I won’t forget you. Romance can be a beautiful reminder of God’s love for us. But what happens when we forget or struggle to remember His love? What happens when life fills our attention spans and focus with so many other things that make us forget about who we are, who God is, and what He has done?
The Notebook follows the story of a romance that leads a desperate man to love his wife despite her dementia. He loves her so much that he’ll do just about anything to bring her to remember the love they have. How does the power of Christ’s love awaken us to remember who He is in the times of our forgetfulness? Join us this coming Sunday to see how the love of God remembers us even when we forget.
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Old Testament Reading – Isaiah 49:13-18 (ESV)
13 Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;
break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord has comforted his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted.14 But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
17 Your builders make haste;
your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 Lift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
As I live, declares the Lord,
you shall put them all on as an ornament;
you shall bind them on as a bride does.
Gospel Reading – Matthew 18:10-14 (ESV)
10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. 12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 14 So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.