Week beginning 23 May 2021
St Philips News for the Parish
BIBLE VERSE FOR THE WEEK
Proverbs 31:30
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the
Lord is to be praised.
Readings
Sunday 23 May
Ezekiel 37.1-14
Charmian
Acts 2.1-21
Lesley
John 15.26-27;16.4b-15
Mike
Prayers
Marion
Sunday 30 May
Isaiah 6.1-8
Karen
Romans 8.12-17
Nick
John 3.1-17
Mike
Prayers
Wendy
PRAYER REQUESTS
Prayers are requested for the following:
Rod’s younger brother Tom.
Rod’s son Steven.
For Ann’s brother Bob (in the USA), who has liver cancer.
Pray for Mignon’s daughter Andrea suffering with breast cancer.
Wendy’s husband Julian
Kathy (Mike’s sister in Leeds) for her ongoing health problem.
Lesley’s mum
Sheila – healing for her legs and knees.
Marion’s grandson James and family.
Give thanks for Jim’s ongoing recovery after the insertion of 3 stents.
Local Clergy
Dave and Amy Barker (Walsgrave Baptist ministers)
Malcolm (Vicar at St Mary’s, Walsgrave) and Frances Tyler (retired).
Brian Nash (Vicar at St Chad’s, Wood End)
George Bennett (Priest at St Patrick’s RC, Potters Green)
For our Bishops
Christopher and John
Please pray for:
Mike, Marjorie, Mignon, Zena, Ruth, Felicity, Addis and the Oromo people, Beryl, Bill and Celia, Ken, Cleo.
All our local businesses, that they may continue to grow and serve the local community/ Give thanks for all who work in them and their families.
Pray for all the front-line workers who are enabling our lives to progress in these difficult times.
NEWS
The APCM will take place at 12noon on Sunday 30 May after the Morning Worship.
Sunday Evenings 5pm on Zoom
23 May Ruth 4:1-33 You have a future
This series is being downloaded onto the website
30 May Psalm 95 A crash course in worship
If you would like to join us, contact Mike for invitation.
Acts 2:22-39
The Gift of the Holy Spirit
There’s some confusion in the church today concerning the Holy Spirit. A number of Christians think the indwelling of the Spirit occurs sometime after salvation, but Scripture teaches that He comes to permanently live within a new believer the moment he or she places faith in Jesus.
We don’t need to pray specific words for the Spirit to arrive. Nor do we have to attend a special service invoking His presence in order for Him to dwell in us. Any teaching that claims we can lose the Spirit and must regain Him over and over again is false. As soon as we trust in Jesus, His Spirit comes to abide with us forever (John 14:16). This truth is essential to understand, because Scripture clearly says that anyone who doesn’t have the Spirit does not belong to Christ (Romans 8:9).
It would be impossible to live the Christian life without the indwelling Spirit. He’s the one who guides us into God’s will, teaches us the truths of Scripture, transforms us into Christ’s likeness, and empowers us to serve and obey God successfully and joyfully.
When you fully understand this fundamental truth, you realize that instead of trying to “get the Spirit,” you need to live like the Spirit-filled Christian you are.
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