Wednesday Noon $165,000.00. Amount •INSPIRE• Study collected to date is $64,821.86. Thank you to Redeemer Volunteering & Events Bible Studies Starting this Wednesday, we those that have already will be beginning a new Bible Sunday Adult Bible Study started this extra giving! Sign up sheet based study. Please join us! We will keep everyone Adult Faith Information Class (Please place sign-ups in the Office mailbox) updated as to the progress of Wednesday Noon the new systems and our Wednesday Women’s 7pm Sunday Morning Bible giving progress. Thursday 7pm Study Debt Reduction Name:______for more information, contact Pastor Mike has started a Envelopes are available the office. new Sunday morning bible at the welcome center study on the book of Genesis. I’d like to donate to the Altar Flowers ($25) “The Beginning” will be held Women's Wednesday in the Narthex. Volunteering Bible Study There are so many in honor of:______Wednesdays 7:30pm, Youth Group Bible opportunities, here are just a few. Redeemer Little Steps meeting upstairs at Martin’s Study on this date:______Supermarket led by Kellee Daycare-reading to a class or Skaggs. “Present Over Cultural issues that don’t line helping serve lunch. Lincoln Perfect” by Shauna Niequist. up with God’s design. Elementary-lunch buddie, I’d like to join an awesome Bible Study! attend as many as you like! homework help or Leaving behind busyness and Altar Flowers frantic living and Boomerrang Backpack. You Sunday Morning Bible Study Wednesday Women’s Bible Study rediscovering the person you Altar Flowers for 2019. can volunteer everyday or were made to be. Present Please let us know which once a month. The choice is Wednesday Bible Study Thursday Evening Bible Study Over Perfect is a hand dates you would like to yours. Interested in learning reaching out, pulling you free dedicate. Fill out the form in more? Stop by the office or I would like assistance from the Youth Group from the constant pressure to the bulletin and place in talk with Tami Beery. Let’s be (yard work, cleaning, a visit …) perform faster, push harder, Janet Essig’s mail box. His hands and feet. He and produce more, all while created us to love and to maintaining an exhausting •Grow• serve those in need. I would like to help with Sunday School, IMPACT, nursery image of perfection. Mail Boxes Garage Sale Sunday Morning & Periodicaly-please check your Garage Sale to benefit the Lincoln School & Little Steps Daycare. I am interested in Thursday Night Bible mail box in the Fellowship National Youth Gathering in Study Hall. If you do not have a July. If you want to add to learning about the many opportunities on how to box, please notify Liz in the the sale, please bring in your We are utilizing LCMS Pastor office and she will make a items and place them at the implement our Vision Statement. Stay tuned-it is going to be epic! Jonathan Fisk's spot for you! Thank you. Welcome Center. book Echo:Unbroken Truth WHEN: MAY 17TH AND 18TH Worth Repeating Again. WHERE: 2511 WESTWOOD A study in which we will learn RD, WINONA LAKE "the distilled, unbreakable •Change• Christian Echo, the very thing that has radically changed Church Improvements Rejoice always, pray humanity in every nation and Building Fund continually, give thanks tongue where it has been in all circumstances; for repeated.” After 50+ years, the HVAC system that supplies the this is God’s will for you sanctuary with cool air is in in . need of replacement. An -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 HVAC fund drive has begun. Amount needed is approx. Love Looks Like Something St. Titus, Pastor Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 13, are poetic, yet so authentic they touch our soul. Titus was a companion and secretary of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline . Titus was with Paul and at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of A) In Paul’s words, God tells us that; ‘______looks like something’ Jerusalem (:1-3). So, let me ask a few questions; 1)Do you believe in the Biblical message of Jesus’s death & Resurrection? Y N He appears to have been a Gentile -- for Paul sternly refused to have him circumcised, 2)Do you believe accept that God’s Word is uncompromisingly accurate? Y N because the frees Christians from the requirements of the Mosaic Law -- and to have 3)Do you believe God’s promise of forgiveness & His judgments are real? Y N been chiefly engaged in ministering to Gentiles. At a later period, Paul's epistles place him with Paul and Timothy at , where he was B) Those questions are important, because sometimes what we say what we sent by Paul to Corinth for the purpose of getting the contributions of the church sent to the actually do, ______line up. poor Christians at Jerusalem (:6; 12:18). 1) Jesus lived what He believed, even when it made things ______. 2) Why did Jesus take that risk, even though He ______what they would He rejoined Paul when he was in Macedonia, and cheered him with the tidings he brought from do? Corinth (:6-15). After this his name is not mentioned until after Paul's first -because that’s what love looks like! imprisonment, when he was engaged in the organization of the church in , where Paul 3)Because He loved – Jesus took the risk of speaking God’s ______. had left him for this purpose (:5). The last mention of him is in :10, where he appeared with Paul at Rome during his second imprisonment. From Rome he was sent into C) Jesus revealed Himself as ______. Because; “Love looks like Dalmatia. something.” 1) I Love in action sacrifices ____ for others - Jesus bled, and died on the According to tradition, Paul ordained Titus of Gortyn in Crete. Titus died in the year 107 Cross. A.D., about 95 years old. 2) Love ______and doesn’t hold ______; “Father, forgive them”… 3)Jesus’s love ______– “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,”… "The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. -Exodus 15:2

Close: he love God gives us, also compels US to go and make disciples… The Confession of St. Peter “Here’s the knowledge you need: you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. And you will be My witnesses…” (:8 BRG) In a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, Jesus asks, "Who do people say that the Son of •Love looks like something – it looks like Jesus. Man is?" The disciples give various answers. When he asks, "Who do you say that I am?" •It also looks like you telling others about Jesus’ love for them. Simon Peter answers, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." In turn Jesus declares Peter to be "blessed" for having recognized Jesus' true identity and attributes this recognition to a divine revelation.

Then Jesus addresses Simon by what seems to have been the nickname "Peter" (Cephas in

Aramaic and Petros in Greek, meaning "Rock") and says about Peters faith, "On this rock I will

grudges, 3) endured. endured. 3) grudges, build my church" which will overcome all the evil forces arrayed against it. (Matthew 16:13b-18) Answers: A) love, B) don’t, 1) uncomfortable, 2) knew, 3) truth, C) Messiah, 1) self, 2) forgives, forgives, 2) self, 1) Messiah, C) truth, 3) knew, 2) uncomfortable, 1) don’t, B) love, A) Answers: