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What the Bible Teaches
TOES STUDENTS OF THE WEEK
Anna Hoffman, Ashley Daughtry and Candice Wells
have been selected Students of the Week at Twin
Oaks Elementary School. Anna Hoffman is a nine year
old third grader. Her parents are Terry and Carrie
Hoffman. Ashley Daughtry is a ten year old fifth
grader. She is the daughter of Mrs. Laura McCool.
Candice Wells is an eleven year old sixth grader. She
is the daughter of Sheila Wells and Wesley Wells.
Can You Pass The
Rejection Test?
Rev. Levi F. Robinson, Pastor Mount PLeasant Missionary Baptist
“He came unto his own, and his own received Him not. ” John 1:11
The “Word” For The Week
By Dr. Dennis Prutow
By Frank Taylor
Now after Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judea in the days
of Herod the king, behold, wise
men from the East came to
Jerusalem saying, “Where is He
who has been born King of the
Jews? For we have seen His star
in the East and have come to wor
ship Him.” Matthew 2:1
To search out the Messiah
shows true wisdom. The Magi
are remembered as wise men be
cause they sought Jesus. It is still
a wise person who makes the time
and takes the effort to find Christ
in Christmas.
So today, while Christmas is
still with us, look at your Decem
ber calendar and review the ways
you’ve celebrated. Ask yourself:
Did I look for Jesus? Did I wor
ship Him? Did I present Him
with gifts?
“And when they had opened
their treasures, they presented
gifts to Him: gold, frankincense
and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11
The wise men brought special
gifts to young Jesus - gold, frank
incense and myrrh. Gold, a valu
able, pure and incorruptible metal
is the element of kings. Frankin
cense, a resin requiring a slow and
tedious extraction process was
burned by the priests to make a
fragrant aroma pleasing to God.
The leaves of Myrrh were often
used in embalming.
These gifts were special in their
value, but they were also pro
phetic in their meaning, for in
them we see the child Jesus be
ing honored as the King, the High
Priest and the Savior who would
die. Each of these roles was es
sential to Jesus" ministry on the
earth.
In Jesus we see both man and
God. We relate to Him as a fel
low human being, but we cannot
forget that He is God, for not even
flesh could hide His deity. Pro
claiming truth, He taught us how
to live. Radiating grace, He
showed us what it means to for
give. And as the only begotten
of the Father, the unique Son of
God. His coming into our midst
showed us that God had a plan
for us - to be with Him forever. j
There is probably no better time
than Christmas season to envi
sion the glory of God. Every pag
eant, each nativity scene and all
the twin-
k 1 i n g
lights are
our at
tempts to
capture
the glory.
B u t
through
all the
glitz and
celebra
tion, remember most of all that
Christmas represents God’s gra
cious plan of redemption.
As the New Year approaches,
we may be tempted to speculate
about what the future holds. Will
there be challenges or trials? Will
there be unexpected blessings or
windfalls? Thinking about the
future can seem like we are un
raveling an intricate mystery plot,
but the prophet Jeremiah assures
us that God reveals exactly what
we need to know!
“Call to Me, and I will answer
you, and show you great and
mighty things, which you do not
know.” Jeremiah 33:3
As we look to the New Year, we
may try to gain a sense of con
trol over the unknown by plan
ning, dreaming, setting goals or
making resolutions. But, most of
us realize that the future really
lies outside of our control.
We can, however trust God for
what lies ahead. God sees it all
and He sees us as well. God,
through Jeremiah, didn’t encour
age us to try to set our course.
God encouraged us to call on
Him as we face the future, and to
anticipate a faithful answer.
God has promised that He will
show you great and mighty
things. As you trust Him for the
future, you can know that He will
show you things you would never
have known outside of Him. Be
encouraged that He goes before
you and follows close behind.
His hand is lovingly directing
your course.
Would you spend your last
night on earth with someone, if
you knew they were going to
betray you the next day? Jesus
did. He is faithful, even when
we are not. There is no greater
opportunity to grow in love,
than when you've been mis
treated. Look at Jesus on the
cross; He asked His Father to
forgive those who ripped the
flesh from His back, and drove
the nails into His hands.
How you handle rejection
reveals whether or not you've
truly died to self - for it's
impossible to hurt a dead man!
On the other hand, being
rejected without being of
fended, is one of the greatest
demonstrations of spiritual
maturity. It's being Christ-like!
In the Old Testament a priest
was disqualified from ministry
if he had "scabs," (an unhealed
wound) (Lev 21:20). Why?
Because it made him "touchy."
He couldn't allow you to get
close to him, in case you
brushed up against his sore spot.
It showed up in the things he
said, and kept him from
functioning the way God
wanted him to. Ever been
around a "scabby" preacher? He
preaches out of his own
unhealed areas, and expounds
from the depths of his own
struggles.
But God has a solution.
