VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE AUGUST 28, 2022

e begin our service in song. Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Psalm 25, and Luisa Fernandez opens us in prayer. Marvin Juan and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People. In his sermon, “Humility and Success,” Pastor Lavon Gentry from Cucamonga Christian Fellowship looks at Luke 14:1, 7 – 14 where Jesus used a dinner held in his honor to remind that God will reward those who show true humility and look after the needs of needs of others. Those who only seek their own success are in the end not going to see these real rewards; they will not inherit the earth. He cautions that we should not confuse feelings of a lack of self worth with being humble. Instead we should follow the example of Jesus, who chose to become human, die, and be resurrected so that we can be rescued from sin. He challenges us to look to Jesus’s example of how to live our lives, not our secular world’s fixation on “success” at any cost. Pastor Gail and Pastor Lavon then lead us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.

 

Verdugo is again meeting in person but 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.

 

Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.

Sermon copyright 2022 by Lavon Gentry and Verdugo Community Church.