SPRING HAS SPRUNG

SNIPPET

“Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.” ― Lilly Pulitzer

SCRIPTURE

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” JOHN 4:13,14

SONG

I LOVE TOME T HALL

https://youtu.be/65AuuFpNFxY

I love little baby ducks, old pickup trucks

Slow-movin' trains and rain

I love little country streams, sleep without dreams

Sunday school in May and hay

And I love you, too

I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends

Birds of the world and squirrels

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups

Old TV shows and snow

And I love you, too

I love honest, open smiles, kisses from a child

Tomatoes on the vine and onions

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try

Music when it's good and life

And I love you, too.

SENTENCE PRAYER

Father

the giver of all season, but spring is your best gift.

I frolic in your gift so much at time I forget Your presence

May I thirst for Your presence, so it’s always spring 

no matter the calendar date.  Amen

LOVE WITHOUT END!

SNIPPET

There is nothing you can do to make God love you more, there is 

nothing you can do to make God love you less,  Jesus on the cross is 

God’s perfect expression of love. Anonymous

SCRIPTURE

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ 

died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, 

though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But 

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still 

sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8 NIV

SONG

LOVE WITHOUT END GEORGE STRAIGHT

https://youtu.be/bA_cC51mhR0

I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye.

Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why.

When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed.

And then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waited for the worst.

[Chorus:]

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,

A secret that my daddy said was just between us."

He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.

It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

When I became a father in the spring of '81

There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son.

And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end,

I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him.

[Chorus]

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates.

When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.

If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in.

And then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again.

[Chorus]

SENTENCE PRAYER

Love poured out 

on that cruel cross,

a blood offering

so we might go free.

(Pause)

Love poured out,

infusing this world

with rivers of grace

and hope of rebirth.

(Pause)

Love poured out,

and into these hearts,

who drink from a stream

that never runs dry 

 http://www.faithandworship.com/prayers_Easter.htm#ixzz3WTlmTb1h