Listen: 'I will restore health unto
thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the Lord" (Jer
30:17). God wants to heal you,
so that through you. He can
reach out and make others
whole. Won't you let Him?
"Make A Better You In 2002"
Let us Go and See
Everyone loves a baby. We
gladly take trips to the hospital
to see the newborn infants. They
are cute and cuddly. They evoke
wonder in our hearts as we see
perfect tiny hands and feet. If a
baby had more than perfect
physical features, if this baby was
actually Divine, God in human
form, our wonder and amazement
would be multiplied.
So it was with the shepherds on
the hillsides of Bethlehem.
“When the angels had gone away
from them into heaven, the shep
herds began saying to one an
other. ‘Let us go straight to
Bethlehem then, and see this
thing that has happened which the
Lord has made known to us"”
(Luke 2:15). The shepherds went
to see.
Offer thanksgiving
The mighty God, even the
LORD, hath spoken, and called
the earth from the rising of the sun
unto the going down thereof. Out
of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God hath shined. And the heav
ens shall declare his righteous
ness: for God is judge himself.
Hear, O my people, and I will
speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I am God, even thy
God. I will not reprove thee for
thy sacrifices or thy burnt offer
ings, to have been continually
before me. I will take no bullock
out of thy house, nor he goats out
of thy folds. For every beast of
the forest is mine, and the cattle
upon a thousand hills. I know all
the fowls of the mountains: and
the wild beasts of the field are
mine. If I were hungry, I would
not tell thee: for the world is mine,
and the fullness thereof. Will I eat
the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of goats? Offer unto God
thanksgiving; and pay thy vows
unto the most High: And call
upon me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee, and thou shalt
glorify me.
How will we go and see? We
cannot turn back the clock and go
to Bethlehem with the shepherds.
We can go to the Bible. We can
study the record and stories the
Bible gives us. The story centers
in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John in the New Tes
tament. It begins in the Old Tes
tament with many promises about
the coming of Christ. There are
also many pictures of Christ in the
Old Testament tabernacle,
temple, and sacrifices. The
apostles round out the story by
interpreting Christ's coming in
letters to various churches. Get
into the Bible. You too can see
what the shepherds saw.
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By Jerry Kingery
But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest
take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction,
and castest my words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then
thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulter
ers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil,
and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against
thy brother; thou slanderest thine
own mother's son. These things
hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was alto
gether such an one as thyself: but
I will reprove thee, and set them
in order before thine eyes. Now
consider this, ye that forget God,
lest I tear you in pieces, and there
be none to deliver. Whoso
offereth praise glorifieth me: and
to him that ordereth his conver
sation aright will I shew the sal
vation of God.
from Psalm 50
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Attend The House of Worship of Your Choice This Sunday
'nuntu Ohurrh nf Christ Kinchafoonee Rantist Leesbura Church of God Leesburg First Bapti
Lee County Church Of Christ
Maurice Johnson, Jr. Minister
Bible Study 9:30 AM
Worship 10:30 AM
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Mid-Week Bible Study 7:30 PM
Smithville Baptist
Lance Fendley, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Evening Worship 7:00 PM
Wed. Prayer Service. 7:00 PM
Leesburg Presbyterian
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Women of the Ch 3:30 PM
3rd Sun & 3rd Wed .. 6:30 PM
Union Wors. Service 7:30 PM
Every 6 weeks
Lords’s Supper 11:00 AM
Philema Road Baptist
Dan Harris, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Wed Bible Study 7:00 AM
Alpha Baptist
Rev. Joe Jenkins
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Discipleship Training 6:00 PM
Evening Worship 7:00 PM
Wed. Prayer Service 7:30 PM
Antioch Baptist Church
Rev. Lem Wright
1st and 3rd Sunday
Sunday School 9:00 AM
4th Sunday
Worship Service 10:00 AM
Zion Hope Baptist
Rev. H. L. Holsey
Sunday School 10:30 AM
Sunday Worship 11:30 AM
Phillip Grove Baptist
Rev. Solomom Loud Jr.
