Year: 2020

Prayer – 28 July

At the heart of what Jesus came to do is the cross (which in many senses the New Testament uses as a short form for everything leading up to the cross, the resurrection and the ascension). Pray that we as followers of Jesus will be focused on the centrality of the cross and that those who do not follow Jesus would be set free to see the truth and the power of Jesus’ love

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18

Prayer – 27 July

The power of God working in us is what enables every good work that God calls us to, to be accomplished. Pray then that his glory will be displayed in everything.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21

July 26 – Parable of the Coin

welcome

We are glad you are here…

We trust and pray that as you read and listen that you will be blessed.
Take a few minutes as you prepare to watch the video

  • to be still
  • to be aware of the presence of the Lord with you
  • to prepare your heart to listen and receive.

Read Psalm 92 as you enter into worship

worship and message

Today, we are using a  couple of videos from Brooke Nicholls to lead us in worship and pastor Brent looks at the Parable of the Coin in the Fishes Month Matthew 17:24-27

Check out our OCCKids video

prayer

Prayer is so vital to our life as followers of Jesus and our life as a church

We encourage you to join us tonight @ 6:30pm

Join Zoom Meeting: Prayer Link

Meeting ID: 995 4454 1247
Password: 4LKzLR

giving

Thank you for your faithful and generous giving.
Because of your generosity, we have been able to give to

  • the Sharing Place Food Bank,
  • FSA [Friendship Support Association] – relief work in the Afar,
  • Greenhaven Women’s Shelter,
  • as well as to a network of churches that help with benevolence requests.

You can find all the ways you can give here.

benediction

God, we thank you for your grace
For your reaching down from heaven
To touch our ordinary lives
In unexpected places
When we might feel anxious
Vulnerable
Disorientated
Wondering what is next

God we thank you for your presence
As Paul prayed for the Ephesians
May the eyes of ours hearts be enlightened
In order that we may know the hope to which he has called us
The riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
And his incomparably great power for us who believe.
May we know the power that is the same as the mighty strength
He exerted when he raised Christ from the dead
And seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

God open the eyes of our hearts
To see you beside us
Wherever we are
Your grace seeing us
Loving us
Your encouragement energising us
To commitment
To a partnership
That will see your promises of a new Kingdom come
And your will being done on earth as it is in heaven

God we take hold of your promise
To stick with us until you’ve done everything you promised

May we sense that presence, grace and promise
We offer ourselves to it

In Jesus name
AMEN

Prayer – 26 July

Pray that as pastor Mike and Brent preach that our words will be full of God’s power.

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5

Prayer – 25 July

Pray that all of us would tell the story of the resurrection with great power, so that lives are changed.

With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. 
Acts 4:33a

Prayer – 24 July

Pray that OCC and other churches in Orillia will be known for their love.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3:14

Prayer – 23 July

Prayer that every person at OCC will as Paul says in Ephesians 4, “be built up… become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-13

Prayer – 22 July

Prayer that as God’s people we will minister together with humility, gentleness and patience, showing love to each other in the bond of peace.

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:1-3

Prayer – 21 July

Pray that God’s church will understand that God encourages and celebrates diversity within the body of Christ.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work… Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 12