Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Focus Church:  Office of Next Generation Ministries

Pastor: Jeffrey S Baker and spouse Laura

Please hold Rev. Russell Oden, retired clergy in the Gateway Central District, in your prayers on the passing of his wife, Cynthia Oden. Notes of sympathy can be sent to Rev. Russell Oden, 5 Schoolhouse Ct., O'Fallon, MO 63368-8155

Scripture – Psalm 1

1 The truly happy person
    doesn’t follow wicked advice,
    doesn’t stand on the road of sinners,
    and doesn’t sit with the disrespectful.
² Instead of doing those things,
    these persons love the Lord’s Instruction,
    and they recite God’s Instruction day and night!
³ They are like a tree replanted by streams of water,
    which bears fruit at just the right time
    and whose leaves don’t fade.
        Whatever they do succeeds.

⁴ That’s not true for the wicked!
    They are like dust that the wind blows away.
⁵ And that’s why the wicked will have no standing in the court of justice—
    neither will sinners
    in the assembly of the righteous.
⁶ The Lord is intimately acquainted
    with the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked is destroyed.