We’re happy to report that Della L. has been released from the hospital. Continue to remember her as she recovers.
Homecoming 2012
It was a wonderful day of worship and fellowship.
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Something to Think About
“The preacher must make his sermons cut. Our sickle is made on purpose to cut. The Gospel is intended to wound the conscience and go right through to the heart, with the design of separating the soul from sin and self, as the corn is divided from the soil.” ~Charles Spurgeon
Homecoming!
Tomorrow join us for Homecoming! We start at 10:15 with music and at 11 Worship begins, after which we’ll have lunch together. Invite a friend to come along.
Please remember as well that on Homecoming we have no Evening Service.
Prayer Request
Remember Della L. She is in the hospital with serious kidney problems.
From Sally W’s Retirement Party at P-J
Some people you may recognize attended Sally’s retirement party this afternoon.
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Since God Sees Everything
[Since God sees everything] … How comes it about that Men are not ashamed to do that in the Sight of God, and before the Face of the holy Angels, what they would be ashamed to do before Men? — Desiderius Erasmus
Bored With The Bible?
You should diligently learn the Word of God and by no means imagine that you know it. Let him who is able to read take a psalm in the morning, or some other chapter of Scripture, and study it for a while. This is what I do. When I get up in the morning, I pray and recite the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer with the children, adding any one of the psalms. I do this only to keep myself well acquainted with these matters, and I do not want to let the mildew of the notion grow that I know them well enough. The devil is a greater rascal than you think he is. You do as yet not know what sort of fellow he is and what a desperate rogue you are. His definite design is to get you tired of the Word and in this way to draw you away from it. This is his aim (WA 32, 64f.) — Martin Luther
Reminder: Homecoming is Next Sunday, the 27th!
Be sure to come at 10:15 for our singing service and stay for worship and lunch!
What’s Happened to Christianity Among the Young?
A new book addresses the question and the publisher has sent it along for me to review.
The Juvenilization of American Christianity.
Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened?
In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into four major American church traditions — African American, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Bergler shows too how this “juvenilization” of churches has led to widespread spiritual immaturity, consumerism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy. Bergler’s critique further offers constructive suggestions for taming juvenilization.
When my review is done I’ll post it here.
