Worship Focus 

 Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church

September 6, 2015

 
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Questions for
Reflection
 
Has there ever been a time when you wish you could have "taken those words back?" How did you handle it? What would you have done differently?
 
What are some of the practical ways we can encourage with our words, to "build one another up?"

 

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Sunday's Message
The Tongue as a Power Tool   
The Rev. Dr. Libby Boatwright, preaching
  
 

This week we explore the world of the tongue and how our words have power. We can either build up others and create a solid foundation of communication or choose to tear down years of friendship with a single misplaced phrase. God calls us to use our words wisely for they are the thoughts and intentions of our heart, a reflection of our soul.  Psalm 139 tells us, "Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely." Our time together will offer some ideas on how to keep the safety guard on this powerful tool.

We look forward to seeing you at either our Early Light contemplative service at 7:50 a.m. or the 10 a.m. Traditional Service. There will be no 5 p.m. Intersections service because many members of the congregation will be at All-Church Camp this weekend 
 
Blessings, 
Libby

Theme for the Day
 
A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.    ---Robert Leighton 
Scripture Passages

   
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
  
Psalm 71:19-24Second-Scripture               
 
Your power and your righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

You will increase my honor, and comfort me once again.

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have rescued.

All day long my tongue will talk of your righteous help, for those who tried to do me harm have been put to shame, and disgraced.