Texts for the Week: Mark 5:22-24; 35-43; 1 Peter 5:6, 7; Gen. 37:17-28; Luke 16:13; Rom. 6:16; I Cor. 15:26

Memory Text: “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ” (Philippians 3:8, NKJV).

Opening Question: What are we do to when we experience loss?

One

of the sad realities about life on this planet is that we experience,

over and again, losses. In fact, the presence of loss is so endemic

to human ...