Announcements
Planning Calendar—If you’d like a Presbytery Planning Calendar, please reply and let me know.
Potluck—There’s going to be a potluck supper THIS Sunday following worship. Join us!
Outreach Committee—Meets tonight at 5:30 in the McMillan Building.
Small Groups—In the next few months you may be hearing more about the possibility of small groups at New Hope. What I’m trying to gauge is the interest level of the congregation. These groups (6-12 people) would meet for about an hour each week or every other week to follow Bible studies or other curriculum. (I’ve found some options) I’m looking for leaders, as well as others who are interested in being involved.
New Hope News
Saturday a team from New Hope will head to Tazewell to begin making plans for a Living Waters installation. Please be in prayer for them, and contact Lloyd or Don Kaller if you’re interested in being a part of this.
Pray for…
The kids of the church as they get back into the rhythm of school. (And the parents, teachers, administrators, bus drivers, etc.)
Links
There is more wisdom in this seven minute video than I have found in 700 page books.
Did Adam and Eve exist? Food for thought.
Text for this Week
Luke 19:11-27
Luke 19:11-27
As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. So he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return.
He summoned ten of his slaves, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’ But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
When he returned, having received royal power, he ordered these slaves, to whom he had given the money, to be summoned so that he might find out what they had gained by trading.
The first came forward and said, ‘Lord, your pound has made ten more pounds.’ He said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.’
Then the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’ He said to him, ‘And you, rule over five cities.’
Then the other came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your pound. I wrapped it up in a piece of cloth, for I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man; you take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money into the bank? Then when I returned, I could have collected it with interest.’
He said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’ (And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds!’) ‘I tell you, to all those who have, more will be given; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.’”
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