Thank YOU LORD!!!
Give Thanks to the Lord
Psalm 92: 1
“Hello friend! I’m Mack Lyon. It’s a real joy to welcome you to our program, In Search of the Lord’s Way. We’re searching the Scriptures for the Lord’s way to be saved, and His way to live this life. They’re in the Bible, you know, so ours is a Bible study. Say, we’re glad you have joined us today.
This is Thanksgiving week in America. It’s been our American holiday since our land was first settled. And, you know what? In spite of all of the things that are not what we think they ought to be in our country today, I’m so very glad and thankful to God that I live in a nation whose people are sufficiently God-conscious as to set aside one day in every year for a day of national thanksgiving to God, no less! The ways that we use the day will vary greatly, of course. Some will picnic and some will do other things. But the fact that, nationally we still recognize God and thank Him for the blessings that He has blessed us with—with peace and freedom. Well that’s a blessing in itself. Judging by the direction we’ve been going in the past decade or so, we can’t be sure that even this will be ‘Constitutional.’ But, it is this year, this week, so let’s make it a good season of Thanksgiving, what do you say?
Oh my! There’ll be many sermons and lectures given this week about the spirit of thanksgiving that prevailed in the hearts of our Pilgrim fathers. In my years of preaching and teaching the word of God, I’ve delivered quite a number of those myself, for churches and Bible classes, and for civic clubs and school events, for study groups and discussion groups, and well, even others. But what I’m going to say today is not going to be ‘the ordinary’ Thanksgiving Day sermon, extolling the blessings of our national day of Thanksgiving. I’m anxious to study with you about some things that I’ve learned from the study of God’s Word, about a Christian being thankful to God, things I hope you’ll find helpful in your life, too.
Write us, In Search of the Lord’s Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083, or by e-mail at searchtv@searchtv.org. Our toll-free telephone number is 1 (800) 321-8633. We’re audio and video streaming these programs on our website at www.searchtv.org. There’s other information there, too, for those of you who are interested. Our Bible text for today’s message will be one verse: Psalm 92, verse 1. Ken Helterbrand is going to lead the Edmond church in singing, and then I’ll be back and we’ll read God’s Word and pray together.
We’re going to have one verse as our text today. That will be from Psalm 92, verse 1. ‘It is good to give thanks to the Lord, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High . . .’ Now let us go to God in prayer. Holy God, Most High, we thank You, thank You, thank You for the blessings that You have granted our country in its past history. We pray that You will be with us and with our leadership throughout the day, the week, and the years to come. We pray Your blessings on us as individuals and help us as we study Your word to understand the blessing of thanking You daily for the blessing of life its self. In Jesus’ Holy Name, we pray. Amen!
When asked, ‘What is the chief aim and end of life,’ many people will subscribe to the philosophy of the British poet, Alexander Pope. He said, ‘O happiness! Our being’s end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! Whate’er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.’ Even though it’s the universal desire, happiness is as elusive as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Because you see, what a person’s told will make him happy, doesn’t always do that. And what makes one person happy doesn’t make another person happy; therefore, when we begin following all the advice on being happy, we’re confused. And, what makes a person happy today won’t necessarily make him happy tomorrow. And what a person thinks would make him happy if he had it, doesn’t always do it, even if and when he achieves it or acquires it.
Happiness is not a place or a possession; but, it’s an attitude or a way of life. William Law said, ‘If anyone would tell you the shortest, and the surest way to happiness and all perfections, he must tell you to thank and to praise God for everything that happens to you. (Well,) it’s certain (he said) that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank God and praise Him for it, you turn it into a blessing.’ Well, not everything that happens to a person is necessarily good. But the way we cope with it is the difference between victory and defeat. God can and often does bring a blessing out of evil, and for that we can give Him thanks. That’s what Paul’s saying in that familiar and often abused verse in Romans 8: 28: ‘We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, and to them who are the called according to His purpose.’
