritenour Carol Ritenour RSW Jail Ministry Our nation and lawmakers The Lord s church that meets here. The Lord s church worldwide. Military men and women First Responders Our missionaries Our Homebound Larry & Audrey Herring John Woodall Nancy Barnes Julia Souders Cancer Diagnosis Blaine Tewalt Ryan Denharat Sandy Holzhauser Vita Torres Viola Menefee Nancy Barnes Jeff Pingley Betty Martin Wendy Willoughby Elaine Appleton Robert Jenkins Ongoing Concerns Bobby Jo Henderson Pop Funk Kenny Henderson Jr. Ruth Martin Ruth Brooks Sharon Jenkins Sharon Derflinger Gloria Van Arsdall Carson Van Arsdall Jamie Shell Linda York Tim Gunter Marty Jones Jamie James John Taylor Gary May Ron Parks Irene Alger Lisa Settle Scott McCool Jaden Turner Kim Wines Remi Wines Debbie Martin Linda Sullivan Doris & Donald Jones Karen Woodall Names On This Page Will Periodically be removed. Please Keep Tenia Informed as to there Condition & or Status Making New Years resolutions sometimes leads to disappointment and depression. Because sometimes the mind and body are willing but the spirit is weak, sometimes the spirit is willing but the body and mind is weak. Don t make promises or set goals that fade as time goes on, this only makes things worse. Try this, try living in the day for this is all that we are promised. Make the day the best for the Lord and He will reward you accordingly.

4 The Cracked Acorn OBSESSION January 7, 2018 c.r. van arsdall The word OBSESSION has appeared on products and in newspapers articles. Webster's New World Dictionary gives the original meaning as when an evil spirit is ruling or directing a person's life. It may also mean that a person has a desire, emotion, or idea that cannot be rid of by reasoning; it can become unhealthy. In years past at the U.S. Geological Survey, we answered inquires on what was the highest mountain in the 50 States. People were wanting to climb all of them. The USGS eventually published a brochure to answer these questions. This must be an obsession with the human race to climb everything, because it's there! As a boy (without my mother seeing me) I climbed the highest point on a hill back of our house, which was the chicken house and jumped off using an umbrella. The umbrella was not up to NASA standards and collapsed. I was not hurt at this time. I could have been reacting to that vacation Bible school song- CLIMB, CLIMB UP SUNSHINE MOUNTAIN. You name the mountain and it has been climbed. The world's tallest, Mt. Everest, is 29,035 feet. I didn't need an oxygen bottle to jump off the chicken house but you would need several to reach the summit of Everest. Humans have to start adjusting to the rare air at over 10,000 feet. It has become an obsession with many climbers to reach the top of this mountain, some have done it more than once; but the number is small. Failed attempts have left over 120 perfectly frozen corpses Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you? 'Matthew 25:44 below its peak. Last count was that there were 300 deaths of those who were caught in storms or plunged to their deaths because of ice slides and numerous scaling accidents. A base camp is set at 21,000 feet. Many reach the 26,000 ft. but failed in what is known as the "Death Zone." At 27,900 feet, you begin to scale the first of three nearly vertical rock outcroppings called the "Three Steps." The Second Step puts you 650 feet vertical from the summit. Here is where many can't make it and turn back only to be caught exhausted under a sheltering ledge to face freezing to death. Climbers may pass such a climber by because they are too weak to assist them. It has become every climber for himself. Recently, a group on their way to easily reaching the summit aborted their ascent to assist a nearly frozen Australian. This man appeared to be dead. He is alive today with his family because others realized that the mountain would always be there. One member said that "it was the right thing to do." Some Humor: In a fund-raising project in this past May, parishioners at the Levenshire Baptist Church in Manchester, England. staged a car wash using the church's left over holy water. The BBC NEWS of June 22 noted that the British insurance company, BURGESS, has renewed a 6-year policy with three sisters in Scotland. The BURGESS would pay them $1.84 million in the event any of them gives birth to Jesus Christ (should he return) to cover the cost of raising him. (from the Weird News)

