Service Highlights or Announcements for this Sunday
Highlights of Worship: June 13th 2021
Announcements:
- Click here to register for upcoming indoor worship services. Once you get to this page you will choose the date of the service you wish to attend.
- Gather worship is Wednesdays (today) at 7 PM in the courtyard. See you there!
- Rummage Sale will be on July 30th & 31st and August 6th & 7th. It is open from 9 AM until 3 PM.
- The rummage sale container has arrived, you may drop off donations Monday thru Friday from 9 AM until 3 PM. Stop by the office to get access to the container.
Reflection of the Week
Highlights of Worship: June 13th 2021
For many, during the past year or so, we have found life to be overwhelming and, at the same time, strangely restful. Scripture refers to such rest as “Sabbath,” a time when we stop, perhaps voluntarily, perhaps forcibly, but long enough to gain perspective on the lives we lead.
This Sunday, our message, “Sabbath Vision,” explores the lessons we may have learned during our downtime and the insights we may have gained into God’s vision for our lives. In both the parable of the seed (Mark 4:26-34) and the anointing of King David (I Samuel 16: 1, 6-13), we find that God’s vision is greater than our own, so perhaps we should wait and see!
God’s Health and Peace,
Pastor James
Scripture Passages of the Week
Mark 4:26-34
He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.’
He also said, ‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.’
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
I Samuel 16:1, 6-13
The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.’
When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, ‘Surely the Lord’s anointed is now before the Lord.’ But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, ‘Neither has the Lord chosen this one.’ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, ‘Neither has the Lord chosen this one.’ Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, and Samuel said to Jesse, ‘The Lord has not chosen any of these.’ Samuel said to Jesse, ‘Are all your sons here?’ And he said, ‘There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.’ And Samuel said to Jesse, ‘Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.’ He sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. The Lord said, ‘Rise and anoint him; for this is the one.’ Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the presence of his brothers; and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. Samuel then set out and went to Ramah.
