by John Collins on October 31, 2008
A VeggieTales movie event is planned for 4:00 pm on Sunday, November 16, 2008. We’ll be watching The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. Big Idea provides the following description:
It’s high seas adventure with The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything—A VeggieTales Movie. Buccaneers and landlubbers alike will discover what it means to be a real hero!
True heroes are those who do what they know is right, no matter how difficult it is. They don’t need strength, beauty or extraordinary achievements… they trust God to supply all they need for the adventure ahead!
As always you’re encouraged to bring camp chairs, sleeping bags, etc. to make yourselves comfortable. You’re also more than welcome to bring friends and invite others to join us. We look forward to seeing you November 16.
by John Collins on October 30, 2008
We’re back from NYC. We had a great vacation, but we’re glad to be home. I’m at home this morning preparing a sermon for Tex Davis’ funeral.
by John Collins on October 23, 2008
The November Parish Visitor is now up on our website.
by John Collins on October 23, 2008
We’re going to NYC today and won’t be back until next Wednesday. In the meantime, one of our colleagues, Pastor Susan Brown will be on call for us. Linda has all the pertinent information.
by John Collins on October 22, 2008
Bishop Will Willimon in a lecture:
“You feel close to Jesus when you go where Jesus is.”
by John Collins on October 21, 2008
Via Sojourners:
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
–Dorothy Day
This is why I try to talk about poverty on such a regular basis. Not only for others who are insulated but for my own insulated self also.
by John Collins on October 20, 2008
I know that many will disagree with his analysis of the war in Iraq, but I hope that people will keep reading this article anyway, for in this article Tony Campolo performs the necessary task of reminding us of our own complicity in the current economic crisis. He summarizes as follows:
Seduced by brilliant advertising, we are a people who have bought into affluent lifestyles that have us living beyond our means. We spend almost all that we earn and save very little.
I know that there are people who avoided direct complicity by steering clear of the activities which Campolo names, but I think we must still answer for what has happened if we did not actively oppose the direction in which our country and our values were moving. Jesus calls us not only to name that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but to do something about it.
Link: www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=2905
by John Collins on October 20, 2008
Flowers on the altar yesterday were in memory of Don Mielke.
by John Collins on October 19, 2008
I want to congratulate the choir on a great performance during the Cantata today. They performed “O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing: A Celebration of the Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley.” It was a blessing to me.
by John Collins on October 18, 2008
Via Sojourners:
“History will not judge us kindly.”
–then U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, quoted during a 2004 White House briefing during which CIA interrogation methods were graphically described. According to The Washington Post, the Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al Qaeda suspects.
(Source:
The Washington Post)
I would only add that our nation is ultimately answerable not to history, but to Jesus Christ, the crucified (tortured) Messiah.
Link: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403331_pf.html
