Keith Luttrell
- Unlocking the Marriage Mystery Q&A
Q & A from Marriage Seminar last night at SMAC
Due to the overwhelming response from last night’s seminar, Keith and Betsy will return February 1st to deal with “Unlocking the Marriage Mystery Part 2”. Please make plans to attend SMAC @ 7:00 02/01/12
Q: How do you get back on track when major trust has been [...] - More Keith Luttrell
- Unlocking the Marriage Mystery Q&A
Greg Beauchamp
- Date Night Ideas
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 is Date Night. Child care is provided at the church building. If you can’t make it that night, try Thursday or Friday, but make a date one night this week. We need quality time with our spouse. Here are some ideas to help make it special.
Date Night Ideas for Her:
When was [...] - Christmas Eve was great
Thanks to all who made our Christmas Eve service special. Thanks, too, to Mike McMurray of McMurray Photography for these and many more great pics. More to come.
- Random Thoughts
One of our elders said something to me that was so true, so simple, and so clear I thought I’d share…
He said, “If everyone in our church invited and brought one person who joined our church, it would change the whole dynamic of what we’re doing.” The strategy for church growth is just that. It [...] - Back to the Basics
Back to the Basics
- A Great Opportunity
December is a great time for inviting friends to church. No one thinks it’s “odd” to be invited to church in December – it’s a “freebie.” I hope you will take the opportunity to invite everyone you know. Invite them to come on Sundays, and invite them to come with you to our Christmas Eve [...]
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- Date Night Ideas
Shanaal Smothers
- Singing, Brokeness, & YouTube
Wisdom…
Here’s something that the Spirit prompted my brother to write yesterday after he listened to a YouTube video of a child singing:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJnkWng7os
As an eighth grader I was a latchkey kid. The highlight of each day was the hour and a half I had to myself between when I got home from school and when my [...] - More Shanaal Smothers
- Singing, Brokeness, & YouTube
Susan Vaughan
- Adopt A Sweetheart
We need volunteers to adopt one or more of our sweethearts
You may wonder why we are doing this instead of a sweetheart banquet. There are several reasons, but the main one is we don’t have the facilities to host the event, and with the precarious weather in February catering is difficult. It is our hope [...] - Sweets and Treats?
Fall is here- Pumpkins are out- Leaves are changing - Temperatures are cool and refreshing. In past years, that meant the Chili Supper/Auction and Silent Auction would be coming up. However, with our changing in facilities I just wasn’t up to a chili supper without a kitchen. This year we will have a Sweets and Treats [...]
- The Tension of Old and New
The past week I have been reading and thinking about Isaiah 42-44. In this passage God, speaking through Isaiah, tells the people to remember how He has been with them in the past, but they are not to dwell on the past. Instead, they are to see the new thing that God will do. Remembering [...]
- Text?
I got a jolt the other Sunday when the preacher said, “Now let’s look at the text…” and I found myself reaching for my cell phone. I guess I was going to text him a message. I knew technology had become very important in my life. But it wasn’t that long ago that text was [...]
- Now I am Really Thankful…
It is November and this month is a time of Thanksgiving. I often feel Thanksgiving is squeezed out between Halloween and Christmas. This past week I have been very conscious of giving thanks. Earle and I spent the first week on November on vacation. I prayed before we left for God’s blessing and protection for [...]
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- Adopt A Sweetheart
Teri Petty
- The Announcement ~ For the young, the old, and me
The season of Advent, as celebrated by many churches around the world, has always been a part of my family’s traditions. Advent means coming and is a time of penitence and fasting in the church as we prepare, not only to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, but also, to acknowledge that there will [...]
- Family Revelation
If I had a nickel for every time I have said the phrase, “I married into the church of Christ”—okay with inflation, I still would not have a lot of money. I have said that phrase or added “but I” a lot after someone asked me where I went to church. It’s because I wanted [...]
- The quill of God
I had one of those Ah Ha moments last night while listening to a friend share her life journey. She made reference to a visual she had one time. Her vision was as an actor on stage in her life with God sitting in the audience seats during rehearsals. There God was with his quill, [...]
- Parallels of Grieving
The wise words I have heard over the years about not making any big decisions for at least a year after experiencing the death of a loved one make much more sense to me now. It has been eight months since my husband Phillip died. I continue to survive by trying my best to stay [...]
- God’s Timing…
Since the beginning of the school year I have been disappointed in the slow start-up of the Lunch Buddy program at Bowie Middle School. There have been obstacles one after another in getting the ball rolling. The district is behind on criminal background checks, some lunch buddy volunteers had scheduling conflicts, student absences, and miscommunications. [...]
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- The Announcement ~ For the young, the old, and me
