Shelby County Today

July 11, 2025 - Abundant Love Ministries will be celebrating their annual Family and Friends Day on July 20, 2025, at 2:30pm. Bishop W.C. Martin, Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, is our guest minister of the hour.

Our morning worship services will be conducted as usual, with Sunday School (Diving Deeper), beginning at 9am and regular midday services at 10am.

Please join us for this time of celebration and fellowship. As well, you are welcome and invited to any of our regularly scheduled services.

Abundant Love Ministries is located at 1426 Shelbyville St., Center, TX; Pastor Marlin Cloudy, Sr., Senior Pastor

July 10, 2025 - In a world such as ours, we are often appalled at man’s inhumanity to man and the brokenness of life we see around us every day. We see broken homes, broken health, broken hearts and broken hopes. The Psalmist writes in Psalms 147:3 “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”

Throughout the gospels, we see Jesus healing. He healed those who came to him blind and deaf. He healed the lame and he raised the dead. But we also see Jesus healing the brokenhearted. We see him healing those who were broken in spirit. There was an outcast woman at Jacob’s well, a tax collector named Zacchaeus and an unnamed woman caught in adultery, just to name a few. You see, Jesus had a special place for those society had cast away. He did not choose the apostles from the cream of society. They were not highly educated and they were looked down on by society. Yet, Jesus chose them. He remade them. He used them to change the world.

No matter how broken our lives might be by sin, no life is too broken to be mended and used by Jesus. If we are suffering from the brokenness of life, we must submit our stubborn will to his will, obey his commands and live his kind of life. Then he will heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds.

It’s something to think about. . . tbp

Come join us for worship at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com.

July 8, 2025 - Patroon Baptist Church is hosting its Revival July 16 through July 18 at 7pm nightly. The message for the 3 night revival, Wednesday through Friday, will be brought by Bro. Mike Belgard.

The church is located at 310 FM2261, Shelbyville, TX 75973.

July 7, 2025 - Good Morning. It’s Monday, July 7.

Texas is a big, big state. El Paso is closer to San Diego, California than it is to Texarkana. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is larger than Manhattan. The entire state of Rhode Island could fit inside the King Ranch. Texas is so huge that it has at least seven distinct geographical regions. From the rugged Trans-Pecos mountains of West Texas to the verdant Piney Woods here in East Texas. From the majestic Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to the beautiful Padre Island beaches on the Gulf Coast.  The Lone Star State has a little bit - or a lot - of everything.

But perhaps the most beautiful part of our state is at its center, an area called the Hill Country. When the early Texas settlers first saw it, they wrote back to their families in Tennessee and Kentucky, describing it as “paradise”. Growing up, my family spent every summer vacationing in New Braunfels on the lovely Comal River. The Comal is a quiet, cool (72 degrees) tributary of the much larger Guadalupe - the site of this past weekend’s horrifying disaster.

It was, in the most negative sense, a “perfect storm”. Freak amounts of rain, coming in the dead of night, on Independence Day Friday, the beginning of a 4th of July weekend. An area that attracts thousands and thousands of visitors, dotted with resorts and RV parks and youth camps. By this morning, the confirmed death toll had risen to 81, with many still missing, many of them children. These words do not adequately describe this catastrophe. It is an indescribable loss.

This morning our hearts go out and our prayers go up. And we claim the promise found in Psalm 34:18 - “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those with a crushed spirit.”

Meet you back here tomorrow,

David
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