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Mamas, rain, and the Bible all have this in common – they give us life. Rain, we simply cannot live without as it waters our earth so it can feed us and flourish. Physical life, for us, begins with our mamas. God’s gives us life eternal, if we will follow the example of the earth and receive it and if we will follow the advice of our mamas and take it to heart! 

(Psa 139: 13; Isa 55:8-11; 1 Pet 1:23; Heb 4:12; 1 Cor 13:1-4)

Eph 6: 10

 Cor 13:4-8

Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

All we need is love, love is all we
need . . . , the old
song says. If we understand what love truly is, the song is right! But more
importantly, the Bible would declare to us that God is love (1 Jn 4:8,16), and so
love is what we need.

     Love is the real game
changer in life. Love does not stop every bad thing from happening, nor
does it take away every consequence of those bad things. Love does not need to
do that in this earthly life. God, in love, will take care of that when time
has ended, and Christ returns (2Thess 1:6-10). However, in this earthly life,
love does exactly what it needs to do. The Bible tells us clearly that without
love we are what love is, does not do,
and most certainly does:

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it
is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects,
always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. . . . (1Cor 13:4-7)

          This
is exactly what our world, and more urgently the church needs! We cannot thrive
as people created in God’s image and more importantly as people created in
Christ, as God’s workmanship (Eph 2:1-10; 2 Cor 5:17), without this love (1 Cor 13:1-3). Love is above all practical, and
God has created a way to represent His nature in each person’s life, when he
created mothers. Like every other
good thing God has created, sinners have found ways to distort it, but nonetheless,
motherhood prevails to the point that most of us understand personally Paul’s
description of love as a description of our mothers.

LOVE NEVER FAILS (1 Cor 13:8)!  HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!

Peace,

Jay Don

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Luke 14: 26-28

A report from Ghana, Africa, and gospel message from Frank Essien.

Elders/Deacons meet 4:30 the 28^th.

Lincoln Russell competed at the District 5-3A track meet in
Clyde on April 4^th. He earned a 2^nd in triple jump, 2^nd
in the mile relay and 4^th in the 400 meter run. He is an Area
qualifier in his events. Update: Lincoln placed 5^th in the
triple jump & 6^th in the 400 meter run at the Area Track meet in
Jim Ned on Wednesday, April 17^th. Lincoln’s 1600 meter relay team
placed 2^nd. They will advance to the Regional Track meet at ACU on
Friday, April 26^th.

Thank you for the beautiful plant for Larry
Looper, Linda would be happy, too. Also, thank you for the continued prayers
for us, we are not back to a 100% yet, but have been able to be with our church
family.

Love, Jim & Ann Jacobs

Cheyenne
Bland Cruz was named this year’s McMurry University Outstanding Fine Arts
Alumni for music. Cheyenne is the granddaughter of Sonja Sommerville.