Amazing God,
We seek You as we journey through life. You seek us from the day of our birth. Scripture tells us that Your desire is that all of creation be reconciled to You. May we first approach You with humble hearts and accept Your grace. Then may we be Your agents in the world using our lives point others to You. Your Holy spirit is there to guide us on the way. May our perspective allow us to see Your actions in the course of human affairs. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.
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Ila Crain is back in St. Mary’s hospital.
Valeta Montgomery’s brother is in the last stages of his life in Bass Hospital.
Joan Petersen, Alta Mae Berkenbile, Phyllis May, John Yeager and Ron Maphet are all still hospitalized.
Please pray for all these people.
The Cancer Support Group meets this afternoon. The Kids Central Board also meets today at 5:00 p.m.
Tomorrow is a Family Movie Night at 7:00 p.m. at the church. Yesterday the Centours had lunch and a movie also using the Central Cinema room.
The scripture for today is Exodus 20:1-21:
Then God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die.” Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.” Then the people stood at a distance, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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