Join us for service at 11:00 am or come at 10:30 am for coffee hour - coffee, fellowship, and a few treats.
In preparation for service, please consider the words of Romans 8:20-39:
Romans 8:20-39 NIV
20 For the creation was
subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the
will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a] the
creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to
decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the
children of God.22 We know that the whole creation has
been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the
present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait
eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of
our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope
that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they
already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet
have, we wait for it patiently.26 In the same way, the Spirit
helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we
ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for
us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches
our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the
Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the
will of God.28 And we know that in all things God works
for the good of those who love him, who[b] have been
called according to his purpose. 29 For those God
foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he
predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also
glorified. More Than
Conquerors
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these
things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He
who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all —how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us
all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those
whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who
then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus
who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at
the right hand of God and is also interceding for
us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or
famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is
written:“For your sake we face death all day long; we are
considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[c]37 No, in all
these things we are more than conquerors through him
who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death
nor life, neither angels nor demons,[d] neither the present
nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor
depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
