SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2017
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Your emotional health; good fruit or bad root
Whenever I would share an
opinion about something with
Dave, if he didn’t agree with
me, the fight was on.
We would get into these big
arguments and I would end up
so confused, thinking, “I don’t
even know what we’re talking
about anymore.” The really
frustrating thing was I didn’t
understand what my problem
was, so I just kept blaming it all
on Dave.
When we don’t take respon-
sibility for our problems, we
blame them on someone or
something else. But when I
finally got to the point where I
was sick and tired of arguing
with Dave all the time, I prayed
for God to show me what was
wrong. He answered my prayer
and revealed that I had a root of
rejection in my soul from the
way I was raised, and until that
root was dealt with, the fruit (or
behavior) in my life would
never change.
When you’re afraid of rejec-
tion, if people don’t agree with
you, you feel rejected by them.
So when Dave and I were try-
ing to have a conversation, if
he didn’t agree with me, I felt
that he was rejecting me.
The truth is when Dave had
a different opinion, he wasn’t
rejecting me; he was rejecting
my opinion. And I had to learn
to separate who I am from my
opinion and trust that whether
or not he liked my opinion, he
still loved me.
It was a major breakthrough
for me to get this revelation.
Through this situation I learned
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Florence church of Christ
1833 Tamarack
Florence, Oregon
Bible Study: Sunday, 10:00 am
Worship: Sunday, 11:00 am
www.churchofchristfl orence.org
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FLORENCE UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP
N.W. Corner of Heceta Beach Road & Hwy. 101
Every Sunday at 10 a.m.
All are welcome. (541) 997-2840
BAY BERRY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP SINGSPIRATION
You are invited to come and sing your favorite old time gospel hymns
Every Friday night at 7pm • Non-denominational
Bay Berry Square; 101 at Sutton Lake Dr. /milepost 185 N.
For more information , please call 541-997-2681
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP
“God Is Life”
Meeting Th ursday at 3pm
575-313-3640
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Located at Munsel Lake Road and North Fork Road
Worship Services 10:00 AM Sunday
All are welcome! 541-997-7268
COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH
4590 Hwy. 101, Across from Fred Meyer –- 997-7418
Sunday School, 9:30a.m. – Worship, 10:45
Wed. Prayer - 6:00 p.m. –Wed. Ministries 1-8 Grade 7 p.m.
CROSS ROAD ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Corner of 10th & Maple –- 997-3533
Bible Study at 9:00 A.M.
Services: Worship, 10:30 A.M.
fl orencecrossroad.org • offi ce@fl orencecrossroad.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - SBC
1935 25th St. – 997-7660 • Pastor, Dr. Marvin Owen
Series “People of the Bible.” on Wednesdays 6 p.m.
A friendly place to worship, vacationers welcome.
Sun.; 11am & 6pm, Sunday school 9:45am.
FLORENCE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
2nd & Ivy – 997-2961 –Non-Denominational
Worship Service: 9:00 am & 10:30 am
Middle School and High School youth groups meet on Wednesday.
FLORENCE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Pre-Denominational (Romans 16:16)
1833 Tamarack Street (2 blocks east of Hwy. 101 on 18th St.)
Bible Study: Sunday 10 a.m.; Worship: Sunday 11 a.m.
www.churchofchristfl orence.org
FLORENCE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
12th and Nopal –997-9020
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
10 am Wed., Women’s Bible Study
Saturdays, Mens’ Breakfast @ 8 a.m.
Online Worship Service@ www.fl orencenaz.com
FLORENCE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
1318 Rhododendron Dr. –- 997-2523 – Worship at 11:00 AM –- Sunday
School at 9:30 AM – Variety of Sunday evening activities - 5 PM
Wed. Bible & Children classes at 6:00 PM
Call for details.
FLORENCE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
4445 Hwy 101 (South of Fred Meyer) – 997-3951
Worship on Saturday 10:30 A.M.
Adult/Children’s Sabbath School 9:15 A.M.
power, together with all the
Lord’s holy people, to grasp
how wide and long and high
and deep is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that sur-
passes knowledge-that you
may be filled to the measure of
all the fullness of God” (vv. 17-
19, NIV).
This is my prayer for you-
that you would be planted
deep in the knowledge that
God loves you unconditional-
ly and know that, while He
may not always love every-
thing you do, He always loves
you.
I also want to encourage
you to spend time every day
alone with God in prayer and
study the Word.
Dig in to scriptures about
the love of God and choose to
trust that every one of those
promises is for you.
The truth is: You are loved
and you are valuable to God.
You can also contact us to
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calling 800- 727-9673 or vis-
iting www.joycemeyer.org.
Spirituali-Tea to discuss
loyalty to government
and experience the joy and simplicity of
pre-denominational New Testament Worship. (Romans 16:16)
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how to be a person who is
loved and valued by God,
because of what Jesus has done
for me, and to separate my
“who” from my “do.” It took
some time and I had to be
determined to trust God’s
Word, which says He loves me
unconditionally and nothing
can separate me from His love,
but eventually, I became secure
in knowing who I am in Christ.
