- City-Wide Youth End-of-Summer Party at County Park, Wednesday, Aug 18 6-7:30. All area churches are invited to participate.
- Annual prayer walk around the school grounds Sunday, August 22, 7:30, meeting out front of the high school.
- Parenting classes are coming to Junction!
- Families will be strengthened; countless children’s lives will be impacted in a positive way; parents will receive the guidance and encouragement they have long needed; schools will have less emotional and behavioral issues.
- Through effective training, families will be able to break the cycle of dysfunction. Law enforcement and the courts will have a resource to refer families in crisis.
- When the Lord ordains a project, He provides all the workers and materials to complete the job! In Junction, needed are leaders, mentors, facilitators, prayers and participants. The materials, facilities, and child-care workers are being prepared.
- This is where YOU, the Body of Christ, comes in! Please join in praying that those whom God is calling will hear His voice and be drawn out of their hiding places. Commit to praying, starting NOW, daily and nightly, This project will involve the entire community. Between now and Labor Day, seek God’s will and direction for this endeavor thank you in advance for your commitment to the betterment of today’s children, as well as future generations.
Luke 13:10-17 (ESV)
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. [11] And there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. [12] When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability." [13] And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. [14] But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day." [15] Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? [16] And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" [17] As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
Questions
1. When has someone criticized you for doing something good?
2. What rules about Sunday have you heard?
3. What do you think the crippled woman expected?
4. What restrictions do we foolishly put on God’s work?
5. What self-imposed rule or tradition do you need to modify to allow for God’s work?
