This week is a very special week!  Yes, our culture celebrates mothers, and we will thank God for our moms.  But it’s also special for other reasons: we will meet some new members, we will hear the professions of faith of young people, and we will baptize some new children!  Life is springing up all over the place.  Thanks be to God!

And we get to hear an amazing story of how a woman named Mary was favored by God to be the mother of Jesus.  The story will be performed by Abigail McCubbin, as part of NWC’s Drama Ministries Ensemble.  And Elder Michelle Christy will preach the message. 

This weeks story in The Gospel Project for Kids is a little different from most other stories kids hear in Bible study. This week, your kids learned about three entire books of the Bible.

To wrap up this section of Scripture concerning David and his son Solomon, we learned about the poetry and wisdom the Bible offers from Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.

Our spring worship takes us to five Psalms that paint a picture of God’s people finding joy in the middle of all life gives us.  When we take a step back from our relentless pace, we look back to see God’s goodness to us.  And he is good!  So good, in fact, that if we gaze at how good he is, we will burst with tears of joy.  And that pause, that kind of joy, gets us ready to live into the future God lays out for us.  

This week we look at one more psalm to finish our series on gladness. It’s Psalm 16, and it’s a psalm about trust. David, who wrote this psalm, seems to have a unique relationship with God – one that’s grounded in an unshakable trust. That trust then gives way to joy and gladness because David knows that his portion and his lot in life are secure. Not only does God hold all of David’s past, but He also holds all of David’s present and future.

The Gospel Project for Kids continues to follow the life of Solomon this week but gives another story of sin and its result. Solomon, with his God granted wisdom, still made many mistakes. Solomon had married many foreign women and was led away from worship of the one true God to follow the gods of his foreign wives. Jeroboam, one …

Our spring worship takes us to five Psalms that paint a picture of God’s people finding joy in the middle of all life gives us.  When we take a step back from our relentless pace, we look back to see God’s goodness to us.  And he is good!  So good, in fact, that if we gaze at how good he is, we will burst with tears of joy.  And that pause, that kind of joy, gets us ready to live into the future God lays out for us.  

This week the tables turn a bit. Instead of celebrating how God makes us glad, we’ll wander through creation and wonder how all of creation makes God glad.  Why did God create the universe, the earth, the sky, the sea, even a three-toed sloth called an ai?