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sunday july 19

Dear FPCL Family,

We continue our Sermon Series on The Sweet Life that focuses on the things that make life with God and with each other sweet. This Sunday we will remember various Twix ads to prompt our investigation of the questions we allow to guide our lives, what we focus on, who we become, how we show up together as a community.

As you prepare for worship, you are invited to consider these questions: 

• What are the most important things to me?
• In what ways do I make sure these things are prioritized in my life?
• What questions do I ask myself when I am faced with critical decisions?

Looking forward to worshiping with you on Sunday!

with much love, Denia

JOIN US BEFORE WORSHIP this Sunday, July 19th @ 9:00am in Fellowship Hall for “breakfast Sunday.” We will gather to connect with one another & enjoy food before heading over to the 10:00am worship service together! Everyone is invited and welcome!

Reminder about our Summer Worship Schedule:

ONE Worship Service @ 10:00am in the sanctuary!

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This week's worship information:

Summer Sermon Series: The Sweet Life!
Sermon Title: Making the Right Choice

Scripture:

Joshua 24:13-15
I gave you a land on which you had not labored and towns that you had not built, and you live in them; you eat the fruit of vineyards and olive yards that you did not plant.
“Now, therefore, revere the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve the Lord. Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

From Numbers 13 and 14:
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites; from each of their ancestral tribes you shall send a man, each one a leader among them.”

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up there into the Negeb, and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is like and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the towns that they live in are unwalled or fortified, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be bold and bring some of the fruit of the land.”

At the end of forty days, they returned from spying out the land. And they reported to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the Israelites and said, “We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit, [showing them a huge cluster of grapes held on a pole between 2 men]. Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large, and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.”

“We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.” So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great size... to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. And all the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain and go back to Egypt.”

Bulletin information for Sunday:

PRELUDE: Liverpool – David Lanz

WELCOME AND CALL TO WORSHIP Pastor Christina Voissem

One: The noise of the world is loud, and the choices before us are many. Yet
God sets before us the path of life and the way of blessing.
All: We are faced with choices every day: to follow our own way or to trust in God who made us.
One: God’s promises do not fail when the storms of life hit; God is our rock, our fortress, and our deliverer.
All: When we are afraid, we will put our trust in God.
One: Come, let us worship Our God who remains ever faithful!
All: Praise the Lord, our refuge and our strength!

OPENING SONGS: God So Loved & His Mercy is More      

GATHERING PRAYER & AFFIRMATION OF GRACE Megan Antony      
      
NEWS OF THE COMMUNITY Pastor Steve Wilde   

CALL FOR THE OFFERING

OFFERTORY: I Waited for the Lord – Felix Mendelssohn

DOXOLOGY: #606 Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow

PRAYER OF DEDICATION
 
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: From Numbers 13 and 14

HYMN: #49 The God of Abraham Praise (vs. 1, 3, & 4)

SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Joshua 24:13-15

TODAY’S MESSAGE
Summer Sermon Series: The Sweet Life
Title: Making the Right Choice Pastor Denia Segrest

PASTORAL PRAYER
           
HYMN: #463 How Firm a Foundation (vs. 3, 4, & 5)
           
BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE: Allegro Maestoso from Sonata II – Felix Mendelssohn

TODAY’S WORSHIP SONGS:
Liverpool – David Lanz; ASCAP
God So Loved; CCLI 7138599
His Mercy is More; CCLI 7065053
I Waited for the Lord – Felix Mendelssohn; public domain
#606 Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow; public domain
#49 The God of Abraham Praise; public domain
#463 How Firm a Foundation; public domain
Allegro Maestoso from Sonata II – Felix Mendelssohn; public domain
Participants: Janet Holmes, keyboard; Brie MacLaren, Worship Team Leader
Tanita Davis and David Macknet, Vocal Duet