Humility

(again)

 

 

On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.

When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, 'Give this person your place', and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."

He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Luke 14:1, 7-14

The Poor Invited to the Feast

JESUS MAFA

(JESUS MAFA is a response to the New Testament readings from the Lectionary by a Christian community in Cameroon, Africa.)

See:  www.jesusmafa.com

1973

Cameroon

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20130831884002685&code=ACT&RC=48397&Row=1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too many people overvalue what they are not

and undervalue what they are.

~ Malcolm S. Forbes

 

 

 

 

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us 

from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves.

It makes us modest by reminding us 

how far we have come short of what we can be.

~ Ralph W. Sockman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zoe proudly displayed the quilt she designed and made at Wednesday Breakfast!

Carmon Slater, on the right, was her technical advisor.

 

 

Zoe

 

 

Cathy Jones

Opening Reception

Humphrey Memorial Museum

Evergreen, Colorado

 

 

Betsy Buckner

Opening Reception

Design Center

Evergreen, Colorado

 

 

Betsy has been doing a lot of floral paintings lately,

but she is best known for her bears!

 

 

E. Melinda Morrison

Treasured Expressions

Presented by 7801

Evergreen, Colorado

Opening Reception

 

 

Carolyn Martyn hosted a delicious birthday luncheon today in their lovely garden!

 

 

Gary and Carolyn Martyn

 

 

 

 

 

What kills a skunk

is the publicity it gives itself.

~ Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

September 1, 2013 Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

                 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

                                     Proper 17

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

http://www.churchleaders.

com/pastors/pastor-articles/162525-how-to-grow-in-christ-like-humility.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 2:4-13 with Psalm 81:1, 10-16 or

Proverbs 25:6–7 with Psalm 112

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Luke 14:1, 7-14