This Week's Prayer Theme:
17th June
2018
Today is
Father's Day - when we consider all that fathers can mean to us.
Please
pray;
- giving
thanks for the strength, guidance and love, that fathers can bring us.
- for
those who find being a father difficult, and need guidance and support.
- for
those who have had difficult relations with their father, or had no contact
with a father.
Jesus
said, " The Father, Himself, loves you".
John 16;
27.
This Week's Readings:
6Therefore
we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we
are away from the Lord.
7For
we live by faith, not by sight.
8We
are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home
with the Lord.
9So
we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away
from it.
10For
we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may
receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or
bad.
The
Ministry of Reconciliation
11Since,
then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we
are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
12We
are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an
opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in
what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
13If
we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right
mind, it is for you.
14For
Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and
therefore all died.
15And
he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but
for him who died for them and was raised again.
16So
from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once
regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:a
The old has gone, the new is here!
The
Parable of the Growing Seed
26He
also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man
scatters seed on the ground.
27Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and
grows, though he does not know how.
28All by itself the soil produces grain first the stalk, then the head,
then the full kernel in the head.
29As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the
harvest has come.”
The Parable of the Mustard
Seed
30Again
he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what
parable shall we use to describe it?
31It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.
32Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can
perch in its shade.”
33With
many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could
understand.
34He
did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone
with his own disciples, he explained everything.
Prayers & Prayer Requests:
At the church we regularly pray for the needs of our local
community and its people, as well as the needs of the wider world. If
you have any particular prayer requests, please contact us. These requests will
be handled confidentially.