Announcements
Planning Calendar—If you’d like a Presbytery Planning Calendar, please reply and let me know.
Small Groups—In the next few months you may be hearing more about the possibility of small groups at New Hope. What I’m trying to gauge is the interest level of the congregation. These groups (6-12 people) would meet for about an hour each week or every other week to follow Bible studies or other curriculum. (I’ve found some options) I’m looking for leaders, as well as others who are interested in being involved.
Sack Packs are Back!—On August 16 we’ll be returning to the Food Bank to pack sack packs! Be there at 9, or here at 8:45 if you’d like to carpool.
Devotionals on your Kindle/iPad?—People have asked me, from time to time, about having copies of the old email devotionals I have done over the past 3.5 years. Thanks to the ease of Amazon’s self-publishing, they’re now available on your electronic reading devices.
Pray for…
Roger & Lynn Meyer
Larrie Mansfield—her surgery went well, and she continues to recover.
The session meeting this Sunday.
Links
Want to help change a life for $25? Kiva is an organization focused on micro-loans. I’ve helped a woman in Cambodia build a house and another woman in El Salvador make tortillas with the same $25!
The pastor of a church in London responds to the violence. Another asks if the church can stop the violence.
A book that looks interesting: 10 Things Jesus Never Said.
The art of calling strike three.
Text for this Week
Luke 19:1-10
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”
Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.” Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”
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