Prepare - 4/1/18

Our sermon passage for our Easter Worship Gathering is John 12:27-36: 

“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine.Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die. So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?” So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”

As we approach our corporate gathering, please pray for. . . 

1. . . Jeremy as he prepares to preach.

2. . .Unbelievers to gather with us and come to faith in Christ. 

3. . .the Spirit to (A.) grow our church family in our understanding of the work of Christ on the cross and (B.) move us towards confidence in Christ and and sacrificial love for others in response.