Blessings to you, loved ones.  Your weekly update is here.

we were missing some folks last week.  I hope you all know that you’re loved and we miss you when you aren’t there.  We had a good time though. In honor of Michael justice, a friend of ours who recently passed away, Linda shared a good article that he wrote some years back on the power of prayer. Don’s choice for the final song was a perfect lead in for me to speak on a lifestyle of worship. It’s so neat when God does that!

This Sunday will be a little different. Most of you know by now that Lisa Garza passed away this week. It appears that no official memorial service is planned, but I know that many of us knew and loved her, so we will take some time to remember her as part of our service. For similar reasons we are going to remember John Beaty, who we lost a few weeks ago. I am sorry that we waited so long.

In light of this, I will speak to you from John 11:25-26. We’re dropping in on a conversation that Jesus is having with Martha, the sister of Lazarus. In this case, Jesus is about to raise Lazarus from the dead, but He makes a statement here that communicates the greater truth that this miracle will demonstrate. He says, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.”

What an incredible statement!  It seems to contradict itself.  In the first phrase He says we’ll die, yet we will live.  In the second phrase He says we’ll never die if we live and believe in Him.  Let’s unpack this.  It will be a blessing and a comfort.

Come and join us as we honor those who have left us and honor the Lord who gave us His life.

Love y’all!

Larry