Loving God,
We open our hearts to You this day. May the light and power of Your love flow over us, in us, and through us. We give You thanks for our many blessings and we pray for the wisdom and will to reach out to others, sharing Your Grace and seeking to meet their needs as our brothers and sisters. Forgive us, Dear God, when we forget we are all members of the human family. Forgive us, we pray, when we focus only on ourselves and those like us. Open us, O Lord, so that we might embrace all those created in Your image. In Jesus’ name we pray. AMEN.
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L.V. Powell is failing rapidly. Please pray for Marianna and their family as they surround L.V. with their love.
Tim Simpson will have another surgery on his back this morning to repair the “leak” from the previous surgery.
Elbert Wheeler is moving to the Methodist Home Skilled Nursing Unit today.
Please pray for Tim and Elbert.
The last session of VBS is this evening. It has been a very good event. Sunday we will celebrate VBS in a combined 10:15 a.m. service in the sanctuary.
Everyone is encouraged to volunteer for a committee/task group. The forms were in the Church Visitor and will be in the bulletin these next two Sundays. I have also attached a .pdf version. Please sign up and bring to the church office. Thanks.
The scripture for today is Romans 14:1-12:
Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions. Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables. Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat; for God has welcomed them. Who are you to pass judgment on servants of another? It is before their own lord that they stand or fall. And they will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make them stand. Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike. Let all be fully convinced in their own minds. Those who observe the day, observe it in honor of the Lord. Also those who eat, eat in honor of the Lord, since they give thanks to God; while those who abstain, abstain in honor of the Lord and give thanks to God. We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. Why do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.”So then, each of us will be accountable to God.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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