The Bible says, ‘Rejoice always, and pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.’ That’s 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 16 through 18. Why do you suppose David, the man after God’s own heart, said, ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord?’ I’m sure we don’t have all the answers, but I’m also sure that I’ve found some of them, and I’d like to explore some of them with you, so you, too, may see the good thanksgiving, that thanksgiving adds to the dynamics of our lives.
First of all, it is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord on this day of thanksgiving, and for that matter every day, because the thankful spirit is the key to overcoming worry, depression and defeat. Worry is so common in our society that it’s been called ‘the universal sin.’ Worry is a very paralyzing, deadly, and destructive thing. There’s absolutely nothing good about it, yet it seems that we’re all subjected to its evil forces to some degree or in some measure. We’re told that 40% of the things that we worry about never happen; 30% of the things we worry about have already happened; 12% about our health, our concern for our health (what if we have cancer or a heart attack or something?); 10% of our worries are over trifles; and 8% of our worries are about things that are really important. What do you think about that, friend? Only eight percent of all the things we worry about are really important. Ninety-two percent of our worrying is for nothing.
The word ‘worry’ comes from combining two Greek words. One of them means to ‘divide’ and the other means the ‘mind.’ Thus, the Biblical word for worry literally means to ‘divide the mind.’ And if we approached the 8% of the things that we worry about and we are deeply concerned about with an undivided mind, it’s likely we could conquer them anyway. So, worry is useless, isn’t it? And, the Bible says, ‘Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.’ That’s Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7. My friend, you know, if when we’re troubled about those things that might happen, the things that have already happened, and the trifles that, well, probably won’t happen anyway, we would simply count our blessings and thank God for them, one by one; we could overcome that needless, destructive trio—worry, defeat and depression in our lives.
Secondly: David said, ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord,’ and I’m sure that’s true because the practice of thankfulness makes us feel better about other people. Many years ago I heard a nationally known, and loved, preacher; he was well loved among everybody, saint and sinner alike, and he preached the gospel. But he said one time that he had a very lovely wife; she was the best mother a man could want for his children; and she possessed very many beautiful and gracious characteristics in her life. But she had one terrible fault that ‘bugged’ him greatly. And if he had dwelt upon that, or thought about that one fault, he would probably divorce her and as a consequence the entire family would suffer the great and innumerable tragedies of a broken home. But, why should he overlook all of those beautiful things in her character and think about the one fault that troubled him so much? Why not count his blessings and give God thanks for all of them. That’ll work in our family relations; it’ll work, well, it’ll work anywhere, won’t it? Friend, if we develop the habit of fault-finding, it can ruin our lives; but if we will develop the habit of giving thanks to the Lord for the good things in other people, we’ll feel better about them, too.
Thirdly: not only that, but the best spirit of thankfulness will make other people feel better about us, too. All of us like to be liked. We like to be ‘accepted.’ We not only like it, we need it. And when a person develops a thankful spirit, when he counts the good things about his associates, names them and talks about them, and gives God thanks and praise for them, he becomes the friend of many people. Such an attitude comes right back to us. It just works that way. God’s word says, ‘Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.’ That’s Galatians 6, verse 7. And we would believe that if we read it in The Farmer’s Almanac, wouldn’t we, now? It applies, not only in the physical world, but in the spiritual world as well.
Fourthly: It’s also a good thing to give thanks to the Lord every day, because it will make us feel better about ourselves. I read in a book awhile back that every successful person has risen to success over, and in spite of, some physical handicap, or some kind of a handicap. It’s so generally true, that it can be said to be a ‘universal truth.’ Every person has what might be called a ‘handicap.’ It may be visible; it may not. It may be physical or otherwise. Some are more serious than others, of course. A fellow wrote me a few weeks ago about the bad things that God had done for him, or to him. Not once did he mention anything good about himself and attribute it, that thing to God. Would it surprise you if I told you he wrote me from his prison cell? Everyone has a lot of good going for him.
And, if he’ll look at the good things about himself, his talents, his skills, his opportunities, his strengths, and those things instead of the other; and give God thanks for it all, he’ll have a higher estimate of his own worth and his own being. Oh, he’s on his way up now, isn’t he?
