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Church was pretty fun
Walked my ebike most of the way down
Parked it in back
Broke oot the 2 homemade chikken pot pies (Hazel made them, a nice young woman who has her own coffee shop) cut them up
I.am not on their mailing list so I came too early -- usually service is 10am. Due to snow maybe it began at 11am

I again didn't know most of the songs. The final song ended in major soprano pitch lol

I did what I usually do -- spoke oot the lyrics. If Shatner can do it...:3

It has been snowing all day and a scortching 0 degrees

So it was too cold then too hot in the area of worship

I told pretty much everyone aboot my letter in the Valley Voice

After I tooled around downtown for a bit
Took some of my wife's last crosses and tried to find homes for them

One of them I call a total Protestant cross because it is so...pragmatic and without flourishes...:3

The golden filigree with diamonds was accepted by Daphne, who owns the outfitting store
We caught up on things

Mary Ann, a cool hoopy frood took the last crosses and knew of some people who could use them :3 I told her aboot Megaera and she didn't know aboot her death which I shared a bit with her

The reflection today was on Light and how being Christian can be aboot that and not obsessing with Being Persecuted and Suffering...Stafford is a good Lay speaker :3 And fun; he is an official Cookie Tester

Finally found a sports bra I like :3

God is great

Earth is amazing and unique

Joy and love, always
 
Church was great. I preached two sermons on the Holy Spirit based on Acts 1:1-11. We've been looking at Christian Identity this month...
  • You are a child of the Father Almighty
  • You are a person who's born again through Jesus Christ
  • You are a person indwelt by the Holy Spirit
  • We are branches of the Vine and must bear good fruit
Also yesterday, we sang my favorite kids' praise song in the children's service, the food was yummy pizza (during the adults' worship service) and seaweed soup (for lunch), a small group of us took photos for Flag Day, and I just so happened to meet up with an Elder whom I'm going to be helping with his English
 
All our churches cancelled their in person services. 17;joined the Zoom service. Cathy had a great message. Learned that in the culture around Jesus, blessed meant honoured and woe meant shamed. Makes for an interesting reading of the sermon on the plain.
 
jimkenney12 said:
All our churches cancelled their in person services. 17;joined the Zoom service. Cathy had a great message. Learned that in the culture around Jesus, blessed meant honoured and woe meant shamed. Makes for an interesting reading of the sermon on the plain.
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Hmm. I will take another look. I read the sermon on the plain last year for Lent. I took it quite slowly. Just a few verses at a time.
 
How Church was yesterday
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River ice is GONE

I hear bear are already waking up
Some pussy willows are budding
Some of Iwona's plants are flowering early
And my mom's Geranium too :3
Yesterday was her birthday so I got together with my bro and his sweetie to commemorate after I did my GoddessBothering at St. Mark's
I can't believe Shrove Tues is here again lol Time creeps along then time flies!!!

Soon again going through the bipolar lows and highs of Easter!

Amen
 
Shrove Tuesday is coming early to our house. We are having the traditional pancakes today because we are going to a Pot Luck supper tomorrow. My Best Beloved loves English style pancakes so I enjoy making them. I can't manage the tossing like my dad did with our heavy cast iron pan though.
 
My last service as supervisor for St. A's yesterday along with their annual meeting. They had a soup and sandwich lunch after the service along with a thank you cake and gifts for B and I for our garden. My message focused on noticing, celebrating, and being inspired by the moments of wonder that we experience, especially the ones where we feel close to the Holy. The reading was Luke's story of the transfiguration. It was a nice service and a leisurely lunch with much conversation.

Then over an hour drive for the annual meeting for the church we attend.
This will be the first month in almost 4 years where I am preaching every Sunday (5), and probably the last Sunday. Services for two pastoral charges and the cooperative ministry. They might be the last services for the two pastoral charges.
 
KayTheCurler said:
Shrove Tuesday is coming early to our house. We are having the traditional pancakes today because we are going to a Pot Luck supper tomorrow. My Best Beloved loves English style pancakes so I enjoy making them. I can't manage the tossing like my dad did with our heavy cast iron pan though.
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This was Sunday not today ... another dai see? Flourier tongues ... flurried!

