Loving and Learning in Lodi May 3 2020

           Last week’s service was richly blessed with Larry Scott’s music, Dottie Kimble’s and Rob Bloom’s sharing. A big THANK YOU for their ministries to us!

           Sunday, we look at Two Good Guys, Timothy and Epaphroditus. Paul is grateful for these two men in whom he places so much trust. We all strive to be trustworthy. Who has placed their trust in you and for what?

                                                      Missing you all…but grateful to carry you all in my heart,

                                                                 Pastor Diane

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Hymns:         For the Beauty of the Earth                                           verses 1 - 4                                #92
                      Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying                                 sing once                                TFWS #2193

                      His Name Is Wonderful                                           sing once                                #174

                      Blest Be the Tie that Binds                                           verses 1 - 4                                #557

Scripture                                       Philippians 2:19 - 30                    New International Version

           I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to see you soon so that I may be encouraged by hearing about you. I have no one like him. He is a person who genuinely cares about your well-being. All the others put their own business ahead of Jesus Christ’s business. You know his character, how he labors with me for the gospel like a son works with his father. So he is the one that I hope to send as soon as I find out how things turn out here for me. I trust in the Lord that I also will visit you soon.

           I think it is also necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. He is my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier; and he is your representative who serves my needs. He misses you all, and he was upset because you heard he was sick. In fact, he was so sick that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him—and not just on him but also on me, because his death would have caused me great sorrow. Therefore, I am sending him immediately so that when you see him again you can be glad and I won’t worry. So welcome him in the Lord with great joy and show great respect for people like him. He risked his life and almost died for the work of Christ, and he did this to make up for the help you couldn’t give me.

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God.               People:  Thanks be to God.

Loving and Learning in Lodi April 26 2020

           Last week’s service was richly blessed with Larry Scott’s music, Jane Corbus’ and Boyd Lance’s sharing and Boyd singing Surely the Presence of the Lord Is in this Place. So grateful for their ministries to us!

           Sunday, we look at Having the Mind of Christ. Paul writes to the Philippians and encourages them to cultivate the qualities and characteristics that Jesus embodied as he interpreted and followed the ways and will of God in his life. Over a century ago, novelist, Charles Sheldon, described having the mind of Christ in his book, In His Steps, as asking the question, “What would Jesus do?” When we base our decisions and living on that question, we cultivate having the mind of Christ.

                                                      Missing you all…but grateful to carry you all in my heart,

                                                                 Pastor Diane

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Hymns:         Come, Christians, Join to Sing                          verses 1 - 3                          #158
                      Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying                                 sing once                                TFWS #2193

                      There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy                        verses 1 - 3                          #121

                      They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love                     verses 1 - 4                          TFWS #2223

Scripture                                       Philippians 2:1 - 11                      New International Version

           Therefore 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, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

           In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:  Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Leader: The Word of God for the people of God.               People:  Thanks be to God.