Fifth: Here’s something else: ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord,’ not just on Thanksgiving Day but everyday because, thanking Him will make a person feel better about God. It will enhance his faith in God, and make God a joy. To many people God is a burden to be carried about. The Scripture says, ‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.’ That’s James 1: 17. Instead of saying, ‘where was God when all of this happened to me,’ let’s remember that just one hair of our head does not fall, that God doesn’t know and care about it. (Luke 21: 18) There’s no phase or facet of our lives in which He is not concerned. Indeed, it is good to give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
But above all things, we can thank Him every day for salvation that He procured for us in the gift of His only begotten Son on the cross, not because we deserved it, not because we earned it, but because we didn’t deserve it and because we couldn’t earn it. The sacrifice of His only begotten Son, for the remission of our sins, is worthy of the expression of our thanks, don’t you think? That’s the least we can do. He has made our forgiveness possible. God, the offended one by our sin, has made reconciliation to Him possible in Christ Jesus. That’s Second Corinthians 5: 18 and it says, ‘Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us unto Himself that through Jesus Christ.’ (Now, that’s the New King James Version. The old King James Version says God has reconciled us to Himself by ‘Jesus Christ.’) And, ‘God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.’ He forgives our sins and gives us a new beginning in life and makes us sons of God. And He has made all spiritual blessings available to us in Christ Jesus. That’s Ephesians 1 and 3. Ah, my! We should find it good to give thanks to the Lord. Let us pray. O Father, we have so many things for which we are thankful today. We’re thankful that we can assemble with so many people in their homes, and in the privacy and the quietness of their homes today and think about Your word and the blessings that we have in our relationship with You. We’re thankful, O Father, that You hear our prayers in the name of Jesus, and we thank You that we are free in America today to have a day of thanksgiving. In the Holy Name of Jesus we pray and thank You. Amen!
Now once more, I come to that all-important question for you, my friend. Are you a Christian? How can you not be when you consider all of the good things that God has done for you? Will you continue to receive all the blessings of God’s amazing love of which we have spoken and others, and yet continue to reject His Son as your savior? Oh, I hope you’re not that kind. Surely it is the goodness of God that will lead you to repentance, as we read in Romans chapter 2 and verse 4. Just as surely then, as a true believer in Jesus Christ, you will be baptized into Him, for the remission of your sins, as we’re taught in Acts chapter 2, verse 38. Jesus said, ‘He who believes and is baptized will be saved.’ At that moment you will receive the forgiveness of your sins when you are baptized. And you can also be reconciled to God in Christ! And if you’ll live as a child of God all the rest of your life, you will live with Him in eternity. Do that without delay. Do it today, friend. Would you? And make this Thanksgiving Day one to remember.
Among the many things for which I will be giving thanks to the Lord this week, as I do every week, is for you; and also for those people who help to make this program possible, those right here in your community who are members of churches of Christ. We’re being sponsored on this station by churches of Christ, and some members of these churches, right here in the area served by this station because they love you and they would like to have you attend their worship assemblies and be in their Bible classes. Do that, will you? Oh, I hope you will.
If you would like an audio cassette tape of this program on giving thanks to the Lord, write: In Search of the Lord’s Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083. Or by e-mail it’s searchtv@searchtv.org. Some of you are finding it more convenient to call. If you prefer to do that, you may, and we’ll pay for the call. Our toll-free telephone number is 1 (800) 321-8633. For more information about the Search program and about churches of Christ, visit our website at www.searchtv.org. We’re streaming many of our programs on the website now, so if you had to miss one, it’s available there. Let me mention our free Bible Correspondence Courses, too. One is an eight-lesson course (eight colorful lessons) and you go from one end of the Bible to the other. The more advanced course is thirty lessons. Be sure to tell us now which one you want.
Let me repeat my invitation to you to attend your local church of Christ wherever you are.
Somewhere near you, probably, there’s a church of Christ who would welcome you warmly into their assemblies and classes. It would be no real problem to learn the time of their meetings, and if we may assist you in that, I hope you’ll let us. Be with us again next week, will you? And be telling other people about the program and encouraging them also because they can be built up spiritually as well. May God bless you now because we love you.”
