1. THE MANC HESTER CHURCH OF CHRIST, MANC HESTER, N H Apr 22, 2009
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Reopening the basement
this weekend
THE BULLETINManchester Church of Christ
66 Mammoth Rd.
Manchester, NH 03109
603.623.5559
mht_church@comcast.net
www.mhtcoc.org
Elder’s Link: April
Duane Coss – 424-9152
drcoss@myfairpoint.net
Barry Fogal – 487-2387
bfogal@comcast.net
If you have any concerns that the
elders should be aware of, or need
to speak to with them, please
contact Lee or Larry this month.
Our Worship Services
Sunday AM: 8:30 & 11:00
Bible Class: 10:00
Sunday PM: 6:00
Small Groups:
West Side Small Group: 6:15PM at
Doug Paul’s
Merrimack Small Group: 6:00PM at
Stuart Peacock’s
Nashua Small Group: 6:00PM at Paul
Mosier's
Wednesday PM Devotional/Bible
Classes: 7:00
News Items? Please submit before
11AM each Tuesday.
Well, it has been a long,
long journey for the
congregation since the Sunday
night that the city’s sewer
backed up into our basement,
putting a couple of inches of —
well, nasty stuff. But after a
complete and thorough
cleaning and disinfecting job
by ServPro, a complete
disposal of everything
(including dry wall, woodwork,
doors, cabinets, rugs, and
everything else) that could
have soaked up the — well,
nastiness; after meeting for
worship in homes, meeting for
worship in a movie theater,
meeting for Bible classes odd
places, a ton of carpentry
work; and after a fresh coat of
paint on everything, all new
flooring (tiles and rugs), and
quite a bit of new furniture,
we’re finally ready to use our
basement again. Hooray!!
It certainly has been an
unwelcome, long, hard, and
patience-trying path to a
virtually new basement, but we
have one. So, now that we have
one, let’s work hard at filling it
up. The lost — the people you
run into daily, your neighbors,
your extended family, your
friends, your colleagues —
need to learn the God’s
gracious message. "For I am
not ashamed of the gospel, for
it is the power of God for
salvation to everyone who
believes, to the Jew first and
also to the Greek." Romans
1:16.
Since this Sunday is our big
relaunch of our congregational pantry
ministry, I’ll be preaching from Jesus’
parable of the Good Samaritan. In
preparation, give some serious thought
to who your neighbor is and what
compassionate requires of us practically.
Sunday evening will be a
continuation of a Sunday evening
sermon series on 2 Timothy — chapter
3. Read through 2 Tim. 3 and research
who Jannes and Jambres are. If you
haven’t made plans to attend to a small
group this Sunday evening, join us for
some song, prayer, and 2 Timothy 3.

2. “So then you are no longer strangers and
aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints, and are of God’s household,”
Ephesians 2:19, NAS95.
THE MANC HESTER CHURCH OF CHRIST, MANC HESTER, N H Apr 22, 2009
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Our FamilyOur Family
Prayer Concerns
Health: Doreen Lee, Pat Arel, Bill
Waisnor, Rosemary Landry, Deniza
Chase’s niece, Marge Simon, Penny
Ranger, Manley Jones, Michael
Anderson's brother
Leadership: Ministers, Elders,
Deacons
Evangelism: Bible studies in
progress, our website, MNFM, food
pantry
Return to the Lord: Brethren who
have forsaken the assembly
Worship Leaders
Sunday, April 26, 8:30AM
Songs ......................... Doug P.
Prayers .................... Mark C. & Larry G.
Scripture .................... Mike M.
Lord’s Supper ............ Stuart P.
Coordinator ............... Doug P.
Sunday, April 26, 11:00AM
Songs ........................ Rick G.
Prayers ....................David S. & Barry F.
Scripture ..................... Paul M.
Lord’s Supper ............. Gary D.
Coordinator ................ Pete S.
Sunday, April 26, 6:00PM
Songs.......................... Ken B.
Wednesday, April 29, 7:00PM
Songs.......................... Mark C.
Coming up in April...
Help needed The Lauzon's will be
moving to Dublin, NH this
Saturday (April 25th) and could
really use some help moving.
Please contact Peter (603-305-
5578) or Debbie(603-305-5580) if
you are available to help.
Canned Food Drive This
Sunday(April 26) is the official
relaunch of our congregation’s
pantry ministry. Bring the food
that you pledged on Sunday
morning and we’ll place it at the
front of the auditorium as an
expression and display of our
common generous effort to serve
the Master. Great thanks belong
to the Skerry's and Missy Duer for
their efforts in this ministry of
love to the congregation and
compassionate evangelism to the
community. If you haven’t signed
up yet, the sign up sheet is in the
foyer.
