GOOD MORNING…IT LOOKS AS IF IT GOING TO BE A WARM DAY…IT WAS GREAT TO BE WITH YOU ALL IN WORSHIP SUNDAY…I REALLY MISS YOU WHEN I AM GONE…AND WHEN YOU ARE NOT HERE, TOO!! 

  A COUPLE OF FOLK ASK THAT I SHARE IN THE EMAIL THE INTRODUCTION OF SUNDAY SERMON…YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE EMAIL…I DO HOPE THIS SERIES OF SERMONS ARE HELPFUL TO YOU.

   WE ARE LEAVING THIS MORNING FOR BILOXI, AGAIN…I WILL BE SPEAKING TO A SENIOR ADULT GROUP, And THIS WAS SET UP BY A HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE GROUP LAST JANUARY.  I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.  IT IS ALSO THE HOME CHURCH OF MY SISTER’S IN-LAWS.

   WE WILL BE BACK LATER IN THE WEEK.

 

READINGS FOR THE WEEK:

II KINGS 5:1-14; PSALM 30

GALATAINS 6:1-6, 7—16; LUKE 10:1-10, 16-20

 

SERMON FOR SUNDAY:

 

IN REMEMBRANCE

I CORINTHIANS 2:15-21

AND

HOLY COMMUNION

REMEMBER YOUR GIFT AT THE ALTAR AND THE CAN GOODS FOR THE  N. HIGHLAND UMC FOOD PANTRY

 

KEEP MAKING AND KEEP COLLECTING!!!!!

AS A RESULT OF LMT 13

 WE HAVE KEPT THREE PROJECTS GOING

·       COLLECTING  PULL TABS FOR CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA

·       COLLECTING COUPONS FOR RED BIRD SCHOOLS

·       THE TIE THAT BINDS….MAKE SCARVES FOR THE HOMELESS

 

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD….

BOXES ARE AVAILABLE PICK UP YOURS TODAY!!!!

 

 

IMAGINE NO MALARIA

WE WILL RECEIVE AN OFFERING TO HELP

STOP MALARIA AROUND THE WORLD

 

WHAT DOES FAITH DO?

HEBREWS 11:4-39

INTRODUCTION:  FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT FAITH…THE BIBLE TELLS US TO DRAW NEAR IN FAITH…THEN WE TALKED ABOUT FAITH’S  CHARACTER AND TODAY…I WANT US TO LOOK AT WHAT FAITH DOES…HOW IT WORKS AND WHAT IT DOES FOR EACH OF US.

   WHEN WE COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST, THAT FAITH OPENS TO US A WHOLE WORLD THAT WE ARE NOT AWARE OF AND WE ARE DISCOVERING EACH DAY A NEW AND MEANINGFUL WAYS TO GROW AND UNDERSTAND THE FAITH THAT WE HAVE.

   OUR FAITH IS ACTIVE...IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE SOME STAGNATE FORCE THAT BOGS US DOWN.  EACH DAY OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO GROW IN OUR FAITH AND TO SHOW OTHERS HOW THEIR FAITH CAN BE STRONGER.   IF I HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING THESE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS IT IS THAT A LITTLE FAITH AND TRUST CAN ACCOMPLISH THINGS WE CANNOT, NOR CAN WE IMAGINE…JESUS SAID THAT IF WE HAVE FAITH THAT IS AS SMALL AS A MUSTARD SEED WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS…I AM NOT INTERESTED IN MOVING MOUNTAINS SO MUCH AS I AM KNOWING THAT THE LORD WILL GIVE ME STRENGTH TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE EACH DAY.

   IT IS ASTOUNDING WHEN WE LEARN THAT OUR FAITH DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ENORMOUS IT ONLY HAS TO BE OURS AND IT WILL BE WHAT GOD WANTS IT TO BE FOR US.

 

IT IS MY PAYER THAT YOUR FAITH WILL GROW

AND THAT YOU WILL BE AWARE OF WHAT

GOD HAS FOR YOU…BY FAITH

 

GOD BLESS YOU

 

SEE YA SUNDAY

 

EMILE