Healing

As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.

That evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him, "Everyone is searching for you." He answered, "Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do." And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.

Mark 1: 29-39

Jesus in the Wilderness

[surrounded by angels]

FOSSE, Charles de la

1690

The Hermitage

St. Petersburg, Russia

http://rolgospel.com/2012/01/24/mark-129-39-jesus-went-off-to-a-deserted-place/

Healing of Peter’s Mother-in-Law

BAHUET, Bertrand

1995St. Peter’s Chapel

Curbans, France

- Bertrand Bahuet has produced wall paintings (frescoes) on the vaults of Saint Peter's Chapel at Curbans, a little village in the Southern French Alps. This chapel, of the Romanesque era is listed on the French Historic Monument Inventory. All together, the paintings cover more than 250 m2 ; It has been divided in 26 scenes, each one of which is linked to parts of the New Testament.

http://www.artway.eu/content.php?id=395&lang=en&action=show

http://cccchoirnotes.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding.

That’s what religions must do right now

if they hope to be helpful to humans

in the years ahead.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

Our salvation comes from something small, tender, 

and vulnerable, something hardly noticeable.

God, who is the Creator of the Universe,

comes to us in smallness, weakness, and hiddenness.

~ Henri Nouwen

Anita and Jim Kreider at Rowdy Rotarians Tuesday evening.

Abraham Lincoln, aka John Voehl, spoke to our Rotary Club on Friday.

http://www.abelincolnalive.com

Gretchen and John MacArthur entertained our Dine Around

group of eight on Friday evening.

Andy came to Dine Around with Casey Sacks.

A gorgeous day at the lake this morning!

Sharron Leonard, Carolyn Alexander, Eileen Sharkey, Rebecca Martin

Happy Birthday, Sharron!!!

Decadence!

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody,

it saves so much trouble.

~ Rudyard Kipling

February 8, 2015 Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

Previous OPQs may be found at:

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.

For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ's law) so that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Isaiah 40:21-31
Psalm 147:1-11, 20c
1 Corinthians 9:16-23
Mark 1:29-39