LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter Preparation. FYI … Easter Sunday, this year, is April 20 … Palm Sunday is April April 13. The theme this week is God’s redemptive work. In our call to worship psalm, Psalm 126:1–6, the psalmist declares that God has restored the fortunes to […]
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WELCOME . . . and THANKS for joining us for another dive into the Bible. TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:31-39  NRSV Updated Edition  31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of
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We often view life as transactional — where effort earns reward and love is conditional. Even as Christians, we can feel like there is something we need to do to prove ourselves to God, to prove we love him, or to somehow gain his love. It’s easy to project this transactional mindset onto God,
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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 32:1-11Â tells us what the fruits of a relationship with the Lord
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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