Saturday, July 14, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Prayer Request
…but I would like to ask everyone to keep a young boy in their prayers, sweet Elijah is battling to get into remission and onto transplant. His family will be moving to
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Christian Quotes...
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it."-- C.S. Lewis
"All blessing, honor,
thanks and praise to Father,Son and
Spirit, the God who saved us by His grace. All glory to His
merit! O triune God in heaven above,you have revealed your
saving love.Your blessed name we hallow."
Dr. A. L. Barry, past President of LCMS
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
We pray for the safety and success of our sons and daughters in Iraq.
May they find strength in Your grace and righteousness. Amen
The Cloud of Unknowing
"Relish this piece from The Cloud of Unknowing, written in the 14th century: Our intense need to understand will always be a powerful stumbling block to our attempts to reach God in simple love, and must always be overcome. For if you do not overcome this need to understand, it will undermine your quest. It will replace the darkness which you have pierced to reach God, with clear images of something which, however good, however beautiful, however Godlike, is not God. So, therefore, never give up your resolve, but beat away at this cloud of unknowing between you and God with that sharp dart of longing love. And so I urge you, go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest."
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Innocents Cemetery
"Grace Lutheran Church is a pro-life church and is committed to the belief that every human life is sacred. Each year at the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Grace members plant crosses in remembrance of the approximately 4500 American babies killed each day in the United States. These crosses are planted behind the church in what Grace calls the Innocents Cemetery."
This is an exciting time!
"It is exciting to see how God is directing and blessing His church that we have named AMAZING GRACE. As we become informed of how God has gone ahead and prepared this time and place for our service, we will all be awed anew at God's Amazing Grace.
We ask that you continue to pray for the Lord's guidance as we seek to serve Him through this mission opportunity."
Collect for the Word
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning, grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of Thy holy Word we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which Thou hast given us in our Savior Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (The Lutheran Hymnal, p. 14)
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Commissioning Luncheon
Pastor Rockey's Commissioning
The commissioning will be conducted at both services. Pastor Rockey will serve as a missionary for the Florida / Georgia District in the Wildwood/Oxford area with the goal of establishing a new congregation.