This Week's Prayer Theme:
21st.
October 2018
As we
celebrate 40 years of the Church in Kingston Park, we give thanks for the past,
and look to the future.
Please
pray;
- giving
thanks for the faithful Christians, from 1978, in this area.
-
thanking God, for all His help and guidance, in our Church's life.
- asking
God's guidance, as we seek to follow Him in future service.
"Let
us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith".
Hebrews
12; 2a.
This Week's Readings:
The
Request of James and John
35Then
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we
want you to do for us whatever we ask.”
36“What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.
37They
replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your
glory.”
38“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am
baptized with?”
39“We
can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the
cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,
40but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places
belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”
41When
the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John.
42Jesus
called them together and said, “You know that those who are
regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials
exercise authority over them.
43Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you
must be your servant,
44and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.
45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and
to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Philippians 2: 1-13 (NIV)
Imitating Christ’s Humility
1Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with
Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if
any tenderness and compassion,
2then
make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in
spirit and of one mind.
3Do
nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value
others above yourselves,
4not
looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5In
your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6Who,
being in very nature a God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to
his own advantage;
7rather,
he made himself nothing by taking the very nature b of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8And
being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to
death even death on a cross!
9Therefore
God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every
name,
10that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth,
11and
every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.
Do Everything Without Grumbling
12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed not only
in my presence, but now much more in my absence continue to work out your
salvation with fear and trembling,
13for
it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil his good
purpose.
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.