Give Thanks to the Lord
Psalm 92: 1
“Hello friend! I’m Mack Lyon. It’s a real joy to welcome you to our program, In Search of the Lord’s Way. We’re searching the Scriptures for the Lord’s way to be saved, and His way to live this life. They’re in the Bible, you know, so ours is a Bible study. Say, we’re glad you have joined us today.
This is Thanksgiving week in America. It’s been our American holiday since our land was first settled. And, you know what? In spite of all of the things that are not what we think they ought to be in our country today, I’m so very glad and thankful to God that I live in a nation whose people are sufficiently God-conscious as to set aside one day in every year for a day of national thanksgiving to God, no less! The ways that we use the day will vary greatly, of course. Some will picnic and some will do other things. But the fact that, nationally we still recognize God and thank Him for the blessings that He has blessed us with—with peace and freedom. Well that’s a blessing in itself. Judging by the direction we’ve been going in the past decade or so, we can’t be sure that even this will be ‘Constitutional.’ But, it is this year, this week, so let’s make it a good season of Thanksgiving, what do you say?
Oh my! There’ll be many sermons and lectures given this week about the spirit of thanksgiving that prevailed in the hearts of our Pilgrim fathers. In my years of preaching and teaching the word of God, I’ve delivered quite a number of those myself, for churches and Bible classes, and for civic clubs and school events, for study groups and discussion groups, and well, even others. But what I’m going to say today is not going to be ‘the ordinary’ Thanksgiving Day sermon, extolling the blessings of our national day of Thanksgiving. I’m anxious to study with you about some things that I’ve learned from the study of God’s Word, about a Christian being thankful to God, things I hope you’ll find helpful in your life, too.
Write us, In Search of the Lord’s Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083, or by e-mail at searchtv@searchtv.org. Our toll-free telephone number is 1 (800) 321-8633. We’re audio and video streaming these programs on our website at www.searchtv.org. There’s other information there, too, for those of you who are interested. Our Bible text for today’s message will be one verse: Psalm 92, verse 1. Ken Helterbrand is going to lead the Edmond church in singing, and then I’ll be back and we’ll read God’s Word and pray together.
We’re going to have one verse as our text today. That will be from Psalm 92, verse 1. ‘It is good to give thanks to the Lord, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High . . .’ Now let us go to God in prayer. Holy God, Most High, we thank You, thank You, thank You for the blessings that You have granted our country in its past history. We pray that You will be with us and with our leadership throughout the day, the week, and the years to come. We pray Your blessings on us as individuals and help us as we study Your word to understand the blessing of thanking You daily for the blessing of life its self. In Jesus’ Holy Name, we pray. Amen!
When asked, ‘What is the chief aim and end of life,’ many people will subscribe to the philosophy of the British poet, Alexander Pope. He said, ‘O happiness! Our being’s end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! Whate’er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.’ Even though it’s the universal desire, happiness is as elusive as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Because you see, what a person’s told will make him happy, doesn’t always do that. And what makes one person happy doesn’t make another person happy; therefore, when we begin following all the advice on being happy, we’re confused. And, what makes a person happy today won’t necessarily make him happy tomorrow. And what a person thinks would make him happy if he had it, doesn’t always do it, even if and when he achieves it or acquires it.
Happiness is not a place or a possession; but, it’s an attitude or a way of life. William Law said, ‘If anyone would tell you the shortest, and the surest way to happiness and all perfections, he must tell you to thank and to praise God for everything that happens to you. (Well,) it’s certain (he said) that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank God and praise Him for it, you turn it into a blessing.’ Well, not everything that happens to a person is necessarily good. But the way we cope with it is the difference between victory and defeat. God can and often does bring a blessing out of evil, and for that we can give Him thanks. That’s what Paul’s saying in that familiar and often abused verse in Romans 8: 28: ‘We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, and to them who are the called according to His purpose.’
The Bible says, ‘Rejoice always, and pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.’ That’s 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 16 through 18. Why do you suppose David, the man after God’s own heart, said, ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord?’ I’m sure we don’t have all the answers, but I’m also sure that I’ve found some of them, and I’d like to explore some of them with you, so you, too, may see the good thanksgiving, that thanksgiving adds to the dynamics of our lives.
