Loving and Gracious God,
The beauty of springtime affirms Your presence in all creation. The power of Easter affirms Your love for all the world. As we walk though the rituals of Holy Week may they be more than rote actions. May the power of Your Holy Spirit elevate our experience in morning prayers, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter morning. May our spiritual journey be enhanced thereby providing the opportunity for complete emersion in the depths of Your love. May we rise as new creations in Christ. This is our prayer in Jesus’ name. AMEN.
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Birdene and Willo are still in the recovery process at their homes. Please pray for them.
I received the following email from Tammy Skaggs:
Rev. McLemore,
Thank you so much for your prayers for our family. Fred lost his battle with cancer last night about 10:40pm. He was in the hospital having a procedure to drain the fluid that his body was retaining. The procedure was successful, but his kidneys began failing over the weekend. The doctors thought he would have a few more days, but mercifully the Lord ended his suffering and took him home. We had prayed for a miracle, and we got one, it just wasn't the one we were asking for. Fred was the kind of guy that once you met him, you felt like you had known him forever. We will treasure the memories of his sense of humor and kind nature. Thanks again. Tammy Skaggs
Please pray for the family of Fred Haddad.
A group of Young Adults plus Harry Hammonds and yours truly went to Laura Deatherage’s home, yesterday evening, with mowers, weed eaters and rakes. We got her yard mowed and cleaned. John Wheeler will make a run to the city dump with a pickup load, he will then return to load additional materials that can be taken to the salvage yard. Laura was exceedingly grateful. Thanks to all who helped. We “got dirty for Jesus”.
The scripture for today is Matthew 19:1-15:
When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. Large crowds followed him, and he cured them there.
Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female, ‘and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”He said to them, “It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery.”His disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”
Then little children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them; but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”And he laid his hands on them and went on his way.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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