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Next Worship Service

Sunday, September 13, 2026
10F Hall, 9AM (NO 11AM EM service)
16th Sunday after Pentecost
Ecumenical Sunday, Joint Worship


Scriptures: Genesis 2:22, Ephesians 5:22-33

Message: In Christ Alone 唯獨在基督裡
Preacher: Pastor Michael Lu

Recent Sermons & Services

Announcements

*** Announcements for the Week of September 13th ***

  • DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING (DBR)
    Join us tonight at 8pm for our weekly Sunday Devotional Bible Reading.
  • SCHOLARSHIP AWARD APPLICATION
    SLPC is accepting financial scholarship applications for students to encourage them in their studies. For qualifications and details, please see Secretary Lo (羅靜婷幹事) in the 9F office. Deadline is September 20.
  • BBQ PARTY
    The Riverlink Fellowship, the SLPC Youth Ministry, and EM will cohost a BBQ party after service on the 12F to celebrate the Moon Festival (中秋節) on September 20. Please click the following link to register. Registration fee is $350/adult and $150/child (6-12). https://forms.gle/oNTbHBs2tQdRNDRRA
  • 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


Ephesians 2:14
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall


WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

SALVATION IS FROM THE LORD: FROM THE STOMACH OF THE FISH
(REFLECTIONS ON Jonah 2:1-10)

Pastor Michael Lu

Yes, Jonah’s prayer is significant. It shows Jonah sinking deeper and deeper into the sea and then the Lord saving him from death by appointing a great fish to swallow him.

Perhaps what is more significant than Jonah’s prayer, is from where the prayer took place.

1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish.

Jonah was on his way down to the depths of the sea, and spiritually down to the depth of Sheol (the grave/the underworld), but the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow him.

Jonah experienced the Lord’s salvation, and it was in the place of salvation, from the stomach of the fish, that he prayed a prayer of thanksgiving.

It was from the stomach of the fish that Jonah realized that “Salvation is from the Lord.” Not only would this realization lead Jonah to Nineveh, but it would also expose the deeper condition of his heart.

Jonah knew that salvation was from the Lord, but now he would have to wrestle with the fact that the Lord could extend that salvation even to Nineveh.

Brothers and sisters, what are we doing from the stomach of the fish? Haven’t our lives been captured by Christ, saved from death and given new life in Him?

Aren’t we also like Jonah, a people that have realized that “Salvation is from the Lord?”

What then do we do with that information? First, it should lead us to remember that our life is no longer our own, but is grace manifest in us through Christ. Our life is Christ’s because “Salvation is from the Lord.”

What then should we do with this salvation? What then should we do from the stomach of the fish? What should we do when the fish vomits us up onto the dry land?

Let us also be people who have experienced that “Salvation is from the Lord: From the stomach of the fish,” and Go! do the works of the Lord.