LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS Today is the Fourth Sunday in Easter Preparation. The theme for today and this week is reconciliation, and our readings have a lot to say about what we consume, what consumes us, and how we see the world. Psalm 32:1-11 tells us what the fruits of a relationship with the Lord […]
Sunday LinkUp – March 30, 2025 – 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Read More »
WELCOME . . . and THANKS for joining us for another dive into the Bible. TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:26-30 NRSV Updated Edition 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words. 27 And God, who searches
Friday DIVE – March 28, 2025 – Romans 8:26-30 Read More »
OPENING COMMENTS Today is the third Sunday of Easter Prep … and we continue to remind ourselves of our constant need for repentance and change. That said, we remind ourselves that … regardless of our progress or slip-ups, we can count on God’s mercy and patience … because God is good all the time
Sunday LinkUp – March 23, 2025 – 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Read More »
TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:18-25 NRSV Updated Edition I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God, 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of
Friday DIVE – March 21, 2025 – Romans 8:18-25 Read More »
Ministry Action Plan (MAP) for 2025 … AT A GLANCE … HOPE AVENUE FAITH AVENUE LOVE AVENUE Weekly Church Service (Saturdays) Sermons Footballers MeetUp Fellowship Meeting (online) Online Bible Studies Reading Classes Prayer Meeting (Online) School Monthly Church Service (Sundays) Church Potluck Community Walk Prayer Service Care Bank Sports Club
Core Ministry Meeting – March 16, 2025 Read More »
CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS We continue our contemplation and reflection on this Second Sunday of Easter Preparation as we move toward Easter. We’re learning about being in relationship with a God who chose to become vulnerable in the human Person of Jesus, and we’re being reminded about our own vulnerability, especially when it
Sunday LinkUp – March 16, 2025 – Philippians 3:17-4:1 Read More »
TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:12-17 NRSV Updated Edition 12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — 13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all
Friday DIVE – March 14, 2025 – Romans 8:12-17 Read More »
CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS Today is the first Sunday in Easter Preparation, a period of reflection and preparation for Easter celebration. For many people, this season is associated with a period of giving up something we enjoy for 40 days. This practice can create room within ourselves so that we might be transformed,
Sunday LinkUp – March 9, 2025 – Romans 10:8-13 Read More »
TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:5-11 NRSV Updated Edition 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit[e] set their minds on the things of the Spirit.[f] 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind
Friday DIVE – March 7, 2025 – Romans 8:5-11 Read More »
OPENING COMMENTS Today is the last Sunday in the season of Epiphany. It is also the last Sunday before the Lenten (Easter Preparation) season begins on Ash Wednesday. Today is also known as Transfigurartion Sunday, which reminds us of a time when the disciples saw Jesus in his true glory, which is
Sunday LinkUp- March 2, 2025 – 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 Read More »