Day 12 –  March 16, 2025 (2nd Sunday in Lent) 

Today is our 12th day of Lent and our second Sunday. The sermons in our services today center around God’s blessings and making good choices with where we set our sights.

In Genesis 15:1-12, the Lord comforts Abram, who is concerned that his lineage is dying out. It’s just he and his wife, Sarai , with only a household servant to receive his estate.  God reveals that He will give Abram a future family as plentiful as the stars in the sky. God is generous.

Today’s New Testament scripture involves Paul’s letter to the people of Philippi. When we dove into the summary of this verse, we saw a few sermon titles.  They ranged from:

• Stand firm, Citizen of Heaven
• Pattern of Heavenly Citizens
• Standing Fast in the Lord
• Should Someone Imitate Your Life?
• Two Ways to Live
• Glory in Shame
• Faithful or Fraud- Why Your Appetites Matter
• The Kind of Person You Should Imitate 

Philippians 3:17-4:1 , finds Paul remindig the Philippians to focus on those who live as the Disciples lived, not as an “enemy of the cross of Christ.”  He says, “their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame.”

What (or who) is the God of your life?  If someone was to look at your life – your REAL life – would it be something you would hope others would emulate? 

Paul tells us our citizenship is in heaven. “And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”

Prayer: Oh God, you are such a generous provider. Just when we think we are at the end of our possibilities, like Abram felt, you name a future for us that we never could have imagined ourselves!  You grant us a future that makes the impossible possible. For that, help us be grateful.  Help us to take the gifts you provide and use them in such a way that our lives are pleasing in your sight.   Amen. 

– Elizabeth Bowman & Sarah Lauren Kattos