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Oct. 15, 2021
Good Friday, Village Family,
I hope all is well with you today.
Last Sunday we concluded our sermon series "The Church: An Already/Not Yet People.” It was a reflection on the Great Ends of The Church—the great purposes of the church. I hope that was meaningful for you. If you missed any of those, you can find the sermon videos or transcripts or even podcast on our website. I hope you'll check those out.
This Sunday, I'm grateful to my friend and colleague, Rev. Sally Wright, who will be preaching at our Mission Campus. She'll be preaching on that wonderful passage where Jacob on the run stops to spend the night and discovers God is in that place with him-has an encounter with God. She'll be reflecting on some spiritual wisdom on that story. Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka will be preaching at our Antioch Campus. He'll be preaching from Ephesians 4 about building up the Body of Christ in love. I'm grateful for my colleagues for leading us in worship on this Sunday.
The following weeks I'll partner with Rev. Zach Walker and Rev. Hallie Hottle. Over a couple of weeks, we will share a sermon series called "The World that God So Loved is This World." There'll be reflection on how our faith interacts with the shifting realities of climate in our world. I think that will be informative and encouraging, and I hope you'll tune in for that. That will be Oct.24 and 31. We'll say more about that in future weeks.
Hey, I wanted to share with you a brief poem this Friday by Leo Dangel. It's called "After 40 years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish.”
“How did you like it?” she asked.
“It’s all right,” he said.
“This is the third time I cooked it this way. Why can’t you ever say if you like something?”
“Well if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t eat it,” he said.
“You never can say anything I cook tastes good.”
“I don’t know why all the time you think I have to say it’s good. I eat it, don’t I?”
“I don’t think you have to say all the time it’s good, but once in a while you could say you like it.”
“It’s all right,” he said.
You know, too often we take the good in life for granted. Good in life is all around us and it requires our attention to see the good and to speak it—to see the good and to point it out. I hope that there's a lot of good around you in the days to come. Be attentive to it. Point it out. It will make you more joyful. It will.
I hope you have a great weekend. I look forward to a worship on Sunday.
Shalom,
Tom
Good Friday, Village Family,
I hope all is well with you today.
Last Sunday we concluded our sermon series "The Church: An Already/Not Yet People.” It was a reflection on the Great Ends of The Church—the great purposes of the church. I hope that was meaningful for you. If you missed any of those, you can find the sermon videos or transcripts or even podcast on our website. I hope you'll check those out.
This Sunday, I'm grateful to my friend and colleague, Rev. Sally Wright, who will be preaching at our Mission Campus. She'll be preaching on that wonderful passage where Jacob on the run stops to spend the night and discovers God is in that place with him-has an encounter with God. She'll be reflecting on some spiritual wisdom on that story. Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka will be preaching at our Antioch Campus. He'll be preaching from Ephesians 4 about building up the Body of Christ in love. I'm grateful for my colleagues for leading us in worship on this Sunday.
The following weeks I'll partner with Rev. Zach Walker and Rev. Hallie Hottle. Over a couple of weeks, we will share a sermon series called "The World that God So Loved is This World." There'll be reflection on how our faith interacts with the shifting realities of climate in our world. I think that will be informative and encouraging, and I hope you'll tune in for that. That will be Oct.24 and 31. We'll say more about that in future weeks.
Hey, I wanted to share with you a brief poem this Friday by Leo Dangel. It's called "After 40 years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish.”
“How did you like it?” she asked.
“It’s all right,” he said.
“This is the third time I cooked it this way. Why can’t you ever say if you like something?”
“Well if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t eat it,” he said.
“You never can say anything I cook tastes good.”
“I don’t know why all the time you think I have to say it’s good. I eat it, don’t I?”
“I don’t think you have to say all the time it’s good, but once in a while you could say you like it.”
“It’s all right,” he said.
You know, too often we take the good in life for granted. Good in life is all around us and it requires our attention to see the good and to speak it—to see the good and to point it out. I hope that there's a lot of good around you in the days to come. Be attentive to it. Point it out. It will make you more joyful. It will.
I hope you have a great weekend. I look forward to a worship on Sunday.
Shalom,
Tom
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and 9:30 a.m. at Village on Antioch.
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and 9:30 a.m. at Village on Antioch.
Join the livestream of worship at 8, 9:30, 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. this Sunday.
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