Meadow View C h u r c h o f C h r i s t

4100 N. Galloway

Mesquite, TX 75150

972-279-6186

www.meadowview.org

Sermon Topics

A.M. Worship

“Help For Decision Making”

Num. 15:32-36

P.M. Worship

"Grieving the Spirit"

Nov. 15, 2015

Vol. 50 No. 46

Schedule of Services

Sunday:

Bible Classes 9:30 A.M.

Worship A.M 10:30 A.M.

Worship P.M 5:00 P.M.

*Life Groups 5:00 P.M.

(March – May / September - November)

*Last Sunday of the month meet at the

building for a combined service at 5:00 P.M.

Tuesday

Ladies Bible Class 9:30 A.M.

(Sept. – May)

Wednesday

Bible Classes 7:00 P.M.

We Are His people, the Sheep of His Pasture

Psalm

100:3

A People of Grace

Sharing a Message of

Grace with

Our Community and

Around the World

Life Groups

Meet at your Host Homes

Reindeer Express

Our children have the opportunity to earn Bible Bucks to buy presents

for their loved ones. Here is how you can help:

Donate items for the children to purchase.

Please place the unwrapped items in the box in the foyer.

Please turn in all items by December 2nd

.

If you have any questions, see Gary or Mindy Kelly.

WELCOME GUESTS!

TODAY-- Mandatory Senior Banquet Meeting

for all Seniors and their parents after morning services in the youth room. Please come prepared to discuss any ideas you may have about the banquet. Any questions please see Ann Healy or email her at kahealy2@verizon.net

Pray for our 2016 Seniors: Aaron Crowson, Baylee Gachot, Maddie Livingston, Amber

Lockhart,Hannah McCoy, Jonathan Pich, & Hayley Williams.

Christmas Youth Pollyanna Party

McCulloughs’ Home

December 12, 6:00 p.m.

www.merriam-webster.com POLLYANNA: adj., a person characterized by irrepressible optimism

and a tendency to find good in everything.

I Cor. 13:7 “Love bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Women’s Corner :

Ladies Bible Class and Service Meeting

and Luncheon

Tuesday, Nov. 17

Starts at 9:30 a.m. -- MV fellowship room

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Wednesday Night Ladies Bible Class: Room - A

Teachers: Romonna Wilson, Jackie Aguilar, & Karen

Withrow

Strengthening Family will not meet again until the 3

rd week

in January.

If you have benefited from this ministry please let

those who diligently participate know.

Yarn Donations for the Cancer Center at Baylor

"Passing the Hat" This organization makes caps for cancer patients.

If you have yarn to donate, contact Joy Holmes.

Mark 16:15-16 “...Go into all the world and

preach the gospel....”

PRAY FOR

the December Philippine Mission Trip Ernest & Cora Vilches will leave, Lord willing, for the

Philippines on December 5th

(Cora) and 12th

(Ernest). On this trip

they will be working with three congregations in the Manila area:

Muntinlupa, Tanza & Dasmarinas Cavite. Ernest will be at the

Philippine Christian University, public Lyceum University, and

PL-Muntinlupa to teach Bible classes.

Life Groups

A place to Connect - Grow - Serve

Warm Your Heart & Spirit by Joining a Life Group

If you have any questions please contact Tracy Hare

Life Groups meet at your host homes.

If you have not been a part of a Life Group and would

like more information please contact Tracy Hare

No One Left Behind Ministry

James 5:19-20

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth

and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever

brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul

from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Mark 12:30-31

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all

your strength. The second is this: You shall love your

neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater

than these.

Also Read Ezekiel 3:16-21

Pray without ceasing. I Thessalonians 5:17

Prayer, Fellowship, Food

MEN’S PRAYER BREAKFAST

Friday, November 20th at 6 a.m.

Questions: contact Mike Hisaw

HELP Purchase Fabric for the Baby Blanket Ministry

This year we will be allowed to purchase our supply of

fabrics at a great discount through

John Robertson’s, Praise Hymn Fashions.

This is a great opportunity to economically purchase

excellent fabric for the baby blankets. Every year this

Ministry receives free-will donations to help offset the cost

of the fabric. Make checks out to Meadow View Church

of Christ. Hand to Sherry Grice.

HOLIDAY BASKETS OF LOVE Ministry Party, Saturday, December 5

Bowles’ Home 6:30 p.m. We started this Holiday Baskets of Love Ministry in 2000 and since that time we have made 1,400 baskets for our Meadow View senior Christians and shut-ins. With God's help, we plan to continue again this year. These baskets are filled with fruits, goodies and much love! They bring joy to the receiver and to those who help with this ministry. Would you like to help? We need baskets (just recycle those baskets at home). We also need MONEY to buy fruits and items for the baskets. Then we need your help on December 5th to put the baskets together.

PLEASE, help us share and care this year!

Information: See the Bowles or the Kofahls

NO FURTHER PRIME TIMERS MEETINGS

SCHEDULED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2016

THANK YOU, STRENGTHENING FAMILY!

Each Monday evening from the 3rd

week in January to the

3rd

week in November a dedicated group meet at the building

to pray for individuals by name, make phone calls and visits

as an encouragement to this church family.

You might have been encouraged by the one or some of the

2300 cards mailed this year --the most ever!

I am convinced there is a sweet spirit in the place where

this group meets due to their servant hearts and their concern

for others..

