Clyde's Column 6/17/2007
· What a wonderful day we had this past Sunday! We had several visitors in worship on Sunday morning as well as a good crowd for Sunday night. And Sunday night was special. Larry Joe Smith came forward and we were all able to pray together and rejoice with each other and the Lord. After worship, the elders and many of us circled around the auditorium to pray for several of our number who are in need of healing and help from the Lord. I was once moved to write a few lines about our great need for faith, and our great need for the power of prayer, and I hope this short poem will be a blessing to some of you:
A faith that conquers stormy seas
Disciples find upon their knees
And they who fall, face to the sod
Will always find the face of God.
· My family enjoyed being with the West Side Church of Christ in Russellville, AR this past Wednesday night to kick off their Community Enrichment summer series. I love Dan Lightfoot (coming to R&C for our summer series next week) and was glad to get to be around Chris Buxton and Bruce Grice and get to know folks at West Side a little better. Some of them sent greetings to you here at R&C. Dan gave my boys gold dollar coins and did the disappearing hanky trick and they had some fun with that (especially since he made them reappear and they left with their dollar coins intact).
· I will be taking two Bible short courses over the next two weeks. I will be here on Sundays to preach but will be in class (Monday—Saturday) at HUGSR in Memphis.
· Austin Graduate School of Theology had a wonderful sermon seminar. The speakers did an excellent job. Bruce McLarty (who will be back to R&C before too long), Curt Niccum, Tom Olbricht, Glenn Pemberton and others led around 200 of us in exploring Scripture.