Bulletin 7.16.26
"This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it" Psalm 118:24
A Reflection Before The Service
A Reflection Before The Service
I agree with the pragmatists that apparent objective truth is not the whole matter; that there is an authoritative need to believe the things that are necessary to the human mind. But I say that one of those necessities precisely is a belief in objective truth. The pragmatist tells a man to think what he must think and never mind the Absolute. But precisely one of the things that he must think is the Absolute. This philosophy, indeed, is a kind of verbal paradox. Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist .
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908; emphasis added)
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
— Pablo Picasso (unattributed)
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain(1940, Ch 6)
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
Psalm 118.22-29
The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.
This is the LORD's doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day which the LORD has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
O LORD, do save, we beseech You;
O LORD, we beseech You, do send prosperity!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD;
We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.
The LORD is God, and He has given us light;
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
Thou art my God, and I give thanks to You;
Thou art my God, I extol You.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
(Prayer)
A Reflection Before The Service
I agree with the pragmatists that apparent objective truth is not the whole matter; that there is an authoritative need to believe the things that are necessary to the human mind. But I say that one of those necessities precisely is a belief in objective truth. The pragmatist tells a man to think what he must think and never mind the Absolute. But precisely one of the things that he must think is the Absolute. This philosophy, indeed, is a kind of verbal paradox. Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist .
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908; emphasis added)
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
— Pablo Picasso (unattributed)
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain(1940, Ch 6)
The Call To Worship
Psalm 118.22-29
The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.
This is the LORD's doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day which the LORD has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
O LORD, do save, we beseech You;
O LORD, we beseech You, do send prosperity!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD;
We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.
The LORD is God, and He has given us light;
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
Thou art my God, and I give thanks to You;
Thou art my God, I extol You.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
(Prayer)
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