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[Sunday] Voices & Stars - The Party
A voice breaks through and says, Take, Take the apple, take the blessing, take your brother." There is just not enough. But the other voice says, "Look at the stars, and count them if you can.
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From the Sermon
Questions for the Week
Describe a time you saw someone hoarding more than they should have. What motivated them to act in this manner?
Read Genesis 3:1-13. How does the voice of the serpent try to tempt Eve? Who do you think the serpent wants Eve to trust?
When have you been tempted by this same voice, trying to convince you that you don’t have enough? How does this voice move you to act towards possessions?
In times of crisis, a scarcity mindset—focusing on what we don’t have—can easily cause us to cling to worldly goods. Do you experience this? What would you and others around you gain by trusting God’s generous love instead?
---- THIS WEEK AT GRACE - Today November 1, 2020
Worship Service 8:30 AM
Second Worship Service and
video service www.gracelutheranpsl.com 10:15 AM
Zoom into Fellowship 12:00 PM - Noon
Korean Church Worship 1:00 PM
AA 7:30 PM
Rest of the week November 2 - 7, 2020
Election Precinct set-up - Limited office access Monday, 3:00 PM
Election Day - Office Closed Tuesday - All Day
Olivet School Canceled
Individual/Family Communion Wednesday, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 & Noon
ZOOM Bible Study Thursday, 11:00 AM
Middle School Virtual Gathering Saturday 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
For complete calendar information, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/calendar
NOTE: Next Sunday, 11/8 - LWML Celebration, wear your purple!
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK: Karen Clemente - 11/1,
Jim Neagles & Kaitlyn Arbuzow - 11/4 and Marge Neuberger -11/7
ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK: Roger & Karen Clemente - 11/1 (5 Years)
Bob & Sandy Zanzig - 11/4 (48 years)
THE FLOWERS ADORNING THE ALTAR are given by Steven Choung with the Korean congregation.
ALL SAINTS DAY REMEMBRANCE: Traditionally on All Saints Day we remember those who have died during the last twelve months. We remember: Val Bachman, Barbara Bock, Pastor Russ Johnson, Gerald Lindstrom, Thomas Roksvold, and Barbara Young.
MIDDLE SCHOOL VIRTUAL GATHERING Coming up this Saturday, November 7th, the Florida-Georgia district is hosting a “Middle School Virtual Gathering” and all youth of Grace are invited to attend for some fun, food, and fellowship. The event starts at 6 PM and will conclude by 9:30 PM. Pastor Cris has the information you need.
PLEASE CALL PEOPLE I realize I take for granted that people just come to the church on a regular basis. So that we all don’t descend into madness, let’s call and talk to each other regularly. Phone directories are available for your convenience.
MITES BOXES FOR ALL! LWML Sunday will be observed NEXT SUNDAY, November 8. In advance of this , we have placed a display of the Mite boxes for each of you, men & women, to take, to fill (coin, check or cash) and to return. The Mite box is the container used to gather the funds that help support various local and international mission organizations which , in turn, share the Gospel and love of Jesus. Hopefully, by taking a Mite box will help remind us daily that all, great or small, gifts can be used to bless many with the gift of the Gospel.
(P.S. feel free to wear purple next Sunday to celebrate our LWML)
“OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOX PROJECT”: Please keep your packed Shoeboxes at home until November 15-21, 2020 between 9:00 and Noon. Thank you, Judy, 561-315-9555
COMMUNION ON WEDNESDAY: If you, or someone you know, would like to celebrate Holy Communion but prefer a small group or unable to attend Sunday service, Pastor Cris has set aside Wednesday’s to celebrate the meal in small/family groups. Please come by on Wednesday at: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 or 12:00 (noon) and partake of this wonderful meal.
SEE YOUR GRACE FAMILY ON ZOOM! Pastor and Coli will be hosting Zoom to Coffee at NOON every Sunday for those who would like to join in fellowship “virtually” to see and chat with Grace members and friends. All are welcome!
