Bulletin 12.7.25
"The LORD your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy" Zephaniah 3:17
Reflection Before The Service
Reflection Before The Service
Every Who down in Whoville
Liked Christmas a lot...
But the Grinch,
Who lived just north of Whoville, Did NOT!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Theodor Geisel (“Dr. Seuss”);
How the Grinch Stole Christmas(1957)
Will our destiny as a nation which calls itself Christian be satisfied in terms of the economic prosperity and the national might which we have created? Will we seek no higher salvation than the present order can provide in terms of increased income, automobiles, and television sets? What is worse, will we, because we have churches and because our political forms are hospitable to their growth, assume that the present order is the God -ordained order which God – if He be just – may be called upon to defend always? The people that answer the question so, will see it as the sole function of religion to support and to hallow in the name of God its own material best interests. But it will never begin to understand the meaning of the Kingdom of God.
John Bright; The Kingdom of God (1953)
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
Zephaniah 3.15-17 (NAU)
The LORD has taken away His judgments against you,
He has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst;
You will fear disaster no more.
In that day it will be said to Jerusalem:
"Do not be afraid, O Zion; Do not let your hands fall limp.
The LORD your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy."
(Prayer)
Reflection Before The Service
Every Who down in Whoville
Liked Christmas a lot...
But the Grinch,
Who lived just north of Whoville, Did NOT!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Theodor Geisel (“Dr. Seuss”);
How the Grinch Stole Christmas(1957)
Will our destiny as a nation which calls itself Christian be satisfied in terms of the economic prosperity and the national might which we have created? Will we seek no higher salvation than the present order can provide in terms of increased income, automobiles, and television sets? What is worse, will we, because we have churches and because our political forms are hospitable to their growth, assume that the present order is the God -ordained order which God – if He be just – may be called upon to defend always? The people that answer the question so, will see it as the sole function of religion to support and to hallow in the name of God its own material best interests. But it will never begin to understand the meaning of the Kingdom of God.
John Bright; The Kingdom of God (1953)
The Call To Worship
Zephaniah 3.15-17 (NAU)
The LORD has taken away His judgments against you,
He has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst;
You will fear disaster no more.
In that day it will be said to Jerusalem:
"Do not be afraid, O Zion; Do not let your hands fall limp.
The LORD your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy."
(Prayer)
07/12/25