Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church! June 25, 2017

Gatherings Mon, Jun. 26 @ 6pm Softball @ Reynolds Sun, Jul. 2 @ 12pm Worship @ Legislature Sun, Jul. 9 @ 12pm Parkdale Potluck!

Reaching Out COBS Bread BBQ June 30 @ 4:00 pm All welcome Saturday night pick-up & bagging Daycare/Preschool BBQ June 30 @ 4:00 pm All welcome

Growth: Discipleship & Healing Weekly gathering Teaching video & small group discussion 12-step homework Sponsor/mentor

The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference;

The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it;

The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr Trusting that You will make all things right If I surrender to Your will; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen

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Kids’ Minute Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old

God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan June Reading: 1&2 Samuel 1 Samuel 25 – Abigail: A Voice of Integrity 2 Samuel 9 – Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Baggage or Blessing?

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Baggage or Blessing? Luke 6:45 The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Baggage or Blessing? 1 Samuel 13:14 14 But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Baggage or Blessing? 1 Samuel 16:7 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Building His Enemy’s House (1-3) Youngest brother – ignored Harpist, Shepherd, next king Warrior, army general Threatened, fugitive Lost best friend and wife

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Building His Enemy’s House (1-3)

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Building His Enemy’s House (1-3) Psalm 55:16,17, 22 16 As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. 17 Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice. 22Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Building His Enemy’s House (1-3) Psalm 42:1,11 1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House The Kindness of God (3-13) 2 Samuel 7:1-3 Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, 2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” 3 And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.”

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House The Kindness of God (3-13)

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House The Kindness of God (3-13)

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House The Kindness of God (3-13) Luke 6:35-36 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Mephibosheth: Building a Dead Dog’s House Paying it Forward