Friday, January 21, 2011

1/20 E-News

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

Session reading—Want to read along with the session?  We’ll be reading Glenn McDonald’s The Disciple-Making Church this year.  Used copies are available through Amazon for around $5, including shipping.

Pray for…
Lloyd’s father, Harry Hoover
Ellie Ivey’s father, as he continues to recover from his surgery
Our new session, as they begin their leadership
New Hope News
Evelyn Piatt is in Siskin, getting worked over and on the road to recovery!
Links
The best article I’ve read on the shootings in Tucson.
You can have some fun on this website—lots of great articles.
Want to keep up-dated on the news of the PC(USA)?  Here is a page to make choices.
A 10-minute video discussing how Jesus spent his last time here on earth
102 keys???  What kind of world is this? 


Text for this Week

Luke 12:1-12
Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops. 

“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows. 

“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God; but whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. 

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.”

 

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