January 27 E-Newsletter

Announcements

School Supplies--We’ll be continuing our school supplies drive for East Brainerd Elementary for another week.  Look for the insert in the bulletin--#2 pencils, glue sticks and crayons are the most requested items.  

Kids Nite Out—This Friday, 6-9. 

Pray for…

Bill Bryant, who remains in Erlanger

New Hope News

Evelyn Piatt is will be moved to Life Care of East Ridge tomorrow.

Links

Growing Christ’s Church, Deep & Wide

Safe to say that in the next few months we’ll be reading about a lawsuit that resulted from this news story.

A commitment to being countercultural rather than being removed or "relevant" isn't always easy. Living differently can be hard. Going against the ebbs and flows of culture can create friction and sometimes provoke a hostile reaction to the good we are trying to create. Theologians Stanley Hauerwas and Will Willimon remind us that this should be expected, for "whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world."

The Energy Diet

What do you wish you knew half your life ago?

The current threat level will no longer be orange.  Soon.  Until then, do whatever an orange threat level means.

Text for this Week

Luke 12:13-21

¹³Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” ¹⁴But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” ¹⁵And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” ¹⁶Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. ¹⁷And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’¹⁸Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ ²⁰But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ ²¹So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”

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