Ogden Presbyterian Church

Greetings and salutations, This Thursday we finish up our study of Ephesians (1:00 if you want to join us). The final chapter, 6, talks about the armor of God which we will discuss on Sunday (letters A-L this week): Ephesians 6:10-20... 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. 15 As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. 16 With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints. 19 Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak. Can you use any of these pieces today? Which one do you feel is important to you? I am particularly interested in the shoes and being strengthened to share the gospel of peace. Grace and peace be yours, PT

Ogden Presbyterian folks, this Sunday in person worship is for last name letters A-L. Please call the office to verify (thanks). Since we are studying the letter to the Ephesians in our Thursday bible study, I wanted to look at a couple of passages from the first two chapters. Here is one of them: Ephesians 2:1-10...Continue reading

Howdy pardners, This Sunday, October 25th, last names starting A-L attend this week please call the office (3526802) to verify for us. Also, this is our final Stewardship Sunday. If you have not turned in your pledge, please do so by Sunday so we can announce the tally. Since we cannot be all together in Fellowship Hall after worship to eat chili and soup as we wait for the pledge total, Session is asking everyone the following: Please have your own soup/chili/whatever read...y after worship in your own homes. We will all sit together on Zoom as we wait for the total to be announced. We may not be able to be together in person, so we do the next best thing. We can still sit and chat as we wait. For those in worship Sunday, we will announce the total expeditiously and then you can hurry home and enjoy your meal. The passage for Sunday comes from the Old Testament book of Esther a unlikely young woman who rose to become Queen but then had to make a hard and risky decision: Esther 4:9-17 9 Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said. 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and gave him a message for Mordecai, saying, 11 ‘All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one lawall alike are to be put to death. Only if the king holds out the golden sceptre to someone, may that person live. I myself have not been called to come in to the king for thirty days.’ 12 When they told Mordecai what Esther had said, 13 Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, ‘Do not think that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.’ 15 Then Esther said in reply to Mordecai, 16 ‘Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.’ 17 Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him. In order to save her people, Esther had to choose to risk her life under what circumstances who you make that choice? She knew, however, that she had been called by God to take this action, to step out and act on behalf of others For Such a Time as This. See you Sunday, PT

On Sunday October 18th, as we consider and make our financial commitments to ministry here at Ogden Presbyterian Church for 2021, we will look at this brilliant, ancient story: 1 Samuel 17:3-11, 41-47 3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them. 4 And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a helmet... of bronze on his head, and he was armored with a coat of mail; the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 He had greaves of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him. 8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, ‘Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.’ 10 And the Philistine said, ‘Today I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man, that we may fight together.’ 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him. 42 When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. 43 The Philistine said to David, ‘Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?’ And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 The Philistine said to David, ‘Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the field.’ 45 But David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the Philistine army this very day to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not save by sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and he will give you into our hand.’ What is the point of this story? Who won this battle? David calls God The Living God twice in this story do you believe that? What does that mean to you? What carries you through each day, what do you rely on? Lots more on Sunday, PT