Ponce Worship Bulletin | February 25th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MERCY CARE TEAM INTEREST MEETING 3.10. 12-1:15 PM. Join the deacons on daylight savings Sunday if you're interested in joining our new Mercy Care Team. This team helps meet people's physical and relational needs and helps engage our whole church family in mercy ministry. Snacks will be provided.

SAVE THE DATE: MEN’S RETREAT 3.22-24. Sign-up here. Details on the app.

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WEEKLY NEIGHBORHOOD BIBLE STUDY | 8 AM | THUR + FRI
We are looking for bible study leaders for our new weekly Neighborhood Bible Study. Reach out to Hace if you are interested.

WELCOME

CALL TO WORSHIP

“Thank You, Lord”

“Undivided Heart”

“God of This City”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Luke 19:11-27

The Parable of the Ten Minas

11 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12 He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 13 Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ 15 When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. 16 The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ 17 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ 18 And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made five minas.’ 19 And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief; 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’ 24 And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25 And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ 26 ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 27 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”

SERMON

“In the City, For the City: Living In Light of Eternity”

GIVING PRAYER

Holy Father, you are a faithful provider,

There is nothing I have that You have not given me.

All I have and am belong to You,

Bought with the blood of Jesus.

To keep everything to myself,

And to give without sacrifice to build my kingdom,

Is the way of the world that You cannot abide in.

But generosity is the way of those who call Christ their Lord;

Who love Him with freed hearts,

And serve Him with renewed minds;

Who withstand the delusion of riches,

Whose hearts are in your kingdom and not in the systems of the world.

I am determined to increase in generosity

Until it can be said that there is no need among us.

I’m determined to be trustworthy,

With such a little thing as money,

That You may trust me with true riches.

Above all, I am determined to be generous,

Because You, Father are generous.

It is the delight of your daughters and sons,

To share Your traits, and to show You to the world.

“Thank You Jesus For the Blood”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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*Parents can pick up their children from Children’s Church

COMMUNION + Giving

“Let Revival Come”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

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CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

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  • Adam Snow

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