Your Church, God's World - Day 36

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11 | If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Thanks to you, his name is lifted up! Thanks to you, choirs sing and bands play. Children learn the vocabulary of praise, teenagers magnify him, adults glorify him. There is an echo here, at 6947 East McDonald Drive, of the heavenly chorus. There is a preview of the worship of heaven. From Valley Day School Chapel to sunrise on Sunday morning, Jesus is honored and celebrated. Thanks to you!

Pray for Jennifer Hamm as she balances babies and musical leadership, for Julia Tucker pursuing a Ph.D. and helping VPC, and for Travis Kingma, leading our band and our next generation ministries.

Thank God for all our volunteer singers and players and worship leaders.