McKernan Christian Church

WHEN PARENTS GET OLD ... Let them grow old with the same love that they let you grow ... let them speak and tell repeated stories with the same patience and int...erest that they heard yours as a child ... let them overcome, like so many times when they let you win ... let them enjoy their friends just as they let you let them enjoy the talks with their grandchildren, because they see you in them ... let them enjoy living among the objects that have accompanied them for a long time, because they suffer when they feel that you tear pieces of this life away ... let them be wrong, like so many times you have been wrong and they didn’t embarrass you by correcting you ... LET THEM LIVE and try to make them happy the last stretch of the path they have left to go; give them your hand, just like they gave you their hand when you started your path! (Honor your mother and father and your days shall be long upon the earth.) - God See more

God, help! Help us to have peace in our hearts, joy in our lives, love in our world. Let us be bearers of love, joy, and peace to all who need it. We need your strength to do your work in this world, the work of sharing your love with all, and showing your love to all. God, help us! The world we know is just... well, not what we hoped 2020 would be, yet we give thanks for the incredible outpouring of humanity that crises like this often bring. Help us to be better so we can help others be better. God, help us! Amen.

My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness I dare not trust the sweetest frame But wholly lean on Jesus' name... When darkness veils His lovely face I'll rest on His unchanging grace In every high and stormy day My anchor holds within the veil His oath, His covenant, His blood Support me in the whelming flood When all around my soul gives way He then is all my hope and stay When He shall come with trumpet sound Oh, may I then in Him be found Dressed in His righteousness alone Faultless to stand before the throne On Christ the solid rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand All other ground is sinking sand

"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14)

What does the preacher's wife say to him when he stays up too late on Saturday night? "It's pastor bed time"