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Sunday, April 12, 2026
2nd Sunday of Easter

Scriptures: Matthew 4:12-23
Message: “New Life, New Community, New Mission”
Preacher: Dr. Yuki Takai-Heller

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Announcements

*** Announcements for the Week of April 12th ***

  • HOLY COMMUNION
    There will be Holy Communion next Sunday (4/19). Please prepare your hearts.
  • SPORTING EVENTS
    The second season of the Basketball and Badminton Clubs are now open for registration. Please click the respective links for event details. (LANGUAGE: Mandarin/Taiwanese)
    Basketball Club: https://reurl.cc/2am2l6
    Badminton Club: https://reurl.cc/YDXK9D
     
  • TAIWANESE LANGUAGE COMPETITION
    As a tradition to celebrate Mother’s Day at SLPC, the 26th annual language competition in Taiwanese will take place on Saturday, April 25. Reading, writing, recitation, speech, and translation are in the competition. It’s open to everyone. To enter, please ask Secretary Liu (劉嘉芬幹事) in the office.
  • OFFERTORY RECORDS VERIFICATION
    SLPC encourages its congregation to verify his/her offertory records through SLPC’s Line OA member service. Contact James for help on access.
  • OFFERING ENVELOPES
    Please use the dedicated envelopes for different kinds of offerings: tithe, building fund, thanksgiving, seasonal, special occasions, and etc.
  • THE ELECTRONIC CONNECT CARD
    The electronic version of the Connect Card can now be accessed by scanning the new QR Code below.
    eConnectCard
    Or by clicking this link: https://forms.gle/AJqmNU2HkizjJXNH6
  • SCAN OR CLICK TO SIGN-IN EVERY SERVICE
    Please scan the service QR Code around the Chapel entrance or on the bulletin, or click the Sign-In link that will be posted in the EM Family Line group chat each Sunday morning for attendance.

***Special Notice***

Hello brothers and sisters in Christ! May the peace of Christ be with you!

The Taiwan CDC has loosened its policies on the COVID-19 restrictions. However, it’s an enclosed space inside the church. As a result, please observe the following guidelines when inside the church premises:

1. Please make sure you have your masks properly worn when entering and inside the church. Disinfect your hands with alcohol if necessary. Maintain social distancing whenever possible.

2. If you don’t feel well, exhibit symptoms of cold, or have been in close contact with people who are contracting COVID-19, please consider to stay at home and participate the online service instead.

3. Food and drinks are conditionally allowed inside the church compound.

Thank you and let’s worship God together on Sundays!

Electronic Sunday Bulletin
EM encourages its congregation to use the electronic version of the Sunday bulletin to save paper.  Please click the following link to access the eBulletin:

https://shorturl.at/R1UBt

Or scan the following QR code.

If you have any suggestion regarding the eBulletin, please let us know.  Thank you!

SERVE IN EM

Come and serve in EM!  You can join the Liturgy, the Audio/Video team, the Praise team, the EM Choir, the Homeless Ministry team, or the Kids Club.  Email: emcaresforyou@gmail.com for more info.

Bible Verse of the Week


Matthew 4:23
""Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people."


WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

“PEACE AND SAFETY!”
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:1-28)

Pastor Michael Lu

In the Old Testament, the prophets preached the word of God to Israel. They did not speak their own words, mixed with their own desires and motives, but it was their duty to be a vessel for God’s word to His people.

However, there were prophets that didn’t speak God’s word, but spoke rather the words of their own hearts and words that pleased those that heard them. They spoke a message of “Peace and Safety!” even though the Lord wanted them to speak a message of repentance and coming back to the Lord. Yet, it pleased them more to please the people, rather than pleasing God.

In today’s Scripture, we also read of those saying, “Peace and Safety!” However, Paul writes that it is in the midst of their message of “Peace and Safety!” that “destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.”

That is why Paul encourages the Thessalonians to not just sit idly by and lean back reveling in “Peace and Safety!”, but rather to be alert, to be sober and self-controlled, “having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.”

It is an attitude of the heart and a knowledge of the mind that the world is passing away, and is broken, and is not just “Peace and Safety!”, but rather a sign that we are to turn to Jesus Christ, and put our hope in Him, because it is only through Him that we can be saved from the despair.

Paul writes,

16 Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit; 20 do not despise prophetic utterances. 21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every form of evil.

We do not rejoice only when our life is full of “Peace and Safety!“, but all the more when we look around at the brokenness and pain in this world. We rejoice because there is an answer and a way to rise above this despair in the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Rather than satisfaction with the message of “Peace and Safety!” we are to pray without ceasing, giving thanks to even the pains our life, because these pains remind us that our hope is not found in this world, but in Christ.

Let us not with our trust and belief in this world, quench the Spirit, shut out the words of God, but to let the words of God pry us away from the chains of false “Peace and Safety!” in this world, and to hold fast to that which is good, and to believe that in Christ is new life. Let the Spirit speak to us truth, and give us wisdom to know the difference between false security, and true life found in the Lord.