Divine Presence,
We thank you for individuals who have committed time, creativity, energy and resources to benefit Your church. We are blessed by their efforts. Help us, O Lord, to model their witness so that our contributions might honor You and bless others. This we pray in Jesus’ name. AMEN.
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Carolyn Kurz had a heart attack sometime last week. She is in St. Mary’s hospital for tests and treatment. Please pray for Carolyn.
Our Faith Leaders Retreat was a great success. There will be an article about it in this week’s Visitor.
Terry Jones’s daughter, Tamera, and her boyfriend, Nick, were married in Terry’s apartment yesterday morning. May we celebrate with them.
Don Johnson did a funeral today in the Chapel for Peggy Steele. Please pray for her family.
Jim Walta was scheduled to have surgery yesterday. Please pray for Jim.
The Extravagant Generosity Pony Express mailing to those who are not on saddlebag routes went out yesterday. Tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. we will have our all-church breakfast and the Pony Express saddlebag distribution will officially begin. Our goal is to have the distribution completed and make an announcement of the outcome on Sunday November 20 – Thanksgiving Sunday. Please pray for this venture. Pray for your participation and the willingness of all to express their gratitude for God’s extravagant generosity by also being extravagantly generous.
The scripture for today is Colossians 2:8-19:
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling on visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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