screaming, stinky, homeless, soon-to-be-refugee
December 14, 2012
The Details:
*December 23rd @ 5P.M is our Christmas gathering, we will share a meal together, a time
of worship and a bit of a music oriented celebration. Suggested donation is $5 please RSVP to me (meghan.pavlick@gmail.com) ASAP with what you can contribute (salad or dessert) also note this event is BYOB.
*Jodi King In Concert – http://www.jodiking.com/ for more info and tickets
*December 16th 7:30 p.m. at Elim Chapel – the Advent gathering of
Sanctus – an evening of worship
*A reminder to bring your own mugs on Sunday mornings, as this ain’t yo mama’s kitchen…
Here’s the blurb for this week:
Leonard Cohen once described the passage we’re going to talk about this week as “the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount” and as I’ve been working through the three chapters that comprise what could be called Christ’s inaugural speech, I’ve begun to feel that staggering may not be a sufficient term for what’s been recorded in the Gospel of Matthew.
Despite the daunting nature of the task, we’re going to try to dig into just a small section of this pivotal address, while keeping in mind the season of Advent we find ourselves in so that we might gain an understanding of just what Christ’s arrival in the world as a screaming, stinky, homeless, soon-to-be refugee infant has to do with our responsibility to the poor, the needy, the naked and the imprisoned that were always so close to Jesus’ heart.
Tim Penner