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THURSDAY DECEMBER 5, 2013 THE GEORGIA POST 5 OBITUARY} Elizabeth Ann King Howell Homemaker/Member of Eva?igelistic House of Prayer HADDOCK: Elizabeth Ann King Howell, 80, of Stallings Road, died Friday, November 29, 2013. Memorial services was held Tuesday, December 03, 2013, at the Evangelistic House of Prayer, 40 Huckle berry Lane in Fort Valley, with Rev. Ronnie Hollis officiating the service. She was bom in Irwington on October 07, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Daniel Lee King, Sr. and Ila Missouri Reece King. She devoted her self to making a home for her family and was a member of the Evangelistic House of Prayer in Fort Valley. She is survived by her hus band of sixty-three years: Ralph Lee Howell; son and daugh- ter-in-law: Darrell and Mel- onie Howell; daughters and sons-in-law: Lou Diane and Wayne Roach and Sibyl De nise and Wayne Seaman; and by five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contri butions be made to EverCare Hospice, 4875 Riverside Drive, Suite 104, Macon, Georgia 31210. Bridges Funeral Home and Crematory in Gray had charge of arrangements. Please visit the online memorial at: www. bridgesfh.com. “In God We Trust” - Psalms 4:10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Never argue about religion; It creates enemies Forty years ago, I lis tened to a heated argument between a Baptist minister and a religious columnist, a Methodist. They were arguing about the security of salvation. The col umnist believed you could backslide and lose your salvation while the minister took the opposing view, that once a person is saved, he is always saved. The two men were never friends again. The wisdom I have gained over my 78 years is to never argue about religion. I state my position on doctrinal matters, but refuse to offer a retort if someone embrac es a different view. Having been a religious writer for four decades, infrequently, a reader will submit a letter to the editor opposing my views. It has been my policy to never respond. Never expect to win an argument about religious beliefs. Each side is so entrenched that ill-will always surfaces and the verbal combatants leave in a huff. Since the beginning of time, major wars have been fought over clashing reli gious beliefs. The crusades of the 11th through 13th centu ries were precipitated when, in 1065, the Islamic Turks massacred 3000 Christians in Jerusalem and burned their churches. Up to that time, Christians had made pilgrimages to the Holy Land to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher which housed Christ’s burial tomb and Calvary Hill. These atrocities aroused a storm of indignation throughout Europe and awakened the desire to rescue the Holy Land from Muslims. For the next 200 years, there were a total of nine crusades (mil itary campaigns) to retake possession of the Holy Land. Three million people lost their lives in these religious conflicts. For 14 centuries, a war has been raging within Islam. When the prophet Moham med died in 632 A.D., two factions—the “Shiites” and “Sunnites”—had different V P0NDERINGS Billy Powell ideas on who should succeed him. While the “Shiites” considered Mohammed’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as the rightful successor, the “Sunnites” selected Abu Bakr, the father of Muhammad’s wife, Aisha. Consequently, the “Shiites” and the “Sunnites” are still waging war through out the world. For 3000 years, the descendants of Isaac (the Jews) and Ishma- el (the Palestinians) have been at war. Both were Abraham’s sons. Isaac’s mother was Abraham’s wife, Sarah, and Ishmael’s mother was Sarah’s maidservant, Hagar. According to the Old Testament, God gave the land of Israel to Abraham which devolved to Isaac and then to Jacob’s descendants. Today, both the Jews and the Palestinians claim ownership of the land. The greatest complaint against Christians is their intolerance of other major religions such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Bud dhism, and Confucianism. Christians are too prone to condemn to hell anyone who doesn’t believe as they do. Recently, I talked with a per sonable, young lady in India, a technical support analyst for McAfee, who removed a virus from my computer. The young lady related her religion was Hinduism. When asked, she indicated that she had not heard of Christ. Because she lacked knowledge of Christ, a Chris tian friend of mine declared the young lady was doomed and damned to hell. I cannot believe that a loving God would condemn a person to hell because he/she had never heard of Jesus. If so, all the people who lived and died