BIBLE STUDY FOR ALL Pastor Cris is conducting a “livestream” Bible study online (www.GracelutheranPSL.com) with ZOOM, for you to participate in on Thursdays at 11:00 AM. ** You are also welcome to attend the Bible Study at church, in person! ** Seating with social distancing along with wearing your mask is now happening, at the Bible Study on Thursday at 11 AM and at Worship on Sundays at 8:30 AM and 10:15 AM.
GIVING - We are here to provide “Grace and Peace in this Chaotic and Lonely Time” to those in our church and community. Thank you for your past and continual prayers and financial support to Grace and your community.We have added Paypal for online donations. If you would like to give through Paypal, please go to: www.GraceLutheranPSL.com and click the “GIVE” button on the upper right side of the page.
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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The Hell Houses We Will Not Leave
I am dying to escape the hell houses of my own creation. Rooms full of rage and fear. I long to take this anger somewhere that can take it from me. To someone who can release me from the inescapable loop that is my own hardened heart.
Read The Whole Article ! https://mbird.com/2020/10/the-hell-houses-we-will-not-leave
by SARAH CONDON on Oct 29, 2020 • 8:30 am2 Comments
Hell Houses were a natural part of the Southern landscape when I was growing up. If you are not familiar with them, they appear in October alongside other haunted house experiences, only this one has a religious agenda. They aim to scare the hell out of you.
As you mosey through each room you will meet characters who have made bad “choices.” Who you have sex with, how much you have sex, and when you start having sex make for great Hell House foyers. Sex is hot in hell houses, I do not make the rules. Suicide often makes a whimsical appearance. And even dancing (¡escandalosa!) is identified as a “sin” people have committed who will be burning in hell. If all of this sounds traumatizing, that’s because it is.
Don't Be Early for Church!
Set Your Clock Back This Sunday Morning, NOV 1st
Set Your Clock Back This Sunday Morning
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Pictures of Backpacks in Haiti
During back to school we gave Children in Haiti Backpacks
In Defense of Martin Luther
This is an adaptation of the introduction from “In Defense of Martin Luther” written by John Warwick Montgomery (1517 Publishing, 2017). Used with permission.
o defend Martin Luther — whose courage in the face of overwhelming religious and secular attack has become a byword in world history — may well seem a superfluous if not presumptive task. One is reminded of the exchange between an eager young man and the great 19th-century evangelist Charles Finney. Young man: “Mr. Finney, how can I defend the Bible?” Finney: “How would you defend a lion? Let it out of its cage and it will defend itself!”In a very real sense, Finney’s reply is applicable to Luther. Since the monumental and as yet uncompleted labor of the Weimarer Ausgabe began in 1888 and the so-called Luther-research movement commenced in the labors of Karl Holl at Tubingen, the Reformer has been “let out of the cage” of secondary and tertiary interpretations to speak for himself; and his own writings are a magnificent vindication of his person and work.Yet just as the reading of Scripture does not automatically cause all criticisms of it to evaporate, so Luther’s writings do not in themselves eliminate superficial or perverse analyses of him. The poetical ideal expressed by Horace, De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, or “Of the dead say nothing but good,” has seldom been followed, particularly in the treatment of men like Luther whose controversial ideas and acts have elicited violent opposition. In point of fact, the dead — even those who were most adroit in defending their interests while alive — are pitifully at the mercy of their critics after their demise. What our Lord said to Peter concerning old age applies with equal force to death: “When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst wither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee wither thou wouldest not.” Little study of the history of Luther interpretation is needed to demonstrate beyond all question that the Reformer, powerful enough in life to intimidate popes and emperors, has been “girded” again and again with viewpoints appallingly inimical to his true beliefs and has continually been “carried whither he wouldest not” since his death……………..
