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Notice - To All
East Texans and
Readers of Our
Town Times -
Please allow me to introduce myself; I am Mike
Mills, writer of the column (In God’s Word) in Our
Town Times Newspaper each week.
As a teacher of the Bible I do fully understand
the gravity associated with people not having the
knowledge of the path-of-life that is written in God’s
Holy Word.
I do not teach from any denominational point of
view, I teach simply as a follower of Jesus Christ,
I teach the Words of God as they are printed in His
Holy Word.
God said; “My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou has rejected that knowl-
edge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no
priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of
thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
(Hosea 4:6)
Folks this is a very serious promise made by Al-
mighty God. He is saying here that not studying His
Word will lead to our deception and destruction by
Satan. That if we choose to ignore His Word then He
will reject us. Not only will we not be redeemed and
made holy by Him, but also since we are unwilling
to learn from His Word, He will forget not only us,
but our children and grand children as well.
As we wait for the return of our Lord and Savior
it is my prayer that the people of East Texas will join
with me in working to bring a weekly Bible study
class to this Area.
The column, In God’s Word, is a condensed
version of our Bible study each week at my home
church, if you have not seen one, please contact Our
Town Times for a copy of the paper or contact me
and I will be happy to send a copy to you.
God said in (Isaiah 55:10-11) that just as the rain
waters the earth and does not return to the cloud from
which it came; so will His word be as it goes out of
His mouth; it shall not return to Him void but it will
accomplish that which he pleases.
I need your help in finding and securing a venue
(church, meeting room, library, etc.) in Timpson that
we can use for one hour per week to teach the Word
of God to all who seek knowledge and a closer walk
with our Lord. If you feel led to help in this effort
to spread God’s Word, please contact me at any of
the following:
Tele: 936-615-1427
Email: mikemillsl776@me.com
Mail: Mike Mills - PO BOX 111 - Martins-
ville, TX. 75958
May our God, God Most High richly bless
you each day.
“Satan’s greatest weapon is man’s ignorant
of God’s Word”
“Can You Feel the Bottom?” - If you take to flight
in a land of peace where you feel secure, then what will
you do ... in the dwelling of the Jordan?” Jeremiah
12:5, Amp.
Arthur John Gossip was an outstanding Scottish
preacher who died in 1954. When he was pastor of the
Beechgrove Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, his wife died.
The year was 1927.
On the first Sunday after he had buried his wife, Dr.
Gossip preached in his church as usual. The message he
brought that morning, “But When Life Tumbles In, What
Then?” was probably the best sermon he ever preached.
Sustained by his strong faith, the lonely, heartbroken
pastor told his people, “I don’t think you need to be
afraid of life. Our hearts are very frail; and there are
places where the road is very steep and very lonely. But
we have a wonderful God. And as Paul puts it, what can
separate us from His love? Not death, he says immedi-
ately, pushing that aside at once as the most obvious of
all impossibilities. No, not death. For standing in the
roaring of the Jordan, cold to the heart with its dreadful
chill, and very conscious of the terror of its rushing, I
too, like Hopeful, can call back to you who one day in
your turn will have to cross it, ‘Be of good cheer, my
brother, for I feel the bottom, and it is sound.’”
Referring to Hopeful, a character in John Bunyan’s
The Pilgrim’s Progress, Gossip was confident that there
was nothing to be afraid of, for he could feel the bottom
of the river of death and it was “sound.”
Sooner or later each of us will face life’s dark moment
when we or a loved one dies, and we are forced to walk
across the “Jordan of Death.” What then? To what or to
whom wifi we turn? Some try to drown their sorrow by
alcohol. That won’t help. Problems can float in alcohol as
easily as in water. Others become bitter and blame God
for the sorrow that has come into their lives. Job refused
to blame God for all of his troubles. When Job’s wife
tried to convince him to curse God and die, his response
was: “Should we accept only good things from the hand
of God and never anything bad?” (Job 2:10, NLT). Job’s
words and deeds demonstrated his confidence in God and
vindicated God’s confidence in him.
There is one thing for certain. When it comes time for
us to die we don’t have to be afraid. Why? Because the
Lord has promised to be with us (Psalm 23:4). Yes, the
waters that rush against us may be fierce, cold and deep,
but we can feel the bottom!
A LITTLE HUMOR: A five-year-old girl came home
from her grandmother’s funeral in a car with her other
grandmother. “Where did Grandma go?” she asked.
“We believe she went to be with God,” the other
grandmother replied.
