FOTFD - January 6, 2008
January 6, 2008
Tonight,
I will take my cross,
Tonight,
I will count the cost,
Tonight I realize to take hold of this very moment
- Tonight - Jeremy Camp
Each and every Sunday we come together as a family and as a body of believers here at Prestoncrest. The purpose of this email, sent to our entire congregation, is to help us focus on the first day of the week, preparing to gather together to share the Lord’s Supper and to praise and worship God.
Prayer Time
Matthew 6:9-13
What will you do with this time during our worship service? Some people stand quietly in personal meditation, still others sing prayers and praises to God and more and more of you are using this time to pray for and with one another. For so many, this is the only time during the week that you have the opportunity to pray with your brothers and sisters in Christ. However you choose to use this time of pray is up to you, we simply want to encourage you to spend it totally and completely devoted to God.
Communion
Luke 22:19
Thank you God; for the miraculous birth of your son, the amazing example of the life he lived and the eternal salvation that is given to each of us in His death.
Sermon
“The Invitation Paradox” (Marshall Morris)
Matthew 16:24-25
Every time two lives intersect, one or both is irreversibly changed by the event. Each time we are served by a waiter, or pay a cashier at Walmart, lives are altered ever so slightly. Every one of these encounters is immeasurably important, for in those moments each person is given - by the other - an invitation. An invitation to live - or an invitation to die. The smallest kindness can bring joy to the broken-hearted. The tiniest criticism can destroy a fragile soul. On this first Sunday of 2008, what is the invitation of your life?
We are encouraged to be a family of believers that choose to come together each week in worship. Come this Sunday with a desire to not just come to church, but come to truly be the church.