PASTOR’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

This coming Sunday is the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany.  We can’t believe it is February and the groundhog says a longer winter.  We will do what we can to survive!!!  The gospel for February 12th is Matthew 5:21-37 and Pastor Hout’s sermon is “What?”

Did you know this coming Sunday is SOUPer Bowl Sunday?  We look forward to talking about ways to help the hungry.

We continue to pray for many people.  Charlotte Cluxton is recovering from a broken hip at Sycamorespring.  She is in good spirits and doing well.  We also pray Pat Muller, Phyllis Abney, Katie Schulz & family, Phyllis Poffenberger, Jean Hicks, Lois Masters, Hank & Shirley Dodson and Bill Jackle.  Our military men are in our prayers and that includes Steve Greenlee, Ben Sweeney and Zac Boyd.  It has been many months but we still continue to pray for Ukraine and peace.

Prayer of the day for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany:  O God, the strength of all who hope in you, because we are weak mortals we accomplish nothing good without you.  Help us to see and understand the things we ought to do, and give us grace and power to do them, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.  Amen.
 

Some powerful scripture from the gospel for Sunday.  Matthew 5:22........But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment.
 

Did you know the season of Lent starts February 22nd?  That is right.  Ash Wednesday is 2/22.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

So.......lots of love for you and me in 2023.