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OUR PRAYER REQUEST

Pace-maker put in on Monday,

November 18th

at St.John Hospital

Neil Richey, Shreveport, LA

Via Bulletin Digest

OUR PRAYER REQUESTS John Murray’s cancer has progressed and

there is a new chemo the doctors have

prescribed for him. He received 2 units of

blood on Thursday to help with his fatigue

and it will also boost his blood count. He

will start the new intravenous chemo

program on August 20th

. Please keep John

in your prayers.

Pam Howard is home after being

hospitalized at St. Francis Hospital in

Tulsa. She needs plenty of rest.

Ronda Moss is now home. The results of

her heart tests came back good.

Charles Finney was taken to Hillcrest

Hospital with high blood pressure.

OTHERS TO PRAY FOR

Bess Brooks, Carl Best Sr., LaVerne

Boren, Carol Downs, Jeanetta Clark, Judy

Coppedge, Craig Coppedge, Sue Finney,

Lauren Graves, Luke Graves, Ronald

Hamm, Carol Hall, June Hester, Bradley

Monett, Carolyn Nelson, Carol Reiner,

Beverly Stout, Brannon Scrivener, Betty

Stafford, Billie Stafford, Janet Sharp,

ALL THINGS MADE NEW

Revelation 21:1-8, 22-27 Why have we not been told more about

heaven? Perhaps God knew that full

information now would distract us from

doing the things necessary in order to go.

Paul described Paradise as characterized by

“inexpressible things, things that man is not

permitted to tell” (2 Cor. 12:4).

There may be another reason: just as it

would be impossible to explain nuclear

energy to a toddler, humans also have a

limited vocabulary when it comes to

comprehending infinity and eternity. We

cannot discuss eternity without contradicting

ourselves. We speak of “ceaseless age”

when there is no such thing. We ask,

“Where will you spend eternity?” We forget

that eternity cannot be “spent.”

So God uses terms we understand to

convince us that heaven is very desirable and

worth putting forth every effort to go.

Perhaps He is not saying heaven is literally a

“bride adorned for her husband,”(Rev.

21:2) or a walled, bejeweled city with

abundant water, but those terms have an

appeal to yearning souls who knew what it

was like to die of thirst.

As a place of holiness, peace, and rest,

filled with singing and joyful activity, where

all the sorrows of life are absent, heaven tugs

at the heart of every emotional being to want

to go. It is appealing also to know that every

curiousity will be satisfied. If 99 percent

plus of our total awareness of anything will

be eternity, isn’t it strange, preparation for it

gets so little of our attention?

“But there shall by no means enter it

anything that defiles, or causes an

abomination or a lie, but only those who are

written in the Lamb’s Book of Life” (Rev.

21:27).

via Whites Creek church of Christ,

Whites Creek, TN

PRAYER REQUEST

BIBLE TRIVIA -Question of the week

Why did Abraham and his family change course and go

south into Egypt? Genesis 12

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Write your name below. Then cut or tear this out and turn into the office. ___________________________________________

Congratulations to: Wyatt Applegate, Joel

Dunham, Tatem Kegley, and Gracie Vivion for

answering last week’s trivia question correctly!

COMING EVENTS February 23 – Power of Prayer – 6:00 p.m. This

is held at the home of Roberta Mitchell.

February 28 - VBS Meeting (after evening

services)

March 3 – Craft night for the ladies- 6:00p.m.

March 20-23 – Chouteau Hills Church of Christ

Gospel Meeting-( Details are on a flyer on the

bulletin board)

NEW ADDRESSES:

Carl and Dana Best: 168 Twin Creeks Lane,

Pryor, OK 74361

Mary Nell Packard:

Silver Arrow Estates, Apt 311

2601 S. Elm Place

Broken Arrow, OK 74012

New Phone number – 918-286-6882

BIBLE READING PLAN FOR 2016

February 21-27- 1 Corinthians 1-16

Tanner Franks – Feb. 23 Amy McCoy – Feb. 26

Derryl and Sherry White – Feb. 27

IN NEED OF OUR PRAYERS/

ENCOURAGEMENT Health Concerns/Long Term Illnesses Payton Stanley remains in the hospital in Memphis.

He is improving.

Robert O’Rear, Jr. will be having a complete

abdominal reconstruction surgery on Feb. 29.

Lisa Emerine, wife of Kirk Emerine, from the

Chouteau congregation, is in St Francis Hospital.

Matt VanGundy had carpal tunnel surgery on

Tuesday.

Deloris Lane is scheduled for knee surgery on Feb.

18.

OUR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS Laverne Boren – Nursing home in Texas

Colonial Terrace-Pryor

Carol Reiner, Sue Finney, Sammie Casey

Shady Rest, Apt.C-10

Oliver Elliott

Avondale Cottage– Pryor

Edith Radschweit

Cancer/Cancer Treatment Colt Rowland Charles Finney Eric Yoder

Harley Turner Monty Stipes Barbara Pittman

Keith Martin

Others to Pray For Harold Anglin, Carl Ayers, Cathy Boren, Cathy

Bryant, Judy Coppedge, Robert Downs, Don Foster,

Louis Gabbard, Taylor Kegley, Lynn King, Delores

Martin, Juanita McNickle, Kody Ramsey , Teresa

Stafford, Joe and Beverly Stout, Chester Thompson,

Gertrude Teague, Don and Katie Vickery

CONGRATULATIONS

Shiloh Johnson and Kendall Odle

have been named Valedictorians of

the Class of 2016 at Pryor High

School. We are so proud of you!

