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Kitchens Creek
Baptist Church Email:
Pastor
Milton W Howard
Weekly Church Bulletin
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OCTOBER 13, 2024 |
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daily
radio: |
7:45
a.m. |
kwdf
am 840 |
morning
worship: |
11:00
a.m. |
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wednesday
worship: |
7:00
p.m. |
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(1 Corinthians
11:24) "And when he had
given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is
broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."
Miss Edgeworth, in
one of her tales, relates an anecdote of a Spanish artist, who was
employed to depict the "Last Supper." It was his object to throw
all the sublimity of his art into the figure and countenance of the
Master; but he put on the table in the foreground some chased cups, the
workmanship of which was exceedingly beautiful, and when his friends came
to see the picture on the easel, every one said, "What beautiful cups
they are!" "Ah!" said he, "I have made a mistake.
These cups divert the eyes of the spectator from the Master, to whom I
wished to direct the attention of the observer." He took his brush
and rubbed them from the canvas, that the strength and vigor of the chief
object might be seen as it should.
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He that remembers not
Christ's death, so as to endeavor to be like him, forgets the end of his
redemption and dishonors the cross on which his satisfaction was wrought.
A. Horneck
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It is common enough in
human history to meet with periodical celebrations, anniversaries of the
day of their birth or of their death, held in honor of those who have
greatly distinguished themselves by their virtues, their genius, or their
high services to their country or to mankind. But where except here do we
read of any one in his own lifetime originating and appointing the method
by which he was to be remembered, himself presiding at the first
celebration of the rite and laying an injunction upon all his followers
regularly to meet for its observance? Who among all those who have been
the greatest ornaments of our race, the greatest benefactors of humanity,
would ever have risked his reputation, his prospect of being remembered by
the ages that were to come, by exhibiting such an eager and premature
desire to preserve and perpetuate the remembrance of his name, his
character, his deeds? They have left it to others after them to devise the
means for doing so, neither vain enough, nor bold enough, nor foolish
enough to be themselves the framers of those means. Who, then, is he who
ventures to do what none else ever did? Who is this, who, ere he dies, by
his own act and deed sets up the memorial institution by which his death
is to be shown forth? Surely he must be one who knows and feels that he
has claims to be remembered such as none other ever had — claims of such
a kind that, in pressing them in such a way upon the notice of his
followers, he has no fear whatever of what he does being attributed to any
other, any lesser motive than the purest, deepest, most unselfish love!
Does not Jesus Christ, in the very act of instituting in his own lifetime
this memorial rite, step at once above the level of ordinary humanity, and
assert for himself a position toward mankind utterly and absolutely
unique?
Dr. Hanna
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CALL
TO WORSHIP
John Newton – 1779
Approach
my soul, the mercy-seat,
Where God will hear our prayer,
There humbly fall before His feet,
For none can perish there.
Thy promise is my only plea,
With this I venture nigh;
Thou callest burdened souls to Thee,
And such, O Lord, am I.
O wondrous Love! To bleed and die,
To bear the cross and shame;
That guilty sinners such as I,
Might plead Thy gracious name.
The hearing ear, the seeing eye,
The contrite heart bestow;
And bless us with Thy precious Word,
That we in grace may grow.
(Tune:
"O For A Thousand Tongues")
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(Psalm 37:39-40) "The
salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: He is their strength in the
time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them. He shall
deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him."