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Join us for a potluck BBQ on Sunday, Sept. 24 in the park across the street. Also, don't miss our Tuesday night Bible study on Oct. 3 at 7:00 pm. Register and get more information on Freedomsession.com
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Potluck BBQ • Sunday, Sept 24 • In Park across street? Tuesday, Oct. 3 @ 7:00 pm
Gatherings Potluck BBQ • Sun, Sept 24 • In Park across street Prayer & Bible Study • Thursdays @ 10:30
Tuesday Nights @ 7:00pm • Oct. 3 – Session #1 • Pamphlets & Registration in the Foyer Freedomsession.com
Thanksgiving Food Hamper • See bulletin insert for list of needed items • Sunday coffee rotation
Ride for Refuge • Saturday, Sept. 30 • In support of VPC
Jeremiah 29:7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
1 Timothy 2:3-6 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people.
Prayer • Requests & Thanksgiving
Kids’ Minute • Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old
Offering • Online givingnow availableon website: Parkdalechurch.ca
Bud & Mandy Jackson • EFCC Missionaries to Zimbabwe
God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan Mark 1: • Jesus’s Message: Repent, Believe, Follow Mark 4: • Jesus’s Illustration: The Seed & Soil Mark 10: • Jesus’s Question: What Do You Want?
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?The Same Story • Jesus’s Message – Gospel of the Kingdom • Our Response – Repent, Believe, Follow • Illustration – Good soil • Not hard, but receives seed • Not rocky, but deep & rooted • Not weedy, but clear & in the light
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Repentance: Nothing to Lose (46-48) Luke 10:36-37 36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” 37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Repentance: Nothing to Lose (46-48) Luke 11:8 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Repentance: Nothing to Lose (46-48) Luke 11:9-10 9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Repentance: Nothing to Lose (46-48) Imagine being a beggar at the roadside, as Jesus approaches… What is Your Need?
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Faith: The Audacity to Ask (49-52) Mark 10:14-15 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Faith: The Audacity to Ask (49-52) Mark 10:14-15 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Faith: The Audacity to Ask (49-52) James 4:3 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 1:6 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Faith: The Audacity to Ask (49-52) Jesus asks, “What do you want Me to do for you?” What do you believe He can do for you?
Jesus’s Question: What Do you Want?Follow: The Fruit of Recovery (52) What is your need? • Will you admit what prevents your wellness? What would you ask from Jesus? • Will you believe that He can heal you? What has His healing enabled you to do? • Will you follow where He leads?