This Week's Prayer Theme:
16th.
June 2019
Today is
Fathers Day. We remember our fathers, and those who have been like a father to
us.
Please
pray;
-
thanking God, for the strength and support fathers can bring to us.
- for
those with absent, or abusive, fathers, and those men who do not know how to be
a good father.
-
thanking God, for being our loving Heavenly Father.
"The
Father Himself loves you".
John 16;
27.
This Week's Readings:
Colossians 1: 1-14
1Paul, an apostle of
Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2To God’s holy people
in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters a in Christ:
Grace
and peace to you from God our Father. b
Thanksgiving
and Prayer
3We always thank God,
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
4because we have heard of
your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people
5the
faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about
which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel
6that
has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing
throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day
you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.
7You
learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, c who is a
faithful minister of Christ on our d
behalf,
8and
who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9For this reason,
since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We
continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the
wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, e
10so
that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
11being
strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may
have great endurance and patience,
12and
giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you f
to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
13For
he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom
of the Son he loves,
14in
whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 10: 25-37
The Parable of the
Good Samaritan
25On one occasion an expert in the law
stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal
life?”
26“What is written in
the Law?”
he replied. “How do you read it?”
27He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with
all your mind’ c ; and, ‘Love your neighbour
as yourself.’ d ”
28“You have answered
correctly,”
Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29But he wanted to justify himself, so
he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?”
30In reply Jesus said: “A
man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half
dead.
31A priest
happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by
on the other side.
32So too, a
Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
33But a
Samaritan, as he travelled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he
took pity on him.
34He went to him
and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his
own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.
35The next day
he took out two denarii e and
gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I
will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36“Which of these three
do you think was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37The expert in the law replied, “The
one who had mercy on him.”
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
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