APRIL 26, 2026
8:30 | 9:45
Prelude
The Solid Rock | #120
Welcome and Cultivate Liturgy
God of Grace and God of Glory | #84
Life of the Congregation *
I Would Be a Child of Peace *
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Deep Peace
MARK 4:35–41
DR. RICHARD KANNWISCHER Senior Pastor
Be Still My Soul | Hymn #610
Invitation and Benediction
Postlude
* For 9:45 service only
11:15
Gratitude
Welcome and Cultivate Liturgy
Life of the Congregation
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Who Else
MARK 4:35–41
DR. RICHARD KANNWISCHER Senior Pastor Trust
In God
Invitation and Benediction
Postlude
Congregational songs are listed in bold italic.
Mark 4:35–41
When we lose ourselves, God sends someone to remind us who we are.
1. A Huge Loss
“Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him.” (v. 1)
2. A Foolish Insult
“Nabal answered David’s servants, ʻWho is this David? Who is this son of Jesse?ʼ” (v. 10)
3. A Rising Anger
“David said to his men, ʻEach of you strap on your sword!ʼ So they did, and David strapped his on as well.” (v. 13)
4. A Courageous Interruption
“Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.” (v. 18)
“When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. She fell at his feet …” (v. 23)
5. A Restored Identity
“Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself.” (v. 29-31)
6. A Different Ending
“David said to Abigail, ʻPraise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.ʼ Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, ʻGo home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.ʼ” (v. 32-35)
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” – Matthew 5:9
SUNDAY MAY 3 PM THE SANCTUARY 3
May 18 | June 15 | July 20 | August 17
Just as families keep in touch about joys and sorrows, our church family at Peachtree wants to do the same. During your prayers this week, we ask you to lift up these people to God.
Noel Hardy Hardin | 4/13
Somer and Noel Hardin
Grandparents: Sally and Oran Woodall; Melanie and Russ Hardin
Holden Reece Clifford | 4/14
Makenzie and Andrew Clifford
Marge Anderson | Georgian Lakeside (Rehab)
Melissa La Bella | Piedmont Hospital
Elizabeth Munson | Home Hospice Care
Walter Buchanan | 4/17
Betty Prim | 2/4
Graham Boyd Shaw | 4/20
Father of Diane Wickham; Grandfather of Lee and Abbie Wickham
The beautiful flowers in the Sanctuary this morning are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Jim Kincaid, Jr.
by his widow, Diana, his parents, Glenn, and Jim Kincaid and his siblings, Allyson Kincaid Brand and Whit Kincaid and their respective families
To receive your Steeple Coffee welcome gift, stop by Connection Central on Sunday morning in the Williams Center and show your Connect Card confirmation to one of our staff or volunteers.