Announcements

• WORSHIP FOR 9/27

  The Cross of Christ Opens to Us the Way of Repentance to Life with God. The way of the Lord is righteous and just: “the soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4). However, because the Lord has “no pleasure in the death of anyone” (Ezekiel 18:32), He calls sinners to repentance and faith in His gracious forgiveness of sins. The man who is thus turned away from his wickedness, who henceforth lives by the grace of God, “shall surely live; he shall not die” (Ezekiel 18:28). This way of repentance has been opened for us by the Cross of Christ. In the righteousness of faith and love, “He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death” (Philippians 2:8), and He was vindicated in His Resurrection from the dead. Indeed, “God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name” (Philippians 2:9). He has given us this name in our Baptism into Christ, in whom we now “shine as lights in the world” (Philippians 2:15). He uses the authority that He has received from His Father (Matthew 21:23-27) to preach a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, by which even “the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God” (Matthew 21:31-32).

• ADULT BIBLE CLASS ON GENESIS

  

  Though Abraham was the great spiritual “father of us all” (Romans 4:16), the Bible records many bad examples from his life.  What should we think about his lying, adultery, and polygamy? Why does the Bible include such negative details about Abraham and the other patriarchs?  Does that call into question the divine inspiration and reliability of Scripture?  Stay for Adult Bible Class after worship Sunday in the Fellowship Hall as we begin the remarkable story of Abraham in our study of Genesis—Book of Beginnings.