5 Serving Today Peter Diaz Bill Adams Danny Derflinger Jacob Lichliter Larry Herring 9 Reagan Anderson 9 Jane McCool 16 Eddie Benfit 17, David Born 22, Joel Jones 23 Emma Diaz 30 Midweek Bible Study? Song Service Eugene Tewalt Scripture Reading Art Candenquist Bill & Linda Adams 13 Is this a practice that is worthy of going too? Does your Christian walk benefit from attending this service? The answer to both questions should be yes, anytime saints gather together to hear a message from the Bible and study to show ourselves approved is worthy and beneficial. Mark Your Calendar s & Check Bulletin Boards Relay for Life: Collecting aluminum cans. Place in blue tote in main foyer. Ramen Noodles Spaghetti Dry Cereals Sweetheart Dinner Sign-Up Sheet on front Bulletin Board. The Teaching Rotation Sign-Up Sheet, please look and sign-up for a quarter. Students without a teacher, meet in the auditorium on Sundays, and on Wednesdays, the Ladies Bible Class in the dining hall. We still have quarters that needs teachers. Would someone like to oversee and conduct a Ladies Meeting from 1 to 2:00 pm. on the 21st.? Contact Tenia. Men to meet on Sunday the 21st. After lunch, from 1 to 2:00 pm.

6 Nature Sticks to Design by Kyle Butt, M.Div. Kimm Groshong, a science writer in California, penned an article titled Unbreakable for the June 15, 2007 edition of New Scientist. She filled much of the article examining and extolling the amazing capabilities of certain well-designed structural components. The components she analyzed possess an intriguing adhesive, referred to in the article as self-healing glue. This amazing glue has the ability to allow less important bonds to be broken, so that crucial structures can flex without breaking, and then re-bond the broken bonds when stress and pressure are relaxed. Groshong noted that knowledge of the technology involved in the self-healing adhesive could lead to new high performance equipment, vehicles and even radical space hardware ranging from inflatable moon habitats to space-elevator cables What company is responsible for this astounding material? What brilliant minds converged to produce such advanced technology? What genius devised the intricate workings of self-healing adhesives that have capabilities which surpass the designs and inventions of thousands of brilliant scientists for the last several years? No human company and no human scientists made this technology a reality. The selfhealing adhesive is a property and capability of human bones, as well as other natural structures such as shells, spider silk, and micro-algae. Even with brilliant men and women applying thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars in research costs to study nature s self -healing glues, researchers such as Paul Hansma recognize that there is still a long way to go. He said: It will require a lot of further research for people to be able to translate our discovery, together with a lot of other discoveries, into the materials of the future (as quoted in Groshong, To summarize the situation, then, nature maintains engineered properties that are so advanced that our current knowledge of them must be supplemented by many more finds and discoveries in order for humans to properly use them to construct synthetic, useful structures. Nature, however, currently employs these engineering marvels to construct things like bones, shells, and spider silk. How are we told that nature has this phenomenal ability? Somehow, we are supposed to believe that nature miraculously evolved these engineering marvels over multiplied millions of years by random processes. Interestingly, this explanation remains extremely difficult to maintain when presented by scientists who imply intelligence when describing nature s non-intelligent origin. Grosshong explains that lessons are emerging from nature. One wonders what intelligent teacher is responsible for teaching these lessons. In truth, the rational, logical explanation of such natural marvels is that they were designed by an Engineer with capabilities and knowledge far superior to those possessed by humans. The God who created and designed the natural world is using nature to teach humans that they can observe the material Universe and know for a fact that He exists (Romans 1:20).

