Happy Friday!  My prayer for you this week is that your relationship with the Father be more precious to you than anything this world has to offer, because there is nothing of greater value.  Be the first to know what’s coming up.  Keep reading!

We were missing Priscilla and Kimi last week because of Kimi’s latest health challenge.  By the time you see this she will probably have had her MRI and be that much closer to some answers.  We are of course asking for a miracle.  It was good to have Kelly with us.  Keep her in your prayers also.  She too needs miracles that only God can perform.

Linda and I wanted to provide some encouragement last week and we both enjoyed sharing with you.  Linda provided us with another example of someone who overcame seemingly impossible odds to become a help to others in similar circumstances.  I spoke from the story of Bartimaeus and I hope if you missed it that you will listen to the podcast or watch the video on Facebook because it just might change the way you see the Biblical character and the way you think about our church.

This Sunday, We’ll back up a few verses in the same chapter to look at another familiar story, that of the “rich young ruler.”  This is the man who came to Jesus asking what else he needed to do to gain eternal life.  Jesus’s answer was too much for the young man, and he walked away.  We will examine this interesting conversation, and then the follow-up exchange that takes place between Jesus and His disciples.  We will be in Mark 10:17-31.  The last thing that Jesus says in this passage is the first explicit statement of a theme found often in the gospel accounts, “many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”  Lord willing, next week we’ll go to Matthew’s version of this event and see what else Jesus had to say on the subject.

It will be the last Sunday of the month, but it could be someone’s first time to worship with us.  Come and bring a friend!

Love y’all,

Larry