during the 4000 years from Adam to Christ were hell-bound, including Noah, Moses and Abraham...But doesn’t Romans 4:2 declare that “Abraham (who never knew Jesus) believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”? BILLY POWELL is a contributing col umnist and has authored many books. www.billypowellbooks.com CHURCH EVENTS Prayer Line, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Christ Abundant Life Ministries, S. Dugger Ave., Roberta. Call 478- 836-3912. Word of God Tabernacle invites you to join them for the following weekly services: Sunday Prayer at 9:00 a.m., Sunday School at 10:00 a.m., Sunday Service at 11:00 a.m.; Monday Prayer at 9:00 a.m.; Wednesday Prayer at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study at 7:00 p.m.; Friday Prayer at 9:00 a.m. Everyone is invited. Pastor Frank Martin, Sr. Church invites everyone to their regular services on 2nd Sundays at 11 a.m., 4th Sundays at 10 a.m. and 5th Sundays at 8 a.m. They have Bible Study every Wednesday at 7 p.m. a.m. Come and visit Community Fellowship Church, Reynolds, GA Ever felt like God was tak ing a chisel to your life? Come find out the beauti ful truth of why God chinks away at us...Good folks, good music, and incredi ble Savior! CF- 10:30 a.m. every Sunday and 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Lizella Baptist Church Special Needs Ministry will have a monthly event the 2 nd Friday of every month, 7-9 p.m. They also have a Parent/ Family/Caregiver Support Group for those who love someone with special needs. It is always the 1 st Tuesday of the month, 6-8 p.m. They have guest speakers and then a time of sharing. The Zion Hill Baptist New East Star Baptist Church Outreach Center, at the corner of Hwy. 42 and 80, Courthouse Lane, Knoxville, GA adjacent to old Knoxville Courthouse will have their services beginning every Wednesday, 7-8 p.m.; weekly prayer meeting is held 6:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.; Sunday service 10 a.m. -11 a.m.; Praise and Worship service every Sunday at 11 Live Nativity Live Nativity at 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at 4770 Sardis Church Road, Macon, GA. Every evening of December 6th-7th & 11th - 15th. Have your senses thrilled as you drive through this amaz ing LIVE action experi ence telling of the Birth, Life, Death and Resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Then warm up inside with homemade Christmas treats and Hot Cocoa! Admission is always FREE! Load up the family for an experience you’ll never forget. Come join the festivities. REAL PEOPLE... REAL REASON. The Pine View Baptist Church will celebrate Rev. W.C. Graddick Pastor’s Anniversary on January 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM. The guest speaker will be Bruce McKenzie and the Spring Hill Church family. Dinner will be served. Deadline for Church Happenings: Friday 5 p.m. CHRISTMAS CONCERT - The adult choir of the Dixon UMC, along with special guests, will present a Christmas Concert - a collection of new and traditional Christmas music, cele brating the birth of Christ - Sunday, December 8, 2013 - 3 p.m. Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. It was a Charles Dickens kind of year While many people are out on a shopping spree to liquidate any cash reserves they might have left, I am taking this time to do a little bit of reflection. Shopping is not my favorite thing to do. I forgot about it last week and Thursday eve ning I took my granddaughter to Wal-Mart to buy something. The aisles were packed with people standing around waiting for some “event” to occur. Not knowing what that event might be, my little granddaughter and I slowly retreated from the store. I forgot it was black Thursday and I did not want to end up with a black eye. I do not go shopping that much, but, is it me or are shoppers mean people? Just do not get be tween them and whatever event is taking place. I have come to the wonder ful place in life that I can afford anything I want. Fortunately, I cannot think of anything I real ly want. Not so with the crowd I found at Wal-Mart. They want ed something really bad, and I wanted to get out of the store really bad. Both got their wishes. I have since retreated to the sol itude of my easy chair. Thanks giving dinner is over, everybody’s focus is on Christmas and so I plan to take advantage of this space. Everybody is somewhere and I am glad (you did not hear me say it) they are not here. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage is in the kitchen doing whatever she does in the kitchen. I have learned after 43 years of marital bliss that if I want to maintain the bliss in my marriage I need to keep out of Out to Pastor Rev. James L. Snyder Outside of that, that sums up my past year very nicely. Just when you think everything is going smoothly, there is a little unex pected bump in the road. The other way around is also tme. Just when you think all you have are bumps in the road, you hit a smooth patch and you do not re ally know what to do. Take this Thanksgiving for example. Throughout the year I had managed (under some very strict supervision from you know who) to lose around 5 pounds. I was celebrat- I would be a happy camper. At least, I could afford to be a camp er. the kitchen when someone else is there, especially her. I have learned to live with this and it is a wonderful life. Resting and reflecting in my easy chair, I began thinking about the past year. The best way to sum up the past year for me was Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” Of course, I would have to fudge a little bit on “the age of wisdom.” Give thanks Weekly Devotion Angie Carr One of the blessings Jesus came to give us is His peace. However, very few people are en joying that peace. If we don’t have the peace we tend to worry. We can’t worry and trust God at the same time. You have one or the other but not both. We can’t live in fear and worry. God wants to set us free and give us joy and hope. Many times people go through life with the weight of the world on their shoulders. It is a trick of the devil. He wants us to stay that way: upset, disturbed, frustrated and unthankful. The Bible tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength. One thing that works for me when the devil tries to attack me is thank ing and praising God. I began -J I r I to just thank Him for everything whether I’m in my car, my home, out side, or even the grocery store. I guarantee if you will begin to thank Him and bless his Holy Name, He will turn any situation around. He loves to hear you thank him. Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks for what He has given us which is His Son. We must get an “attitude of gratitude.” Begin to just thank God. It will calm your heart and mind. And know this, we learn by the things we suffer. But we must always give thanks in all things, whether good or bad. Be blessed! ANGIE CARR is a contributing col umnist, motivational spaker and writer. Contact her acarr@windstream.net. mg this loss quite jubilantly. That is, until the Thanksgiving dinner. I thought to myself, “Self, you have done a fine job this past year it is time to celebrate.” There is celebration and then there is celebration. My problem is I do not know the difference between the two; they all look alike to me. Hiding behind the roast turkey on our Thanksgiving dinner ta ble were the 5 pounds I had lost during the year. They quite con veniently hid their presence from me but that was not the worst of it. Not only were they hiding behind the roast turkey, but also they had assembled relatives. For some reason these “pounds” heard that relatives were invited to the Thanksgiving dinner. I do not know how it happened; but it happened. The “pounds” I lost, I have found and they brought relatives with them. I am not sure I want to complain at this point because I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Here I sit in my easy chair be moaning the fact that what I lost I eventually found. If only I could find the hundred dollars I lost, Everybody should rejoice when they find something that they lost, but I am too stuffed now to really rejoice. I feel a little nap coming on. This past year I received an un expected royalty check from my publisher and truly rejoiced in it. It is always nice to get something you were not expecting. The following week I had to re place the transmission in a vehi cle. I know, I should be grateful I had the money so I could do the maintenance work on the ve hicle. I am, kind of, sort of, but it would have been nice to have the money and not have to use it. Then, what in the world is money for? This whole year has been like that. I get happy about some thing I lost and then I find it. I get happy about something I found and then I lose it. This year my “age of wisdom” was soundly outmaneuvered by my “age of foolishness.” As I reflected on this I thought about what the aposde Paul said. “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do” (Romans 7:19). I have come to the point where I believe that “the worst of times” is designed by God to show me how wonderful “the best of times” are. I rest on the marvel ous truth that my life is not in “the times” but in the gracious hand of God. REV. 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