The Northwood Crankpullers Snowmobile Club will host their annual Water Cross Event on Sunday, Sept. 13th, 10 a.m. at Lake Shore Farm, Jenness Pond Road, Northwood.

The Event will include: concessions, local snowmobile vendors, flea market, vintage sled display, and more.

Pictures and information: www.northwoodcrankpullers.com

Attention Northwood farmers, gardeners, and all residents who enjoy the growing season: this year’s annual Northwood Town Report will include a focus on agricultural in Northwood. Please consider taking some photos of your garden-flower or vegetable; farm animals; barns, hayfields; or related scenes to be considered for inclusion in the report. You may send digital photos to [email protected] or you may drop off photos at the town hall during regular business hours. Please be sure to include your name and the location of the photo.

The Obedient Christian Listens (Part 3)
By Pastor Ted White
Do I listen to His Word?

Not just with my physical ears, but with spiritual understanding that leads to application to life.

In Matthew chapter 7 verses 21-27 we read about the wise and foolish builders. The wise builder is the one who hears the word of God and does it. This is an obedient believer and is likened to a person who builds on a rock that will not be moved. This person seeks to live by what God says in His Word. He takes the time to read, to listen and then to obey.

There is another builder in this passage. He is a foolish builder. This person actually builds on sand. This is like a person who reads or hears God’s Word but does not do what it says. He does not apply God’s Word to his life. He values his own ways rather than God’s ways.

This passage starts off with Jesus saying that not everyone who called Him Lord, Lord would enter the kingdom of heaven. Those people who called Jesus Lord even had done, they say, many “religious” things. From the human standpoint these people may be thought of as very spiritual, but God knows the heart and who it is that really knows Him.

He said that only those who did the will of His Father would enter the kingdom of heaven. This implies that those people who appeared very “religious” would not enter heaven. He said that these people were actually practicing lawlessness! Jesus said to them that He never knew them.

Remember proof that we love God and His children is in our obedience to Him (1 John 5:2-3). It is not enough just to say I believe. The saying will be backed up by obedience to God’s Word. When He says something to us we will do it.

A carpenter, mechanic, doctor, computer specialists and those of any other occupation are known by what they do, not just saying what they are. So to, Christians are known by what they do, not just by saying they are  Christians.

Are we listening to Him through His Word? Or are we getting our blueprint for life from a faulty source. The Bible has never been proven to be wrong. Yes, people claim all kinds of things, but their biases have already decided for them. They have already decided not to accept God’s Word as authority. They themselves want to be the authority. But in reality, they are building a poor sandy foundation, a foolish builder.

Are you building on the sure rock foundation of God’s Word, the Bible, as a wise builder would? Or are you building on some other foundation of sand as the foolish builder would? We have to know Him to listen to Him. Find out how at www.newhopenorthwood.com or call 942-7729 or to find peace with God http://www.billygraham.org/SH_StepsToPeace.asp or http://www.simplysharejesus.com/

Special School District Meeting

Northwood voters defeated the one warrant article at the special district meeting this week for a new teachers’ contract 52-44. The negotiated contract, recommended by the school board, included salary raises based on location on the grade/step plan, increases for club and athletic stipends, and additional cost for long term disability coverage and workshop tuition. Total cost of the warrant article was a $77,418. increase over the approved 2009-2010 budget. At the March 2009 district meeting, voters turned down the funding of a negotiated contract with a larger increase ($113,897.), and at the same time authorized the governing body to call one special district meeting at a later date to address cost items specific to the failed warrant article.

Diane M. Lambert

Northwood - Diane M. Lambert, 55, of Glennwood Lane, died Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, at Concord Hospital.

She was born Aug. 24, 1953, in Waltham, Mass., the daughter of J. Romeo and Eva Landry. She lived in Newmarket for several years, moving to Northwood 10 years ago.
She was employed by the state of New Hampshire as a computer training specialist teaching senior citizens to use computers.

She is survived by her mother, Eva of Northwood/Epsom; a son, Timothy Lambert of Somersworth; a daughter, Jennifer Lambert of Cambridge, Mass.; a granddaughter, Sierra Lambert of Northwood; a brother, Richard J. Landry of Rome, Ga.; and a sister, Janice Larsen of Manchester.

A memorial visitation was held Monday, August 24, 2009, in the Perkins & Pollard Memorial Home, Pittsfield.

Memorial donations may be made to one's local SPCA.

For more information, log on to perkinsandpollard.com.