It’s Homecoming Weekend at Purdue this weekend and many are enjoying the feeling of coming together even more after almost two years without being able to unite with old friends. The Homecoming football game is sure to have an enthusiastic crowd. Of course, there are quiet time that bring a powerful sense of unity as well. It might have been a moment when you were touched holding a candle with many others marking a special moment. There are times we feel that way around the dinner table at a family reunion or holiday gathering. That is the power of unity. Sometimes we fail to fully appreciate that power, especially when it comes to faith. This Sunday is World Communion Sunday – a time when believers from all over the world, every nation, every race, every place will take Holy Communion as a gesture of our common spiritual bond in Christ as believers and as a family of faith. Many of us are torn by the many signs of division and strife in our nation and in our world. But there is hope. I hope you will join us for World Communion as a time to come around the Lord’s Table and connect with God and reconnect with others as we grow personally and spiritually renewed in Christ’s love and the power of God’s promises. I also hope you will make this a time of prayer for our community, our country and our world. Listen to these words that Jesus prayed to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane before going to the cross:
(verse of the week)
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one (John 17.10,11).
(Prayer of the Week)
Gracious and Loving God, open my heart to your Family of Faith around the world. May I see your face in others as part your great united church of every race and every place and may I extend your grace to others in every place. Amen
Open your heart to God’s awesome love!
--Pastor TJ
(quote of the week)
Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless ---Bertrand Russell
(verse of the week)
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one (John 17.10,11).
(Prayer of the Week)
Gracious and Loving God, open my heart to your Family of Faith around the world. May I see your face in others as part your great united church of every race and every place and may I extend your grace to others in every place. Amen
Open your heart to God’s awesome love!
--Pastor TJ
(quote of the week)
Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless ---Bertrand Russell
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