Announcements

• WORSHIP FOR 9/20

  Disciples Live in Their Vocations by Grace through Faith in Christ. Those who are sent as “laborers for His vineyard” (Matthew 20:1) depict the wide diversity of vocations to which the disciples of Christ Jesus are called. Whatever our particular stations in life may be, we are called to live and serve by faith in His promises. Our labors do not merit anything before Him, for He is already generous to one and all without partiality. In mercy He has chosen to bear “the burden of the day and the scorching heat” on our behalf, to make us equal to Himself and to give us what belongs to Him, that is, the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 20:12-15). This way of the Lord is foolishness to the world and foreign to our thoughts, but He draws near, so that “He may be found” (Isaiah 55:6), “He may have compassion” and “abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:7). So it is that we are found in Christ Jesus, and He is honored in our bodies, “whether by life or by death” (Philippians 1:20), by “fruitful labor” (Philippians 1:22) or by suffering. It is by faith in His forgiveness that our works are “worthy of the Gospel” (Philippians 1:27).

• ADULT BIBLE CLASS ON GENESIS

  

  In all of ancient literature there is only one record about how the various nations and races of the earth originated and interrelate. Only the Bible preserves this information in Genesis chapters 9 and 10. Stay for Adult Bible Class after worship Sunday in the Fellowship Hall as we look this fascinating record and the story of the Tower of Babel in our study of Genesis—Book of Beginnings.