I want to ask you again: Are
you emotionally healthy? Are
you dealing with a root of
rejection in your life? Is there a
person in your life that you
can’t talk to without getting
upset or losing your temper?
When someone disagrees with
you does it make you feel
insulted, stupid, rejected, or
disrespected? If this is you,
then you need to know that
God doesn’t want you to live
this way.
In Ephesians 3, the apostle
Paul prayed for the Ephesians:
“That Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith. And I pray
that you, being rooted and
established in love, may have
FLORENCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
1st Sunday of each month worship at 10:30 am
2nd-5th Sundays worship at 9am and 10:30am
Every Sunday Adult Sunday School at 9am
Children and Youth Sunday School at 10:45 AM
2nd & Kingwood • (541) 997-6025
On Monday, Jan. 23, at 6:30
p.m., everyone is invited to
join a group of friends from
varied spiritual paths to discus
loyalty to government.
When a great social crisis
sweeps through a civilization,
moral values become impaired
and moral issues confused.
In the crisis of the time,
members of the Bahá’í Faith
go on record as firmly uphold-
ing the principle of loyalty to
government.
Bahu’lláh, the founder of
the Bahá’í Faith, laid upon His
followers this sacred obliga-
tion: “In every country where
any of this people reside, they
must behave towards the gov-
ernment of that country with
loyalty, honesty and truthful-
ness.”
The Bahá’í Writings state
further, “The essence of the
Bahá’í spirit is that in order to
establish a better social order
and economic condition, there
must be allegiance to the laws
and principles of govern-
ment.”
The gathering will end at 8
p.m. with prayers for the
requests left in the Prayer Pole
in the garden of the Florence
Playhouse and those shared by
the group.
For more information, call
Suzanne Mann-Heintz at 541
590-0779.
FOURSQUARE CHURCH
1624 Highway 101 (next to A&W) –- 997-6337
Pastor George Pagel – Something for the entire family.
Sun. Services: 10:45 a.m., Wed. Bible Study 7 p.m.
Website:fl orence4square.com
FLORENCE VINEYARD (GOD’S POWER HOUSE)
2610 Kingwood, Florence • 541-268-2025
Sunday Worship @ 10:00 a.m., experience the Power of the Holy Spirit
Pastors: George & Beverly Sisemore
Intercessory Prayer & Worship, Th ursday night @ 5:00 pm
fl orencevineyardchurch.com
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1424 15th Street •541-991-9398
Sunday Services: 10am and 6pm
Tues. Bible Study 7:00pm
NEW LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH, E.L.C.A.
21st & Spruce Street – 997-8113
Adult Forum 9 a.m. – Sunday School 10:30 a.m.
Worship services; Sun. 10:30am & Wed. 6pm.
Pastor Lori Blake
www.lutheranchurchfl orence.com
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE SIUSLAW
Traditional Worship Service 10:00 a.m. , Reverend Greg Wood
Sunday School and Nursery – Organ and Choir
All Welcome. Come as you are.
3996 N Hwy 101 997-7136
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
“War is still not the answer.” FCNL
We worship in homes at 11am Sundays
Call 997-4237 or 902-9511 for locations.
RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCH, L.C.M.S.
Every Sun., Bible Class 9 a.m., Worship Service 10 a.m.
85294 Hwy. 101 S. – 997-8038
DVD of Weekly worship service available.
Pastor Randy Benscoter
ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
2135 19th St. –- 997-6600
8:30am, Tuesdays, Morning Prayer
Sunday Services: 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. - Wed, 11 a.m.
Everyone Welcome – Come walk our Labyrinth.
SAINT MARY, OUR LADY OF THE DUNES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
CRUISE
Are
you
emotionally
healthy? It seems there are a lot
of people who aren’t, and I
used to be one of them.
Because I grew up in a very
unstable, angry atmosphere
and was abused by my father
for years, I became a miser-
able, angry, controlling adult
and didn’t know how to have
healthy relationships. And until
I learned how to grow in my
relationship with Christ, I was
a mess in my soul.
Many people have wounds
in their soul because of things
that have happened to them.
They’ve been abused or mis-
treated and it’s caused them to
have a victim mentality, to get
stuck in self-pity, to have an
out-of-control temper or a con-
stant sense of insecurity, and so
on. When we have unhealthy
emotions, and the bad behavior
that comes as a result of it, we
have to get to the root of the
issue to fix it.
Matthew 12:33 (NLT) says,
“A tree is identified by its fruit.
If a tree is good, its fruit will be
good. If a tree is bad, its fruit
will be bad.” In other words,
where there’s rotten fruit,
there’s a rotten root.
I remember years ago when I
would complain to Dave, say-
ing, “We don’t talk about any-
thing.” Finally, one day Dave
said to me, “You know, Joyce,
WE don’t talk. YOU talk and
you want me to listen and agree
with you.” He was right.
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