Local Church Calendar

Peggy’s Porch

August 13 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Peggy’s Porch, behind City Hall, Howe, TX

Community Bible Fellowship Fish Camp 2020

August 14

The Lowder Home, 765

Bentcreek Lane, Sherman, TX

Howe ISD Board of Trustees

Meeting

August 15 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Howe I S D Administration Office, 105 W Tutt, Howe, TX

Howe Lady Bulldogs

JV2/JV1/V vs Tom Bean

August 16 @ 5:00 pm

Howe High School

Gymnasium, 200 E Ponderosa Rd , Howe, TX

Howe City Council Meeting

August 16 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Howe Community Center, 700 W Haning St , Howe, TX

Howe Lady Bulldogs V at Denison Tournament

August 18 - August 20

Denison High School, North, 4200 TX-91, Denison, TX

Howe Bulldogs at Aubrey (scrimmage)

August 18 @ 6:00 pm

Aubrey High School, 510 Spring Hill Rd, Aubrey, TX http://howeenterprise.com/events/

Service (5yr – 12 yr)

Community Bible Fellowship

Monday pm - Luella home group Bible Study Wednesday am - Worship Service pm - Howe home group Bible Study

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

Howe Bulldogs 7th and 8th grade football information

The Howe football coaches will be issuing equipment to all incoming football players starting at 5 pm on Saturday, August 20 at Bulldog Stadium before the community pep rally. After they have been issued their equipment, they are invited to participate in the Community Pep Rally which will follow Please also remember that all incoming 7th graders need a Sports Physical before the first day of practice. For more information, please email Coach Elvington at elvington.bruce@howeisd.net

Faith by Debbie Wallis

how the Father feels over the affliction and grief His children’s experience Maybe Jesus wept because He was seeing human desperation

Jesus Wept is the shortest verse in the Bible But with all its simplicity, it’s packed with complexity He was “greatly troubled” in John 11:33 and He wept Jesus wept after speaking with Lazarus’s grieving sisters, Martha and Mary That would seem natural except that Jesus had come to Bethany to raise Lazarus from the dead He knew that in a few short minutes all this weeping would turn to joy! One reason He wept may be the deep compassion that Jesus felt for those who suffer Jesus allowed Lazarus to die “When Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead and in the tomb for four days,” John 11:17 He delayed coming, and He did not speak healing like He had before to others Jesus reasons were good and ultimately showed God glorious! That doesn’t mean Jesus took the suffering it caused lightly and He doesn’t take delight in affliction and grief itself “For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men,” Lamentations

3:33 Jesus always does what brings His Father glory “When He heard this, Jesus said, ‘This sickness will not end in death No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it,” John 11:4 The tomb of Lazarus was a glimpse of

The cross was just days away and no one really knew the inner anguish Jesus was experiencing And He did, He was fully man and fully God and was not spared anything other than no broke bones Jesus knew what was ahead but chose to make the sacrifice for you and I Lazarus’s resurrection would be experienced as a gift of grace But Jesus, who had never known sin, was about to become Lazarus’s sin “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God,” 2

Corinthians 5:21 The reality of what lay ahead was weighing heavily on Jesus Jesus, the Son of God is all knowing He knew what was being prepared for Him to do for all mankind He knew He would be judged guilty and pay the wages of sin He knew He would face a separation between Himself and His Father The Son of Man had to choose the cross for me He chose to stay and suffer for my sins He could have called a host of angels to the earth at any time, yet He stayed until it was finished “When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished,’ and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit,” John 19:30 He had ALL the power to stop His own crucifixion yet, He stayed His flesh was the same as yours and mine His mind, His will and His emotions were the Son of man His pain was real I will be forever grateful

