Welcome to the Prime Timers Adult Bible Fellowship

We invite you to join the Prime Timers every Sunday in the Payne Education center, second floor, rooms 210-212 from 10:10 am until 10:50 am. Currently we are studying the writings of Paul from the book of Romans.

Our class leader, Jackie Rose at the podium.

We Hope you had a Great Easter Sunday!

Normal A.B.F. classes resume this Sunday, April 3 with the beginning of a new unit in the Uniform Series from the National Council of Churches we are following this year. It is called "The Christian Life." A good time for you to join us!

Remember Daylight Savings Time starts this Sunday, April 3.

Its the one where you Spring Ahead, and you will lose an hour's sleep, so get to bed early and enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evening!

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You can click the logo above and learn more about the Episcopal Church's relief missions.

St. Martin's Easter services were excellent.

The Lesson for Sunday, April 3 is titled "Power for Living"

Key Verse:  Romans 8:14

Focus of the Lesson:  Sometimes life overwhelms us and we find ourselves without strength or wisdom to know what to do or where to turn. Where can we find help in such times? Paul writes that the power of God's Spirit is available to those who are in Christ.

The reading is Romans 8:1-16. This text is from the New Revised Standard Version.

1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you. 12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ 16 it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,