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Snack
Packs—This
month we are collecting granola bars for the snack packs we are
making for East Brainerd Elementary. Please continue to bring these
every Sunday, that we may meet our goal of 250! Also, we could use
some more ready-to-prepare chilis/mac & cheese/bean dishes
(microwaveable, preferably).
Wednesday
Suppers—Next
Wednesday we will revert to our usual Wednesday Evening
patterns--$4/person, with a maximum of $15/family. We'll be studying
2 Timothy.
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Only 4 more Sundays in
Luke! Any suggestions/longings for sermon series in the future?
(That don't include 2.5 year commitments!)
Pray
for:
Lynn
Meyer, who is currently in Memorial Hospital
David
Smith
Russel
& Donna Mabry
Peter
Savard, for healing in his foot
Lina
Hart, our associate executive in the Presbytery, who had surgery
yesterday
Peggy
Hamby, who is fighting cancer
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Text
for this Sunday
Luke 23:26-56
The Crucifixion of Jesus
As
they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming
from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry
it behind Jesus. A great number of the people followed him, and
among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for
him. But Jesus turned to them and said, ‘Daughters of
Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your
children. For the days are surely coming when they will say,
“Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the
breasts that never nursed.” Then they will begin to say to the
mountains, “Fall on us”; and to the hills, “Cover us.” For
if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is
dry?’
Two
others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death
with him. When they came to the place that is called The Skull,
they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right
and one on his left. [[ Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive
them; for they do not know what they are doing.’]] And they
cast lots to divide his clothing. And the people stood by,
watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, ‘He saved others;
let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen
one!’ The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him
sour wine, and saying, ‘If you are the King of the Jews, save
yourself!’There was also an inscription over him, ‘This is
the King of the Jews.’
One
of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and
saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!’ But
the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are
under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been
condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds,
but this man has done nothing wrong.’ Then he said, ‘Jesus,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ He replied,
‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.’
The Death of Jesus
It
was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until
three in the afternoon, while the sun’s light failed; and
the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying
with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into your hands I commend my
spirit.’ Having said this, he breathed his last. When the
centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said,
‘Certainly this man was innocent.’ And when all the crowds
who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place,
they returned home, beating their breasts. But all his
acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee,
stood at a distance, watching these things.
The Burial of Jesus
Now
there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member
of the council, had not agreed to their plan and action. He came
from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and he was waiting expectantly for
the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate and asked for the
body of Jesus. Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen
cloth, and laid it in a rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been
laid. It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was
beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee
followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then
they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
On
the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
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