What else?
Prayers needed Doreen Lee is still at
CMC (room C119). Although the
new treatment was beneficial to
her, it didn't go as well as they
had hoped. Please keep her in
your prayers and let her know you
are thinking of her through calls,
cards and visits (she really enjoys
seeing people).
Building update Currently, we are
touching up the
painting
downstairs,
installing carpet
in all
classrooms and
new tile in the
hallway. The
plumber has
finished
installing new
bathroom
fixtures and
kitchen sink and all new classroom
doors have been installed. We will be
t0tally finished by Saturday morning!
Saturday at 10AM we will need people
here to help unload the trailer and get
the rooms back
in order.
Thank you in
advance for
your time and
patience. If
you have any
more questions
about the
progress,
please see Lee
Davis.
Reminder Next Wednesday is a song
night. We will be devoting our
usual bible class time to singing
praises to the Lord.
Wednesday Night Supper The
Wednesday Night Supper is
starting up again. Please
remember to sign up on the sheet
in the back of the auditorium if
you plan to attend.
This and that...
Ladies Day The Northern Valley
church in Lancaster, NH will be
hosting a ladies day on Saturday,
May 16th
. More details can be
found on the bulletin board in the
foyer.
Announcing the 24th
annual
Northeastern States Men's
Retreat. It will be held in Kent,
Connecticut on June 12th & 13th
.
Please the poster in the foyer for
more details.
Wednesday Night Menu
Sausage
Eggs with ham
Bacon

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Life Af t e r Life, Pa r t 7
Pa r k Li n s c o mb
Of all the subjects that I’ve written about
in this series of Life After Life, the topic of Hell
is the most controversial and sensitive. But it is
nevertheless a crucially important biblical
doctrine that we mustn’t overlook, whitewash,
or candy-coat — doing so benefits no one.
Let’s start with definitions. Hell, as I’ve
mentioned in earlier articles, is different from
Hades. In the NT, the word translated Hell is
Gehenna (referring to the Hinom Valley, south
of Jerusalem, the city’s garbage dump, a place
of perpetual decay and burning); and it is the
place in the Bible of eternal punishment for the
sinful. On the other hand, Hades is the realm
of the spirits of all the dead, good and evil, with
compartments of comfort and compartments
of discomfort. These definitions are important
to keep straight as you read through the KJV,
the NIV, and some other translations which
don’t make this distinction.
So then, with the preliminaries out of the
way, let’s ask a few pertinent questions about
Hell.
“Is Hell real?”
Modern popular religionists (and
religions) have tried to eliminate Hell from the
afterlife, since it is so terrible. To them it
simply doesn’t make sense that an all-loving
God could send anyone to a place of eternal
punishment. But when they argue this, they
forget that God is not only a God of love; He is
also a God of justice and righteousness (2 Th.
1:6; Heb. 2:2; etc.). Indeed, there is as much or
more Biblical proof of Hell as there is of
Heaven. Gehenna is used 12 times in the NT,
and Hell is referred either directly or indirectly
numerous other times (e.g., Mt. 3:11,12; Mt.
7:13,14; Mt. 7:23; Mt. 13:42; Rom. 2:8,9; 2 Th.
1:6-9; Rev. 20:15; etc.)
“OK, so what is it exactly?”
Hell is Eternal
Perhaps the most horrifying part of Hell is
that it is eternal, never ending. Punishment
can be endurable, if we have hope that there is
an end; but Hell has no hope, since it forever
(Mt. 25:46; Rev. 20:10-15; et al). Some in an
attempt to provide some hope have questioned
the definition of the Biblical words for eternity
— that in Hebrew the word for eternal (olam)
can simply mean perpetual. And it can, of
course, such as in Ex. 12:24; 29:9; 40:15; and
Josh. 14:9. But it more often means “without
end”, as in Gen. 21:33; Psa. 90:2; Psa. 102:27;
Micah 5:2; and others. The essential meaning
is “eternal”, but (just as in English) context
makes all the difference (“Oh, I’ve known him
forever!”).
In Greek the term (aionos) is much
clearer. All Greek lexicographers understand
the word to mean “unending” or “eternal”. It is
used to describe God’s eternal nature (Romans
16:26; 1 Timothy 6:16; Hebrews 9:14), and Mt.
