Renew Church family, we want to highlight gatherings on Sundays 7/27, 8/3 & 8/10, leading to our next gathering with Connection on 8/17. The culture we carry with us in combining ministries with Connection shall be celebrated at our final gatherings at the Revival Building on 7/27 & 8/10 especially. Great is the Lord and let us praise Him for all the goodness, truth, and beauty we have experienced through His steadfast love these nearly 13 years. You're invited!

Psalm 116

Preached on Sunday, June 22, 2025 by Jefferey Rondeau with Renew Church

Remember & Hope

Head, Heart & Hands

Head

Reading Psalms:

• Poetic, but not always poetry
• Open mind, heart & hands
• See surrounding psalms
• Read in light of Psalm 1 & 2 + NT

Psalms 111-117

1. God rescues
2. God’s kindness
3. God is over all

Heart

• Depth (3-4)
• Dependence (10-11)
• Deliverance (5-9, 15-16)
• Desire (1-2)
• Duty (12-14, 17-19)

Join with the poet who sang,

“Now I’m looking for the lilies

Who neither toil nor spin

Father, plant one in my heart

And make it grow to be a garden”

Join with the psalmist who sang,

“Return, my soul, to your resting place

because the Lord has been so, so good

to me... You Lord are gracious, and just,

and so loving.”

Hands

How do we remain faithful and give to God?

• Trust and lean on what he has done (Remember)
• Let it captivate your heart, set your attention on it (Remember)
• Call on him in need and joy (Hope)
• Proclaim his name, making disciples for his kingdom (Hope)

Livestream

Colossians 1:15-29

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

Preached on Sunday, June 8, 2025 by pastor Jeff Patterson of Renew Church

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