Sunday, April 5, 2020
children’s Sunday School
Parents, as you are now the ‘Sunday School Teachers’ for your kids, we have prepared this tool to help you guide your kids into the rest of the service. We encourage you to watch alongside of your kids and participate together.
Call To Worship
Choose someone from your group to read the call to worship, or read it out loud yourself. If you’re journaling, choose part of this verse and add it to your journal. Highlight words or phrases that draw you to towards God in worship.
PSalm 91:1-2
Welcome & Announcements
You can also click here for a YouTube playlist that contains the Announcements, the Worship, and the Sermon.
Worship in Song
The Worship Team worked hard to record and produce these live recordings for our church family — and had a great time doing it! Sing along at the top of your lungs; or listen and reflect on the words. Either way, lift your heart and life to the Lord in worship.
Sermon
Click on the video above to watch the sermon for this week.
This week, we’re studying Luke 23:44-46 as we continue with our series called “7 Words: Wrestling with the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross.”
Going Deeper
You don’t have to answer all of these questions. Look them over, and use one or two that might be helpful as you respond to God’s Word.
Has God proved himself trustworthy to you? Do you trust him in this moment? Do you have areas where you are asking Jesus to help overcome your “unbelief”?
What evidence of God’s trustworthiness have you experienced in your life? When you think about if it is safe and secure to turn to God in this crisis - what moments remind you that He is worthy of giving our concerns over to him? What is something that you remember or need to remember this week as you encounter a culture where fear might run rampant?
What are some practical ways you can confront fear with trust this week? Think specifically. Make a commitment to this practice and share it with a friend.
Community Updates
Share with one another the needs, challenges, and joys that you, your family, your neighbors, and your workplaces are going through during this time. Submit a prayer request to either our prayer/leadership teams or to be shared with the whole church. Here you have an opportunity to post a video, photo, or selfie from different groups and families to share with one another.
Prayer
Take this opportunity to lift up your voices to God. We have collected some prayer requests that have been submitted to us and we have posted them on our community prayer wall (see the button below). This morning, we invite you to pray for those needs posted there, and we also invite you pray over what was shared or discovered in the Going Deeper questions above. Pray specifically for our church family:
pray that we would be able to perceive God’s presence and his mercy and comfort with us.
pray that we would experience the strength that comes from receiving God’s grace
pray for an end to this ongoing pandemic
If you need some guidance in prayer, use the A.C.T.S. prayer guide linked below as framework for helping you pray if you’d like.
Benediction
Read the verse paraphrase below out loud, or have someone from your family or Zoom group read it out loud as a benediction over our church family.
1 Timothy 6:11-12
“But you, [people] of God, flee from all evil, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called…” Amen.
Tithes & Offerings
As you conclude in worship, take time to login to either the link below, tike time to mail a check, or reach out to your bank. Remember that our tithes and offerings are a continued act of worship and are a physical act of entrusting all of our lives to Jesus. Our Lenten Giving to Amirah can also be done through this same link (please remember that we would encourage you that our Lenten Giving is only above and beyond our regular tithes and offerings)