I've been sick this week.
So blessed to be prayed for at church today by several compassionate people!
morning service: sunday edition!
Morning Worshp:
Great are you Lord- All sons and daughters
BIG IDEA
You have everything you need to change your world!
Mark 2:1-10 NIV
1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.
2 So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.
3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.
4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,
7 "Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?
9 Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, take your mat and walk'?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-" ...
Points to ponder:
1# My: FAITH is revealed through: ACTION
2# My: FAITH can facilitate: MIRACLES
Our faith can make a difference for others
3# No: THEOLOGY required
4# The RISK has an awesome REWARD
5# God is already WORKING
"I only do what I see my father doing"
Jesus on mission: Reaching out to Social Outcasts.
Zacchaeus was rich, and probably not happy.
Nothing was going to stop him from seeing Jesus.
Luke 19:1-10 NIV
1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today."
6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a 'sinner.' "
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."
1#Jesus was never too busy to stop for people. He was willing to interrupt his plans to care for other's needs.
2#Jesus didn't look at people the way others did.
Closing song:
Amazing grace- Darlene Zschech
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