Read the full article here…..https://www.1517.org/articles/in-defense-of-martin-luther
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The Absolution I Didn't Want [Video][Read]
It’s easy to slip into thinking about forgiveness solely in terms of our authority over it.
Last week at the annual Here We Still Stand Conference, during a conversation with Matt Popovits, I unintentionally stepped into something I wasn’t quite ready to receive. The moment was caught on video, which you can watch above if you would like. While I was trying to get Matt’s thoughts on the psychological effects of the law in general, I used a specific example from my own life - mom guilt - which quickly led to my shaky voice and quiet tears. For reasons I can’t fully explain, all of the pressure, changes, anxiety, and depression I’ve experienced in the past eight months dumped over me at that moment. Both my admittance of guilt, followed by Matt’s pronunciation of absolution, caught me off guard. I wasn’t ready for either, and to be honest, I did not enjoy any minute of it.
For months, I’ve been wrestling with the new balance of motherhood and work. One of the reasons I started working in the theological realm and decided to go back to school to receive my masters in theology was because I was tired of seeing women in theology do nothing more than shed tears about motherhood. And yet here I was, doing precisely that, on camera. I was in front of God only knows how many people and in a situation, where at least momentarily, I had no control.
It’s so easy to slip into thinking about forgiveness solely in terms of our authority over it.When we offer it to people, we think it’s on our accord; when we receive it, we think it’s because we feel ready to be at peace with whoever or whatever has wronged us. In other words, we operate according to the assumption that forgiveness functions (successfully or not) based on our control, our emotion, or our ownership. But Christ doesn’t wait to give us his word of forgiveness until we are rationally, emotionally, or physically contrite, and sometimes he doesn’t even wait for us to recognize what this word is before he pronounces it on us.
Christ’s word of absolution may come before we are ready. We may even misconstrue these words into more law and more guilt. But that doesn’t change the fact that, in Christ, the declaration that we are forgiven and that we are made righteous is both good news and true.
“Giving absolution and receiving it are just two sides of the same faith coin in which we trust God will continue to keep his promises.”
At first, I didn’t hear Matt’s pronunciation of absolution as good news for me. But others did for themselves. That’s how powerful God’s promises are - once they are unleashed on the world, we have absolutely no control of how, when, or on whom the Spirit will use them. All that we are promised is that they will take effect. We see this in the conversion of the Syrophoenician woman whose faith, as theologian Jim Nestingen is fond of saying, came from the rumor of Christ. She believed before she even spoke to him! God’s word is so living and active that it goes to work in secondary and tertiary ways; in ways that surprise us and in ways we will never see.
Hearing that Matt’s word had impacted others, in turn, impacted me. I don’t want to claim that the multidimensionality of absolution is always this black and white. To do so would be to wrongly assert, again, that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is limited to our own experiences and our own authority. We cannot assume to know when or even for whom forgiveness will function - we are only commanded to faithfully hand God’s word over to others and also to believe his words when they are delivered to us. Giving absolution and receiving it are just two sides of the same faith coin in which we trust God will continue to keep his promises.
So, just as Matt did, we hand out forgiveness when we see someone in need of it. Sometimes this happens in response to a co-worker’s apology. Sometimes, it follows a friend’s confession that they’ve messed up their marriage. Sometimes it’s needed to comfort the conscience of a loved one stuck in the clutches of the law’s terror, and sometimes it is essential after a new mom unintentionally unloads her guilt.
When we hear the words of forgiveness in Christ in our own ears, whether they are intentionally said to us or to another, we must believe they are true and true for us.
God’s word has the power to forgive, to create faith, to comfort the guilt-laden and downtrodden. This much is certain.
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[Sunday] Backwards Birds - The Party
What do you spend your time considering? Your financial portfolio? Who to vote for? How there is never enough? Jesus gives us some backwards advice. Consider the birds.
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
Questions for the Week
Describe the best party you’ve been to. What did the host do to make it so great?
Read Luke 12:22-34. What does Jesus invite us to look at in the world, to see the graciousness of God and His abundance?
