Gentleness and Reverence

 


Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an account of the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you — not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

 

1 Peter 3:13-22

 

Gentleness

Parish Church of St. Andrew

Sutton in the Isle

Great Britain

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/therevsteve/sets/72157637163224035

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

 

The purpose of life is to give it away.*

 

~ Pablo Picasso

 

 

 

 

We must teach our children to dream

 

with their eyes open.

 

~ Harry Edwards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amelia Faraco-Hadlock, Katarina Ignacek, and Ande Hesser gave  graduation speeches at church on Sunday.

 

 

Carolyn Campbell and Chuck Renstrom at the Artists with Altitude Opening Reception on Tuesday.

 

 

Melony Smith’s newest collection, O Cavalo Barroco (The Baroque Horse), is the result of her recent photo journey to Portugal.

 

The Baroque Horse

by Melony Smith

 

Carmon Slater displayed his latest wonderful quilt at Wednesday Breakfast.

 

 

Jeanne Gibbard and I went to another well done play at the Arvada Center on Wednesday.

 

 

Brian and Dale Lovin

Dale spoke to our Book Club Thursday evening about his first book, Mirror in the River, based on some of his experiences as an FBI agent.

His second novel, Strangers, Lovers and the Winds of Time, will come out in August, 2014.

Brian, their youngest, graduated from Baylor last week and will be leaving in a few days for San Francisco where a new job awaits him.

 

 

The Mirror in the River

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mirror-River-Dale-Lovin/dp/0865348448

 

 

Jim Henderson spoke to our Rotary Club about the Colorado Railroad Museum.

 

 

I invited Tom Newsom to join us because he often paints the official Christmas card for the National Railroad Association.

I took the above picture of Tom two years ago when he was still working on the 2013 Christmas card.

 

 

2013 Christmas card for the National Railroad Association

by Tom Newsom.

http://www.newsomart.com/gallery.php?gallery=6

 

 

Rotary Club members decorating the tree for Memorial Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Could a greater miracle take place

than for us to look through each other’s eyes

for an instant?

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 25, 2014   Sixth Sunday of Easter

 

 

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* Quoted by Ande Hesser in her graduation speech.

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acts 17:22-31
Psalm 66:8-20
1 Peter 3:13-22
John 14:15-21