The SENTINEL — October 10, 2010

Scheduled to Serve Next Week (10/17/10) Lesson for Sunday morning

October 17, 2010
“Not a Thing to Be Grasped”
Announcements Philippians 2:5-8
Donal Ruminer October 10, 2010 Volume 10, Number 41

Lorella Wilson Southern Ridge Church of Christ • 2237 SW 134th Oklahoma City, OK 73170 • 405-378-0701
Greeters If you have had trouble mailing a card
Billie Glenn, Wayne & Mary Haynes, to Lorella, try addressing it to Harriett
Kevin & Joan Keenan (her true first name). This is how she is
listed at the facility. She is at:
The righteous path
The Fountains at Canterbury I got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas “God” (whoever He may be to them) but
Rehab Unit I got a house in a neighborhood that’s fading fast don’t really know Him. The righteous
Lord's Table (am) I got a dog and a cat that don’t fight too much path, as they define it, is a very expansive
1410 NW 122nd I got a few hundred channels to keep me in touch roadway, accommodating just about any-
Chuck Cox John McFadden
Oklahoma City OK 73114 I got a beautiful wife and three tow-headed kids one who would travel it.
Dan Jolliff Walter McFadden
I got a couple of big secrets I’d kill to keep hid Yet the Lord says that “wide is the gate,
Kevin Keenan Bill Sherman I don’t know God but I fear his wrath and broad is the way, that leadeth to de-
George King Don Worden I’m trying to keep focused on the righteous path struction, and many there be which go in
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS — Drive-By Truckers, thereat: because strait [i.e., confined] is the
“The Righteous Path” gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
• The young people will be carving
Lord's Table (pm) unto life, and few there be that find
pumpkins after services on Sunday, “A new survey of Americans’ knowledge it” (Matt. 7:13-14). Finding this narrow
Chad Bruner Dwain Thacker October 24th. See Josh for more of religion,” says an Associated Press re- way requires knowledge. A vague, nebu-
details. port from September 28, “found that athe- lous understanding of the things of God
Prayers (am) • Our annual Thanksgiving dinner is ists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outper- will lead inexorably to that wide gate. Paul
scheduled for Friday, November formed Protestants and Roman Catholics exhorted Timothy, “Study to show thyself
Randy Vance Chris Scott in answering questions about major relig- approved unto God … rightly dividing
19th, at 6:30 pm. More details will be
announced as this date draws closer. ions, while many respondents could not the word of God” (II Tim. 2:15), and
Prayers (pm) Everyone is invited to participate in correctly give the most basic tenets of while the word study here means to give
their own faiths.” diligence rather than the sense we usually
John McFadden Larry Baldwin this great fellowship meal!
The results were sad. The Pew Forum give it, the meaning is essentially the same.
on Religion & Public Life, who surveyed We are to diligently seek and acquire
3,412 people earlier this year to conduct knowledge of God’s will for us.
the poll, has seemingly confirmed that It is essential that members of the
Schedule of Services Events in October while Americans claim to be a religious Lord’s body avoid the kinds of ignorance
Sunday – 9:00 AM Bible study 10 Area-Wide Teen Gathering people, there are appalling gaps in their found in this recent poll. The true right-
12 Central OK Biblical Studies (@ SW) knowledge. Like the man in the song eous path is narrow and we are bound to
10:00 AM Worship
14 Christian Service Center workday quoted above, they fear the wrath of find it and stay on it.
5:00 PM Worship 19 Central OK Biblical Studies (@ SW)
23 Halloween party @ Downs’ (4:00)
Wednesday – 7:00 PM Bible study
24 Young people - pumpkin carving Elders Deacons Minister
26 Central OK Biblical Studies (@ SW) Kevin Keenan Michael Berry Keith McDougal Russell Dyer
Horace Phillips David Douglas John McFadden
www.southernridge.org Roger Scott Bill Fleming Walter McFadden
Bill Sherman George King Dwain Thacker
Darrell MacDonald Randy Vance
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Needing cards and Brother’s Keeper
Group 3 — Friday, November 12th, 6:30
prayer pm, at the building. More details to come.
