Bulletin July 12, 2026
Order of Worship
Sarah Bowland
“Set Free to Serve: Walking in the Spirit” - Pastor Tamar
We will now celebrate communion
Envelopes are available in-person. Click here for electronic giving options.
Upcoming events (see below).
Calendar
Communion - each Sunday -
7:00 Intercessory Prayer
No services - Be The Church Day - GCI Gathering long weekend in Texas - keep in prayer for our musical team featuring Tamar & Dan
Church Garage Sale at Tamar's - Friday & Saturday - 9am - 1pm; set up at 8
Church Services and Picnic at Harry & Sue Ford's in Madison, Church starts at 11:30am
Reflection
Many historians regard Samuel Adams as the Father of the American Revolution. Years before independence was popular, Adams was teaching that our rights come from God, not government. He argued that the colonists possessed rights “as men, as Christians, and as subjects”—in that order. He believed that liberty could only survive among a moral and religious people. Washington led the army. Jefferson wrote the Declaration. But Samuel Adams spent decades preparing the minds of Americans for freedom. The Revolution was won on the battlefield, but it first took root in the hearts and convictions of men like Samuel Adams.
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Offering
We thank you for your heart-felt generosity and sacrifice in giving. God is the ultimate giver who gave the most precious gift imaginable - His Son Jesus - to die on the cross for our sins. Our lives are transformed by the gospel of Christ. When we learn to give generously, it changes us, making us more like our generous Creator. In other words, generosity isn’t something God wants from you, it is something He wants for you.
Giving Portal - this is a website that you can set up an account and log into.
We also have Text to Give:
The portal is more direct. Texting sends you a link, and you end up in the same place. The old text-to-give remembered your identity based on your phone number. The new one no longer seems to do this.
For those on Zoom, feel free to mail your offering (not cash) to
Grace Communion Cleveland
4901 Highland Place Ct.
Richmond Heights 44143
Scripture Reading
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
106 I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
107 I am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to your word!
108 Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.
109 I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.
111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
112 I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.
Scripture
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.