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Monday, February 16, 2015
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Faith by Debbie Wallis
“Do to others as you would have them do to you,” Luke 6:31. God didn’t make things all that complicated. Just think, if everyone treated others as they wanted to be treated all issues of hate, self-centeredness, control, violence, abuse, theft, murder, adultery, disrespect, abandonment, gossip, jealousy and envy, cheating (insert here what I left out) would be solved overnight. We are born with an innate desire to have our needs fulfilled. Infants don’t care about what you want. They don’t want to be hungry, wet or tired. They want to be held when they want to be and put down when they want to be. Your needs don’t change their wants. What if we were that head strong about making each other happy? “Let love be your only debt! If you love others, you have done all that the Law demands. In the Law there are many commands, such as, “Be faithful in marriage. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not want what belongs to others.” But all these are summed up in the command that says, “Love others as much as you love yourself.” No one who loves others will harm
them. So love is all the Law demands,” Romans 13:8-10. If the commandment to love others as you love yourself was fulfilled no other commandment would be needed. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second of this; Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than Matthew 5:17. Jesus came to Jesus loves you like you want to these,” Mark 12:30-31. love us unconditional. He be loved, as you are and modeled perfect love. He lived unconditionally. Luke 10:30-36 gives the example of for you and He died so you could the Good Samaritan. Let’s take it have eternal live with Him in If you don’t have a bible please home and say that a man was Heaven. He paid the debt your contacts me at walking down the street in your sins required. You owe nothing. sfadebbie@yahoo.com and I will home town and a robber took provide you with one. everything he owned, beat him up and left him for dead on the Father and son to be teammates in alumni sidewalk. A local priest drove by game; Fulenchek to throw 30 pitches on Friday and assumed he was one of many homeless men sleeping on the 27-2 and were ranked #1 in the sidewalk so he changed lanes and State of Texas in Class 2A. kept driving. Later a church secretary drove by in a hurry and Garrett Fulenchek will be limited assumed someone else would stop to 30 pitches in the game due to because she didn’t have time. A his training workout limitations traveler came through town and saw with the Braves. the man; he felt sorry for him and went over to him. He treated his Other players for the Howe wounds and bandaged him up. Bulldogs Alumni team will be Then he helped him into his car and Former Bulldogs who were on Larry McCarthy, Kelly Gann, took him to First Care to be checked playoff teams 22 years apart will Dusty Womack, John Michael over. The man then bought him be playing together on the same Stracener, Ryan Veale, Dalton dinner and took him to the Holiday team Friday night in Howe. James Harris and Devin Hargrove Inn Express where he paid for him Fulenchek, father of Atlanta among others. to rest a few days. He told the inn Braves prospect Garrett Fulenchek keeper to put whatever the man will lace up their cleats for the The first alumni game was held in needed on his card because he was same team for the first time 2009 and then again in 2013. All happy to pay his dept. “Then Jesus together as players. proceeds from the game benefit asked, “Which one of these three the Bulldogs baseball program. people was a real neighbor to the Garrett Fulenchek will be at the man who was beaten up by the Bulldogs baseball field at 5:30 to robbers?” The teacher answered, start signing autographs. There “The one who showed pity,” Luke will be a long-ball competition 10: 36-37. starting at 6 pm with the game following at 7 pm. “Don’t suppose that I came to do away with the Law and the The oldest players will be James Prophets. I did not come to do Fulenchek and Monte Walker of away with them, but to fulfill,” the 1992 Howe Bulldogs that went
