Remembrance and Conflict
Remember, Restore, Renew, Resolve
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
Exodus 12:1-14
Feast
of the Passover (Detail)
BOUTS,
Dieric
Between
1464 and 1467
St.
Peter’s Church
Leuven
Belgium
The overall purpose of human communication is—or should
be—reconciliation.
It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the
walls
of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings,
one from another.
~
M. Scott Peck
If there is to be reconciliation,
first there must be truth.
~
Timothy B. Tyson
Pete
and Bonnie Martinez
It
was wonderful to have Pete sing at church last Sunday!
Bonnie,
it’s coffee time!
Labor
Day Lunch with some of the Lidiaks at Keys on the Green. Such a
delightful time!
Carolyn
Alexander, Peter Lidiak, Matt Greco, Cathy Greco, Dianne Lidiak.
Patrick
Lidiak is in front.
Peter
is Dottie Alexander’s brother and they are from Maryland.
They
were in Colorado to visit their friend Cathy Greco and her son, Matt.
Betsy
Buckner was one of the talented artists whose work was displayed at the
Design
Center at an Opening Reception.
Jennie
and Neil Snyder hosted our Spares and Pairs gathering Friday evening.
Community Flag Retirement
Colter
Snyder, second from the left, organized a flag retirement ceremony
held
at the Fire Station as part of his Eagle Scout project.
The
blue field was cut out separately, then the scouts cut out each stripe.
The
flags were burned by the scout leaders, supervised by
the
fire marshal.
Colter
planned it to coincide with the weekend before 9/11.
John
Farnsworth took a picture this week of a local bear who ambled
down
their driveway and then casually stood at their neighbor’s fence.
Johna
McLean, my next door neighbor, took pictures of The Boys and me enjoying an
early evening on the lawn.
We need some training in humility and in seeing our fellow
Christians’ (and others’) humanity.
Perhaps we might tape Romans 13:10 to our computer or wrap
it around our cell phones:
“Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is
fulfilling the law.”
But that may well be too advanced for us.
~
Jill Duffield
September 10, 2017
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 18
Jesus
said, “If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the
fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have
regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along
with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three
witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and
if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you
as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth
will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in
heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything
you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three
are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”
Matthew 18:15-20
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
"The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity"says
this: "A common life, in which those who were divided are reconciled in
the body of Christ, is an essential goal of the mission that God has appointed
for his people. Unity is not merely a means to mission, but rather a
constituent goal: God gathers his people precisely in order to bring unity to a
divided humanity. If we accept division from other Christians as normal or
inevitable, we turn away from the mission God has given us.”
Exodus 12:1-14 with
Psalm 149 or
Ezekiel 33:7-11 with Psalm 119:33-40
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20