Sept 20 Update

Hi everyone! Sorry I missed you all this week. Sam said it was a good lesson and big group! Here are the prayer requests, announcements and verses for the week...

Prayer Requests & Praises
Check your email for prayer requests

Announcements
Family Promise (http://www.familypromisejax.org/) families will be staying at our church starting next Sunday. Our class will be in charge of dinner on Monday. I'll check with Becky on any requests, but usually they want us to order Chinese food. I'll take care of getting the order and being there to serve on Monday. If you would like to contribute to the dinner you can bring some money in on Sunday. If you are interested in joining us for dinner and to help sever (6pm to around 7:30 in the Fellowship Hall), we would love to have you! Just email me at http://www.blogger.com/sam.joani@comcast.netif you are interested in coming so I make sure to order enough food.

Verses

1 Samuel 1:12-17; 22-25

12 Eli's sons were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD. 13 Now it was the practice of the priests with the people that whenever anyone offered a sacrifice and while the meat was being boiled, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand. 14 He would plunge it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot, and the priest would take for himself whatever the fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. 15 But even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest some meat to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, but only raw."
16 If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burned up first, and then take whatever you want," the servant would then answer, "No, hand it over now; if you don't, I'll take it by force."
17 This sin of the young men was very great in the LORD's sight, for they [d] were treating the LORD's offering with contempt.
22 Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 23 So he said to them, "Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. 24 No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear spreading among the LORD's people. 25 If a man sins against another man, God [e] may mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?" His sons, however, did not listen to their father's rebuke, for it was the LORD's will to put them to death.

Hebrews 12: 5-11
5And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."[a]
7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

Have a great week!

Joani