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March 16, 2022 Call today to support Devotional the church page! 580-225-3000 SQUEAKY CLEAN Yow Auto Supply 221 South Jetferson Elk City, Oklahoma. §80-225-2166 1121 South Main, Elk City P.O. Box 2579, Elk City, OK 73648 Phone: 580-243-0466 + Fax: 580-243-0472 ; KellyeL. Fuchs CPA, | hs PamelaJ. MuncreifCPA Office: 580.225.8877 Fax: 580.225.1183 |_+___s-—___-__ [email protected]} Pee aS ioe N Main, Elk City B: time is quite an event - the water temperature has to be just right, all the toys lined up, soap, shampoo and towel ready. All this for the actual bath that doesn’t take that long! But isn’t it worth it? How sweet is a freshly bathed baby! As he becomes older, just as much care must be taken to keep not only his body clean, Great Plains Bank but his spirit as well. We can begin early to teach a child right Randy Dupree, LUTCF -Ethe City from wrong. Psalm 24:3-4 says, “Who may ascend the hill of the Life * Home + Farm + Auto SEEFIDLZIE5 Lord? ... He who has clean hands and a pure heart....” Not only 503 West 3rd, Elk City children, but all of us need to learn God’s instructions for living 580-2225-3330 aclean life. Won’t you worship together as a family every week? Daily Bible Reading Psalm Psalm Psalm Psalm Psalm Psalm Psalm Fall back - Spring forward 55 59 60 61 Scriptures Selected by the American Bible Society XX Daily Devotional 62 63 64 at DailyBible.AmericanBible.org ©2022 Keister-Williams Newspaper Services, PO. Box 8187, Charlottesville, VA 22906, www-kwnews.com While he is mastering the veterans cheering us on? It process of walking, he also means ...get on with it. Strip Area Chi ctory has to learn to feed himself. down, start running — and Getting that strange appli- never quit! No extra spiritual First Baptist Church Canute ance into his mouth right- fat, no parasitic sins. Keep Assembly of God 580-471-3688 Seventh-Day Adventist side up is difficult enough, your eyes on Jesus, who both 11375 N. 1990 Ra., Elk City but then he has to move the began and finished this race Assembly of God Pastor Martin Brown: 580-472-3472 food off the spoon and onto we're in. Study how He did 115 W. Sth St., Brick Retrop Baptist Church Pastor Wes Via a tongue that simply will not it, Because He never lost Pastor: Gary Griffin Intersection Hwy 6 and 5S cooperate. sight of where He was head- Assembly of God 580-303-0791 Most of the food ends up on ed — that exhilarating finish United Methodist 7th and Locust St., Sayre Catholic 702 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk his chin and bib. Surely the with God —He could put up 580-928-4296 City humiliation and frustration with anything along the way: Jimmy Blanken, Min. Queen of All Saints 580-225-0262 914N. Sth St., Sayre level is great, if he could tell cross, shame, whatever. 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