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Coping in Quarantine: Coming Out from Quarantine - 5.17.20

Sermon Series: Coping in Quarantine
Sermon Title: Coming Out from Quarantine
Sermon Text: Luke 23: 32-33, 44-46

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Coping in Quarantine: Flattening the Conflict Curve and Communion - 5.3.20

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Sermon Series: Coping in Quarantine

Sermon Title: Flattening the Conflict Curve

Sermon Text: Luke 23:26-27, 32-43

Description: Jesus' experience of quarantine on the cross prescribes for us what is required to flatten the conflict curve in our most important relationships.

Communion

Don't forget Sunday School starts at 10:15am CST. Simply go to zoom.us/join and enter in the following Meeting IDs.

GIFFT Class: 253 602 222

Makers Mark Class: 348 444 838

College: Contact Todd Wyrick for Meeting ID (432) 413-6963

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Saturday Announcement 5.2.20

Sermon posted tomorrow at 9am CST as well as communion! Website, Facebook, Youtube. Prepare the elements by getting bread and juice ready beforehand. See you all tomorrow!

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The Calm of Christ: Prayer under Pressure - 4.19.20

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The Calm of Christ: Prayer under Pressure - 4.19.20

Sermon Title: The Calm of Christ
Sermon Title: Prayer under Pressure
Sermon Text: Mark 14:32-42
Description: Christ can provide calm for us amidst the pressures of our circumstances

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Makers Mark - 348 444 838

GIFFT - 253 602 222

College - Contact Todd Wyrick - 432-413-6963

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Technology, Burnout, and Our Need for Sabbath

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Technology, Burnout, and Our Need for Sabbath

By Rev. Matt Young

“I’m getting Zoomed-out”

That’s a phrase I’m hearing more and more as churches and small groups are moving to online formats for preaching and connecting.

For many of us we have also shifted to a screen-mediated means of working, homeschooling, socializing, etc.

And I think, with everything going on, we are starting to feel burned out.

Here in Lubbock, Texas, we have been in lock-down for what feels like forever. Really it’s only been about 3 weeks or so. But many of us are feeling burned out. And this burnout is not something that just an ordinary nap can fix.

This kind of burnout we are experiencing is a soul-deep-fatigue.

Why is it that we feel this way?

We feel this way because we have forgotten and neglected to Sabbath.

Genesis 2:3 says – “So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”

Up until this point in the timeline of events, God had been creating everything. He made the universe; he made the earth; he made the lights in the sky and the orbital patterns of the planets; he formed the oceans and mountains and all the creatures and living things that made their homes there. And most of all, God made adam – humanity – male and female. Then God rested from all his labors.

Now, God didn’t need to rest. He’s what we call omnipotent. That is, he’s all-powerful. But it’s more than just power. God is, in and of himself, completely, totally, unceasingly, self-existing. God relies upon nothing for him to exist or display any and all of his characteristics. He is because he is.

So God didn’t need to rest. But he does.

Why?

To reveal to mortal, finite, small, tiring, human beings the reality that we must rest on a regular basis.

Rest is not optional.

Sabbath wasn’t something that we could figure out on our own. We couldn’t look at creation and see that we needed a day of rest. God had to reveal it to us, this 6-1 work to rest ratio, so that we might regularly experience rejuvenation, restoration, and most importantly, a hint of the ultimate rest which is to come in Christ’s second coming and renewal of all things.

So getting back to technology and all of us feeling burned out –

Sabbath is something that doesn’t just apply to our work the way we think of work – a set number of hours each week we work in exchange for money. “Work” in the biblical sense, I think, applies to all the stuff we do throughout the week – yard work, house work, driving work, work work, school work, screen work, etc.

God calls us to substantially rest from that normative activity we do six days out of the week so that one day a week we might experience his rejuvenation of our souls. And that applies to our screen time.