Recently I was told again that some people going to church would rather not hear or learn anything as they just go for the melody and harmony ... but insist on being disharmonious to those of us that would like to learn about virtually everything. Causes some perception of dissociation and many run off ...

The character (personality of its own) told me to shut up about knowledge, wisdom, etc.

Do you suppose that is why the God of knowledge and wisdom is hiding in the dark on this side of the spectrum of life? Wait for it ... dex plosion as it is lost 'd ... ad luem ... loam? Who carries all this dirt? It is a diabolical enigma ... a very dark Maw!

Is it proper to force mutes in church edifices? Thus mutations ... creeping alterations ... could be the allies in the genetic structure ... attachments? I see a vast unseen networking that will entangle brute leaders in what is greatly unknown. While many declare there is no "Great Unknown"!

Thus it may not be here ... there is no way to know fore shore ... flight is denied! Da me ... some say; Ah Damn is the curse ... the thing with a "N" on the end!

Anon --- some say "nothing" is soon coming ... what if they are in Eire as an ethereal non substantial matter? Dispersed or dis mist!

Ther eis this tremendous cloud of words to work with ... while others lay back and try and supervise that which often lays in disuse ... arc ach tongues ... classic ...
 
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In consequence could what we say determine what we don't know? Is that extensive as a hard barrier to break through as if stonewalled regarding knowledge? Weird portals ...
 
jimkenney12 said:
I try to encourage congregants to intentionally live out their faith
Most just want the comfort of connecting with each other.
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This seems like a very judgemental comment to me although it might well be true. I imagine this would be frustrating & one of the occupational hazards of being a minister.
 
In a world where church is now optional even for those calling themselves Christians, is it any wonder that being part of a community and hanging with that community is a significant reason for belonging to a church, esp. the older mainsteam ones? I am not crazy about the idea of church as just another social club either, but I get why it is happening. The onus is as much on the church to give people a reason to see it as more as it is on the people who are doing it.
 
I did write, ' most'. The last two Sundays I asked what was important and what they celebrated as congregations. For most it was connecting on Sundays, pie baking, surviving, and stuff like that. One congregation saw themselves as a beacon of hope on the community but I am not sure how people in the community saw that beacon.
 
At one time the church was somehow entangled in a web of learning, education and that sort of fecundity ... I lived a young life in a religious community that denied that knowledge and wisdom had anything to do with life ... thus intelligence must be out there ... beyond us in the present case!

Some one once said teach my children and we say Hua 't? The flame goes on ... right by us ...
 
Mendalla said:
I think the concern is that there are plenty of options to do that (e.g. my wife is in a number of sports clubs) and church is arguably supposed to be about more than that.
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Yeah, I grok
I'm just not part of the Modern Progressive Umwelt, which has their own catgory of Useless Persons and Useless Actions...too material-focussed for me (the main reason why I can't be a Marxist)...tho I can grok their worldview...

And their aesthetics *shudder* lol
 
Mendalla said:
In a world where church is now optional even for those calling themselves Christians, is it any wonder that being part of a community and hanging with that community is a significant reason for belonging to a church, esp. the older mainsteam ones? I am not crazy about the idea of church as just another social club either, but I get why it is happening. The onus is as much on the church to give people a reason to see it as more as it is on the people who are doing it.
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While we Christians are commanded in Scripture to keep meeting together, it does seem as though an increasing number see church as if it was just an option. That's truer in the West but has begun to affect the East as well
 
Jaebius said:
While we Christians are commanded in Scripture to keep meeting together, it does seem as though an increasing number see church as if it was just an option. That's truer in the West but has begun to affect the East as well
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Some are lumped inappropriate lye ... and are pure emotional characteristics entangled in scatter intelligence and thus virtue of bother!

Can't be bothered? This is a growing attitude to socialization ... it too foes on,indefinitely!
 
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