You are invited to the Worship Service on September 22nd at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Ordinary Time
Sunday, September 22, 2024, 10 am
Children’s Time “The Boy Samuel” Carmelita Abenoja
Special Music Fuer Elize (L. Beethoven) Marina Thomas, Piano
Message “The Lord’s Prayer” Carmelita Abenoja
Luke 11:1-4
11 He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.”
“It’s been said that prayer is to the soul what breathing is to the body.
The most basic act of prayer is expressed in two words, ‘Thank you.’
When we’re struggling with guilt and shame our prayer is, ‘Forgive me.’
When we’re hurting or afraid, it is ‘Help me.’
Daily we might offer our lives to God praying, ‘Use me.’ ”
~ Adam Hamilton, Senior Pastor of the UMC of the Resurrection, Leawood, Kansas
“Ultimately, the Lord’s prayer reveals more about how to live than how to pray.”
~ Dr. David Timms, Author, Pastor
Teacher of New Testament & Theology, Hope International Univ., Fullerton, CA
“The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer most used and least understood.
People think they are asking God for something. They are not. They are offering God something. The Lord’s Prayer is not a prayer to God to do something we want done.
It is more nearly God’s given prayer to us, to help Him do What He wants done.
The Lord’s prayer is not intercession… it is enlistment.”
~ Dr. Frank Charles Laubach, (1884 – 1970)
Author, Educator, Congregational Missionary to the Philippines in 19115.
Founded churches in the island of Mindanao, the only American
missionary to be honored on a 30 cent US Postage Stamp.