Our screens are now the means we have to conduct work, school, fellowship, etc. We are totally inundated with screen time. So in order for us to rest from that work (the emailing, zooming, facetiming, etc.) we need to come up with a plan where we will trust in God, set down our phones, emails, and social media platforms, and rest.

If I’m honest with you, I don’t know what this looks like for me yet. But here are some things for my life that I’m seriously considering:

1) Set up my (and our family’s) phone to disable all the apps except for text and call on Sundays.

2) Set a reply-back email for Sundays, alerting people that if it’s an emergency (there always are and we need to tend to those out of faithfulness) to call me, otherwise I’ll get back to them Monday or Tuesday.

3) Limit screen use around the family in the evenings.

4) Limit my use of screen time on Sundays to fellowship and worship. Watch the sermon, fellowship with our Sunday school class, and then spend time catching up with family abroad. But be wise and spread this out.

5) Take a nap, like a real nap, after worship and Sunday school class as a family. We all know we need it.

I pray that this finds you and that you feel a sense that you can, by God’s grace and the empowerment of his Holy Spirit, that you can truly rest and unplug in appropriate ways during this time when we are all inundated with screens. I praise God that we have these means to even stay connected during this time, but just like too much of anything, we can get burned out and our souls desperately need Sabbath, even from technology.

What are some of your ideas of how we can Sabbath from our technology in these times where it seems we are glued to it all the more?

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Easter Sunday

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Easter Sunday

EASTER SERVICE FROM HOME

Below is a suggested order of worship for you as you worship from home this Easter.

EASTER HYMNAL PDF

Download and print out the “Easter Hymnal PDF” which contains lyrics for both Modern Praise songs and Traditional Hymns featured in this service.

GREETING

Turn to one another and greet each other with the historical Easter Sunday greeting:
One person says to another, “He is risen!”
The other replies back, “He is risen, indeed!”

OPENING PRAYER

One member of the household should lead a prayer, like this (or in your own words):
”Almighty God, we come before you today in worship of your Son, Jesus Christ, who lives forevermore. We thank you for Him and for the life you have given to us in and through Him.
We pray now that your Holy Spirit would be amongst us as we lift our hearts to you in celebration and adoration of your risen Son! Amen.”

ADORATION AND PRAISE #1

Click on either “Modern Service Music” or “Traditional Service Music” videos.
Using the printed copy of the Easter Hymnal PDF, sing along with the musicians.

MODERN SERVICE MUSIC

Featuring WPC Modern Praise Team: Jason Fellers, Brandon Word, Carson Outlaw, Ross Raedeke and Jonathan Smithers (production). Songs: Great Things; Death Arrested; Christ Is Risen
CCLI License# 673058
Filmed and edited by Stellar Media Co.
Video presentations filmed in compliance with current safety regulations pertaining to COVID-19 concerns.

TRADITIONAL SERVICE MUSIC

Featuring the WPC Adult Choir: Alaina Galt, Hope Cooksey, Paul Vasquez, Don Summersgill and Chuan-Li Ko (pianist)
Songs: Christ, the Lord Is Risen Today; Risen Indeed!; Rejoice, the King Is Risen
CCLI License# 673058
Filmed and edited by Stellar Media Co.
Video presentations filmed in compliance with current safety regulations pertaining to COVID-19 concerns.

EASTER SERMON - PASTOR ELLIOTT POWELL

Sermon Series: The Calm of Christ
Sermon Title: While It Was Still Dark
Sermon Text: John 20:1-18

Video presentations filmed in compliance with current safety regulations pertaining to COVID-19 concerns.

ADORATION AND PRAISE #2

Click on either “Modern Service Music” or “Traditional Service Music” videos above.
Using the printed copy of the Easter Hymnal PDF, sing along with the musicians.

CLOSING PRAYER

One member of the household should lead a prayer like this (or in your own words):
”Gracious God, we thank you for this time together and for the radiant news of Jesus’ resurrection. Be our light for us today and all our days. You are risen, indeed! Alleluia and Amen!”

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