Where do you see the generosity of God in the world, your life, or the story of the Bible? What are you most grateful for?
What are you anxious about in your present situation? Reflect on God’s love and care and how it might help alleviate your anxiety.
---- THIS WEEK AT GRACE - Today October 25, 2020
Worship Service 8:30 AM
Second Worship Service and
video service www.gracelutheranpsl.com 10:15 AM
Zoom into Fellowship 12:00 PM - Noon
Korean Church Worship 1:00 PM
AA 7:30 PM
Rest of the week October 26 - 31, 2020
Olivet School Tuesday, 8 AM - 1 PM
Individual/Family Communion Wednesday, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 & Noon
ZOOM Bible Study Thursday, 11:00 AM
Reformation Day Saturday
Korean Church Prayer Saturday, 6:00 AM
DST ends - Fall Back ONE hour Saturday Night
For complete calendar information, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/calendar
NOTE: Saturday, October 31, Set your clocks back one hour before you go to sleep.
November 2nd & 3rd church facilities will be restricted to Election Precinct use only.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK: Joan Gebhardt - 10/28, Pat Hasz - 10/28, Terry Brown - 10/31.
ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK: Melville & Lucille Mills - 10/26 (57 yrs), Colby & Joelle Swanson - 10/29 (4 yrs)
THE FLOWERS ADORNING THE ALTAR are given by Sconge Boo Dyun with the Korean congregation.
MITES BOXES FOR ALL! LWML Sunday will be observed on November 8. In advance of this , we have placed a display of the Mite boxes for each of you, men & women, to take, to fill (coin, check or cash) and to return prior to or on the 8th. The Mite box is the container used to gather the funds that help support various local and international mission organizations which , in turn, share the Gospel and love of Jesus. Hopefully, by taking a Mite box will help remind us daily that all, great or small, gifts can be used to bless many with the gift of the Gospel.
PLEASE CALL PEOPLE I realize I take for granted that people just come to the church on a regular basis. So that we all don’t descend into madness, let’s call and talk to each other regularly. Phone directories are available for your convenience.
“OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOX PROJECT”: Please keep your packed Shoeboxes at home until November 15-21, 2020 between 9:00 and Noon. Thank you, Judy, 561-315-9555
COMMUNION ON WEDNESDAY: If you, or someone you know, would like to celebrate Holy Communion but prefer a small group or unable to attend Sunday service, Pastor Cris has set aside Wednesday’s to celebrate the meal in small/family groups. Please come by on Wednesday at: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 or 12:00 (noon) and partake of this wonderful meal.
SEE YOUR GRACE FAMILY ON ZOOM! Pastor and Coli will be hosting Zoom to Coffee at NOON every Sunday for those who would like to join in fellowship “virtually” to see and chat with Grace members and friends. All are welcome!
BIBLE STUDY FOR ALL Pastor Cris is conducting a “livestream” Bible study online (www.GracelutheranPSL.com) with ZOOM, for you to participate in on Thursdays at 11:00 AM. ** You are also welcome to attend the Bible Study at church, in person! ** Seating with social distancing along with wearing your mask is now happening, at the Bible Study on Thursday at 11 AM and at Worship on Sundays at 8:30 AM and 10:15 AM.
GIVING - We are here to provide “Grace and Peace in this Chaotic and Lonely Time” to those in our church and community. Thank you for your past and continual prayers and financial support to Grace and your community. We have added Paypal for online donations. If you would like to give through Paypal, please go to: www.GraceLutheranPSL.com and click the “GIVE” button on the upper right side of the page.
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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The Party
The older brother could hear it, even from the fields. There was a party, and the music was pumping; he could smell all the food cooking over the fire. It all looked so great. But who was all this for? His good for nothing brother? No way would he be a part of that party. But then the father comes out to see if he could convince the older brother to come into the party. Will he go in and enjoy the party, or will he stay outside?
