Thursday, March 19, 2009

New Hope E-News for 3/20/09

Announcements

We’ll have a golfing outing on March 28—talk to Dewey if you are interested in that. A signup sheet will be in the narthex.

Let me know if you’re interested in joining the local Tour de Cure!

Interested in giving blood? March 31 is Bloodanooga ’09! They’re targeting 1600 donors in 16 hours.

Pray for…

The upheaval in Madagascar, and the Turks who are caught within it

Links

I just learned of this site.

Some are losing faith in religion.

An incredible story about what God is doing in Ohio.

Candy Land, the movie.

Church History Quiz (Answer Below)

Q: Who was the leader of the Swiss Reformation?

Text for Sunday, March 22

John 3:14-21

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”


A Reading from the Confessions

THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH 6.013
3. In the unity of the Godhead there be three Persons of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.

The Monastic Moment (from The Monastic Way.)

March 14

One day when Abba John was going up to Scetis with some other brothers, their guide lost his way for it was night-time. So the brothers said to Abba John, ‘What shall we do, abba, in order not to die wandering about, for the brother has lost the way?’ The old man said to them, ‘If we speak to him, he will be filled with grief and shame. But look here, I will pretend to be ill and say I cannot walk any more; then we can stay here till the dawn.’ This he did. The others said, ‘We will not go on either, but we will stay with you.’ They sat there until the dawn, and in this way they did not upset the brother. (Abba John)

Church History Answer

A: Ulrich Zwingli. Born in a small Swiss village in 1484, less than two months after Luther. Much of his theology was similar to Luther’s. Zwingli’s main goal was to restore Biblical faith and practice. One difference was that while Luther was willing to retain practices that did not contradict the Bible, Zwingli insisted that unless a practice had explicit Scriptural support, it must go (such as organs or violins in worship).
(Answer taken from Justo Gonzalez’s The Story of Christianity, Volume II, pg. 46-52)



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