Blessings
Good Morning!
Sunday Service
Call to Worship and Prayer
Hymn #325 “All Hail The Power”
Tithes and Offerings
Doxology
Hymn #71 “Faith Is The Victory”
Praise and Prayer
Responsive Reading: Malachi 3:6-15
Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes
Leader: 6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of
Jacob, are not destroyed.
All: 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned
away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me,
and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty.
“But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’
Leader: 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.
“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’
“In tithes and offerings.
All: 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you
are robbing me.
Leader: 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there
may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord
Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of
heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be
room enough to store it.
All: 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the
vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says
the Lord Almighty.
Leader: 12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours
will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.
Israel Speaks Arrogantly Against God
All: 13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord.
“Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’
Leader: 14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we
gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like
mourners before the Lord Almighty?
All: 15 But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers
prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it."
Hymn #120 “He Hideth My Soul”
Special Music: “Stay Strong” by Danny Gokey
Sermon: “Test”
Hymn #408 “I Surrender All”
Benediction: Lamentations 3:21-25
Prayer
Mary Sherwood, Jim and Donna Glenn, Don Baker’s African Mission, Roger and Pat Polsley, Jerry Birkby - knee replacement, Davie Warren - cancer, Beth’s brother-in-law, Matt, Randy Snapp - cancer, Connie Rewinkel, Dixie Greedy, Bev Powles, Ellie Warren - growth in lung, Harley Niles - kidney disease, the family of Dave Newlon, the family of Bud Jorgenson, the family of Dave Welchins, the family of Janet Herzog
Praise for rain, corn popping up, nice spring, no tornadoes here. Also hearing from kids and grandchildren, visits from afar, a wonderful Mother’s Day breakfast with great cooks and many visitors, a successful surgery for Pastor Donna, Ellie graduating from pre-school, Penny’s asparagus
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We had a very nice Mother's Day Breakfast prepared for us by the men, followed by Mary's Sunday School class singing a couple of songs for us. What a great job kids! How blessed we are to have Mary Zach teaching our Sunday School!
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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown
Today's Sunday Church Share..
Picture credit @houses.of.new.england
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Percy's Tidbit
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