Order Of Worship
Pre-Service Song
Doxology (Amen)
Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving
Call to Worship & God's Greeting
Bless to be a Blessing
Teresa Jensen
Children's Message
“For I Have Plans For You”
Jeremiah 29:11
Our Morning Prayers
Offering - Doxology - Deaconal Prayer
Closing Song
Take My Life
Sending and God's Parting Blessing
God's Parting Blessing:
God go before you to lead you, God go behind you to protect you,
God go beneath you to support you, God go beside you to befriend you.
Do not be afraid.
May the blessing of God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be upon you
Do not be afraid. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Amen
Have a Great Week!
Sunday School10:45 am
Sermon Outline
“Harvest Time”
Galatians 6:1-10
6 Brothers and Sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other's burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, 5 for each one should carry his own load. 6Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor. 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Introduction
I. All of us face a harvest in the future.
· 1 John 2:15-16
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.
· Gal. 5:16-17
16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17 For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.
II. We harvest what we plant.
III. We harvest where we plant.
IV. We harvest more than we plant.
V. We harvest later than we plant.
Application
BLESSed to be a BLESSing
Kid's Bulletin
"A Mustard Seed Faith"
Luke 17:5-10
Have you ever seen a mustard seed? (Pause.) The mustard seed is one of the smallest of all seeds. (Let kids pass around some mustard seeds so they can all see and feel the size.)
Some people think of faith when they think of mustard seeds. Faith is when we believe in God and His power.
What do you know about why people use mustard seeds as a symbol of faith?
The reason some people use mustard seeds as a symbol of faith is because of something Jesus said in the Bible.
(Open your Bible.) When Jesus’ friends asked Him how they could have stronger faith, Jesus said, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!” (Luke 17:5-10)
Wow! (Hold up one mustard seed and look closely at it.) Jesus said that God is so powerful that if our faith is even as small as this little seed, then we can do incredible things with His power.
Maybe we should try that. (Place the plant in front of the children.) If Jesus said we could pray and ask God to move a tree from our front yard to the sea, then we need even smaller faith to just move this plant a little bit. (Invite kids to discuss whether they can do it. If some would like to try it, then decide on where they’d like to move the plant, and lead them in all saying prayers to move the plant.)
Jesus didn’t say someone with the faith of the mustard seed can move trees to the sea so that a bunch of people would start uprooting trees. That wasn’t His point. He was teaching us that it doesn't take great faith for great things to happen. Why? Because what happens doesn’t depend on us, but instead on God. God has the power to do anything, and God is for us, so we can trust whatever He does.
God, we ask for a mustard seed-sized faith. Help us to believe and never doubt Your mighty power. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
