The Widow’s Mite

Poor Widow

VOS, Maarten de

1602

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Antwerp

Belgium

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20181109655921870&code=ACT&RC=56664&Row=3

 

 

 

The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy.  

They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.

~ Judd Gregg

 

 

 

 

 

Woo-Hoo, ROBIN!

Robin meeting Prime Minister Abe in Japan!

The only blond in the room?

 

 

Packing Soldier Boxes

after Rotary on Friday

 

 

Eric Gill, Marcia Walsh

 

Hundreds of cards!

 

Gail Sharp, owner of Tallgrass Health Spa, organized the annual packing.

 

256 boxes!!!

Well done!!!

 

Spares and Pairs

Friday, November 9, 2018

Jerry and Donna Bucholz

were our hosts.

 

 

Snow caught on the cobwebs on my string lights!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak. This is a matter of great significance, for it reveals to what extent a religion that was born of a people acquainted with persecution and suffering has become the cornerstone of a civilization and of nations whose very position in modern life has too often been secured by a ruthless use of power applied to weak and defenseless peoples."

~ Howard Thurman*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* From Thurman’s book, “Jesus and the Disinherited”

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein 

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

 

 

 

 

 

No Offering Plate Quotes for November 18 and 25.

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

 

 

 

Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
Psalm 127
1 Kings 17:8-16
Psalm 146
Hebrews 9:24-28
Mark 12:38-44

 

 

 

Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you. Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will tell you what to do." She said to her, "All that you tell me I will do."

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord made her conceive, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next-of-kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel! He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him." Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse. The women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed; he became the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Psalm 127

Unless God builds the house,
   those who build it 
labor in vain.

Unless God guards the city,
   the guard keeps watch 
in vain.

It is in vain 
   that you rise up early
and go late to rest,

eating the bread
   of anxious toil;
for God gives sleep 
   to God's beloved.

Sons and daughters are indeed 
   a heritage from God,
the fruit of the womb 
   is a reward.

Like arrows in the hand 
   of a warrior
are the offspring 
   of one's youth.

Happy is the person 
   whose quiver is full 
of them.

who shall not be put 
   to shame
speaking with enemies 
   in the gate.

1 Kings 17:8-16

Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed you." So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink." As she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." But she said, "As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die." Elijah said to her, "Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth." She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days. The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.

Psalm 146

Praise be to God!
   Praise God, 
O my soul!

I will praise God 
   as long as I live;
I will sing praises 
   to my God
all my life long.

Do not put your trust 
   in nobles,
in mortals, in whom 
   there is no help.

When their breath departs,
   they return to the earth;
on that very day 
   their plans shall perish.

Happy are those whose help
   is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Sovereign 
   their God,

who made heaven and earth, 
   the sea, 
and all that is in them;
   who keeps faith forever;

who executes justice 
   for the oppressed;
who gives food 
   to the hungry.

God sets the prisoners free;
   God opens the eyes 
of those who cannot see.

God lifts up those 
   who are bowed down;
God loves the righteous.

God watches over 
   the strangers
and upholds the orphan 
   and the widow,
but the way of the wicked 
   God brings to ruin.

The Sovereign will reign 
   forever,
your God, O Zion, 
   for all generations.
Praise be to God!

Hebrews 9:24-28

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own; for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgement, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Mark 12:38-44

As he taught, he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! They devour widows' houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."

He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on."