There will be a fellowship dinner following the second worship service in the commons.
The Strange Land
Being Freed from Your Own Personal Exile
Resources
Speaker
Rodlie OrtizRodlie Ortiz is on the pastoral team of Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University where he oversees evangelism and Grow Groups. He recently finished his Doctor of Ministry degree in Missional Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He blogs regularly on modernekklesia.com and enjoys connecting with people that don't know God. He is married to Iveth, a special education teacher, and has two boys—Jonathan and Daniel.
Offering
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Program:
Voluntary
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God • Max Reger
Introit *
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus • Helen Lemmel
Call to Worship *
John Glass
Opening Hymn *
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing • 250
Prayer
John Glass
Children's Offertory
Live Out Thy Life Within Me • Kenneth Logan
Children's Story
Scripture Reading •
Mark 5:1-5 NIV
Skip and Lynn MacCarty
Worship in Music
Nearer, Still Nearer • Roberto Iannò
Roberto Iannò
Message
The Strange Land: Being Freed from Your Own Personal Exile
Rodlie Ortiz
Connect Card, Tithes, & Offerings
Live Out Thy Life Within Me • 316
Closing Voluntary
Bless the Lord, O My Soul • Charles Wood
* First Service Only
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Religious Liberty
Seventh-day Adventists have stood firmly for religious liberty—for everyone—for more than 150 years. But do you know the reason why? Part of the reason is that, when our church was founded, almost every American state had Sunday-keeping laws on the books. Adventist pastors, farmers, laborers, and others were arrested, jailed, or fined for doing “secular work” on Sunday. Even Wille White, son of James and Ellen, was arrested in Oakland, California, in 1882 for keeping the Pacific Press Publishing presses operating on a Sunday! But that’s not the full story. The deeper reason why we continue to stand for religious liberty—in the courts, before legislatures, and through the pages of Liberty magazine—is because we want to reflect the character of the God we serve. He’s a God who created us in His image and who has given each one of us the freedom to choose whom we will worship. He’s a God who, in the words of Ellen White, “desires only the service of love,” which “cannot be won by force or authority” (The Desire of Ages, 22).
Today, please help support this vital ministry of religious liberty. It’s a ministry that defends not only the rights of individual conscience, but also the ability of our church to continue to do its mission. And as we face uncertain days ahead, your prayers and support are needed now, more than ever.
—North American Division Stewardship Ministries