Laynie Lama

Just learned the “Lama Song” via one of our Junior Highers. Love it!

Am I Really “Special”?

Millennials… Those of us born 1980 – 2000.

Time Magazine’s Josh Danburn Joel Stein published a wonderful article that came out today detailing the narcissistic, overconfident, and lazy nature of the largest, most (dis-)connected population in human history.

Please read the entire article, but I just want your take on this one section. I asked my wife what her thoughts were as she works with elementary students. She feels it’s important to encourage self-esteem and dreams. As I have worked primarily with teen students the past four years I have a conflicted take.

Sure, we want to instill hope and confidence, but when do we warp the lens called “reality” in the minds of our young people?

What do you think?

Grace and Truth

Grace and Truth. When we think about God, we think through a lens colored by experience, personal reasoning, and traditions that have influenced us. It’s easy and perhaps considered normal to err on one side or the other, considering the character of God as overbearing with spurts of grace, or accepting of all with spurts of lightly nudging us along.

But I believe a full understanding of Christian Scripture supersedes this caricature. We must start with the ultimate revelation of God, Jesus, who is God as man. He spoke of a judgment one day, but he spoke of a way He would make even though mankind did not deserve it. In this way, God is revealed as 100% full of grace, after all He paid the ultimate price to make a way for a people who turned their backs against Him. And God is revealed as 100% Just, He never bends the truth. He always plays by the rules, even if it hurts Him when helping us.

Nehemiah has no problem accepting the consequences of the reality we all live in, the “rules” set up by God. And Nehemiah realizes that God has no problem honoring the Word He set forth long ago, the covenant He has made with His people.

Nehemiah 1:7-9

We have sinned terribly by not obeying the commands, decrees, and regulations that you gave us through your servant Moses.

Holy

O Lord, God of Israel, you are just. We come before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence.” (Ezra 9:15 NLT)

Church Bulletin #Typos

Reasons why proofreading is so important!

The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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The sermon this morning: ‘Jesus Walks on the Water.’ The sermon tonight: ‘Searching for Jesus.’
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Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say ‘Hell’ to someone who doesn’t care much about you.
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Don’t let worry kill you off – let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang ‘I will not pass this way again,’ giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be ‘What Is Hell?’ Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM – prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM . All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. Is done.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast
next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.