The older brother could hear it, even from the fields. There was a party, and the music was pumping; he could smell all the food cooking over the fire. It all looked so great. But who was all this for? His good for nothing brother? No way would he be a part of that party. But then the father comes out to see if he could convince the older brother to come into the party. Will he go in and enjoy the party, or will he stay outside?
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Why the Justice of God is Good News
the Jesus of the Gospels talks about judgment in no less scathing terms than the boldest of the Old Testament prophets
Read Orginial at https://mbird.com/2020/10/why-the-justice-of-god-is-good-news/
Just a few decades after Jesus’ resurrection, a wealthy shipbuilder from the southern coast of the Black Sea in modern-day Turkey stretched the insights of his favorite Christian teacher — the apostle Paul — toward what he understood to be their logical, magnificent conclusion: that the God and Father of Jesus Christ was purely, exclusively gracious, without one iota of wrath or judgment to his name. Enamored with what John Barclay has called “the singularity of nothing-but-benevolence,” the shipbuilder set out to reform the church in Rome in accord with his radical “perfection” of grace.[1] The shipbuilder’s name was Marcion, and he was eventually condemned as one of the first and greatest Christian heretics…………..
Read The Rest at https://mbird.com/2020/10/why-the-justice-of-god-is-good-news/
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Freedom and Why We’re Afraid of It: Dave Zahl [Video]
Here We Still Stand is a Two Day Digital Celebration of The Freedom of the Christian: The theme of our 2020 Here We Still Stand Conference is The Freedom of the Christian.
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Mask Myths and Covid 19! [Video]
Bottom line: Masks work. They are safe for almost everyone to wear, and the more people that wear them along with adhering to physical distancing and other strategies, then that’s more lives we’ll save. But there’s still a lot of confusion and misinformation out there when it comes both to wearing masks and the actual risks of getting infected with COVID-19. In this video I address a few of the most common myths and misunderstandings using scientific evidence. #WearAMask
This is where pastor Cris got his information from last sunday.
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[Sunday] Jonah Chapter 4
Should I care? Jonah sets up a little camp on a hill to watch the show. But the show never comes, and he is left with a terrible sunburn. How could he have avoided all of this? Perhaps he could have not wanted the city's destruction.
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
Questions for the Week
Who is your most bitter enemy? What characteristics about them do you hate?
Read John 4:1-4. What do you think Joanh wants to happen to his enemies? Have you ever thought that about your enemies?
Read Jonah 4:5-11. What do you think God is trying to get Jonah to see and understand through his questions of Jonah?
Thinking back to question 1, do you see any characteristics of your enemy in yourself? How do you respond knowing that God is “slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” for your enemy and also for you?
Quotes from Sermon
“6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.””
“Speaking form his hospital bed, Wilson described his last conversation with his daugher “She held my hand tightly, and gripped me as hard as she could. She said, “Daddy, I love you very much.” Those were her exact words to me and those were the last words I ever heard her say.” to the astonishment of listeners, Wilson went on to add, “But I will bear no ill will. I will bear no grudge. Bitter talk is not going to bring her back to life. I will pray tonight and every night for the men who did this, that God will forgive them.” No words in more than twenty five years of violence in Northern Ireland had such a powerfu, emotional impact ”
“This is the gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom show us our flaws; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook our ignore those parts of us. The enemy is therefore not merely a hurdle to be leaped over on the way to God. Our enemy might actually be the way to God. we cannot come to terms with oru own inner shadows except through our enemies. We have almost no other access to those unacceptable parts of ourselves that need redeeming except through the mirror that our enemies hold up to us”
---- THIS WEEK AT GRACE - Today October 18, 2020
Worship Service 8:30 AM
Second Worship Service and
video service www.gracelutheranpsl.com 10:15 AM
Zoom into Fellowship 12:00 PM - Noon
Korean Church Worship 1:00 PM
AA 7:30 PM
Rest of the week October 19 - 24, 2020
Olivet School Tuesday, 8 AM - 1 PM
Individual/Family Communion Wednesday, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 & Noon
ZOOM Bible Study Thursday, 11:00 AM
Korean Church Prayer Saturday, 6:00 AM
For complete calendar information, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/calendar
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK: Janice Kamrath - 10/18, Karen Sawyer - 10/19, Joyce Dare & Katy Vik - 10/24,
ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK: Al & Doris Vollmann - 10/22 (43 yrs)
THE FLOWERS ADORNING THE ALTAR are given by Jan & Jan Lendak in celebration of their 55th wedding anniversary that was on Friday, 10/16
PLEASE CALL PEOPLE I realize I take for granted that people just come to the church on a regular basis. So that we all don’t descend into madness, let’s call and talk to each other regularly. Phone directories are available for your convenience.
“OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOX PROJECT”: Please keep your packed shoeboxes at home until November 15-21, between 9:00 and noon daily. Thank you, Judy, 561-315-9555
COMMUNION ON WEDNESDAY: If you, or someone you know, would like to celebrate Holy Communion but prefer a small group or unable to attend Sunday service, Pastor Cris has set aside Wednesday’s to celebrate the meal in small/family groups. Please come by on Wednesday at: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 or 12:00 (noon) and partake of this wonderful meal.
SEE YOUR GRACE FAMILY ON ZOOM! Pastor and Coli will be hosting Zoom to Coffee at NOON every Sunday for those who would like to join in fellowship “virtually” to see and chat with Grace members and friends. All are welcome!
BIBLE STUDY FOR ALL Pastor Cris is conducting a “livestream” Bible study online (www.GracelutheranPSL.com) with ZOOM, for you to participate in on Thursdays at 11:00 AM. ** You are also welcome to attend the Bible Study at church, in person! ** Seating with social distancing along with wearing your mask is now happening, at the Bible Study on Thursday at 11 AM and at Worship on Sundays at 8:30 AM and 10:15 AM.
GIVING - We are here to provide “Grace and Peace in this Chaotic and Lonely Time” to those in our church and community. Thank you for your past and continual prayers and financial support to Grace and your community. We have added Paypal for online donations. If you would like to give through Paypal, please go to: www.GraceLutheranPSL.com and click the “GIVE” button on the upper right side of the page.
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Google’s Search to Know Me: Social Media Algorithms and Being Known by God
While the law of social media tries to figure us out and make us meet its demands, the Gospel frees us from the churning machine of algorithms.
I got a Facebook account in 2008. It was before the age of selfies and smartphones, Snapchat and Instagram. Then, it truly was a social network — simply a tool for connecting, and everything was fairly innocuous. I was in eighth grade, and my friends and I posted albums containing way too many pictures of our sleepovers and vacations. We wrote inside jokes on each other’s “walls.” Things got really interesting when Facebook added the private messenger and the like button.
That was twelve years ago — saying that makes me feel old — and now there are dozens of options for social media. What was once a tool for connecting now feels like a Pharaoh demanding more time and energy every day from its users. Make sure you post often, but not too much. Make sure you use the right hashtags, but not too many. Make sure you use a filter, but look authentic. It’s a delicate balance we’re all constantly trying to strike. Every platform has its own law we have to obey, or else we get punished by the algorithm. And it seems like while we’re trying to figure these platforms out, they’ve already got us figured out.
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Baptism - Confirmation
Baptism
Baptism
The beginning of your life in the body of Christ.
In baptism, God names you, claims you, brands you as a part of the herd and adopts you into an eternal relationship.
Titus 3:4-7
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Brands
What makes a brand a brand?
Why do people pick branded items over generic items? How much more do you pay for a name brand than a generic item?
How is baptism like a brand? What does it show? What is it worth?
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Why do ranchers brand their animals?
Why do some people get tattooed?
What do brands and tattoos tell you?
How is baptism like both?
How does this scene relate to baptism? How does it not?
