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This Week: Communion Sunday. Pastor Craig will be closing our Fortune Cookie Faith talking about Sacrifice.

Next Week: We start a new series called Ancient Mind, Modern Heart: Rethinking the Psalms which will take a look at a different Psalm each week, June 3-July 27

Big Idea for This Week's Message: We aren’t asked to choose prayer over sacrifice but put both into action in the right way. It’s a both/and not an either/or.

Offering: This weekend marks the last week of our budget year which runs from May-June. Next week starts the new budget year.

Key Verses:

PROVERBS 15:8

PROVERBS 21:3

PROVERBS 25-27

ISAIAH 29:13

MICAH 6:6-8

MATTHEW 6:2

HEBREWS 9:28

Sample Sermon Questions From Today's Message:

When you hear the word sacrifice, especially on Memorial Day weekend, who do you think of? What traits or values do you notice that connects their sacrifice to your life?

Pastor Craig defined prayer as an act of communion with God or, as Ralph Martin puts it, “prayer is, at root, simply paying attention to God.” How difficult is it to make “paying attention to God” a critical part of your prayer life? Share what has helped you, highlighting what can make it difficult to repeatedly put it into practice.

Micah 6:8 encourages us to “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly”. In which of these areas have you seen the most growth? Which of these areas would you like to see more growth in?

Hebrews 9:28 says, “So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.” Close your time by thanking God for the SACRIFICE of a savior who is now positioned at the right hand of the Father PRAYING for you.

Setlist:

FILL THIS PLACE

THE LION AND THE LAMB

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS (1^st service only)

DO IT AGAIN

GRACEFULLY BROKEN

REMEMBRANCE

BE ALL THE GLORY

Link to Google Prayer Doc:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jrahk2J9vsZ0EHSpBLrCjf6PkLyJ00RUtTmJuihox9Y/edit#gid=1658177271

Fortune Cookie Faith Series | Week 5 Pastor Craig Rees

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