25:46 uses it to describe the duration of both
Heaven and Hell. As Lyons and Butt put it in
“The Eternity of Hell”
(http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/266
9):
If God “lives for ever (aion) and ever
(aion)” (Revelation 1:18; 10:6; 15:7), and
glory is to be given to Him “for ever and
ever” (Revelation 1:6; 4:9-10; 5:13; 7:12),
and if the saved “shall reign for ever and
ever” with the Lord in heaven (Revelation
22:5), then the wicked assuredly “will be
tormented day and night for ever and
ever” (Revelation 20:10; cf. Revelation
14:11). “Forever and ever” is “the formula
of eternity” (Vincent, 1889, 2:418).
Eternal death, Separation from God
As there is an eternal life, so there is also
an eternal death; Hell is called the second
death (Rev. 20:14). But far from being
annihilation (ceasing to exist at all), the second
death (eternal death) is like the first death — a
separation. Physical death is the separation of
body from spirit (e.g., James 2:26), not
annihilation; and spiritual death (the second
death, eternal death) is separation of spirit
from God, not annihilation. For example, we
are “dead in our trespasses and sins” (Eph.
2:1), yet we continue to exist. Paul repeats the
idea again in Col. 2:13, and yet we continue to
exist. Hell is simply the eternal extrapolation of
the separation from God that we are
responsible for; in the judgment Jesus tells us
that His words to the sinful will be “depart
from me” (Mt. 7:23; Mt. 24:41). This, then, is
the essence of Hell, eternal separation from
God, the very source of life itself.
Of course, we might rightly ask, “How
terrible will that be?” In this physical world we
have not yet fully experienced the complete
separation from God — He still causes His sun
to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain
on the righteous and the unrighteous (Mt.
5:45). But separation from God is terrifying
enough that it causes the demons to beg for
mercy not to be thrown into the pit before the
time (Mt. 8:29). Hell is a spiritual place, and
man’s limited physical experiences and
vocabulary make it hard to find descriptive
words that humans can grasp to describe its
terrible nature. Doubtlessly what the
Scriptures do is give us human comparisons,
metaphors, of the worst things that we can
imagine to convey the severity of the
punishment of Hell.
Darkness and Fire
Hell punishment is described first of all as
a fierce and unquenchable fire (Mt. 25:41; Lk.
3:17; Rev. 20:10,14,15; etc.). It is also described
as black darkness (Mt. 8:12; Mt. 22:13; Mt.
25:30; 2 Pet. 2:17; Jude 1:13; etc.). It has been
asked before how there could be such a fierce
heat and yet have total darkness, and there are
two explanations that can be offered. One: if
God is the Creator of a “black hole”, a star so
dense that not even light can escape its gravity,
God can certainly create a spiritual place of
fierce heat and deep darkness. Two: perhaps
fire and darkness are merely metaphorical for
terrifying things that speak to humans the
most clearly — saying metaphorically, “It is so
bad that you really, really don’t want to be
here.” Of course, if Hell’s description is
absolutely literal, it will be bad enough; if it is
metaphorical, it could be much worse than God
can even describe it to human beings. Suffice it
to say that, contrary to popular swaggering
boasts about Hell being a party place, it may be
where the “in crowd” is, but you won’t want to
be there.
Who will be there?
Satan and his angels will be inhabitants of
Hell: "And the devil who deceived them was
thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are also;
and they will be tormented day and night
forever and ever." Rev 20:10. Even death and
Hades will be in Hell (eternal separation from
God) "Then death and Hades were thrown into
the lake of fire. This is the second death, the
lake of fire." Rev 20:14 — “death itself shall
die.”
But in terms of humans, lists are found
throughout the Scriptures, but let me quote
just a few: "Or do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers…" 1Co 6:9,10; "And just as they did
not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God
gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those
things which are not proper, being filled with
all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil;
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they
are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent,
arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents, without understanding,
untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and
although they know the ordinance of God, that
those who practice such things are worthy of
death, they not only do the same, but also give
hearty approval to those who practice them."
Ro 1:28-32; "But for the cowardly and
unbelieving and abominable and murderers
and immoral persons and sorcerers and
idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which
is the second death." Rev 21.8. Revelation puts
it this way, "And if anyone’s name was not
found written in the book of life, he was
thrown into the lake of fire." Rev. 20:15.
Now, of course, these lists would include
everyone in the world who has ever reached
the age of accountability, for “all have sinned”
(Rom. 3:23), but there is a sweet caveat
"Therefore there is now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus." Rom 8:1.

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Our Statistics
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Contribution $4,428.49
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Bible class 7PM
Happy Birthday:
Caroline Apgar
Happy Anni.:
Tom & Linda
Carroll
Myron & Gloria
Potter
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26
Happy Birthday:
Leah Chandler
Lee Davis
27
Happy
Anniversary:
David & Sandy
Hazelton
28
Happy Birthday:
George Abood
29
Bible class 7PM
Happy Birthday:
Steven Bell
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