The Parent’s Promise
What do parents promise in baptism?
What is the parent’s role in keeping those promises?
How can the church help parents keep their promises?
What happens when parents don’t keep their promises to God?
Baptism
Being marked with God’s brand
Becoming a child of God through adoption into Christ’s family
A special sacramental washing away of sins and rising to new life in Christ
Being washed, sprinkled or immersed in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
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[Sunday] Jonah Chapter 3
Vomited up on the shore of a new beginning, Son of Faithfulness must be reminded by God of his true calling. Will he grab the new beginning from God with everything in him, or will he just phone in another performance? Will the king come off of his throne?
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
Questions for the Week
Can you share a time when you saw someone right a wrong or brought justice to an unjust situation?
Read Jonah 3:1-5. How much effort does Jonah make in bringing God’s Word to those in Nineveh? Considering Jonah is a prophet in the Bible, what are the things you think he’s missing from his sermon?
Read Jonah 3:6-10. Here the king gets down from his power and throne and repents. He then leads others to repent and hope for God’s mercy. Describe a time when you’ve seen someone repent and experience God’s mercy.
---- THIS WEEK AT GRACE - Today October 11, 2020
Worship Service 8:30 AM
Second Worship Service and
video service www.gracelutheranpsl.com 10:15 AM
Zoom into Fellowship 12:00 PM - Noon
Korean Church Worship 1:00 PM
AA 7:30 PM
Rest of the week October 12 - 17, 2020
Columbus Day Monday
Olivet School Tuesday, 8 AM - 1 PM
Individual/Family Communion Wednesday, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 & Noon
ZOOM Bible Study Thursday, 11:00 AM
Korean Church Prayer Saturday, 6:00 AM
For complete calendar information, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/calendar
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK: Mechelle Arbuzow - 10/12, Piper Neagles - 10/16
ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK: Phillip & Alie Griffin - 10/13 (8 yrs), David & Lorrie Vik - 10/14 (20 yrs), Jan & Jan Lendak - 10/16 (55 yrs)
THE FLOWERS ADORNING THE ALTAR are given by Paul & Sarah Yoo with the Korean congregation.
PLEASE CALL PEOPLE I realize I take for granted that people just come to the church on a regular basis. So that we all don’t descend into madness, let’s call and talk to each other regularly. Phone directories are available for your convenience.
GIVING - We are here to provide “Grace and Peace in this Chaotic and Lonely Time” to those in our church and community. Thank you for your past and continual prayers and financial support to Grace and your community. We have added Paypal for online donations. If you would like to give through Paypal, please go to: www.GraceLutheranPSL.com and click the “GIVE” button on the upper right side of the page.
COMMUNION ON WEDNESDAY: If you, or someone you know, would like to celebrate Holy Communion but prefer a small group or unable to attend Sunday service, Pastor Cris has set aside Wednesday’s to celebrate the meal in small/family groups. Please come by on Wednesday at: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 or 12:00 (noon) and partake of this wonderful meal.
SEE YOUR GRACE FAMILY ON ZOOM! Pastor and Coli will be hosting Zoom to Coffee at NOON every Sunday for those who would like to join in fellowship “virtually” to see and chat with Grace members and friends. All are welcome!
BIBLE STUDY FOR ALL Pastor Cris is conducting a “livestream” Bible study online (www.GracelutheranPSL.com) with ZOOM, for you to participate in on Thursdays at 11:00 AM. ** You are also welcome to attend the Bible Study at church, in person! ** Seating with social distancing along with wearing your mask is now happening, at the Bible Study on Thursday at 11 AM and at Worship on Sundays at 8:30 AM and 10:15 AM.
“OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOX PROJECT”: Please keep your packed Shoeboxes at home until November 15-21,2020 between 9:00 and Noon. Thank you, Judy
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Christmas expectations are often Joshed. Yet the name Emmanuel breaks all expectations as Jesus comes to be with us.