Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church

This Sunday you need to be at church!

You need to be at church along with your family and your friends. Your neighbors need to be there too and the person across the street who you don’t really like should come. In fact, if you have the chance, pick up a stranger on the street and bring them to church.

That’s because it is the first Sunday of the month and it is a Sunday when we celebrate communion. It is a reminder to all of us that God has prepared a banquet table where everyone is invited.

So go invite someone to God’s table. Maybe it is someone that you haven’t seen at church in a while. Call them and invite them and meet them at church. Maybe it is someone who can’t make it to church, call them and ask if they would like communion brought to them by a Deacon, an Elder or a Pastor.

Let’s see what God will do when we invite others to dine at the table of the King.

See you on Sunday!

Saying thanks is an important part of our lives. We need to be a people who readily give thanks when a kind act has taken place or when a gift has been given.

So I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped lead worship last weekend at LCPC as my wife Karyn and I flew to Texas to visit my daughter Lauren, her husband Tom, and our granddaughter Charlotte (aka Charlie). We were able to paint a bedroom and move Charlie into that bedroom, prepare another room for her soon to be born brother Asher (his arrival is in August), and get a guest room ready. It was a lot of work but most importantly it was good to spend time with them. We couldn’t have gone without everyone’s extra help.

Have a great weekend. I hope to see on Sunday or if you are traveling over the holiday weekend, be safe and we will see you back at LCPC soon.

Last weekend, we continued our sermon series on The Lord’s Prayer as we take a “deep dive” into the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples.

Last week’s phrase from the Lord’s Prayer was “Hallowed be Thy Name.” It was an important reminder that our Father in heaven that we address, who desires an intimate relationship with us by allowing us to call Him “daddy,” is also a holy and set-apart God, who is to be honored and praised. This is where our prayers to God begin.

At the end of my sermon, I made mention of a tool that might help us do this, it was a zip-lock bag with a few pinto beans in it to help prompt us to praise God for His different attributes. So, at the start of your own time of prayer, I encouraged you to take one of the beans from the bag and then praise God for one of characteristics (His sovereignty, His generosity, His love, His omnipotence, His goodness, His protection, His faithfulness, etc.). Well, one of our members took that tool and moved it up a notch.

Jolene Rich put together some cloth bags filled with polished stones to use them as the tools for praying to God and thanking Him for His characteristics. They are MUCH better than my zip-lock bags and pinto beans.

So next time you are at church, take a bag with some stones (please take one bag so more of us can have them) and use them as a tool to praise God for who He is, thanking Him for His characteristics, for He is a good and loving and generous God. And if you know Joelene, be sure and thank her.