7 BSGFAA Lesson 180 ELIJAH 1 Kings 18 Contest on Mount Carmel Bible Quiz: 1. What river did Joshua lead the Israelites across into Canaan? Joshua 3:1 2. What happen to the Jordan River when the feet of the priests carrying the ark entered the river? Joshua 3:13 3. How often did Daniel pray and give thanks to God? Daniel 6:10 4. What did the prophet of Bethel say concerning the prophecies against the alter in Bethel and against the high places which the prophet of Judah had made? 1 Kings 13:32 5. Why did Ahijah tell Jeroboam s wife that all Jeroboam s son s would be killed? 1 Kings 14: What happen to the shields of gold, which Solomon had made during the reign of Rehoboam in Judah? 1 Kings 14: What was the sin of Baasha ad Elah his son, both kings of Israel, that so provoked God? 1 Kings 16:13 8. How many books are in the Old Testament? (a) 32, (b) 39, or (c) Elijah the prophet told Ahab, king of Israel that there would be neither nor until he spoke. 1 Kings 17:1 10. Whom did the widow, whose flour and oil never ran out, blame for the death of her son? 1 Kings 17:17-18 Additional Scriptures: 1. Being faithful to God in one s youth 1 Timothy 4:12 2. How Jesus feels about an individual trying to follow God and the devil both Matthew 6:24; Revelation 3: God Psalm 18:30 Questions: 1. Elijah told Ahab that there would be a drought. How long did the drought last? 1 Kings 18:1 2. Yes or no, did Jezebel destroy all the prophets of God? Explain. Describe Obadiah as a youth. 1 Kings 18:4, Why did Elijah tell Ahab that Ahab himself had caused the drought in Israel? 1 Kings 18:18 4. On Mount Carmel Elijah said the people wre trying to follow as god and as god. How did Elijah that God is really God? 1 Kings 20: On Mount Carmel when the 450 prophets were trying to get their god Baal to put fire on their alter, they did not (a) pray reverently, (b) cry with loud voices, leap on the alter, or (d) cut themselves. 1 Kings 18: What did Elijah do to the 450 prophets of Baal? 1Kings 18:40 7. What did Elijah warn Ahab to do because of the approaching heavy rain? 1 Kings 18:44 Application: on being faithful to God during youth 1 Kings 18:12

8 BSGFAA Lesson 181 ELIJAH 1 Kings 19 Elijah Encourage by God Bible Quiz: 1. Name two reasons given in Joshua 4 for God separating the Red Sea and the Jordan River? 4:24 2. Name the father and mother of Jesus. How old was Jesus when he began his earthly ministry? Matthew 1:16 3. Why are some of the events of Jesus earthly life written? John 20: Because Israel had not followed God, Ahijah told Jeroboam s wife that the peope would be scattered beyond the (a) Nile River, (b) Jordan River, (c) Euphrates River, or (d) Tigris River. 1 Kings 14:15 5. Ahab, king of Israel, married a worshipper of Baal. 1 Kings 16:31 6. Why did Hiel s firstborn child die when he laid the foundation to rebuild Jericho, and the youngest die when he set up the gates? 1 Kings 16:34; Joshua 6:26 7. What was Elijah s promise to the widow concerning her flour and oil? 1 Kings 17:14 8. What did Elijah do when he begged God to return life to the son of the widow? 1 Kings 17: On mount Carmel, when the 450 prophets were trying to get their god Baal to put fire on their alter, they did not (a) pray reverently, (b) cry with loud voices, (c) leap on the alter, or (d) cut themselves. 10. What did Elijah do to the 450 prophets of Baal? 1 Kings 18:40 Additional Scriptures: 1. Do not become weary in doing good. Galatians 6:9 2. Those who take God s words to others. Romans 10:15 3. Mount Horeb (Mount Sinai) was the mountain of God. Exodus 3:1; 4:27; 19:3 4. Paul spoke of Elijah. Romans 11:2-4 Questions: 1. When Jezebel threatened to kill Elijah for slaying the 450 prophets of Baal, what did Elijah do? 1 Kings 19: Why did Elijah beg God to let him die: 1 Kings 19:4 3. When Elijah was standing on Mount Horeb (Mount Sinai), God appeared to him in (a) a great strong wind, (b) an earthquake, (c) a gentle whisper, (d) a fire. 1 Kings 19: Elijah told God that (a) he alone, (b) he and his servant, (c) he and his family, or (d) only the tribe of Gad had not forsaken God s covenant. 1 Kings 19:14 5. God (a) let Elijah die as he wished or (b) gave Elijah work to do? 1 Kings 19: Who, in Israel, did God tell Elijah that He would not destroy? 1 Kings 19:18 7. What was Elisha doing when Elijah went to him? What did Elisha want to do before following Elijah? 1 Kings 19:19-21 Application: on go to work when depressed 1 Kings 19:15-16