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The Amsler Grid

The Amsler Grid

The Amsler Grid Lectionary 21 August 2016 14th Sunday After Pentecost Jeremiah 1:4-10 Psalm 71:1-6 Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17 Text to Life Every year over one thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Over two thousand existing words are...

In the Key of Jesus

Sharps and flats are the tiny symbols that musicians refer to as the key signature. The key signature is a critical component of the music’s framework, setting the tonality and the mood of the work, as well as providing an overall harmonic and melodic structure. When...

Preach Contextually –Preaching Tip for 21 August 2016

Preach Contextually! If your congregation is not made up of stock brokers and lawyers, don’t speak in business or legal language. Jesus was gifted at making sure he spoke in ways that his people would understand.  When he spoke to farmers, he used farming language. ...

Pastor’s Prayer for 21 August 2016

Praise be to the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses.May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us....
Gringos

Gringos

Gringos by Charles Portis Charles Portis, born in Arkansas in 1933, is a remarkable and distinctive writer. You may know him as the author of the bestseller True Grit, which has been made into a movie twice – first in 1969 and again in 2010. Portis has written...