Grace United Methodist ChurchNovember, 2009
Now it begins!
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! At our “hanging of the greens” on Sat= urday, a few of us enjoyed a chuckle over the baby Jesus in the small na= tivity scene in our fellowship hall. Last year, He was never found= (until the season was over and we were putting things away).  = ; [...]
Answering WHY
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! When we were younger, the persistent = question we asked (usually to the annoyance of any adult in our presence= ) was WHY? Why this and why that–inquiring minds, I guess, wanted= to know about the world we were coming to experience. J= ust the other day, someone [...]
Thank you
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! There is power in those two words:&nb= sp; thank you. I attended a meeting last night wh= ere the board members were desiring to make sure that proper thanks was = extended to volunteers. Not that you do something for someone else= in order to receive the thanks, [...]
Efficiency?
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! The efficiency expert concluded his l= ecture with a note of caution. ”You don’t want to try thes= e techniques at home.” “Why not?” asked someone from the back of the audience. “I watched my wife’s routine at breakfast for years,” the expe= rt explained, “She made lots [...]
Thanksgiving dinner
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang!We want you! (imagine an Uncle Sa= m character with his finger pointing) Volunteers are needed to cook and serve this year’s annual Thanksgivi= ng Dinner at Grace on Thanksgiving Day. Dinner will be served from= 11:30-1:00, and volunteers are needed to:1) come early and get thos= e birds [...]
Joy as strength
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! Last evening, we concluded a Bible st= udy series at the church based on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. = ; I continue to marvel at this letter of joy, written as an encour= agement to some dear Christian friends of Paul’s in the church at Philip= pi. My [...]
Carrying the light
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! A New Yorker was being shown around t= he swampy Florida everglades by his cousin. “Is it tr= ue that an alligator won’t attack you if you carry a flashlight?” he asked. The cousin smirked saying, “Depends= on how fast ya carry it.” On a different note, when [...]
Beyond belief to conviction
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! I was rereading a book the other day = by Josh McDowell entitled BEYOND BELIEF TO CONVICTIONS and it made me wo= nder: how many of us as followers of Christ actually do that–move= beyond our belief in Jesus to living a life of conviction? Acting= upon that [...]
Know your stuff
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! Activated from the Army Reserves for = a joint service Arctic exercise, a man was assigned to the air= reconnaissance section. Although he had recently been promot= ed, he was feeling rusty, and wanted to get started learning h= is duties so as not to appear too green. He confided to= the Air Force [...]
Observing sin
Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Hey gang! A man relates his story of a drive to= work: This morning on the way to work, I loo= ked over to my left and there was a woman in a brand new Cadillac doing = 75 mph with her face, up next to her rear view [...]