Highway 195 Leesburg
Sunday School 10:30 AM
1st Sunday 12:00 PM
Mt. Pleasant Baptist
Pastor Levi Robinson
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Worship Service 11:15AM
Tuesday
Tuturial Service . 5:30-7:00pm
Prayer and Bible Study 7-8 pm
Kinchafoonee Baptist
Rev. Charles (Chuck) Smith
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Training Union 6:00 PM
Evening Worship 7:00 PM
Wed. Services 7:30 PM
Smithville United Methodist
Pastor - Randy Carnley
Worship 10:00 AM
Sunday School 11:00 AM
Palmyra Baptist
J. D. Bolden
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship .... 12:00 PM
Bible Study (1st Sun) 5:00 PM
Eve. Wor. (1st Sun) ..7:00 PM
McAfee Grove
Missionary Baptist
Minister Robert Lewis Morgan
First & Third Sundays
Sunday School 10:30 AM
Morning worship 11:30 AM
Second & Fourth Sundays
Sunday School 10:00 AM
New Hope AME
Rev. Alfreda Williams
every 1st and third Sunday
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Sunday Worship 11:00 AM
Macadonia Baptist Church
Sunday School 10:30 AM
Wed. Bible Study 7:00 PM
First Sunday
Morning Worship.... 11:45 AM
Third Sunday
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Jordan Grove Baptist
Rev. R. O. Calhoun
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Worship Service 11:00 AM
Unity Church of Christianity
Rev. Joanna Gabriel
Dial-A-Prayer 435-7077
Comer of Ledo & Hugh Roads
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Leesburg Church of Christ
Leesburg Church Of Christ
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 PM
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Wednesday Evening 7:30 PM
St. Stephen’s Episcopal
Father Ron Davidson
298 Leslie Hwy 759-1506
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Living Hope Fellowship
Four Square Gospel Church
Highway 19 S. Leesburg
1/2 mile north of 19 Bypass
Worship Service 10:00 AM
Evening Service 6:00 PM
Wednesday Evening 7:00 PM
Children Church during both Sunday
Services
New Piney Grove Baptist
Pastor Henry L. Holsey
Third Sunday Services
Sunday School 11:30 AM
Worship 12:30 PM
First Sunday Sen/ices
Sunday School 11:00 AM
Mt. Hope Baptist Church
Pastor: Rev. M. W. Willis
Services 1st Sunday
Sunday School 5:00 PM
Church 6:00 PM
Services 4th Sunday
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Church 11:00 AM
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Leesburg Church of God
Rev. Sean Faircloth
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Morning Worship 10:40 AM
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Wed. Fam. Training 7:00 PM
Wooden Grove Baptist
1st & 3rd Sunday Services
Worship 11:00 AM
Weekly
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Tuesday Night
Bible Study 7:00 PM
Thundering Springs
Baptist Church
Sunday School 9.45 AM
Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Church Training 5:00 PM
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Wed. Prayer Services7:00 PM
Leesburg United
Methodist Church
Pastor Russ Elkins
Worship.... 8:45 and 11:00 AM
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Adult Choir 5:30 PM
Youth Fellowship 5:45 PM
Evening Worship 7:00 PM
Wed. Supper/Bible Study 6:00
Green Grove Baptist
Smithville, GA
Rev. H. Waters
Sunday School 11:00 AM
Every First Sunday
Morning Worship 11:45 AM
Kingdom Vision Christian Center
Rev. Earl S. Harrison, Pastor
1027 N. Philema Road N.
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Sunday Worship 11:15AM
Wed. Bible Study 7:00 PM
Lutherian Church of Our Savior
Rev. Bill Behrend
101 Hickory Grove Road
Sunday School 9:30 AM
Worship 11:00 AM
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Leesburg First Baptist
Rev. Bobby Harrell
Sunday School I 8:15 AM
Worship I 9:30 AM
Sunday School II 9:30 AM
Worship II 11:00 AM
Evening Worship 7:00 PM
Wednesday
Church Supper 5:30 PM
AWANA 6:20 PM
Prayer Meeting 6:30 PM
Youth Meeting 7:00 PM
Sovereign Grace
Baptist Church
Steven Youngblood, Pastor
121 Creekside Dr. - Lees.
Morning Worship.... 10:30 AM
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
Wednesday Awana .. 6:30 PM
Amazing Grace
Baptist Church
Pastor, Dr. Ron Baxley
2217 Ledo Rd., Albany
Morning Worship
& Sunday School ... 10:45 AM
Evening Worship
& Youth Choir 6:00 PM
Wednesday 6:30 to
(Youth only) 8:00 PM
House Of God
Saints In Christ
Elder A.F. Caldwell, Pastor
Sunday School 10:30 AM
1st, 2nd, & 4th Sundays
Morning Worship.... 11:45 AM
2nd & 4th Sunday
Evening Service 6:30 PM
Wed. Bible Study 7:30 PM
Fri. Sharing Ser 7:30 PM
Piney Grove #3
Pastor W. G. Groover
Every Sunday
Sunday School 10:00 AM
2nd and 4th Sunday
Worship 11:00 Noon
Emmanuel Community
Baptist Church
Al Bryant, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Morning Worship.... 11:00 AM
Every Wednesday
Bible Study 6:30 PM
Shady Grove
Baptist Church
Rev. Marcus Glass, Pastor
1st and 2nd Sunday
Worship Service 11:00 AM
Every Sunday
Sunday School 9:50 AM
Wed. Bible Study 7:00 PM
Fourth Sunday
Evening Service 6:00 PM
Liberty Primitive Baptist
Morning Worship.... 10:30 AM
2nd and 4th Sunday
Evening Worship 6:00 PM
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