This Week at New Life

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Call to Worship: Psalm 97:1-5, 12

• All: The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;  righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around. His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
• Leader: Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!

House of the Lord

Hail to the Lord’s Anointed

Prayer of Confession From Philippians 2:3-4

• Leader: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
• All: Father, forgive me for my selfish ambition, my conceit, and my haughty treatment of others in word and deed, and in the secrecy of my heart
• Leader: Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
• All: Father, forgive me for my selfishness, and my unwillingness to lay down my life for others.

O Great God

Assurance of Pardon: 1 Peter 1:3-4

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

Living Hope

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Congregational Prayer

Scripture Reading: Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon: “The Gospel Changes How We Relate – Marriage“, Anthony Gammage

Installation of Dave Hopping

General Offering

Ancient of Days

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Title: “The Gospel Changes How We Relate – Marriage”
Preacher: Anthony Gammage

Text: Colossians 3:18–25-4:1

[18] Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. [19] Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. [20] Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. [21] Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. [22] Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. [23] Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, [24] knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. [25] For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. [1] Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Sermon Outline

• How did we get here?
• Wives and reflecting Jesus (18)
• Husbands and reflecting Jesus (19)

Questions

The questions will be sent out via email.

Adult School of Discipleship

• “How to Read the Bible: Genres” – meets in the the auditorium
• “Christ in the Pentateuch” – room 305
• The Welcome Class – room 102

Young Adults (18 – 30 year olds)

• meets upstairs in room 303
• contact Michelle Yardumian for more information

Senior High Youth (9 – 12th grade)

• meets upstairs in room 306
• contact Dave Hopping for more information

Junior High Youth (6 – 8th grade)

• meets upstairs in room 307
• contact Sydney Becker for more information

Children (0 – 5th grade)

• Infants, toddlers, pre-school and elementary school chidren please check in at the children’s desk down the hallway from the lobby.  Read more about our children’s ministry HERE

At New Life Dresher, we warmly welcome individuals of all ages with special needs, whether they are children, young adults, or adults. Contact Amy Gill for more information.

Bev and Joe Fitzpatrick, serving Central and South America

• Please pray for Joe as he continues to travel to Central and South America and to Cuba as he teaches to pastoral students and churches.
• Praises for a medical team trip to the Philippines through MTW in February. Bev, her daughter Anna, and Bev’s sister were all able to take part in this trip.  There, they treated about 800 people in various communities who will be followed up by the pastoral staff of the local churches.
• In Cuba:
• Please pray for the church planting efforts in Cuba. Despite the shortages of electricity and food amidst financial hardship, God is causing His church to grow, and the plans for outreach continue!
• Pastor Hector, in Cuba, has planted five churches in Sancti Spiritus over the last 22 years and has plans for five more.
• Please pray for God to continue providing food, medicine, gasoline for the generators, and theological training for each ministry.
• Other trips:
• Please pray for a trip to El Salvador that took place earlier in March, where Joe taught at a large former prosperity gospel church that has transitioned to Reformed theology.
• Bogotá and Medellín are Joe’s next destinations. We will also head to the Middle East in mid-April (with donated flight vouchers.)