Author of Love,
We yearn for simplicity, O Lord. It is a distant memory and we often sentimentalize the past. Forgive our backward yearnings, Dear God. Today is the day You have made and we are called to rejoice. Honest reflection tells us it is human nature to wish for earlier times because we often remember only the good, not the difficulties. Clutter and distractions, however, are a past and present reality. So may we seek to live in the moment, with less clutter and rejoicing in Your love and grace. This is our prayer in Jesus’ name. AMEN.
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Wow! Our hospital list has grown dramatically. All are at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Margaret Lambke (broken hip), Austin Wade (broken hip), Gene Mason (kidney function), Ruby Register (stroke), Ron Maphet (pneumonia), and Tim Simpson (recovering from surgery).
Tim McAnally will have back surgery at Bass Hospital in the morning.
Please pray for all these members and friends.
The Chancel Choir rehearses at 7:00 p.m. tonight.
The Pastor’s Cabinet meets in Room 109 at 7:30 p.m.
The scripture for today is Galatians 2:11-14:
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned; for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction. And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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