Announcements
Read
Across America--
Monday,
March 3 is Read Across America Day. East Brainerd Elementary is
looking for people who will come to the school for ~30 minutes and
read to the kids. If you are able, please call Janet Cox (855-6161).
Thanks!
Ash
Wednesday--
Our
Ash Wednesday service will be next Wednesday @ 6:30 in the sanctuary.
Job
Opening--
If you're interested in being a breakfast host at Homewood Suites,
they're hiring for a few positions.
Community
Kitchen Spot
There
are a lot of hungry and homeless children of God and the community
needs some help feeding them. If you would like to help out, please
bring the following items to church this Sunday & put them on the
bookshelf.
Plastic
Forks, Knives, Spoons
Dinner
Napkins
Heavy
Duty Sectional Dinner Plates
Dessert
Plates
New
Hope News
Sunday
School—Don
Kaller is going to be teaching the adult Sunday School class in March
& April.
Fruit
of the Spirit--
Sunday evenings @ 6:15
Pray
For:
Norma
Capone, Christine
Dyer
For
the kids in confirmation class: Ashley, R.J., Chase, Jade &
Jackson
Links
Keith's
Random Thoughts
It takes a looooong time
to get out the door at our house. Caleb loves to walk down the
stairs by himself. It's one of my favorite parts of my day, but you
can't be in a hurry. He takes his time. Then he wants to get into
the carseat by himself. This, too, takes time. I want to encourage
him to do things on his own, but I also like to get places on time.
These two factors seldom can both be true, and so I try and rush him.
I cringe when I hear
myself saying these things. I don't want him to feel constantly
rushed. I love when he slows down and checks out everything. (This
kid not only stops to smell the roses—he waits for them to grow.)
The world is a beautiful
place, and I want to encourage him to revel in its beauty. It's me
that needs to slow down. I'm the one that needs to move at his pace,
rather than rushing by to hurry the world along, hoping to arrive on
time.
God made a wondrous
world around us. It's my hope that we'll all slow down enough to
appreciate it, to wonder in it, to recapture the spirit of a child
and give thanks for the glory that surrounds us.
Text
for this Sunday, March 2
Acts
8:26-40
(ESV)
English
Standard Version (ESV)
26
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the
south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a
desert place. 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a
eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was
in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28
and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the
prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join
this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah
the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he
invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the passage of the
Scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like
a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb
before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not
his mouth.
33
In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe
his generation?
For
his life is taken away from the earth.”
34
And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the
prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told
him the good news about Jesus. 36 And as they were going along the
road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is
water! What prevents me from being baptized?” 38 And he commanded
the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip
and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39 And when they came up out of
the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch
saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip found
himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to
all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
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