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September 1, 2021 Call today to support the church page! Devotional 580-225-3000 Yow Auto Supply = 221 South Jefferson Elk City, Oklahoma. 580-225-2166 1121 South Main, Elk City P.O, Box 2579, Elk City, OK 73648 Phone: 580-243-0466 + Fax: 580-243-0472 Kellye L. Fuchs CPA Pamela J. Muncreif CPA Office: 580.225.8877 Fax: 580.225.1183 poee Company PLLC 4000 N. Main, Elk City 716 W 3rd St, Elk City Photo rei: bigstockphot/Worigimage Area waterfall often starts as a small stream. By the [ap OKLAHOMA Baa time it comes cascading over the precipice, the water is a big river flowing fast and strong. Everything in its path goes with the mp ionic” Great Plains Bank flow. Our faith starts small like a stream and grows bigger and Randy Dupree, LUTCF -£& Cily- stronger along life’s way. Life is difficult and has many challenges Tee reorne Fari id SEEFIDLZZCE to tempt us away from “God’s flow”. Visit your house of worship 503 West 3rd, Elk City gebarkok.conm and learn about the power His word can provide. Find the right direction for your life and it will get easier to go with God’s flow. 580-2225-3330 Daily Devotional Reading Isaiah Isaiah Zephaniah Luke Luke Luke Luke I can only imagine 29:15-24 43:1-28 3:1-20 11:14-28 11:29-54 12:1-21 12:22-40 Scriptures Selected by the American Bible Society ©2021, Keister-Williams Newspaper Services, P.O. Box 8187, Charlottesville, VA 22906, www.kwnews.com. righteously, is powerfully Temple organization. ‘Twen- Church Directory good! We could correctly ty-two years of evil imagina- read Isaiah’s statement, “God keeps in perfect peace the one tion culminated in the massa- Assembly of God First Baptist Church Canute Seventh-Day Adventist] whose imagination, concepts cre of 918 people in Guyana, 580-471-3688 and purposes are dependent South America, in November Assembly of God Pastor Martin Brown, on Him...” 1978. 115 W. Sth St., Erick Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor: Gary Griffin Retrop Baptist Church 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City Humankind is created in the Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 580-472-3472 very likeness of God, and we Everything we say and do— Assembly of God 580-303-0791 Pastor Wes Via have been invited to co-create both good and evil—begins ‘7th and Locust St., Sayre Catholic with Him in at least two very in the creative womb of our 580-928-4296 specific ways: Jimmy Blanken, Min. Queen ofAll Saints United Methodist ‘We co-create life in human minds called the imagination. 914N. Sth St., Sayre 702 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk babies through the gift of sex God gave supremacy over First Assembly of God 580-928-2385 City (Genesis 4:1) the earth into the hands of 2701 S. Randall , Elk City Rev. Danny Grover 580-225-0262 Dixie Yoder 580-225-1167 Scott Rodgers, Rev. ‘We co-create life experience humankind at creation (Gen- St. Mathews Catholic through the gift of words esis 1:28-30). When the first Kevin Akins, Min. 3001 B. Hwy 66, Elk City United Methodist When we were little, we had (Proverbs 18:21) 580-225-0066 320 S, Magnoliea St., Brick vivid imaginations, but often Whether we use these power- couple began to imagine they Grandview Assembly of God 580-526-3949 whenever we tried to share ful gifts constructively or de- could become gods, through Pioneer and Country Club, Elk City Rev. Danny Grover our stories, adults scold- structively depends entirely pride and disobedience they 580-225-7742 Christian United Methodist ed us, saying, “That’s not ‘on how we direct our imagi- placed that supremacy into Mark Little, Min. Antioch Christian 802 N. 4th St., Sayre real. You're just imagining nations. Evil imaginations 3200 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 580-928-2146 things.” Recently someone create carelessness, confu- the hands of satan, His had this question: “I heard sion and death. Righteous imagination is only evil con- 580-243-0066 Nazarene you say that our imagination imagination creates life, Be- Great Plains Baptist Assn. Jeff McDowell tinually, and those who serve First Church of The Nazarene is where we create. I’ve al- cause of God's perfect, eter- satan reflect that same evil 1902 Watts St., Sayre Christian Church 816 W. 6th St., Elk City ways felt foolish and wrong nal, faithful goodness, He 580-928-2585 1S. Walnut, Brick 580-225-2026 for imagining. So isn’t it does not take His gifts back in their imaginations (James 580-526-3284 Robert Barkely, Pastor childish after all?” even when we misuse them. 1:14-15). Bible Baptist Church Romans 11:29 (Amplified) 1018 W. B Avenue, Elk City Pentecostal First Christian Church Part of the reason for our says, “For God's gifts and His God clearly acknowledged 580-225-5344 (Diciples of Christ) Grace Temple critical view of imagination call are irrevocable. He never 1500 N. Randall, Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City is that many Scriptural ref- withdraws them when once the tremendous power He Central Missionary Baptist 580-225-7801 Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors erences to imagination are they are given, and He does invested into the human 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City negative. An example is the not change His mind about imagination when He said, 580-225-0212 First Christian Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La statement found in Genesis those to whom He gives His “If, as one people all having 1601 N. 4th St., Sayre na 8:21, “for the imagination of grace or to whom He sends Eastside Baptist 580-928-3639 600 W. Main, Elk City man’s heart is evil from his His call.” the same language, they have 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City Pastor, Jose Reyes youth...” However, the word begun to do this, then nothing 580-225-0742 Church of Christ 580-799-2964 imagination is the Hebrew The Empire State Building they plan to do will be impos- Chris Carlisle, Min. Church of Christ word yay’-tser; a neutral was conceived in the imagi- sible for them.” Let’s use this Presbyterian Fairview Baptist 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City word which simply means nation of William F. Lamb 580-225-0718 First Presbyterian “a form; conception or pur- in the late 1920’s. Construe- great gift wisely! 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City 580-225-0203 Gantt Carter, Min. 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City pose”. ‘The imagination can tion was completed in just 15 580-225-3130 be used for good or evil. months, and the building of- Join me each Monday eve- First Baptist Church of Christ ficially opened May 1, 1931. ning 6:30-8:00 to. learn 1600 W. 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