THANK YOU

Dear Church Family,

We will never be able to say thank you

enough for all the support, love, and prayers. The

Lord is using Payton as a tool to show His glory.

You all continue to lift our family up for strength.

Please keep Payton and our family in your prayers,

as we keep all of you in ours. One day we will get to

bring that sweet little boy to church for you all to

meet him. Until then, we love you all. Thank you

all again.

Forever grateful, The Stanleys

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COME WORSHIP WITH US

SERMON TOPICS FOR FEBRUARY 21 Sunday AM – “Stay Strong “– Joshua 8 Sunday PM – “One Day Closer” – Rom. 13:8-14

CHOSEN BY GOD

In school many kids dread the scenario in gym class where two captains pick teams. Every kid is lined up and one-by-one the teams are picked. No one in that line wants to be the last kid to be picked. Being picked last means the two captains valued you the least out of everyone else. Any not being valued hurts. Not being chosen hurts. First Peter 2:9 says “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into this wonderful light.” If life were a gym class, mankind was a long line, and God was the captain, then He would pick you to be on His team because He values you. Though you may face rejection in this world, know that God has always and will always say to you, “I want you on my team.” Bobby Price, Jonesboro, AR

Email: pryorcoc@sbcglobal.net

Web: www.pryorchurchofchrist.com

Phone: (918) 825-2539

POWER OF PRAYER

6:00 P.M.

FEBRUARY 23

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Bible Class – 9:45 a.m.

Worship – l0:35 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday

Bible Class and Devotional – 7:00 p.m.

MINISTER

D.J. Castoe, Pulpit Minister

ELDERS

Carl Best Tom Coats

Gary Risner Don Stafford

Freddie Vivion

DEACONS Don Foster Rick Howard

Louis Gabbard

MISSION WORKS OUTSIDE OF

PRYOR Hope Harbor Claremore, Ok

Ghana Outreach Ghana, West Africa

Tent City & Last Water Village Papua, New

Guinea

Church of Christ

605 South Coo-Y-Yah

Pryor, OK 74361

Bible Study…………………………………….83

A.M. Worship………………………………...148

P.M. Worship…………………………………..90

Contributions……………………………...$3,773

Budget…………………………………......$3,400

Budget-Up-Date…………………..……......+$204

LORD’S TABLE

Prayers: Carl Best Sr.

Marlow Jones John Howard

David Stanley Jack Freund

SUNDAY NIGHT LORD’S TABLE

Carl Best Jr. / Eutaw Ragland

PRAYERS

James Hays Tom Coats

Freddie Vivion Don Stafford

ASSIST DURING SERVICE

Charles Longenbaugh/Don Stafford/

Darrell Applegate

SOUND BOARD OPERATORS

2/21 Mike Dunham / 2/28 Chris Martin

SONG LEADER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Rick Howard Tom Coats

VAN DRIVERS

Darrell Applegate / Don Stafford

COMMUNION GREETERS

Freddie and Toni Vivion Vivions

BAKE BREAD

2/21 Jessica Hays 2/28 Jill Stanley

1/3 Toni Vivion

February 21, 2016

WATCH OUT FOR DECEPTION

2 Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your

minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone

comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different

spirit from the spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with

it easily enough.”

In 2 Corinthians 11, we find Paul trying to make the Corinthian church understand that the

“super apostles” that had infiltrated the church were in reality not apostles at all. If they were

preaching a different message than Paul had taught them, if they were preaching a different Jesus

than Paul had shared with them, if they received a different spirit than they had received when they

first accepted the gospel preached by Paul, then they were being deceived. Paul wanted his readers

to watch out for deception.

I think the thing that the elders and I pray about more than anything for this congregation is

that none of us are deceived by the devil’s lies. Ever since the time of Eve, Satan has been very

cunning in trying to get people to believe and understand what he wanted them to believe and

understand. If you remember with Eve, it started with just a little lie when Satan told her that if she

ate the fruit she would surely not die. All Satan did was add one little word, the word “not”.

If we are not careful, we can also be deceived just like Eve and just like the Corinthian

church. I have no doubt that many things people are saying and teaching in our world today sound

good. But when people are saying and teaching things that are not found in the Word of God, we

need to stay away from those sayings and teachings. Worshipping God with the saints continues to

be important. Partaking of the Lord’s Supper each first day of the week is still beneficial. Living a

life that revolves around Jesus Christ and serving the world is still the way to live.

Watch out for deception in the world we are living in. There are a lot of ways that might

seem right but in the end they lead to destruction. Following God is the only way to go!

D.J. Castoe