Announcements
Trunk
or Treat—Saturday, October 27th from 2-5. Please
talk to Janet if you're planning on attending, and invite your
friends and neighbors!
New
Hope News
Project
Time!—Sunday, October 28 there will be a short
meeting following worship for all those interested in working on any
of the Building & Grounds projects outlined in the Session's plan
for the money from the city.
Sunday
School—This Sunday, the adult class with study the
book of Micah.
$.02/meal—Collection
is Sunday, October 28.
Pray
For:
Ron
& Marcia Young
Pray
for those who do not know Christ.
Links
The
Grateful Gobbler is November 22. (Monies raised
go to support Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition.
Keith's
Random Thoughts
It's been a pretty big week for Caleb. He had a birthday party this
past Saturday, then celebrated the sacrament of baptism on Sunday.
Tuesday, he got chewed on at daycare, and then Wednesday he had
allergy tests and found out that he couldn't eat nuts. That's a lot
for a little kid. (I'll admit it—I probably wouldn't handle it as
well as he does. He just claps, and the world claps along with him.)
We all have weeks like that—well, maybe not exactly like that, but
weeks where it feels like the entire world is shifting and changing
beneath our feet. As a nation, we feel a bit like that due to
election season. (You may noticed that by now. You may not have
noticed that there are more than two people running for office.) As
individuals, we often wonder what tomorrow may bring.
The easy answer to that question is that we don't know what tomorrow
holds. It's somewhat terrifying to admit that we don't even know if
we will get a tomorrow. All we have is today.
In this constantly changing world, it is so important that we cling
to Christ for stability, that we allow his grace to define us and be
the one constant thing by which we measure ourselves. The world will
change around us, people will change, life will change—but Christ
is unchanging, as faithful today as he has been forever. He will not
abandon or forget you, and if you place your trust in him, you will
never be disappointed.
When we are centered in Christ, the changes of the world will not
rock us as severely—for we will be reminded that the world will
pass away, but Christ will endure forever.
Text
for this Sunday
1
Kings 19:1-10
Ahab told Jezebel all
that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the
sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the
gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the
life of one of them by this time tomorrow.’ Then he was afraid; he
got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs
to Judah; he left his servant there.
But he himself went a
day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a
solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough;
now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my
ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep.
Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and eat.’
He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and
a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of
the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and
eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ He got up,
and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for
forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. At that place
he came to a cave, and spent the night there.
Then the word of the
Lord came to him, saying, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ He
answered, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts;
for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your
altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and
they are seeking my life, to take it away.’
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