Shelby County Today

July 14, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, July 14.

Have you ever taken a wrong turn in your life? Found yourself going in the wrong direction? Douglas Corrigan became famous for doing just that. He was born in Galveston, Texas in 1907, and was always fascinated by one thing - airplanes. He became a pilot and flight mechanic, and was part of the team that prepared “The Spirit of St. Louis”, the plane that Charles Lindbergh piloted across the Atlantic in his historic flight.

Corrigan was obsessed with following in Lindbergh’s footsteps, but was never able to get clearance for a Trans-Atlantic journey. Officials took one look at his plane - a cobbled together rattletrap - and turned him down time after time. And then, on July 14, 1938, Corrigan was supposed to take off from New York City and fly to California. Instead, he took a wrong turn, headed east, and 27 hours later, landed in Ireland.

When “Wrong Way” Corrigan returned to New York, he was greeted with a ticker-tape parade bigger than the one they gave Lindbergh. He became a national celebrity, and made a fortune endorsing products like a watch - that ran backwards! He died in 1995, and until the end of his life, continued to swear that it had all been a mistake, an accident, a wrong turn.

Wrong turns in our lives don’t usually lead to fame and fortune. They typically lead to damage and disappointment. So, if you find yourself moving away from God, headed away from His best for your life - don’t be like Wrong Way Corrigan. Turn around!

Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out.

Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com

July 11, 2025 - Abundant Love Ministries will be celebrating their annual Family and Friends Day on July 20, 2025, at 2:30pm. Bishop W.C. Martin, Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, is our guest minister of the hour.

Our morning worship services will be conducted as usual, with Sunday School (Diving Deeper), beginning at 9am and regular midday services at 10am.

Please join us for this time of celebration and fellowship. As well, you are welcome and invited to any of our regularly scheduled services.

Abundant Love Ministries is located at 1426 Shelbyville St., Center, TX; Pastor Marlin Cloudy, Sr., Senior Pastor

July 10, 2025 - In a world such as ours, we are often appalled at man’s inhumanity to man and the brokenness of life we see around us every day. We see broken homes, broken health, broken hearts and broken hopes. The Psalmist writes in Psalms 147:3 “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”

Throughout the gospels, we see Jesus healing. He healed those who came to him blind and deaf. He healed the lame and he raised the dead. But we also see Jesus healing the brokenhearted. We see him healing those who were broken in spirit. There was an outcast woman at Jacob’s well, a tax collector named Zacchaeus and an unnamed woman caught in adultery, just to name a few. You see, Jesus had a special place for those society had cast away. He did not choose the apostles from the cream of society. They were not highly educated and they were looked down on by society. Yet, Jesus chose them. He remade them. He used them to change the world.

No matter how broken our lives might be by sin, no life is too broken to be mended and used by Jesus. If we are suffering from the brokenness of life, we must submit our stubborn will to his will, obey his commands and live his kind of life. Then he will heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds.

It’s something to think about. . . tbp

Come join us for worship at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com.

July 8, 2025 - Patroon Baptist Church is hosting its Revival July 16 through July 18 at 7pm nightly. The message for the 3 night revival, Wednesday through Friday, will be brought by Bro. Mike Belgard.

The church is located at 310 FM2261, Shelbyville, TX 75973.