NORTH CAROLINA CHURCH OF CHRIST
March 09, 2025
Hospital: Coltley Clemmons/UAB (Improving & responding
to treatment
Home: Gerald Clemmons, Evelyn Newton (Visitors are
Welcome. The afternoons are better for her. Please call
before you go.).
Please add Coltley Clemmons to your Prayer List.
Cedar View: Barbara Parker
LCNH: Prue Kelley/1
SHUT INS: Freddie Davis Jennifer Davis, Stacy McCormack,
Evelyn Newton, Betty Scott, Vicki Wright.
Please remember those in the nursing homes and our
Shut-Ins
ISAIAH’S CALL: Please continue to bring Hamburger
Helper Meals or give your donations to Amy, Ann, or
Pat.
Lesson #12 for next weeks Auditorium Class,
is on the table for your study. Men…The lessons
to be taught are also on the table in the foyer. As always,
please pick the lesson you would like to teach and sign the
appropriate space.
Lesson #1, Isaiah, for the Wednesday night Auditorium
Class, is on the table in the foyer.
Please check the Bulletin Board for cards, etc.
We need volunteers to teach the Cradle Roll class for May.
The monthly Singing at LCNH is Thursday, beginning at 6:30.
We appreciate the efforts of everyone involved in the re-
carpeting of the church building. From the physical moving
of equipment, setting up the Fellowship Building, sound and
internet, cleaning up the remnants left behind. It was difficult
and a bit of an inconvenience, but well worth it. The new
carpet looks amazing and brightens up the building. Now, on
to the Fellowship Building!
REMEMBER IN PRAYER
Please keep these folks in your thoughts and
prayers.
Michelle Bernstein, Sherry Box, Alma Butler, Billy Bryant, Vicki Burbank, Haley Bugg, Donnie Carroll, Tom Childers, Jane Clark, Coltley Clemmons, Gerald Clemmons, Mitch Clemmons, Jim Clemmons, Brandon Cody, Jennifer Davis, Thomas Davis, Caitlyn Dennis, Tammy Dial, Kevin Dillon, Dakota Garner, Bridgett Gattis, Carter Glascock, Kayla Hamner, Lori Hargett, Shirley Harmon, Cypress Hayes, Taylor Hendrix, Charles and Joyce Hester, Lana Hines, Christine Holden, Cindy James, Josh Hones, Brock Killen, Don Lakey, Madalyn Littrell, Brenda McDonald, Porter Mitchell, Peggy Montgomery, Luke Oliver, Tracy Pace, Ethan Pennington, Kenzie Perkins, Dennis Phillips, Tamika Powell, Mike Prince, Linda Rickard, Ricky Rogers, Lazaro Ruiz, Susan Schmidlkofer, Kim Sharp, Steve Shelton, Kristi Shollenberger, Barbara Smith, Betty Sparkman, Kevin Springer, Jean Symore, Earl Tank, Brad Tank, Patrice Tucker, Rene Voser, Luke White, Donna Wilkerson, Vicki Wright
ARE YOU SEEKING?
Surely there are those moments in the lives of every person where he thinks about why he is on this earth and if there is a deeper meaning to life. Every day our calendars are filled with activities from early morning to late evening, but in those moments, what is the answer when you ask, “Why am I doing this or why am I here?”
In Paul’s sermon on Mars Hill, he affirms that God is the source of all life and breath and has placed limits of time and boundaries in men’s lives, “…so that they should seek the Lord in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him” (Acts 17:25-27). In the Old Testament, God used this imagery and adds one other element to the man groping to find Him. “You shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness” (Deut. 28:29). Have you had those moments when you felt like you were a blind man seeking to find the meaning of life?
Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, there were the Greek philosophers who struggled with this. There were two extreme positions proposed as the answers. On the one hand were the Epicureans who said that happiness was to be found by denying all restraints. They said, “Let us eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.” Paul spoke of this view of life when he wrote to the church in Corinth. He said that if there is no resurrection this would likely be a good choice (1 Cor. 15:32).
On the other hand, the Greeks had their Stoics who went to the other extreme and advocated that abstaining from satisfying the body we should live a life of denial. Paul showed this when he described this idea as one of “will worship” and said, “If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why as though living in the world do you subject yourselves to regulations—’Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,’ which all concern things which perish?” (Col. 2:20-22).
So, what is the truth about why you are here? When God created Adam as a living soul, He placed that soul in a body formed from the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7). It is that soul, that spirit who causes you to ask about your existence. The answer is found in another spirit God placed in a body made of dust. The spirit of Jesus existed in heaven and before He came into the world He said, “A body you have prepared for Me…behold I have come to do Your will” (Heb. 10:5-9). Our body and soul are His!
You will not find Him in modern philosophy, but in the life of Jesus. Seek for the meaning of life in Him. When Paul spoke of men groping for Him at Mars Hill, he added, “He is not far from each of you.” We, too, have come to do His will!
Via: Dan Jenkins
Palm Beach Lakes Church of Christ
Palm Beach Gardens, FL