Linden Road Church
Witness: Your Pain Matters.
Worship Gathering
Locations & Times
Linden Rd Presbyterian Church
160 S Linden Rd, Mansfield, OH 44906, USA
Sunday 10:00 AM
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Please use this link to email in your prayer requests. Our prayer team will be praying for you this week.
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https://lindenroad.churchcenter.com/people/forms/126326Birthday Cards for Harold Myer's 100th!
Join us and many others to wish the happiest of birthdays to our friend Harold Myers on the occasion of turning 100!
PO Box 310
Ontario OH 44862
PO Box 310
Ontario OH 44862
Witness: Your Pain Matters.
Stop asking God why, and start asking God what.
God, what do you want to accomplish in my life?
“We can ignore even pleasure, but pain insists upon being attended to.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NIV)
1) THE FIRST PURPOSE OF PAIN:
GOD USES PAIN TO GET OUR ATTENTION
“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:40 (NIV)
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV)
“Come near to God and he will come near to you.”James 4:8a (NIV)
“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
2) THE SECOND PURPOSE OF PAIN:
GOD USES PAIN TO PREPARE US TO SERVE OTHERS
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV)
Jesus cares deeply about your pain!
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10 (NIV)
Stop asking God why, and start asking God what.
God, what do you want to accomplish in my life?
“We can ignore even pleasure, but pain insists upon being attended to.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NIV)
1) THE FIRST PURPOSE OF PAIN:
GOD USES PAIN TO GET OUR ATTENTION
“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:40 (NIV)
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV)
“Come near to God and he will come near to you.”James 4:8a (NIV)
“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
2) THE SECOND PURPOSE OF PAIN:
GOD USES PAIN TO PREPARE US TO SERVE OTHERS
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV)
Jesus cares deeply about your pain!
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10 (NIV)
Muskingum Valley Presbytery - Church Partnership-Starting Point
Matt Skolnik–General Presbyter of MVP led a lunch (3/8/22) conversation that was designed for elders and pastors to continue a dialog to help empower elders to lead the church in this new world. Matt’s presentation can be downloaded via the link below.
https://www.lindenroad.church/church-partnership-starting-point/