Parable of the Rich Man
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me." But he said to him, "Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?" And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, `What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said, `I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, `Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, `You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God."
Luke 12:13-21
St
Lawrence Distributing the Riches of the Church
Master
of the Osservanza
approximately
1440
National
Gallery of Art
Washington,
DC
United
States
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
~
Epictetus
There is more in you of good than you know,
child of the kindly West.
Some courage and some wisdom,
blended in measure.
If more of us valued food and cheer
and song above hoarded gold,
it would be a merrier world.
~
J.R.R. Tolkien
YMCA
Camp in Estes Park, Colorado
Kimra
took eight of us to RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award)
at
the YMCA Camp in Estes Park last Tuesday.
Hanna
Holt, Cathy Davis, Cindy Sahli, Marianne Temple, Pam and Greg Podd, Carolyn
Alexander, Kimra Perkins
Unbeknownst
to Kimra, she was to receive a very special award while we were there.
Cindy
Sahli enjoying the Carousel of Happiness in Nederland.
We
stopped there on our way to Estes Park and Kimra treated us all.
Kimra
Perkins on the
Carousel
of Happiness
in
Nederland, CO
http://www.carouselofhappiness.org
Steve
Allen, Robyn and Jimmy Mangham at a Farewell Party Friday evening.
Robyn
and a friend of hers organized the party for Steve Allen, our maintenance
person for 18 years.
David
and Julie, Suzanne Koczon-Shipley
Saturday
at the Evergreen Jazz Festival!
After
Midnight
Roger
Campbell, clarinet and leader
Mike
McCullough, guitar and vocal
http://www.aftermidnightjazzband.com
Queen
City Jazz Band
http://www.queencityjazzband.com
Wende
Harston
Kevin
Bollinger
I’d rather have roses on my table
than diamonds on my neck.
~
Emma Goldman
July 31, 2016 Eighteenth Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 13
If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.
Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient. These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life. But now you must get rid of all such things-- anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!
Colossians 3:1-11
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
Hosea 11:1-11 with
Psalm 107:1-9, 43 or
Ecclesiastes 1:2,12-14; 2:18-23 with Psalm
49:1-12
Colossians 3:1-11
Luke 12:13-21