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Tuesday Morning Bible Study sessions will be via Zoom at 11:00AM Eastern Time. Please join us for an interesting discussion. The Zoom meeting information is in the E-mail to the congregation, or you can call the church office or Ruby Webb for the Zoom ID and Passcode.

Psalm 69 with Pastor Mark

1 Save me, O God!
   For the waters have come up to my neck.
2 I sink in deep mire,
   where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
   and the flood sweeps over me.
3 I am weary with my crying;
   my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
   with waiting for my God.
4 More in number than the hairs of my head
   are those who hate me without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
   those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
   must I now restore?
5 O God, thou knowest my folly;
   the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
6 Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me,
   O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me,
   O God of Israel.
7 For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach,
   that shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brethren,
   an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For zeal for thy house has consumed me,
   and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
10 When I humbled[a] my soul with fasting,
   it became my reproach.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
   I became a byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,
   and the drunkards make songs about me.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord.
   At an acceptable time, O God,
   in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me.
With thy faithful help 14 rescue me
   from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
   and from the deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
   or the deep swallow me up,
   or the pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for thy steadfast love is good;
   according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
17 Hide not thy face from thy servant;
   for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.
18 Draw near to me, redeem me,
   set me free because of my enemies!
19 Thou knowest my reproach,
   and my shame and my dishonor;
   my foes are all known to thee.
20 Insults have broken my heart,
   so that I am in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none;
   and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me poison for food,
   and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their own table before them become a snare;
   let their sacrificial feasts[b] be a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;
   and make their loins tremble continually.
24 Pour out thy indignation upon them,
   and let thy burning anger overtake them.
25 May their camp be a desolation,
   let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten,
   and him[c] whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.[d]
27 Add to them punishment upon punishment;
   may they have no acquittal from thee.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
   let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
29 But I am afflicted and in pain;
   let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
30 I will praise the name of God with a song;
   I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the Lord more than an ox
   or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
   you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33 For the Lord hears the needy,
   and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

The focus for Fall 2023 Lessons is “God’s Law Is Love.”

Tuesday Morning Bible Study sessions will be via Zoom at 11:00AM Eastern Time. Please join us for an interesting discussion. The Zoom meeting information is in the E-mail to the congregation, or you can call the church office or Ruby Webb for the Zoom ID and Passcode.

Psalm 130 with Elder Angela Hemphill

1 Out of the depths I cry to thee, O Lord!
2 Lord, hear my voice!
Let thy ears be attentive
   to the voice of my supplications!
3 If thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquities,
   Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee,
   that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
   and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
   more than watchmen for the morning,
   more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
   For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
   and with him is plenteous redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
   from all his iniquities.

The focus for Fall 2023 Lessons is “God’s Law Is Love.”

We are going to conduct a special service highlighting a message that will be delivered by Rev. Jimmie R. Hawkins, Best selling author of Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America.

Tuesday Morning Bible Study sessions will be via Zoom at 11:00AM Eastern Time. Please join us for an interesting discussion. The Zoom meeting information is in the E-mail to the congregation, or you can call the church office or Ruby Webb for the Zoom ID and Passcode.

Psalm 31 with Pastor Mark

Prayer and Praise for Deliverance from Enemies

To the leader. A Psalm of David.

1 In you, O Lord, I seek refuge;
   do not let me ever be put to shame;
   in your righteousness deliver me.
2 Incline your ear to me;
   rescue me speedily.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
   a strong fortress to save me.
3 You are indeed my rock and my fortress;
   for your name’s sake lead me and guide me;
4 take me out of the net that is hidden for me,
   for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit;
   you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
6 You hate[a] those who pay regard to worthless idols,
   but I trust in the Lord.
7 I will exult and rejoice in your steadfast love,
   because you have seen my affliction;
   you have taken notice of my adversities
8 and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
   you have set my feet in a broad place.
9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
   my eye wastes away from grief,
   my soul and body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow
   and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery,[b]
   and my bones waste away.
11 I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
   a horror[c] to my neighbors,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
   those who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
   I have become like a broken vessel.
13 For I hear the whispering of many—
   terror all around!—
as they scheme together against me,
   as they plot to take my life.
14 But I trust in you, O Lord;
   I say, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in your hand;
   deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
16 Let your face shine upon your servant;
   save me in your steadfast love.
17 Do not let me be put to shame, O Lord,
   for I call on you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
   let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
18 Let the lying lips be stilled
   that speak insolently against the righteous
   with pride and contempt.
19 O how abundant is your goodness
   that you have laid up for those who fear you
and accomplished for those who take refuge in you,
   in the sight of everyone!
20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them
   from human plots;
you hold them safe under your shelter
   from contentious tongues.
21 Blessed be the Lord,
   for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
   when I was beset as a city under siege.
22 I had said in my alarm,
   “I am driven far[d] from your sight.”
But you heard my supplications
   when I cried out to you for help.
23 Love the Lord, all you his saints.
   The Lord preserves the faithful
   but abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily.
24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
   all you who wait for the Lord.

The focus for Fall 2023 Lessons is “God’s Law Is Love.”

Tuesday Morning Bible Study sessions will be via Zoom at 11:00AM Eastern Time. Please join us for an interesting discussion. The Zoom meeting information is in the E-mail to the congregation, or you can call the church office or Ruby Webb for the Zoom ID and Passcode.

Psalm 146 with Elder Denise Hodges 

1 Praise the Lord!
   Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
   I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
3 Put not your trust in princes,
   in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 When his breath departs he returns to his earth;
   on that very day his plans perish.
5 Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
   whose hope is in the Lord his God,
6 who made heaven and earth,
   the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps faith for ever;
7     who executes justice for the oppressed;
   who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free;
8     the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
   the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the sojourners,
   he upholds the widow and the fatherless;
   but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
10 The Lord will reign for ever,
   thy God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the Lord!

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The focus for Fall 2023 Lessons is “God’s Law Is Love.”

Tuesday Morning Bible Study sessions will be via Zoom at 11:00AM Eastern Time. Please join us for an interesting discussion. The Zoom meeting information is in the E-mail to the congregation, or you can call the church office or Ruby Webb for the Zoom ID and Passcode.