Monday Momentum

Isaiah 40:19
He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.

Please allow me this opportunity to thank you and Mrs. Pat for allowing Vev and me the privilege of helping to carry the load. Like you, we want to share in seeking a closer relationship with God, so we can understand and walk in His will. Thank you!

A couple of announcements:
1. Breakfast Is Served! As is our custom for the first Sunday of the month, we will share a breakfast in and during our class.

2. This Sunday, Ben Bowden will be joining us to present a plaque honoring Mrs. Pat for her 45 years of leadership and teaching Sunday School. This is an awesome opportunity to recognize faithful service. Please make your plans to be present.

3. Please check our prayer list and be in prayer for these concerns.

Review of this past week's lesson:

• Jesus' death is the heart of the gospel! 
• Jesus is mocked by soldiers and bystanders. When we do not follow God's will, deny His authority, or fail to take a stand for Him, we become those mocking bystanders of His trial, flogging, and crucifixion.
• Jesus is abandoned as God's Son. Jesus abandoned his will (being the Son of God) to follow God's will of being the Savior for our sins, in order that we can have a relationship with God through Him, the Messiah.
• Jesus is acknowledge as God's Son. The centurion's (commander) statement "This man was truly God's Son." was in contrast as to what had happened. Have you realized and accepted Him as to whom and what He is? HE IS JESUS, the risen Son of God!
• It is amazing that at the cross a gentile is the first to acknowledge Jesus as the Son of God.
• What about you?

Men of the Howard Class!! (Okay ladies, call him over and say this is for you.)

I have been using "Uncommon Life: Daily Challenge" by Tony Dungy as a daily devotion. It is my hope that you will get a copy (purchase it or ask as a gift) and begin a daily devotion. By using a common book, we will all be on the same date and can share in something that is bigger than we are.

I will continue to talk about this concept in our class.

Here is a clip from today's devotion:
"..... We need a dream to follow, a passion to pursue, and a calling to recognize. We don't fulfill our purposes by following others' paths. We fulfill them simply by being ourselves. When we discover who we are and what we are designed to do, it opens up a whole new world.
Uncommon Key > Find out what God has put in your heart and follow it. The passions He has placed there not only fulfill your needs but also His purposes."