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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Holy Week at Church
Holy Week Schedule
Palm Sunday, April 1
9:00 and 10:30 a.m. Worship
Maundy Thursday, April 5
8:00 p.m. Tennebrae Service
You are invited to walk the Labyrinth in Plymouth Hall
following this service.
Good Friday, April 6
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Walking the Way of the Cross
Labyrinth Walk in Plymouth Hall
Easter Sunday, April 8
8:00, 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. Worship
Children are encouraged to attend worship with their parents.
There will be child care for the very young at 9:00 and 10:30.
I don't know about you but Easter is my favorite holiday. New life, colored eggs, chocolates nestled in pretty woven baskets, tulips and daffodils and Jesus on Easter Sunday. Have a wonderful Holy Week parading up to the great day of rebirth.
paz.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Trayvon
This is an interesting article asking why Evangelical Christians - and I'd add many Christian leaders regardless of denomination - have and continue to remain silent about this tragedy and many more like it. Where is God in all of this? Where is community and compassion for one another? We'll see what the investigations reveal but regardless of the judicial outcome we should all be in mourning and prayer because of the suffering of the families (both sides) and in our nation.
Article here.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Words for You
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
karl barth
karl barth
Friday, March 23, 2012
Reasons to Believe
Very interesting site claiming that science and the Christian faith are not in conflict with one another but in fact science supports the reality of God in the universe.
Check it out here. The photos and the descriptions are food for thought.
RTB's mission is to spread the Christian Gospel by demonstrating that sound reason and scientific research - including the very latest discoveries - consistently support, rather than erode, confidence in the truth of the Bible and faith in the personal, transcendent God revealed in both Scripture and nature.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
For Beauty
Why Art Matters
This is an interesting article about why we should fund art and how it changes us as spiritual beings.
I wonder if there's a correlation between the amount of art a culture produces and the peace found within that culture. What do you think?
paz.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Jewish Tradition
I think it's important to know the Jewish tradition since Christ was Jewish and the Old Testament is the Jewish story. The more I learn about the Jewish tradition the more I learn about my faith.
Yom Kippur: "Day of Atonement" - holiest day in the Jewish Year. The soul is at one with G-d (the word describing, naming the Holy One is so great some Jews believe you can't write it out). When we are at one with G-d all is forgiven. Nothing must interfere with that oneness from Friday to Saturday evening. No eating, drinking, anointing with perfumes, no marital relations, lotions, washing for pleasure, wearing leather shoes.
Reminds me of Lenten Season.
May we all come to learn more about our past, our roots, our faith tradition and its origins.
paz.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Church News
This Sunday is the first opportunity for the children to bring their offering for Common Hope. Please mark envelopes or checks with "caring collection." After this Sunday, feel free to drop off offerings in Jan.
The Christian Ventures Committee is once again offering its Lenten series, In the Upper Room. These informal gatherings held at 6:30 in the Seim Room on Wednesday evenings, March 21 and 28, will include a time of fellowship, prayer, communion, Scripture and the sharing of a simple agape meal. No sign up is required.
Before you leave for Spring Break, don't forget to order flowers for the altar on Easter Sunday!
They are only $12 for the flower of your choice; you may dedicate them in honor of someone, in celebration of an anniversary or in memory of a loved one. The flowers will be delivered to a shut-in after the services or you may pick yours up immediately after the final service that day.
It's that time again! Our BIG Rummage Sale will be April 24 and 25. Visit www.wscongo.org to sign up to help and start cleaning those closets, attics and basements for donations to the sale.
HELP! We are in need of volunteers to pick up our bagel bites from Great American Bagels on Saturdays. The sign-up poster is in the light court near the bagels. Thank you!
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Meditation
I recieve Richard Rohr's daily meditations and they always wake me up. I feel that they beautifully, powerfully, sometimes painfully speak the Truth.
paz.
We fear nothingness. That’s why we fear death, of course, which feels like nothingness. Death is the shocking realization that everything I thought was me, everything I held onto so desperately, was finally nothing (read Kathleen Dowling Singh’s The Grace in Dying).
paz.
We fear nothingness. That’s why we fear death, of course, which feels like nothingness. Death is the shocking realization that everything I thought was me, everything I held onto so desperately, was finally nothing (read Kathleen Dowling Singh’s The Grace in Dying).
The nothingness we fear so much is, in fact, the treasure and freedom that we long for, which is revealed in the joy and glory of the Risen Christ. We long for the space where there is nothing to prove and nothing to protect; where I am who I am, in the mind and heart of God, and that is more than enough.
Friar Richard Rohr - more here
Taking Action
Check out the UCC initiative regarding women and health care. Lend your voice to the debate.
Curious, look here.
Curious, look here.