The Pulse: Your Connection to a Church with a Heart for the Community. The Pulse is David Chapel’s Monthly Publication containing information on DC events, announcements, and other items in need of our attention.
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Highlights
- Church Intergenerational Retreat Moved to April
- Church Office Closed: November 12th,22nd, & 23rd
- Church Family Directory Photo Session Scheduling
- Choose a child for the Angel Tree Ministry
- Medicare Workshop: November 10th
- March of Dimes Prematurity Awareness Month
- Annual DC Pre Thanksgiving Community Dinner
A Message from Pastor Parker
Rejuvenate is an interesting word! It carries with it an energetic notion of restoring to a vigorous state or to make fresh or new again. In geography it can mean to renew the erosive power of a stream by uplift or by removal of a barrier in the stream bed. As the seasons change and cool air blows across our faces while we grab our sweaters and jackets, so do we experience life’s changes and blows.
Perhaps some of us are like lakes and streams that have dried up, parched reminders of what once was (Job 4:11), prompting us to seek rejuvenation as we begin to focus on Thanksgiving in the midst of running on empty in our lives. For some of us this is a time of “needed rejuvenation” – recharge or restoration to a vigorous or fresh state or renewal of what has been eroded this year through challenges we have faced. But rejuvenation can stir up within us the importance of gratitude; for we ought to be grateful that we have God who can rejuvenate us. So as you focus on thanksgiving, I wonder if you are grateful to God who makes rejuvenation available to each of us. Perhaps in the coming weeks – in the midst of “lakes and streams that have dried up” in your life –you will pray this psalm so you can be rejuvenated –
GOD, teach me lessons for living so I can stay the course. Give me insight so I can do what you tell me— my whole life one long, obedient response. Guide me down the road of your commandments; I love traveling this freeway! Give me a bent for your words of wisdom, and not for piling up loot.
Divert my eyes from toys and trinkets, invigorate me on the pilgrim way. Affirm your promises to me— promises made to all who fear you. Deflect the harsh words of my critics— but what you say is always so good. See how hungry I am for your counsel; preserve my life through your righteous ways! Let your love, GOD, shape my life with salvation, exactly as you promised; Then I’ll be able to stand up to mockery because I trusted your Word. Don’t ever deprive me of truth, not ever— your commandments are what I depend on. Oh, I’ll guard with my life what you’ve revealed to me, guard it now, guard it ever; And I’ll stride freely through wide open spaces as I look for your truth and your wisdom; Then I’ll tell the world what I find, speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed. I cherish your commandments—oh, how I love them! — relishing every fragment of your counsel.
Remember what you said to me, your servant— I hang on to these words for dear life! These words hold me up in bad times; yes, your promises rejuvenate me. (Psalm 119:33-50)
Please check your pulse in this season as you read The Pulse so you can renew the erosive power of your life’s stream by uplift or by removal of a barrier in your stream bed! To God be the glory!
Pastor Parker