First of all, it is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord on this day of thanksgiving, and for that matter every day, because the thankful spirit is the key to overcoming worry, depression and defeat. Worry is so common in our society that it’s been called ‘the universal sin.’ Worry is a very paralyzing, deadly, and destructive thing. There’s absolutely nothing good about it, yet it seems that we’re all subjected to its evil forces to some degree or in some measure. We’re told that 40% of the things that we worry about never happen; 30% of the things we worry about have already happened; 12% about our health, our concern for our health (what if we have cancer or a heart attack or something?); 10% of our worries are over trifles; and 8% of our worries are about things that are really important. What do you think about that, friend? Only eight percent of all the things we worry about are really important. Ninety-two percent of our worrying is for nothing.
The word ‘worry’ comes from combining two Greek words. One of them means to ‘divide’ and the other means the ‘mind.’ Thus, the Biblical word for worry literally means to ‘divide the mind.’ And if we approached the 8% of the things that we worry about and we are deeply concerned about with an undivided mind, it’s likely we could conquer them anyway. So, worry is useless, isn’t it? And, the Bible says, ‘Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.’ That’s Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7. My friend, you know, if when we’re troubled about those things that might happen, the things that have already happened, and the trifles that, well, probably won’t happen anyway, we would simply count our blessings and thank God for them, one by one; we could overcome that needless, destructive trio—worry, defeat and depression in our lives.
Secondly: David said, ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord,’ and I’m sure that’s true because the practice of thankfulness makes us feel better about other people. Many years ago I heard a nationally known, and loved, preacher; he was well loved among everybody, saint and sinner alike, and he preached the gospel. But he said one time that he had a very lovely wife; she was the best mother a man could want for his children; and she possessed very many beautiful and gracious characteristics in her life. But she had one terrible fault that ‘bugged’ him greatly. And if he had dwelt upon that, or thought about that one fault, he would probably divorce her and as a consequence the entire family would suffer the great and innumerable tragedies of a broken home. But, why should he overlook all of those beautiful things in her character and think about the one fault that troubled him so much? Why not count his blessings and give God thanks for all of them. That’ll work in our family relations; it’ll work, well, it’ll work anywhere, won’t it? Friend, if we develop the habit of fault-finding, it can ruin our lives; but if we will develop the habit of giving thanks to the Lord for the good things in other people, we’ll feel better about them, too.
Thirdly: not only that, but the best spirit of thankfulness will make other people feel better about us, too. All of us like to be liked. We like to be ‘accepted.’ We not only like it, we need it. And when a person develops a thankful spirit, when he counts the good things about his associates, names them and talks about them, and gives God thanks and praise for them, he becomes the friend of many people. Such an attitude comes right back to us. It just works that way. God’s word says, ‘Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.’ That’s Galatians 6, verse 7. And we would believe that if we read it in The Farmer’s Almanac, wouldn’t we, now? It applies, not only in the physical world, but in the spiritual world as well.
Fourthly: It’s also a good thing to give thanks to the Lord every day, because it will make us feel better about ourselves. I read in a book awhile back that every successful person has risen to success over, and in spite of, some physical handicap, or some kind of a handicap. It’s so generally true, that it can be said to be a ‘universal truth.’ Every person has what might be called a ‘handicap.’ It may be visible; it may not. It may be physical or otherwise. Some are more serious than others, of course. A fellow wrote me a few weeks ago about the bad things that God had done for him, or to him. Not once did he mention anything good about himself and attribute it, that thing to God. Would it surprise you if I told you he wrote me from his prison cell? Everyone has a lot of good going for him.
And, if he’ll look at the good things about himself, his talents, his skills, his opportunities, his strengths, and those things instead of the other; and give God thanks for it all, he’ll have a higher estimate of his own worth and his own being. Oh, he’s on his way up now, isn’t he?
