March 30, 2023
Happy Thursday! Here’s what you need to know this week (besides the fact the Cadbury eggs are not good).
Coming Up
This Sunday
Sermon text: Luke 7:1-10
Praise the King
This is the Day
My Soul Will Wait (Psalm 62)
Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
April 9 - This Blood
April 16 - Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed
April 23 - Hear the Call of the Kingdom
April 24 - I Got Saved
April 25 - The Blood Medley
April 26 - Lord You’re Holy
Notes
Sunday’s anthem is Praise the King.
Just a reminder: you have an open invitation to a Life Group that meets in the choir room each week after we lead the music in the first service. I, along with several other worship ministry members, work through the same Life Group material as the rest of the church. If you don’t have a Life Group, come check us out sometime!
We are on the front end of a long stretch of choir anthems. I’m excited to share these with the congregation! Your faithful attendance at rehearsals will ensure that we are best prepared to lead them.
Upcoming Impact Summit dates - April 23-26. Full worship ministry will lead services at 6:00pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings. Please make every effort to participate in every service that you can.
Prayer Requests
The Bagci family (Ali, Michelle, Reagan). Reagan (13) was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. They are in Memphis at St. Jude for next steps.
April and her staff, as we minister/witness to a Muslim family at the School of Performing Arts.
Kathy Dyer (Billy’s wife), shoulder surgery on Monday
The family of Harold Howell
David Barrett, whose cancer has returned. He will be going through another round of treatments.
Betty Speck, struggling with two bulging discs, and looking at heart surgery on April 18
Looking to pray something specific for our church? Pray Ephesians 3:16-19.
An Extra
We’re singing My Soul Will Wait (Psalm 62) on Sunday, which I think is a wonderful song of faith for us to voice together as a church in light of the events of this past couple weeks. Between horrific news happening not too far from home and the pain and heartache of cancer, I’m thankful that in times when we were are acutely aware of sin’s lasting effect in our world (cancer, murder, deadly tornados), we have (1) God’s Word to trust and (2) songs like these to voice that trust as a church.
Everybody trusts something (or someone, or Someone). Is God the foundation of your trust? No thing can be a trustworthy foundation—everything wears out and breaks and decays. No ordinary person can be a trustworthy foundation—no one is perfectly able to bear the weight of his or her own heart’s troubles, let alone the troubles of others.
Only God can be a “solid rock” and “steadfast hope that won’t be shaken.” All other ground is sinking sand. On whom or what is your hope resting right now?
Psalm 62:8- “Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.”
Questions?
Respond to the worship ministry text on your phone, or use the form below.
Email Andy: ahammond@stevensstreet.org
Email April: alangford@stevensstreet.org