31Mar
Jim and Gloria Harrington and Mary Beth Greenway left Monday on a medical mission trip to Belize, a small country in Central America. Their objectives are to provide surgical services and Bible studies for the people in Punta Gorda town and the surrounding villages. They plan to return Tuesday, April 7.
Update: We just received word from our folks in Belize and it appears that everything is going as planned. Gloria writes,
Greetings from beautiful Belize. The group made the trip down here without any difficulty-only one lost bag. We spent yesterday afternoon and evening getting the pre-op, post-op and operating room set up and started surgeries this morning. Everyone is doing fine. We are receiving teaching support form a Lipscomb University student who is down here for several weeks. He is very eager to help and is doing a good job. The weather is not as hot as usual-probably 10-15 degrees below normal. That is all for now.
Love Jim and Gloria
Continue to keep the team in your prayers.
29Mar
One of the most memorable parts of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was a lesson on foundations.
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it (Mt. 7:24-27).
Jesus sums up the responses to his message into two categories. Some people hear his word and choose to follow it; some people hear it and choose to disobey it. Continue reading »
15Mar
Numerous controversies can be traced back to one crucial issue: authority. Since the sixties, authority has been attacked from every angle. Socially, the results have been feminism, homosexuality, divorce, drugs, and the sexual revolution. Spiritually, this attitude has precipitated change in the churches of Christ: women serving in leadership roles, instrumental music in worship, lax morality, and doctrinal compromise.
Christ, however, still holds an authoritative position (Mt. 28:18), whether we admit it or not. And he communicates that authority to us even today. Where does this authority lie? Continue reading »
03Mar
Visitation: Thursday, March 5 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Ashville Road Church of Christ
A memorial service will follow at 6:30 p.m.
03Mar
Yesterday morning, Barton and Allison Kizer welcomed their first child, Cole Alexander, into the world. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. Allison and Cole are doing well.
Barton, as many of you know, was our youth minister for five years before moving to Dallas to begin the first stage of his plans to do mission work in Cusco, Peru. You can follow Barton and Allison’s progress at The Cusco Chronicles.