Lila Mulkey. She has been in Room 3932
at Norman Regional due to internal bleed-
ing. UPCOMING EVENTS
• The young people will be traveling to
Blue Suarez’ daughter, Maria Hanni-
gan. She is expecting in February and her the Area-Wide Teen Gathering
contractions began early. She is confined to (AWTG) in Holdenville this evening.
the home for bed rest. Also remember Meet here at the building at 3:00 pm.
See Josh for more details.
Maria’s brother-in-law, Kevin, who recently
awakened from a coma. • There will be a Halloween party for
Two-year-old Elzee. He is one of the the kids 6th grade and younger at
children at Marilyn Cox’s daycare. He has Joe and Talsie’s at 4:00 pm on Satur-
had several medical issues and was sched- day, October 23rd. Parents (and/or
uled for eye surgery this past week. grandparents) are invited too! More
Jeanette Mitchell’s family. Her son had information is available on the
surgery recently. Her great-granddaughter, “Youth Endeavors” bulletin board.
Ella Mitchell (age 8), has been hospitalized • Remember the Central Oklahoma
after having seizures. Jeanette’s sister, Billie Biblical Studies program, continu-
Richardson, has broken her foot three ing this month on Tuesday evenings
times in the past year. Her brother, How- at 7:00 pm at the Southwest congre-
ard Crawford, has had bone cancer that is gation.
now spreading to his lungs and kidneys.
Layne Adams.
Others who are hindered: Sandra Bag-
ger and her daughter-in-law, Shawna
Birthdays/Anniversaries
Brassfield; the Baldwins’ grandson Riley
and friends June Tennell and Shelli Vang; Happy Birthday to . . .
Jean Christian; Mary and Novella Jeanette Mitchell October 10
Cordrey; Florence Dixon; the Elmore Dewayne Ross 10
family; Ruby Gill; Martha Harden; Am- Kari Dyer 11
ber Lusk; Glen Martin; Cathy Hopkins’ Camron Jolliff 11
Ann Taggart 11
mother, Sue McMurray; Melanie Shel-
Keith McDougal 17
ton; Edith Skaggs; and Lorella Wilson. Mason MacDonald 20
Sherri Weingartner 20
Joe Mulkey 21
Stephanie Cox 26
BAPTISM Emma McDougal 27
We welcome Alex Suarez Cathy Hopkins 28
to the family of God! He
Happy Anniversary to . . .
was baptized into Christ by
his grandfather, Blue, last Dwight & Sheryl Andrews October 11
Walter & Carolyn McFadden 26
Sunday.
Order of Living the Mind of Christ
Service Philippians 2:5-6
I. To Know the Mind of Christ
Welcome A. Paul asks, “For what man knows the things of a man
except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even
Announcements so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit
of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:11.
Scripture:
1. We may know ____ the mind of Christ.
Philippians 2:5-8
__________________ words.
The __________________ and
Song — 114
______________________ birth.
I Stand Amazed
(1,2, &5) The ______________________ he told.
The ___________________________.
Song — 109 2. We associate it with the _____________________.
More Holiness Give Me Doing the right things for the wrong reasons _____
____________________. Cf. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Prayer
B. Have you (we) come to know the mind of Christ?
1. Whose _______________ do you know?
Song — 167
2. To claim so is to reach through _______________.
He Loves Me
C. To do so we must __________________________.
Comments 1. There was a great difference in
_______________________________ after he had
Lord’s Supper
given his life to the service of the Lord. Philippians
1:21
Collection
II. Accepting the Call to Live the Mind of Christ
Song — 732 A. Have this mind in _________________.
Heaven Came Down 1. We begin by coming to know _____________.
(and Glory Filled My Soul) Philippians 3:7-11
2. Knowing him is -- ______________________.
Sermon ______________________. Hebrews 12:1-2
Living the Mind of Christ
______________________. Matthew 16:24-25
3. Too often, living the mind of Christ lacks the power
Song — 111
of the _______________ mind.
Take My Life
and Let It Be B. What we know is important.
1. The old proverb reminds us, “_________________
Song — 593 __________________________” (Proverbs 23:7).
To the Work (1&3)
C. “Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.”
1. It will __________________________________.
Prayer
2. It will __________________________________.
3. It will __________________________________.