Berry Hill Presbyterian
Church Newsletter
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Editor Volume Number Month
2 8 August, 2008
A Real
Glimpse of God
Carlyle Marney told about an old man who was asked
once, “Have you ever seen God?” He
said, “No, but I have known a couple of Jesuses in my lifetime.”
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another,
God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12)
(
7 ) That all Church power, whether exercised by the body in general or in the
way of representation by delegated authority, is only ministerial and
declarative; that is to say, that the
Holy Scriptures are the only rule of faith and manners; that no Church governing
body ought to pretend to make laws to bind the conscience in virtue of their own
authority; and that all their decisions should be founded upon the revealed will
of God. Now though it will easily be admitted that all synods and councils may
err, through the frailty inseparable from humanity, yet there is much greater
danger from the usurped claim of making laws than from the right of judging upon
laws already made, and common to all who profess the gospel, although this
right, as necessity requires in the present state, be lodged with fallible men.
(Book of Church Order)
1—Wayne
Adams
2—Chloe
Townley
12—Jenny
Nelson
18—Vic
Claiborne
20—Jeanette
Jones
24—Joyce
Blevins
----Jim
Cliborne
----Vicky
Cliborne
----Betty
Compton
29----Savannah
Dunn
6—Session
Meeting, 7 PM
10—Back
to School Picnic, 4 PM--?
26—WOC
Meeting, 7 PM
SCRIPTURE TO
REMEMBER
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. 1 Corinthians 10:21
Of
the Perseverance of the Saints
1.
They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by
his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace:
but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.1
2.
This perseverance of the saints depends, not upon their own freewill, but upon
the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and
unchangeable love of God the Father;2
upon the efficacy
of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ;3 the
abiding of the Spirit and of the seed of God within them;4
and the nature of the covenant of grace;5
from all which ariseth also the certainty and
infallibility thereof.6
3.
Nevertheless they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the
prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of
their preservation, fall into grievous sins; and for a time continue therein:7
whereby they incur God’s displeasure,8
and grieve his Holy Spirit;9 come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts;10
have their hearts
hardened,11 and
their consciences wounded;12
hurt and scandalize
others,13 and
bring temporal judgments
upon
themselves.14
August 3—Eric & Lisa Gravitt
August 10—Dawn &Brooke Thaxton
August 17—Charles & Ben harris
August 24—Betty Epps & Lester Neal
August 31—Ann Marie Thackston & Dru
Thackston
You are asked to greet and usher as a way to be involved in the life of our church. If you are not going to be at church on your assigned day, please try to swap with someone.
Children’s Church for August
August
3—Margaret Fallen & Vicky Cliborne
August
10—Anne Harris & Betsey Harris
August
17—Sandy harris & Cheryl Rhodes
August
24—Ann Marie Thackston & Micky
Wilkerson
August
31—Mary Townley & Myra Jane Harris
Please find a
substitute if you cannot be at church on your assigned day.
WOMEN OF THE CHURCH ACTIVITIES
Good Samaritan—Milk
(canned or powdered) and
Cereal collection
Back to School Picnic—August
10, 4 PM-?
+CHILDREN’S
CORNER+
Where did the Apostle Paul meet Jesus Christ?
God is _________! According to 1 John?
But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown. Matthew 13:23
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the
Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” Genesis 28:16