1. Welcome to Parkdale Evangelical Free Church!
August 6, 2017

2. Gatherings
Sun, Aug. 12pm
Potluck BBQ @ Eagle Beach Elk Lake

3. Reaching Out COBS Bread
Saturday night COBS & 7:20pm
Sunday distribution! Take as much as you’d like!

4. Going Deeper Weekly gathering – Tuesday nights in fall
Teaching video & small group discussion
12-step homework
Sponsor/mentor
Pamphlets in Foyer
Freedomsession.com

5. Going Deeper Book Discussion Fellowship Food All Welcome!
Sun. Aug. 4pm

6. Prayer Calendar Weekly: Lord’s Prayer
Daily: Biblical examples & teachings
Bulletin & Prayer Chain: specific requests

7. Our Father in heaven,. hallowed be Your Name. Your kingdom come
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

9. Prayer
Requests & Thanksgiving

10. Offering
Online giving now available on website:
Parkdalechurch.ca

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

12. God’s Story: Finding our Place in His Unfolding Plan
August Reading: Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah
2 Chronicles 36: God’s Trial
Esther 4: Called for such a Time

13. Month
Book
January
Genesis 1-22
February
Genesis 23-50
March
Exodus
April
Numbers (Easter)
May
Joshua-Judges-Ruth
June
1 & 2 Samuel
July
1 & 2 Kings
August
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
September
Mark
October
Luke
November
Acts
December
Christmas (Advent)

14. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Times of Silence

15. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Times of Silence
Barbara Brown Taylor, “When God is Silent”
“Silence is as much a sign of God's presence as of God's absence – that divine silence is not a vacuum to be filled but a mystery to be entered into, unarmed with words and undistracted by noise – a holy of holies in which we too may be struck dumb by the power of the unsayable God."

16. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Troubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11)

17. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Troubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11)
Esther’s Dilemma
Her people aren’t safe – by order of king
Their lives depend on her
She’s safe, as long as she does nothing
Her life is threatened if she approaches the king

18. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Troubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11)

19. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Troubled Times: 11 Months to Live (1-11)
1 Peter 2: Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

20. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Kairos: That God-Moment (12-17)
Mordecai’s words to Esther
She’s not safe
Justice: she will perish for doing wrong
She’s not needed
Providence: Help will come from elsewhere

21. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Kairos: That God-Moment (12-17)

22. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Kairos: That God-Moment (12-17)
Rabbi Zusya:
“In the coming world, they will not ask me: “Why were you not Moses? They will ask me: Why were you not Zusya?”

23. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Kairos: That God-Moment (12-17)
Who has God made you to be?
Where has He put you?
What has He given you to offer?

24. Esther 4: Called for such a Time Kairos: That God-Moment (12-17)
Psalm But I trust in You, Lord; I say, “You are my God.” 15 My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

25. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Hearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller
“Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening.”
“Vocation is not a goal to be achieved, but a gift to be received.”

26. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Hearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller

27. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Hearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller
What kind of person has God made you to be?
What needs has He put before you, burden on heart?
Through your job, relationships, resources, opportunities…how can you lovingly contribute to peace, justice, hope on earth in a way that draws people to know & love Him?

28. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Hearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller
Psalm For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

29. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Hearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller
15 My frame was not hidden from You     when I was made in the secret place,     when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;     all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.

30. Esther 4: Called for such a Time
Esther 4: Called for such a Time Hearing the Call, Recognizing the Caller
Who has God made you to be?
Where has He put you?
What has He given you to offer?