Announcements

• WORSHIP FOR 9/06

  Living as Humble Little Children of the Father.  True greatness is not self-sufficient strength, but humility like that of a little child. The greatness of child-like faith receives all good things as gracious gifts from our Father in heaven. Apart from such faith, “you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,” but whoever is humbled like a little child will be “the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3-4). Though in our sin we deserve to be “drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6), we have instead been drowned (“buried”) with Christ in Baptism and then raised to the new, humble life of a child of God. The Lord sends His watchman to warn us with a word from His mouth, in order that we may not die in our iniquity, but be turned from our pride and selfishness to live (Ezekiel 33:7-9). For, though we have died with Christ in Holy Baptism, and we are raised to new life in Him, we find “another law waging war” in our body and life, that is, between our old Adam and the New Man (Romans 7:23). By the Spirit of Christ, we “desire to do what is right,” but we are not able to do so, because “nothing good” dwells in our sinful flesh (Romans 7:18). “Thanks be to God,” therefore, “through Jesus Christ our Lord,” who delivers us from “this body of death” (Romans 7:24-25).

• ADULT BIBLE CLASS ON GENESIS

  

  Sensational stories in the news and on social media have recently claimed that remains of the Ark have been discovered on a mountain in Turkey—what should we think about that?  And does the recently excavated, very mysterious archaeological site Göbeklitepe in the same region somehow relate to the story of Noah and the Flood?  Stay for Adult Bible Class after worship Sunday in the Fellowship Hall as we look at these questions in our study of Genesis—Book of Beginnings.