Carmichael SDA Church Bulletin

Carmichael Seventh-day Adventist Church

Carmichael SDA Church Bulletin

The Real Lord's Prayer

November 16, 2024 • Pastor Marvin Wray • Luke 22:31–32

I have shared with you before the beautiful prayer of Jesus found in John, chapter 17, where He prays for those who would follow in the centuries after the disciples. Today I want to follow up on that and look at when Jesus shared with Peter that He had prayed for him. Jesus knew what lay ahead for Peter that dark night of the arrest. He knew that Peter would fall and fail, but He prayed that Peter would not lose his faith in Christ's power to deliver him. How many times have you failed in your spiritual journey? How many times and how many ways have you denied Him? But Christ's prayer is that you would hold on to Him and trust in Him and renew your mind in Him through faith. As we look ahead to Thanksgiving this week, may we be thankful most of all for Christ's grace and mercy that never fails. Have faith, my friend, in Christ!

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December 14, 2024 • Pastor Benji Ferguson • Galatians 4:4–7

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December 7, 2024 • Pastor Marvin Wray • Psalm 8:3–4

Take the time for a few minutes to put away the hustle and bustle of preparations and navigating the highways and the aisles and just consider the vastness of God and all of his creation! Where does God dwell? How does he occupy his time? It is so hard to imagine that God could actually be interested in my small broken life...but he is! God sent his Son to rescue me from this dark world and then to literally live within my heart...and your heart...all at the same time. That is pretty hard to wrap my poor addled brain around. This Christmas, as we encircle the tree with our gifts, may we unwrap the Gift with the tag that reads, "From God, with Love"! And, even more, may we open the gift and wear the covering with joy, and then find someone who needs to know that the same gift is waiting for them to open. Merry Christmas!

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November 30, 2024 • Pastor Marvin Wray • John 1:1–3, John 1:14

As we turn the corner from the simplicity of Thanksgiving and head toward the often chaotic preparations for Christmas, can we just stop for a bit and take a breath? Ahhhh, yes, not just a breath of air, but a breath of God...the Spirit of God and His real presence among us rather than the presents around us. Over the remaining weeks before Christmas I'm going to focus on celebrating the very basic reality of the incarnation...the birth of the Christ...the ultimate Gift of God. You are going to hear me refer to the simplicity of the message and the simple testimony we can share with those we interact with on a daily basis. I'll explain more about the concept of simply sharing what God has revealed to us as individuals in my message this Sabbath. I am praying that as a church and as individuals we might deliberately make time to center our minds on what Jesus might want to say to us this Christmas.