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Adult Education for
January 29th
Name by Rob Bell
We all compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us even wish we were someone else. We question why we are the way we are and not the way we wish we could be. Some of us have let the expectations of others dictate who we've become. We act a certain way to be accepted but know that we're being untrue. But why are we so concerned with what other people think, say, or look like? What does it say about us if we are unable to accept who we are? Maybe if we really knew our true selves, we wouldn't give so much attention to other peoples' lives and live more in tune with the life God wants for us.
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to Praise, Nurture and Serve
Unlikely Healings
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Worship is at 10:30am
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Greetings! We are into the 5th Chapter of Mark where we look at ways the presence of Christ brings about healing in individuals and healing in community. Last week Jesus ventured out beyond the safety of home, across the troubled waters and into land of foreign demons. This week Jesus again crosses the chaos of life and we have a healing story of the young daughter of the leader of the synagogue with the healing of an old woman stuck in the middle of the story. Worship will be at 10:30 and Sunday School will be at 9:30. In the Adult Sunday School we will discuss our identity and how we sometimes deny who we are in order to put on a false face in this world. I would like to thank Shirley Marris and Kelsey Terland for helping out this Sunday with Coffee Hour following worship. At the annual meeting it was decided to transfer $18,000 from our capital fund to pay past due bills. This reduces our capital fund to $5000. We currently need an average of $2700 per week to keep current with our bills. Last weeks offering was $1093. One way that would help keep Christ Our Savior Lutheran afloat would be to increase the number of persons who give on a regular basis. Please consider setting up a regular giving program either in person or through the use of our on-line giving option. You can click HERE to visit our on-line giving option. Coming up soon: Lutheran Winter Community Camp, February 10-12 at Victory Bible Camp. Great fun and fellowship for the whole family. www.AKLutheranCamps.org for more info Also coming up, A Play for a Purpose: The Gospel According to John Mark
By Steve Johnson, Saturday February 11th at 7pm at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium. Click HERE for more information.
We start the new year with a new policy on Cell Phones. Leave them on, just turn off the ringer. We are in the year of Mark where everything happens Right Now. Feel free to text, tweet, facebook or blog during the service to let your friends know what is happening in worship and inviting them to join you next Sunday. Our theme for food collection for January is New Year's Noodles 
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Remember in Prayer: Christ Our Savior Lutheran for continued ministry. Joe and Inga Hallum and Georgia Bass for continued strength and healing. Cindy Adams for strength and healing. Prayers for those who are not able to join us this Sunday due to illness and most of all prayers for those who find themselves too busy for gathering in community worship.
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Mark 5
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." 24 So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
31 "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' "
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother the teacher anymore?"
36 Overhearing[a] what they said, Jesus told him, "Don't be afraid; just believe."
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep." 40 But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!"(which means "Little girl, I say to you, get up!"). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
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