This Week

Pastor Jim's Weekly Message

Pastor Jim

This Week’s Gospel: Mark 10:2-16

2Some Pharisees came, and to test [Jesus] they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” 5But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

10Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; 12and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

13People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. 14But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. 15Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” 16And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.

This Week at St. Mark's

Thursday, October 3 - Redner’s Food Recovery 8AM, Senior Group 9AM

Sunday, October 6 - Pastor on Vacation - Church Service 9AM, Sunday School 10:30AM, Narcotics Anonymous 7PM

Monday, October 7 - Pastor on Vacation - Redner’s Food Recovery 8AM, Office Closed

Tuesday, October 8 - Pastor on Vacation - Boyer’s Food Recovery 2PM, Hopewell Love Food Bank 4PM

Wednesday, October 9 - Pastor on Vacation - Outreach Meeting 6:30PM, AA & Al-Anon & Bag Pipes 7PM

Thursday, October 10 - Pastor on Vacation - Redner’s Food Recovery 8AM, Ministerium Mtg/ Opportunity House 11:30AM, Council Meeting 7PM

Friday, October 11 - Pastor on Vacation - Girl Scouts 5:30PM

Saturday, October 12 - Pastor on Vacation

Sunday, October 13 - Pastor on Vacation - Church Service with Threefold Blessing 9AM, Sunday School 10:30AM, Crop Walk & Community Meal 12PM, Narcotics Anonymous 7PM