VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE AUGUST 13, 2023

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Michelle Hensley calls us to worship reading from Psalm 89 and Albert Ramseyer opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon, “Walking With Jesus – On Land and Water,” Pastor Gail looks at the story of Jesus walking on the water in Matthew 14 to explore why we, like Peter, doubt that God will give us what we need to do what he wants us to do. Peter starts out walking on the water, then sees the waves and begins to sink. Jesus reaches out and pulls him back up, but chides him for his doubts. To doubt is a common human reaction to the unknown future. Instead of faith, we give way to fears about what might happen in the future instead of living in the present and seeing what God is doing. She invites us to walk with Jesus and to keep your eyes upon him—on land and water.

 

Pastor Gail then leads us in the sacrament of communion, and you are invited to participate as well.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.

 

Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.