¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. ...  ¹⁷Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?" ¹⁸But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show me the coin used for the tax." And they brought him a denarius. ²⁰Then he said to them, "Whose head is this, and whose title?" ²¹They answered, "The emperor’s." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s." ²²When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.
                        Matthew 22:15-22
Tribute Money
Strozzi, Bernardo
1630-35
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=6699&showmode=Full

 

 

Money will buy you a fine dog,

but only love can make it wag its tail.

                                                            ~ Richard Friedman

 

 

Silver and gold are not the only coin;

virtue too passes current all over the world.

                                                            ~ Euripides

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Rebecca!

Our Walkies group celebrated at The Bistro.

Yum.

 

Dan Schmelzer, Capstone Ministries of Kisumu, Kenya, was our speaker at Rotary.

He donated two T-shirts for our auction and they were immediately

bought up by Kimra and Jim.

 

We have been one of their sponsors for many years.

 

Phyllis is back at the Life Care Nursing Center of Evergreen!!!

The Offering Plate Quotes all began because of Phyllis.

She loves to come paint.

(See the story at http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm )

 

 

 

 

And remember that the light is within
if it is anywhere
and you must paint from the inside

                                ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

                                          (How to Paint Sunlight)

 

 

 

 

October 19, 2008    Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:      

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm 

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

Dali, Salvadore

Licet tributum dare Caesari?

http://www.dalionline.com/biblia4-17.html

 

 

 

Exodus 33:12-23
Psalm 99:1-99
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Matthew 22:15-22