HOW MANY MORE? 10 Don’t give up and be helpless in times of trouble. 11 Don’t fail to rescue those who are doomed to die. 12Don’t say, “I didn’t know it!” God can read your mind. God watches each of us and knows our thoughts. (Proverbs 24:10-12a, CEV) Remembering those who lost their lives in the February 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida: +Alyssa Alhadeff, 14-years-old. Her mom wrote on Facebook that she was a talented soccer player, a

ROCK OF AGES 17The LORD said to Moses, ‘I will do the very thing that you have asked; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.’ 18Moses said, ‘Show me your glory, I pray.’ 19And he said, ‘I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name, “The LORD”; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20But,’ he said, ‘you cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live.’

THE STATE OF THE CHURCH 2018 26For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham [and Sarah’s] offspring, heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:26-29, NRSV) Our church was blessed