Fifth: Here’s something else: ‘It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord,’ not just on Thanksgiving Day but everyday because, thanking Him will make a person feel better about God. It will enhance his faith in God, and make God a joy. To many people God is a burden to be carried about. The Scripture says, ‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.’ That’s James 1: 17. Instead of saying, ‘where was God when all of this happened to me,’ let’s remember that just one hair of our head does not fall, that God doesn’t know and care about it. (Luke 21: 18) There’s no phase or facet of our lives in which He is not concerned. Indeed, it is good to give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
But above all things, we can thank Him every day for salvation that He procured for us in the gift of His only begotten Son on the cross, not because we deserved it, not because we earned it, but because we didn’t deserve it and because we couldn’t earn it. The sacrifice of His only begotten Son, for the remission of our sins, is worthy of the expression of our thanks, don’t you think? That’s the least we can do. He has made our forgiveness possible. God, the offended one by our sin, has made reconciliation to Him possible in Christ Jesus. That’s Second Corinthians 5: 18 and it says, ‘Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us unto Himself that through Jesus Christ.’ (Now, that’s the New King James Version. The old King James Version says God has reconciled us to Himself by ‘Jesus Christ.’) And, ‘God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.’ He forgives our sins and gives us a new beginning in life and makes us sons of God. And He has made all spiritual blessings available to us in Christ Jesus. That’s Ephesians 1 and 3. Ah, my! We should find it good to give thanks to the Lord. Let us pray. O Father, we have so many things for which we are thankful today. We’re thankful that we can assemble with so many people in their homes, and in the privacy and the quietness of their homes today and think about Your word and the blessings that we have in our relationship with You. We’re thankful, O Father, that You hear our prayers in the name of Jesus, and we thank You that we are free in America today to have a day of thanksgiving. In the Holy Name of Jesus we pray and thank You. Amen!
Now once more, I come to that all-important question for you, my friend. Are you a Christian? How can you not be when you consider all of the good things that God has done for you? Will you continue to receive all the blessings of God’s amazing love of which we have spoken and others, and yet continue to reject His Son as your savior? Oh, I hope you’re not that kind. Surely it is the goodness of God that will lead you to repentance, as we read in Romans chapter 2 and verse 4. Just as surely then, as a true believer in Jesus Christ, you will be baptized into Him, for the remission of your sins, as we’re taught in Acts chapter 2, verse 38. Jesus said, ‘He who believes and is baptized will be saved.’ At that moment you will receive the forgiveness of your sins when you are baptized. And you can also be reconciled to God in Christ! And if you’ll live as a child of God all the rest of your life, you will live with Him in eternity. Do that without delay. Do it today, friend. Would you? And make this Thanksgiving Day one to remember.
Among the many things for which I will be giving thanks to the Lord this week, as I do every week, is for you; and also for those people who help to make this program possible, those right here in your community who are members of churches of Christ. We’re being sponsored on this station by churches of Christ, and some members of these churches, right here in the area served by this station because they love you and they would like to have you attend their worship assemblies and be in their Bible classes. Do that, will you? Oh, I hope you will.
If you would like an audio cassette tape of this program on giving thanks to the Lord, write: In Search of the Lord’s Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083. Or by e-mail it’s searchtv@searchtv.org. Some of you are finding it more convenient to call. If you prefer to do that, you may, and we’ll pay for the call. Our toll-free telephone number is 1 (800) 321-8633. For more information about the Search program and about churches of Christ, visit our website at www.searchtv.org. We’re streaming many of our programs on the website now, so if you had to miss one, it’s available there. Let me mention our free Bible Correspondence Courses, too. One is an eight-lesson course (eight colorful lessons) and you go from one end of the Bible to the other. The more advanced course is thirty lessons. Be sure to tell us now which one you want.
Let me repeat my invitation to you to attend your local church of Christ wherever you are.
Somewhere near you, probably, there’s a church of Christ who would welcome you warmly into their assemblies and classes. It would be no real problem to learn the time of their meetings, and if we may assist you in that, I hope you’ll let us. Be with us again next week, will you? And be telling other people about the program and encouraging them also because they can be built up spiritually as well. May God bless you now because we love you.”
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