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November 14, 2004 "Counting on Resurrection"
Speaker Jackie Rose

Welcome to the Prime Timers A.B.F!

Class is held each Sunday from 10:10 am until 10:50. This years program is called The God of Continuing Creation, and you are invited!

The Parties Keep on Coming!

The Prime Timers second social event this season will be hosted by Caroline and Skip Maryan on Friday, December 10. Details will follow right here. After the success of this year's Halloween event you might want to clear your calendar! 

Henny Penny, the Prime Timers chicken, was blessed this week with good news from all sides. Starting with Jackie Rose' word of husband Robert's successful art show (10 pictures sold), we then heard the Rev. Bob Brown's compliment on hearing "The Saints Go Marching In" in church, and not one but two grandchildren announcements, one from Caroline Maryan and one from Rick Hartley.

If you wonder what a wooden chicken is doing in a church Adult Bible Fellowship class, you can click on one of the "Past Issues" links to the left. September 19 is a good place to start!

Prime Timers Contact names and numbers

Co-Leaders

Jackie Rose
713/523-6933 H
jackierose@houston.rr.com
 
Skip Maryan
713/974-1490 H
Skip.Maryan@tklaw.com
 
Outreach (inviting and welcoming new members)
 
Anne Berry
713/772-1670 H
aberry@proctor-law.com

Sue & Walter Morrison
713/552-9719

Catey Carter
713/961-1762
ccarter5620@sbcglobal.net
 

Caring (prayers, follow-up w/class members who have been ill or have other needs)
 
Katey Given
713/864-5757 W
713/356-7020 H
 
Dorothy Green
713/461-9703 H
bdgreens@sbcglobal.net

Fred Wright

713/906-1149 Cell
fvwright@sbcglobal.net
 
Marty Smith - Communications and Web Page
713/464-6737 H
martys@houston.rr.com

 

Don't forget, the coffee and donuts at St. Martin's are in the Adult Bible Fellowship classrooms!!!

Bill and Martha Ann Linden (facing us) enjoy a coffee moment with George and Elisabeth Laigle.

Sue Shaper has a discussion with Jackie Rose.


The Lesson for this Sunday, Nov. 11 is titled "Counting on Resurrection"

Key Verse:  1 Corinthians 15:55

Focus of the Lesson:  Most people wonder about life after death. What are we to believe? Paul wrote about the new body and our assurance of resurrection in Christ.

The reading is 1 Corinthians 15:42-57. This text is from the New Revised Standard Version.

42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven. 50 What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ 55 ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?’ 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.



 

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