Your Life Matters
Weekly Review
Lainey DaRosa
November 15, 2022
Connecting Lives, Building Faith, Releasing Destiny
Hello OLC Family! Our prayer for you is that you will experience the hope of Christ in this season!
As always, if you missed our message from last week, you can head over to our website or YouTube page to watch it, or you can listen to it through many of the podcast services available. Our Sunday Livestream is also available through YouTube.
Announcements:
Remember to bring back your "Operation Christmas Child" shoeboxes this Sunday!
This Thursday (Nov. 17th) is our Seniors' Breakfast at the Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre! This event starts at 9:30 am.
We're decorating the church for Christmas this Saturday (Nov. 19th) at 8:30 am! This is quite the task, so please come if you are available and would like to help us!
Our Christmas Craft Sale is coming up on November 25th & 26th! This exciting event is free to attend, and will be happening from
5:00 pm-9:00 pm on the Friday and 9:00 am-3:00 pm on the Saturday! Be sure to come by!
If you're looking for ways to get involved or to connect, check out our website for details about all of our Connect Groups and events that are currently going on!
Encouraging Thoughts:
Something that can keep us from being close and vulnerable with the people around us is when we compare ourselves to them in some way. Just as much as God desires that we live in close, loving relationships with one another, Satan desires to keep us isolated, and competition and comparison are some of his tools to do so. Whenever I feel that my value is threatened because of what someone else carries, it helps me to remember that everything each of us is and has is from God. Nothing that truly matters comes from my own strength, so if my desire is to impact the world for good, I can trust that God knows exactly what I need in order to do that. It is humbling to remember that God is the vine and we are simply the branches. We can do absolutely nothing apart from Him! Let us not resent anyone else for what they possess, but instead embrace that each one of us is in total dependence on God, stewarding what we have been given the best that we can!
Something that can keep us from being close and vulnerable with the people around us is when we compare ourselves to them in some way. Just as much as God desires that we live in close, loving relationships with one another, Satan desires to keep us isolated, and competition and comparison are some of his tools to do so. Whenever I feel that my value is threatened because of what someone else carries, it helps me to remember that everything each of us is and has is from God. Nothing that truly matters comes from my own strength, so if my desire is to impact the world for good, I can trust that God knows exactly what I need in order to do that. It is humbling to remember that God is the vine and we are simply the branches. We can do absolutely nothing apart from Him! Let us not resent anyone else for what they possess, but instead embrace that each one of us is in total dependence on God, stewarding what we have been given the best that we can!
"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing."
John 15:5 ESV
John 15:5 ESV