I am thankful for each of these willing spirits. With love in Christ,

Billy Pope

Charles & JoAnn Bowles Elden & Irene Harris

Bob & Marida Watlington Doris Duncan

Howell Gibbs Linda Wright

Greg & Karen Kofahl

Children & Youth News

Youth Advance: November 20-22 Hidden Acres, Kaufman

I Timothy 4:14

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set

the believers an example in speech, in

conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Pray for our Leaders and our Troops:

I Timothy 2:1-2

First of all, then I urge that supplications, prayers,

intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all

people, for kings and all who are in high positions,

that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and

dignified in every way.

Check out the Wednesdays Announcements and

the Military Bulletin Board in the hallway across

from the office.

PLEASE SEND UPDATES

to office.

ISRAEL AND THE PROMISED LAND

The European Union (EU) upset Israel last week when regulators voted to drop the label "Made in Israel" from products manufactured in Israeli settlements that the EU considers to be rightful Palestinian territories. These areas include east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank. Many Bible-believing people

believe that Israel lastingly has a claim to that land.

God promised Abraham that he would give to his offspring "the land from the Wadi of Egypt (the Wadi al-Arish-MH) to the great river, the Euphrates" (Gen.

15:18 NIV) once the Amorites' iniquity reached full measure (cf. Gen. 15:16). The land vomited out the Amorites and Canaanites for their sins (Lev. 18:28) when Joshua led the Israelites in a seven-year conquest of the land. When Joshua distributed the land to the Israelite tribes in Shiloh (cf. Josh. 18:1), God's land promise to Abraham was fulfilled. Joshua 21:45 says, "Not one of the LORD's

good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled" (NIV). "And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as

far as the border of Egypt" (1 Ki. 4:21 NIV).

Joshua warned Israel that their possession of the Promised Land was conditioned upon their faithfulness to God. He said, "If you violate the covenant of the LORD

your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish

from the good land he has given you" (Josh. 23:16 NIV). This of course was fulfilled during the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah (586 B.C.).

Babylon conquered Judah; "so Judah went into captivity, away from her land" (2 Ki. 25:21 NIV).

Of course, after 70 years in captivity, Israel was restored to its land (2 Chron.

36:20ff). However, Israel's occupation was only partial and temporary. In response to its murder of Jesus, God sent the Roman army under Titus to destroy

Jerusalem (cf. Matt. 22:7).

The New Testament doesn't repeat the land promise to fleshly Israel. Rather, it allegorizes the promise and gives it to Christians, the true children of Abraham by faith (Rom. 4:9-17; Matt. 5:5). It says of Abraham, "For he was looking forward to

the city with foundations [which is "a heavenly one" (v. 16 NIV), not an earthly one--MH] whose architect and builder is God" (Heb. 11:10 NIV). And just before the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem, Hebrews 13:14 said, "For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come" (NIV), that

is, the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2).

Israel is a great democratic ally to the U.S. in a very unstable part of the world, but they aren't God's people (cf. Hos. 1:9) any longer apart from faith in Christ

(Rev. 2:9; Rom. 11:17-24). --Mike--

Christmas Party

Mike and Charity Hisaw’s House,

December 5, Saturday, 12:00 Noon

Caroling at Christian Care Center following

***Proverbs 22:6***

Train up a child in the way he should go;

even when he is old he will not depart from it.

BENEVOLENCE Lubbock Children’s Home’s picked up the supply of boys’

underwear for the Big Heart Campaign. They express great

thanks!

Matt.25:40 “...the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as

you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to

me.’”

Current Pantry Needs

Soups, canned tuna/chicken/meats, chili, complete,

boxed meals, cereals, and canned fruit.

When you donate food, please mark through the bar code with a Sharpy to annul commercial use.

Proverbs 10:4

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the

diligent makes rich.

Diligent Hands is a program where Meadow View

Teens will do jobs around your home for a

scholarship donation. If you are interested or would

like more information please contact

Howard Killingsworth.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave

nor free, nor is there male and female, for you

are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to

Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs

according to the promise.

Galations 3:28-29 NIV

Meadow View Church of Christ Family Record Ministers Elders Deacons

Pulpit Minister: Mike Hisaw Merrill Jones Brad Chapman Howell Gibbs Tracy Hare Youth Minister: Howard Killingsworth Mark McSpadden Mitch Kovalcik Gary Kelly Greg Kofahl Don Olson J.L. McNamee Doug Neveu Ken Odle Billy Pope Graham Pierce Fred Rasmussen

Pray for Our Missionaries Attendance

Cesar & Tini Basantes, Bible Classes 155 Children: Gabriel, Sanchay, and Rosa A.M. Worship 292

Jerry & Helda Manawan - P.M. Worship/Life Groups 83+ Children: Joshua & Jeremia Wednesday Classes 139

November 15, 2015

Call to Worship

Song Service Cliff Gunnels

xxx All the Way My Savior Leads Me

Welcome Merrill Jones

Call to Worship Psalm 135:1-3

Prayer Jamie King

390 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

412 Jesus, Hold My Hand

324 Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?

(Communion)

525 He Knows Just What I Need

(Children Exit to Bible Hour)

Sermon “Help For Decision Making”

Num. 15:32-36

I. The Scripture Principle

II. The Authority Principle

III. The Temple Principle

IV. The Conscience Principle

V. The Stumbling-Block Principle

VI. The Glory Principle

Invitation

935 Sinners Jesus Will Receive

Shepherd’s Prayer Don Olson

882 No Tears in Heaven

Closing Prayer LeRoy Wilson

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Evening Lesson: "Grieving the Spirit"