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Thursday, March 17, 2022

What Faithful Ministers and Elders Do (Family Worship lesson in 1Thessalonians 2:8–12)

What actions showed the Thessalonians that Paul, Silas, and Timothy’s ministry was authentic? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. 1Thessalonians 2:8–12 prepares us for the second serial reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that biblical ministers and elders love deeply, are never “off the clock,” think about the good of the church in everything they do, and minister in every helpful way to each member personally in addition their public ministries.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

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▫Midweek Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, April 17. 6:30p in the Chapel. (see the Prayer Meeting Folder) We will hear a sermon from Romans 13:8–10 then PRAY until just after 8 p.m.

▫Children’s Catechism for April 21. Q89 Why is it called the Lord's Day? Because on that day Christ rose from the dead. [CC 89 Simply Explained: “Call God's Day What God Calls It”]

▫Shorter Catechism for April 21. Q28 Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation? Christ’s exaltation consisteth in His rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. [WSC 28 Simply Explained: “Christ Exalted Yesterday, Today, and Forever”]

▫Memory Verse for April 21, Matthew 7:11, If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

▫Session Meeting, Thursday, April 25, at 6p.m. in the Fellowship Hall

▫Monthly Men’s (and future men) Breakfast, April 27, 7a in the Fellowship Hall (Read chapter 9 of A Holy Vision for Family Life by William Gouge, p132ff).