PJ's February 2013 Blog

Dear Friends, Greetings to you in the powerful name of Jesus Christ! “Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life!” John 6:35 Bread! I do love the smell of bread baking! I so enjoy taking a bite out of a piece of bread when it is still warm and has some butter and strawberry jam on it. Bread is just one of those food items that we all enjoy and is going to be the focus for our consideration on Wednesday evenings. Now I am not talking about Wonder Bread or some other brand. What I am talking about is the one who claims to be the Bread Of Life – Jesus Christ. Consider with me for a moment each letter of the word BREAD and what it may remind us about our relationship with the BREAD OF LIFE: B Broken, Baptism, Believe, Bitter, Battle, Beautiful, Begotten, Belong, R Ready, Remember, Redeemer, Renew, Rest, Rise, Rainbow, Ransom, E Enough, Everlasting, Eternal, Enlighten, Expectation, Eating, A Abundant, Alive, Abide Ask, Atonement, Alone, Anointed, Alpha, D Death, Deliver, Dust, Dying, Dark, Delight, Descendent, Disciple, Each Wednesday evening we will enjoy some homemade Bread & Soup that will be served by our youth. The freewill offering taken for the meal will help support getting our youth to camp and mission trips. Following the meal we will gather for worship and celebrate and explore what it means to be in relationship with the one who is THE BREAD OF LIFE. Just before the offering we will be visited by someone from one of the many countries in the world. They will share with us insights into life where they live and the bread they hunger for! Our youth will be teaming up with Bethany to help lead us in worship! More will be coming to you about this Lenten BREAD! Be sure to come and enjoy Soup & Bread from 6:00-6:45P.M. followed by worship at 7:00P.M. In Christ, Pastor Jim Gerth