Sermon Highlights and Church Events and Info
Sunday, November 24th (Christ the King Sunday)
Why Give Thanks?
Psalm 46; Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Colossians 1:11-20
This week we will celebrate Thanksgiving in our homes, and so we observe the day in worship. For what are you thankful? Great food? Family? Shelter? Friends who accept you as you are? For me, the gathered family sharing mince-meat pie, and pumpkin pie, and retelling of family stories tops my list.
In what may appear to be an anomaly, today is also Reign of Christ Sunday. It used to be called Christ the King Sunday. It means the same thing. The emphasis is on the idea that Christ being King implies that God rules among God’s people. It means we obey. It’s easy to forget that ruling implies a reign, governance, kingship.
The clash of dates strikes us as awkward: today we add solemnity to Thanksgiving, which is really a cultic holiday, while at the same time we embrace the Church calendar date - Reign of Christ - that marks the end of the liturgical year. Is today merely an awkward clash of two events? Or is there any relationship between the two?
Wally
Sunday Conversations Class meets at 9:15 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Followed by Fellowship and Refreshments
Serving the church this Sunday:
Pastor Rev. Dr. Wally Wilson
Lay Liturgist Terri Pleak
Greeter Marilyn Woods
Ushers Anne Westhafer and Linda Simpson
Refreshments Marilyn Woods
Pianist/Organist Carolyn McIntosh
Sunday Counters Marilyn Woods and Roy Simpson
Sunday Conversations: "Sunday Conversations" discussion group will convene at the standard time of 9:15 a.m. this Sunday, but the topic and material are still being finalized. The material will be relayed Friday afternoon or Saturday.
Pastor Wally will be at the church on Tuesday, November 26. Anyone wishing to meet with him on that day should call him at 1-765-278-3749 to set up a time.
Why Give Thanks?
Psalm 46; Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Colossians 1:11-20
This week we will celebrate Thanksgiving in our homes, and so we observe the day in worship. For what are you thankful? Great food? Family? Shelter? Friends who accept you as you are? For me, the gathered family sharing mince-meat pie, and pumpkin pie, and retelling of family stories tops my list.
In what may appear to be an anomaly, today is also Reign of Christ Sunday. It used to be called Christ the King Sunday. It means the same thing. The emphasis is on the idea that Christ being King implies that God rules among God’s people. It means we obey. It’s easy to forget that ruling implies a reign, governance, kingship.
The clash of dates strikes us as awkward: today we add solemnity to Thanksgiving, which is really a cultic holiday, while at the same time we embrace the Church calendar date - Reign of Christ - that marks the end of the liturgical year. Is today merely an awkward clash of two events? Or is there any relationship between the two?
Wally
Sunday Conversations Class meets at 9:15 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Followed by Fellowship and Refreshments
Serving the church this Sunday:
Pastor Rev. Dr. Wally Wilson
Lay Liturgist Terri Pleak
Greeter Marilyn Woods
Ushers Anne Westhafer and Linda Simpson
Refreshments Marilyn Woods
Pianist/Organist Carolyn McIntosh
Sunday Counters Marilyn Woods and Roy Simpson
Sunday Conversations: "Sunday Conversations" discussion group will convene at the standard time of 9:15 a.m. this Sunday, but the topic and material are still being finalized. The material will be relayed Friday afternoon or Saturday.
Pastor Wally will be at the church on Tuesday, November 26. Anyone wishing to meet with him on that day should call him at 1-765-278-3749 to set up a time.
