Sermon Title: Hope on the Rollercoaster
Scripture: Ezra 3-4
Church Calendar Season: Eastertide
Respond to Worship
Adults Conversation Starters
What areas feel like a rollercoaster in your life currently?
In what ways do you see, or not see, God in those places?
How does remembering the stroy of Ezra encourage you as you navigate hte rollercoaster called life?
Kids Conversation Starters
Parents, read Ezra 3-4. Share the portions that your kids are able to understand.
- What is Ezra trying to do? Has this been an easy process? why or why not?
- What things do you find difficult in your own life?
- What are some ways could we ask God to be a part of that difficulty?
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Prayer for the Week
Lord, on this Mothers’ Day
we lift up the aching hearts of all those who long to be mothers,
but mourn the absence of new life within them:
who have conceived, but suffered loss through miscarriage or abortion;
who have given birth, but endured the tragedy of burying a child.
Their grief is often hidden from us or neglected on this day of celebration of motherhood.
We pray that they may experience healing in this church family.
Risen Lord of life, grant them comfort and peace,
breath in us all the breath of new life.
Through Jesus Christ, who defeated death, Amen.
(by Nathan Bierma)