O God of the Past, Present and Future,
We come humbly before You this day. As the cold wind and warming sun embrace us we become aware of the beauty and wonder of creation. You have blessed us, O Lord, with the ability to appreciate that which is around us. When we are down and discouraged help us to experience Your grace in the sunrise, in the magnificence of a clear sky, in the stately presence of an aged tree, or in the warm eyes of a favorite pet.
Forgive us, Creator God, when our vision is dulled by mindless routine. Open our eyes, that we might see Your visions of truth, beauty and love. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.
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Our hearts go out to the family of Wendall Welker. He died yesterday morning at around 1:00 a.m. Hi funeral will be in the Henninger- Hinson Chapel at 2:00 p.m. this Thursday with the graveside being in Waukomis. Our church is providing a lunch for the family at 12:30 p.m. that day. Please pray for Wendall’s mother, Mary, and all of his extended family.
The Phillips University Legacy Foundation Board is meeting in our Conference Room today at 10:30 a.m. Many will be attending the meeting via a conference call.
The Tuesday Noon Bible Study Group meets today in the Library.
Quilt Central meets this evening. This is a quiet, but profound outreach ministry of our congregation.
The scripture for today is Matthew 9:14-17:
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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