VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We begin our service in song. Pastor Gail 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 46, and Luisa Fernandez opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar, Jessica Jimenez, and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Albert Ramseyer takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In his sermon, “Christ Jesus, King of All: From Divinity through Humanity to Victorious Divine Savior and King Eternal,” Pastor Lavon Gentry, from Cucamonga Christian Fellowship, looks at the reasons why Jesus followed the path he did, and why that makes him our Savior and King. Christ was with God at Creation, but human sin intervened and left human kind in darkness. Christ voluntarily gave up divinity to be the bridge between humanity and God, was subjected to the same temptations and sorrows we experience, and was obedient to death, even death on a cross, so that humanity might be saved. By these actions he reconciled all things to himself. Reason alone will not get us to where we can understand this mystery: we need to accept in on faith.

 

Pastor Gail then leads 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. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.

 

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

Sermon copyright 2022 by Lavon Gentry and Verdugo Community Church.