2024 Wk 38 - Comeback Sunday

GENEROSITY

THANK YOU…for your generosity!

Your obedience sends God’s love flowing out of you into others!! THANK YOU!

Giving keeps the door open to our hearts, refusing to become bitter and hard hearted.

SCRIPTURE:

UPDATE

Cafe Hope at 10am on Sundays, isn’t about unlocking the doors. It’s about opening the doors of your hearts to Invite Invite Invite. Thus engaging with people throughout the week.

Where can you go for a free cup of coffee with a friend?

Finance Small Group Part 3 has Kicked off this past week. 10 Wednesday Lessons between now and Christmas!

It’s a shared light meal, video, and discussion to find God’s transparency in a culture of lies and deception when it comes to finances.

Hispanic Church Today at 2pm

Intro:

TAKE AWAY:

God’s faithful love is to restore His people.

Returning to God through forgiveness

God hasn’t changed or moved. He is right here.

Sin makes us feel far from God

Forgiveness brings us Close to God.

Hosea 14 (MSG)

1 O Israel (CHURCH), come back! Return to your God!

You’re down but you’re not out.

2 Prepare your confession

and come back to God.

Pray to him, “Take away our sin,

accept our confession.

Receive as restitution

our repentant prayers.

3 Assyria (TECHNOLOGY) won’t save us;

horses (DEMOCRACY) won’t get us where we want to go.

We’ll never again say ‘our god’

to something we’ve made or made up.

You’re our last hope. Is it not true

that in you the orphan finds mercy?”

4 “I will heal their waywardness.

I will love them lavishly. My anger is played out.

5 I will make a fresh start with Israel (YOU).

He’ll burst into bloom like a crocus in the spring.

He’ll put down deep oak tree roots,

6 he’ll become a forest of oaks!

He’ll become splendid—like a giant sequoia,

his fragrance like a grove of cedars!

7 Those who live near him will be blessed by him,

be blessed and prosper like golden grain.

Everyone will be talking about them,

spreading their fame as the vintage children of God.

8 Ephraim (MY CHURCH) is finished with gods that are no-gods.

From now on I’m the one who answers and satisfies him.

I am like a luxuriant (FREE) fruit tree (STARBUCKS COFFEE SHOP).

Everything you need is to be found in me.”

9 If you want to live well,

make sure you understand all of this.

If you know what’s good for you,

you’ll learn this inside and out.

God’s paths get you where you want to go.

Right-living people walk them easily;

wrong-living people are always tripping and stumbling.