“How old was she?” asked the girl.
“She was eighty years old,” her grandmother replied.
“How old are you?”
“Eighty-three,” said the grandmother.
The little girl thought a bit, then said, “I hope God
hasn’t forgotten you!
Woodland Christian Church
Bro. Roy Platt
Well here they come... ISIS. Better prepare your-
selves for what’s cornin’. They hate us and they mean
business. If it was up to them... well... you and I
wouldn’t be around to pray toward Mecca quick enough
before getting a haircut just below the neck. They are
mean, upset, and outright heated up with hatred. They
make the KKK look like nursery school. For whatever
reason, or reasons, they don’t like America (which I don’t
care if they do or don’t). The mb with ISIS comes when
they just start killing for any and every reason... and it
doesn’t take anything for them to come up with a reason.
Recently ISIS claimed responsibility on an attack
on the American Freedom Defense Initiative, AFDI,
in Garland, Texas, (my ole stompin’ grounds) for their
$10,000 grand prize contest of cartoon caracatures of
the Holy (false) Prophet Mohammed. (They lost... both
men were immediately killed by Garland Police). If you
don’t know, any depiction, drawing, or representation
of Mohammed is an offence of such proportion that the
artist is worthy of death... you could be killed drawing
a cartoon for crying out loud. Never mind they have no
idea of what Mr. Mohammed looks like. If you draw a
stick figure man and say its Mr. Mohommed... well...
don’t tell anyone who’s carrying a Koran. It triggers
something... literally. The skin of the Muslim nation is
kinda thin when it comes to such depictions and I don’t
know why. They take it rather personally.
I think the Muslim peoples of all shapes, sizes, colors,
and temperaments (and there is a vast range of that for
sure) could take a lesson from Christian people when
it comes to how Jesus is portrayed in the world today.
Since the rise of homosexuality in America (the last
30 years to be specific) Jesus has been branded, with
his disciples, as being gay. Ron Howards movie, The
DaVinci Code, portrays Jesus as an adulterer with Mary
Magdalene. In 1987 Famed artist (more like infamous)
Andres Sorranos, under the authority and financing of
the National Endowment for the Arts, the NEA, placed a
four foot tall Crucifix (statuette of Jesus hanging on the
cross) submerged inside a container of human urine (It
would take a lot of people to urinate that many gallons).
That piece still exists today and is up for auction valued
between $100,000 and $150,000. The NEA is an agency
of the federal government that offers support and funding
for projects “exhibiting artistic excellence.”
But lets take it another step. The Muslim community
in America today is free and growing due, in no small
part, to the freedom of expression and religion that we
all enjoy. The Chrisitan community in Arab lands are
not so welcomed, if not outright beaten, imprisoned, and/
or killed for the same practices.
Each month 322 Christians are killed for their faith,
214 church and Christian properties are destroyed, and
722 forms of violence are committed against Christians
with Islam leading the charge (source: Open Doors, a
persecuted Christian website).
It is not my desire to pick a fight with those of Islam
but at the same time they shouldn’t bring a fight. In
America we have free speech... like it or not.
The American Christian has done well not to draw
blood every time someone has belittled the church of
Christ and/or even Christ himself. Christians know no
one can bring down the Lord of the Universe. The Lord
who had the first word at creation will have the last one
at judgment as well.
In the meantime we Christians must do as Jesus
said... “pray for those who persecute you.”
In God’s Word j
4? By: Mike Mills- Spring Hill Baptist Church
Today we look at more of the travels of Abram and
his nephew Lot as they return from Egypt at the end of
the famine, traveling back into the Negev to where they
were living east of Bethel in the land of Canaan.
Bethel was one of the very sacred places of Canaan,
meaning “house of God” being a place of worship and
sacrifice. It was, however, destroyed by the Lord even
though it had great sacred meaning to Him; as Jeroboam
chose Bethel as the place where he would set up idols
and began his idol worship. Being true to Himself, God
decreed His divine judgment upon the apostasy of idola-
try and destroyed Bethel despite its sacred memories.
Yes, God is love, but He is also just, don’t believe those
preachers who say; “Oh, God is love and He wouldn’t
condemn anyone to hell, they lie!!!”
As they moved back into the area there arose a prob-
lem as they had both acquired large herds of livestock and
the grass was quickly being eaten, to the point that their
herdsmen were beginning to fight and argue between
themselves over grazing rights.
To solve this Abram offered Lot any piece of land
that he chose, saying that if Lot went west or north that
he would go east or south so they would have amble
supplies of grazing for their herds and would not have
trouble within their family.
