ATTN COLLEGE STUDENTS On Sunday May 1 be sure to stop at the table in the Fellowship Hall to pick up a “Finals Week Goodie Bag”.  There will be 300 bags available on a first come, first serve basis.

This week’s story is about the fulfillment of David’s desire to build a permanent place for the ark to reside. David’s son Solomon built the temple to house the ark and the other important  elements of the tabernacle. In the fourth year of Solomon’s reign he began building the temple,  a process that lasted for seven years until it was …

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’ll discover there are many ways that we get lost, broken, and wrecked.  And, no matter what way you got lost or broken or wrecked, God’s love for us in Jesus rescues us and sets us free.  The Bible says we get “redeemed.”  And we will learn what people do who know what God has done for them.

Here are some photos and highlights from the Rainbow Club Celebration Night.  Thank you to all the leaders and children for another great year!

This week we moved on from David as The Gospel Project takes us to David’s son Solomon. Solomon was the second son of Bathsheba and became the next king of Israel. Once David died, Solomon had a dream in which God told him to ask for anything he wanted. Solomon told God that he was a young man and that what he wanted most of all was the wisdom needed to be a good leader for Israel. 

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 will be looking at how joy and gladness intersect with the sorrows and difficulties we face in life.  The Psalms are filled with not only rejoicing, but tears, sadness, grief and loss.  Last week Psalm 126 declared, “Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.”  What does this look like?  Can God really bring joy out of our most painful experiences in life?