Dangers of
the Tongue
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know
that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make
many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to
keep the whole body in check with a bridle. If we put bits into the mouths of
horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships:
though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are
guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also
the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a
forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is
placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets
on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every
species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has
been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue — a restless
evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it
we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come
blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. Does a
spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? Can a
fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more
can salt water yield fresh.
James
3:1-12
Saint
Peter
Studio of Sir Peter Paul
Rubens
Flemish,
1577 – 1640
c. 1616/1618
Timken Collection
National
Gallery of Art
Washington,
D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=46056
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
~African Proverb
The place
God calls you to is where your deep
gladness and
the world’s deep hunger meet.
~ Frederick
Buechner
How lovely.
I thank you
kindly!
Gail
Montgomery as the Baroness and DJ Himstedt as Max
provide
comic relief in the Evergreen Chorale’s production of “The Sound of Music.”
Our Rotary
group was treated to a sneak preview on Friday morning.
Liesl and Rolf
sang “Sixteen Going on Seventeen.”
Liesl is
played by Caroline Vickstrom, Anne and Mark Vickstrom’s youngest.
Bruce and
Joan Evashevski hosted the Spares and Pairs
potluck
dinner for church members this month.
Sunny just
wanted goodies that might fall to the floor.
This weekend
is the Women’s Retreat so we had several men without wives.
Of course, I
imagine it was their wives who prepared the dishes they brought.
<gr>
Rebecca,
Eileen, Sharron
Rebecca led
us in casting away our sins* as part of Rosh Hashanah.
This weekend
is the Open Door Studio Tour
and many
Evergreen artists open their studios to visitors.
http://www.evergreenopendoorstudios.com/
Jane
Christie with one of her beautiful pastels
at Evergreen
Glass, one of the sponsors this year.
http://www.janechristieart.com/
Do any of
you have a fascinating faucet like this?
The blue
light in the spout indicates the water is cold.
The color
turns red as you move the light beam on the base for hot water.
Cool.
Evergreen
Glass
http://www.evergreenglassinc.com/
Judith
Brunko demonstrates how she begins a painting.
I especially
like her portraits.
http://www.studiojudithbrunko.com/
Betsy
Buckner-Kadane had paintings all over the downstairs of her home.
She is
seriously thinking of joining our Rotary Club.
A closed
mouth gathers no feet.
~ Fortune
Cookie
September 16, 2012 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost; 24th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* Besides what James tells us, Proverbs warns of the “scoffing,”
“waywardness,” and “complacency” that come from a deafness to Wisdom and her “cries
out in the street.”
Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on
the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" And
they answered him, "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still
others, one of the prophets." He asked them, "But who do you say that
I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah." And he sternly
ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be
killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his
disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are
setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to
become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and
follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who
lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For
what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of
me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of
Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy
angels."
Mark
8:27-38
Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
Then they will call to me
but I will not answer
VALLOTTON,
Annie
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=25940&showmode=Full
Proverbs 1:20-33
Wisdom cries out in the street;
in the squares she raises her voice.
At the busiest corner she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you.
Because I have called and you refused,
have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,
and because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when panic strikes you,
when panic strikes you like a storm,
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently, but will not find me.
Prov. 1:20–33
Ps. 19
James 3:1–12
Mark 8:27–38