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Next Worship Service

Sunday, June 7, 2026
2nd Sunday after Pentecost

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12:1-13
Message: One in the Spirit
Preacher: Pastor Michael Lu

Recent Sermons & Services

Announcements

*** Announcements for the Week of June 7th ***

  • DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING (DBR)
    Join us tonight at 8pm for our weekly Sunday Devotional Bible Reading via EM’s YouTube channel @SLPCEM. Link will also be made available on our EM Family Line group and EM FB page.
  • 2026 EM RETREAT
    Registration for the EM Joint Retreat at Tainan Linzinei Retreat Center (台南林子內靈修館) has opened. Click the link below to see details and sign up: https://forms.gle/VLdEvUpMpRUWiASK8

  • HOLY COMMUNION
    There will be Holy Communion next Sunday (6/14). Please prepare our hearts.
  • SLPC BAPTISM
    The next opportunity to be baptized at SLPC will be on Sunday, August 23. Please get in touch with Pastor Lu if you are interested in finding out more.
  • 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


1 Corinthians 12:12
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.


WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

PRAY FOR WISDOM
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 KINGS 3:1-28)

Pastor Michael Lu

3 “Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.”

Solomon loved the Lord, yet that did not mean his actions were without fault. Yes, he loved the Lord and walked in the statutes of his father David, but he still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places because the temple of the Lord had not yet been completed.

Work still needed to be done. This reminds us that even in our love for the Lord, we are often slow to build up the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is our bodies, because we are distracted by many other things.

We have lives to live and a world before us, but our love for the Lord should lead us to labor with diligence and fervency to establish a place of worship in our hearts, so that we may worship in Spirit and truth.

Yet because Solomon loved the Lord, when God asked him in a dream,

Solomon prayed for wisdom, saying,

7 “Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in… 9 So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil…”

This was pleasing in the sight of the Lord. So when Solomon awoke with a wise and discerning heart, Scripture tells us,

15 “Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream; and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.”

Wisdom led Solomon to offer burnt offerings not in the high places, but before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Let us then pray for wisdom as Solomon did. Wisdom will help us worship in Spirit and truth. Wisdom will help us know how to love the Lord, rather than loving Him according to our own understanding.

Pray for wisdom, and may the Lord be pleased with our prayer. May His wisdom help us walk in the path of growth toward the cross of Christ, so that we may know how to “go out and come in”, meaning that our lives and faith may mature and be used for God’s purposes and will.