Jesus is God and if He didn’t want Mary and Martha to feel the sorrow brought on by the death of their brother, He would have just healed him He knew exactly the plan and the great joy Mary and Martha were about to experience There was no need for Jesus to weep yet He did! What is the deeper meaning behind Jesus weeping? I believe Jesus may have wept for a reason totally obscure to us Lazarus was dead in body but alive in Heaven and in the presence of God! He was face to face where he was made perfect and he has to go back to this sin cursed earth! I'm thinking when Jesus wept it was probably about the time Lazarus was told, "Go back, Lazarus Your job is not finished yet "

You are blessed to be a blessing. Do all that you do to bring glory and honor to the Lord If you don’t have a Bible please contact me at sfadebbie@yahoo com and I will provide you one,

I read an article in an antique collecting magazine about collecting books that were written by authors who featured antiques and antique shops as their main focus and Eureka! a new collecting mania was started My search was on for books written with antiques, antique shops, antiquarian bookstores, or antique collectors/dealers as their theme It doesn’t take much prodding for true antiquaholics to start a new collection

The tried and true books like Jonathan Gash’s Lovejoy series were easy to find You may recall the Lovejoy series that ran on PBS several years back Lovejoy was a roguishly attractive Brit who bought and sold antiques, always with some murder mystery attached Gash has written at least 24 Lovejoy books full of antique lore

Many of you will be familiar with Stephen King’s Needful Things, published in 1991, about an antique shop by the same name operated by the creepy Leland Gaunt where there is “something for everyone ” At Needful Things the prices are high and Gaunt’s pleasure is to see how much people will pay for their most secret dreams and desires

This one almost made me want to stop acquiring things well, almost, but not completely.

Georgia Caraway

gotten into the act. Catherine Palmer has written Finders Keepers, a romantic fiction with a biblical foundation about a woman who wants to open her antiques shop in a Victorian mansion that is inherited by an architect who wants to tear it down to build a new architectural firm on the site There is enough romance, conflict, and antiques lore to qualify this book for the collection

And then there is Larry McMurtry’s contribution to the group in the early 1980s with his Cadillac Jack about a scout (picker) of salable antiques, collectibles, and curiosities of all kinds who drives around in a Cadillac, thus the name of the book and main character Of course there is a deeper meaning to McMurtry’s book than the antiquing theme, but Jack’s occupation qualified it for this collecting genre

Barbara Michaels has written at least three mysteries with antiques as a basis: Into the Darkness (jewelry), Stitches in Time (antique bridal quilt), and Shattered Silk (textiles)

British author Mollie Hardwick, better known for her two famous books and PBS series, Duchess of Duke Street and the Upstairs, Downstairs, has written a series featuring antique shop owner, Doran Fairweather I know of 7 books in this series

Robert Westfall, an antiques dealer, has written a book of ghost stories called Antique Dust And two lawyers from Indiana, Joe Hensley and Guy Townsend, collaborated on a book called Loose Coins, about coin collecting

Even romance novelists have

Tamar Myers has written some books that are pretty lightweight in their content, but the titles have great appeal to me In fact, I had given some thought to writing some fiction with antique-related titles that were puns until I discovered that Ms Myers had already done it Who could resist books titles like, So Faux, So Good; Larceny and Old Lace; Gilt by Association; Baroque and Desperate; The Ming and I; and Estate of Mind

My favorite is John Dunning, a full-time writer and bookstore owner (Old Algonquin Bookshop in Denver) whose protagonist is a book collector and former cop who runs a rare books store

Dunning writes as an insider to the “wonderful world of old rare books ” Dunning’s books opened my eyes to the value of books of fiction and made my forays through bookshelves of junk shops, old bookstores, and thrifts take on new meaning

It isn’t easy to find fiction books with antique collecting as a theme because a list of them hasn’t been completely created But that makes them that much more fun to seek out This collection satisfies three of my needful things: foraging, reading, and acquiring

Dr Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her friends opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p m She has written five Denton history books Her latest, North Texas State Fair and Rodeo, will be available at Howe Mercantile She hopes her next book will be the history of Howe

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