Lot chose the entire, very fertile Southern Jordan
River valley as his and true to his word, Abram remained
in the land of Canaan where he had built an alter to God
between Bethel and Ai.
Lot, however, moved near the city of Sodom, not
knowing of the evil men that lived there and while he
thought he was getting the best land for himself, he was
sitting himself and his family up for destruction later as
we shall see in time.
Once Lot had moved out God spoke to Abram mak-
ing a promise to him that we know as the “Abrahamic
Covenant”. God told Abram to look in all directions and
that He, the Lord, would give all the land that Abram
could see to his offspring, forever.
God also told Abram that his offspring would be so
numerous that one would have to be able to count the
dust of the earth in order to count them all.
God then told Abram to get up and walk from one end
of the land to the other and that He would then give him
and his offspring all the land that he walked over.
(Genesis 15:18) “In the same day the Lord made a
covenant with Abram, saying, ‘unto thy seed have I given
this land, from the river of Egypt (the Nile) unto the great
river, the river Euphrates.”
Abram then got up and started to travel, moving first
to the “Mighty Oaks” of Mamre, the Amorite, at Hebron.
Abram pitched his tents here and built another alter to
The Lord and worshiped. Abram then made a treaty with
Mamre and his two brothers to protect each other from
invaders and robbers.
Soon after Abram settled at the Oaks of Mamre, a
messenger arrived telling Abram that a great battle had
♦ Continued on B10
By: Pat Bowden
We're getting a lot of rain today (Monday). Every-
thing is so wet and our roads are so bad. Well take what
are to serve him and share his love with others. We are
all special to God.
the Lord gives us and be thankful. I know it wifi come
to an end soon.
The rain held up some on Sunday which we were
very thankful. Our attendance was down some. We had
some of our members traveling, we had visitors for the
worship service. We were glad to see Stella Baker and
her son-in-law in service. They came with her son Chad
Sherrod, who joined the church Sunday night, on promise
of letter from First Baptist Tenaha.
Our birthday people this week were: Sam Swint,
Mark Haltom, Stacey Fox and my grandson Coda
Bowden turn four on May 11th. Our anniversary couples
were Chis & Jodi Pena and Ryan & Jana Keele.
On our prayer list we put: Scooter Hughes, Richard
Sharp Sr. Richard Sharp Jr., Nancy Kellar, Billy Samford,
Jim Nutt, Ricky Johnson Family, Joaquin Community,
the Supreme Court (On making the right decision), and
our Tenaha Band, who is in New York at this time. Pray
for their safe return.
Bro Keith took his message from Psalm 8:1. WHAT
IS GOD TO MAN? God wants to use man to honor and
glorify him. Man is God's Masterpiece. God loves us
and he has a plan for us. We all know there is a God. All
we have to do is look around. Genesis 1:27 tells us that
he created man in his own image. We are either God's
Masterpiece or the devil's puppet. We can change, as
Paul changed on the road to Damascus. We are who we
are because of the grace of God. We are God's Joy and
his Trophy of Grace. 1 Corinthians 3:16 says that we are
the Temple of God and his Spirit dwelleth within us. We
Being my column last week was a little longer than
usual, I left out our Thursday outing. We had gone to
Carthage and eat at the new Whistle Stop. They have
moved out on the East Loop. It use to be a Truck Stop
and before that the Pit Grill. We had the lunch which was
good. They were trying to keep both of them open, but
was so busy at both places, they went ahead and closed
the other one. I think they're going to be open on the
weekend at this place. We went back to Retha's that day
to play our game. This Thursday, we went to Pineywoods
in Center. We ate the fish. It didn't seem to be as good as
usual. We're going to have to find us some new places
to eat. We stopped at Walmart, to pick up medicine and
look at plants. We also stopped at Sanford and Sons. We
came back to Elaine's to play our game, enjoyed coffee
and homemade cookies. We missed Joy, who was on one
of her road trips and Vickie Kelley has gone back north
for the Summer.
Next Sunday morning, the 24th we wifi have Bro.
Francois's son in service with us. Bro. Francois is the
missionary from Haiti that our church supports. He pas-
tors several churches there. They are in need of a roof
for one of the churches.
And our youth is having another mission day, this
week. If you are in need of some work in your yard or
know of an elderly person that does, please let us know.
The phone number to the church and parsonage is 248-
6432. Our youth is still growing and Cord our new youth
leader is trying to find things for them to do.
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