Blessings
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Good Morning!
Call to worship and prayer: Philippians 2:5-11
Hymn# 347 "All Creatures of Our God and King"
Offering and Doxology
Hymn# 337 "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty"
Hymn# 439 "Sweet Hour of Prayer"
Praise and Prayer
2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
4 If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;
6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of
Christ.
8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing
worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all
things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the
righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus
Hymn# 92 "The Solid Rock"
Hymn#69 "Standing on the Promises"
Special Music "Lord, You Are My Strength" by Jelly Roll
Hymn# 443 "I Need Thee Every Hour"
Sermon: "Thoughts, Pressing On"
Hymn# 16 "Tell Me the Old, Old, Story"
Hymn# 18 "The Love of God"
Prayers:
Mary Sherwood - sign book if visiting, Wava and Mike Shipley -Rockport, Don Shipley, Betty Booker - health concerns, Sandra and Chase - Nancy’s family, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Jan’s friend Glenda Wright - cancer, Davie Warren - back, falling issues, Ellie, Lynn Handy - physical therapy weekly 3x, Barb Handy - health issues,
Bev Powles - heart procedures soon, Joan Tiemeyer - back, hives, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia, Beth’s friend, Diena - JoAnne’s friend, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, Family of Anne Chambers, Don’s ministry, McIntosh, Trisha, Harvest, Bob Miles - liver cancer, Brenda Herivel - lung, pituitary tumors, Unspoken and personal prayers
Looking Forward:
Sunday School - 8:45 am
Harvest Party for children - October 26th, 2 - 4 pm
Harvest Dinner - November 23rd
Decoration Day - November 23rd
November 30th - First Sunday of Advent
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Mary Z. requests the congregation to collect for her empty plastic milk jugs, gallon size or half gallon. She needs about 30 of them for a Halloween craft at our Fall Festival.
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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...
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Percy's Tidbit
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Have a great week
