Another week has passed without any posts ... it must be summer.
Tomorrow's sermon is almost ready. I will be mentioning the blog in the introduction because I'll project two pictures that have been on the blog already. If you remember the pictures of the Country Gospel Music Church and the New Regenerated Holiness Church Number 2, then you can take a little nap during the intro.
It was a good week. We got our girls back (more about that in a later post) from New Mexico. Thanks to my sister and her family for hosting them. Thanks to Dad and Wendy for making the trek from Indy to JC to bring the girls to our front step.
Much to do. I haven't proofed it yet so please be gracious! Here is the prayer:
Prayers of the Church for Grandview
20 July 2008
God, who waits for us while we try to get our minds around what it means to love you by living kingdom lives, thank you for your splendid patience. Thank you for nurturing us and those who came before us in the gospel—in the great news of your love for us, for people we love, and for our enemies. Praise and honor and glory to you for announcing the news to us in the flesh; broken and bleeding though it was!
It is in our nature to grow used to that message, to stand before the cross and say to ourselves, “Yes, of course. This is just what God does. Should we have expected less?” But then there are times, O God, when we glimpse our depravity and our sin, when we realize just how many people we’ve hurt, how many relationships were ended on account of our stupid rebellion; when we realize how much good we could have done if we weren’t consumed with selfishness. At such moments we stand frightened, in awe and wonder of you and what you did in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
Forgive us our sins. Be patient with us. Help us to become the people and the community you have called us to be. As we embrace your forgiveness help us to be kind and gracious to people who, like us, are sinners.
Bless those on our prayer list. We need you so much. We need healing, strength, protection, resolve, joy, sound hearts, sound minds, and sound bodies. When it is our time to die, we even need your help to die well. Send your Holy Spirit upon us. Pour it out upon all flesh, male and female, Jew and Greek, slave and free.
In the silence we offer you the praises and petitions of our hearts:
silence
Hear our prayers, O Lord. Bless the missionaries we support. Grant fidelity and strength to the Coleys, Freelands, Headens, McDades, Nyadors, Veals, Orths and to the Jacksons and Colemans as they prepare to serve you in places foreign to us, but known to you. Bless all who leave their homes and who practice life in the fields of the earth where wheat and weeds grow together. Help us to be missionaries to our homes, our jobs, and our cities.
We are bold to pray as you have taught us to pray:
Tomorrow's sermon is almost ready. I will be mentioning the blog in the introduction because I'll project two pictures that have been on the blog already. If you remember the pictures of the Country Gospel Music Church and the New Regenerated Holiness Church Number 2, then you can take a little nap during the intro.
It was a good week. We got our girls back (more about that in a later post) from New Mexico. Thanks to my sister and her family for hosting them. Thanks to Dad and Wendy for making the trek from Indy to JC to bring the girls to our front step.
Much to do. I haven't proofed it yet so please be gracious! Here is the prayer:
Prayers of the Church for Grandview
20 July 2008
God, who waits for us while we try to get our minds around what it means to love you by living kingdom lives, thank you for your splendid patience. Thank you for nurturing us and those who came before us in the gospel—in the great news of your love for us, for people we love, and for our enemies. Praise and honor and glory to you for announcing the news to us in the flesh; broken and bleeding though it was!
It is in our nature to grow used to that message, to stand before the cross and say to ourselves, “Yes, of course. This is just what God does. Should we have expected less?” But then there are times, O God, when we glimpse our depravity and our sin, when we realize just how many people we’ve hurt, how many relationships were ended on account of our stupid rebellion; when we realize how much good we could have done if we weren’t consumed with selfishness. At such moments we stand frightened, in awe and wonder of you and what you did in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
Forgive us our sins. Be patient with us. Help us to become the people and the community you have called us to be. As we embrace your forgiveness help us to be kind and gracious to people who, like us, are sinners.
Bless those on our prayer list. We need you so much. We need healing, strength, protection, resolve, joy, sound hearts, sound minds, and sound bodies. When it is our time to die, we even need your help to die well. Send your Holy Spirit upon us. Pour it out upon all flesh, male and female, Jew and Greek, slave and free.
In the silence we offer you the praises and petitions of our hearts:
silence
Hear our prayers, O Lord. Bless the missionaries we support. Grant fidelity and strength to the Coleys, Freelands, Headens, McDades, Nyadors, Veals, Orths and to the Jacksons and Colemans as they prepare to serve you in places foreign to us, but known to you. Bless all who leave their homes and who practice life in the fields of the earth where wheat and weeds grow together. Help us to be missionaries to our homes, our jobs, and our cities.
We are bold to pray as you have taught us to pray:
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