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Our Senior Pastor welcomes you to our weekly Friday Blessings update! In This IssueOfferings Multiplied Preaching Pastor Reents is preaching at all worship services this weekend.
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OFFERINGS MULTIPLIED John
6:1-21, our Gospel this weekend, points us to the miraculous
story of the feeding of the 5,000 by Jesus with only 5 loaves and 2
fish. In our scarcity, we find great abundance. The power of Jesus
works in the smallest and the least, and transforms life and changes
us in the process. Jesus multiplied the initial offering of the
young boy. In this act of the multiplication of loaves, our small
offerings can also be blessed and multiplied by God, doing so much
more than we could ever imagine. Certainly we have experienced this
here at This Tuesday, July 28th, is the commemoration of three of the great musicians and composers of the church . . . Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, Neinrich Schutz, 1672, and George Frederick Handel, 1759. Bach drew on the Lutheran tradition of hymnody and wrote 200 cantatas, including at least two for each Sunday and festival day in the Lutheran calendar of his day. George Handel's great work, The Messiah, is a musical proclamation of the Bible. Heinrich Shutz wrote many choral settings from biblical texts. These wonderful musicians are part of our heritage as a church, and we rejoice in the beauty and praise they have provided for our worship through the centuries!
Finally as we approach the days of our
Church wide Assembly in
O God, you open the hearts of your
faithful people by sending into us the light of the Holy Spirit.
Direct the The Reverend
Knight Wells
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