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April 28th: Celebrate Recovery Sunday



April 28th – The Fifth Sunday of Easter – Celebrate Recovery Sunday: This week, we will be hearing testimony from two of the leaders of our Celebrate Recovery Ministry. We will be hearing how Jesus has helped both Mike and Julia overcome some of life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits. As you listen to the testimony, you may realize the program may be of help to you or a loved one. Remember, Celebrate Recovery meets each Friday evening beginning at 7:00 PM.


See you Sunday.


Grace and Peace,

Pastor Jim


 






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April 21st: The Good Shepherd



April 21st, The Fourth Sunday of Easter: In the days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, a shepherd was a common occupation, but I for one have known very few people who keep sheep or goats as an occupation. The front to Palmyra First’s sanctuary has a statuary image of the Good Shepherd and this will be the focus of our attention. The message “The Good Shepherd” will be based on both the familiar words of the 23rd Psalm and John 10:11-18.


See you Sunday.


Grace and Peace,

Pastor Jim


 

This Week's Scriptures

Psalm 23

 The Divine Shepherd

A Psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

2     He makes me lie down in green pastures;

he leads me beside still waters;[a]

3     he restores my soul.[b]

He leads me in right paths[c]    

for his name’s sake.

 

4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[d]    

I fear no evil;for you are with me;    

your rod and your staff—    

they comfort me.

 

5 You prepare a table before me   

 in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;    

my cup overflows.

6 Surely[e] goodness and mercy[f] shall follow me    

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord    

my whole life long.[g] 


 

John 10:11-18


11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.  12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.  13 The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.  14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,  15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.  16 I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.  17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.  18 No one takes[a] it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”


 






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April 14th: Doubts



April 14th – The Third Sunday of Easter: There is no getting around it. Doubt is a part of the human experience. You would think the early disciples, who witnessed first-hand the miracles of Jesus and who heard him say on several occasions he would rise form the dead, would be anticipating his resurrection. But NO! They doubted. But Jesus himself came to them to reassure them of the truth of his resurrection. Do you doubt? Can you receive the same kind of reassurance the disciples received? Our message will be “Doubts,” based on 1 John 3:1-7 and Luke 24:36b-48.


See you Sunday.


Grace and Peace,

Pastor Jim


 

This Week's Scriptures

1 John 3:1-7

 3 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he[a] is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.  3 And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

 

4 Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.  5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.  6 No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.  7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.  


 

Luke 24:36b-48


36 Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”[a]  37 They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost.  38 He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?  39 Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”  40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.[b]  41 While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”  42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,  43 and he took it and ate in their presence.

 

44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”  45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,  46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[c] is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,  47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.  48 You are witnesses[d] of these things.  


 






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