We Participate in the Good
May 10, 2026
CENTRAL TEXT: Luke 11:27-28; Mark 3:31-35; John 2:1-5
Luke 11:27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” 28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Mark 3:31 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. 32 And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” 33 And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34 And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 131:1,2
LEADER: O LORD, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
ALL: I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
LEADER: But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
ALL: like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Quotes:
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
- Dietrich Bonhoëffer
It takes great faith to have no faith.
- Bono
Men’s happiness consists in attaining to his last end.
- Thomas Aquinas
Lord, it belongs not to my care
Whether I die or live;
To love and serve Thee is my share,
And this Thy grace must give.
If life be long, I will be glad,
That I may long obey;
If short, yet why should I be sad
To welcome endless day?
- Richard Baxter (d. 1691), “Lord, it belongs not to my care”
Books:
Surrender, Bono
SERMONS / TALKS:
“Christianity and its message,” David Martyn Lloyd-Jones