Pentecost 16: 18.09.16
Sunday Three of Five Straight RCL Sundays on James
As I indicate in the reflection, the passage was selected in April or May and then the week consumed me with how words had been misused. It just seemed appropriate to take the events of the week and move them into the reflection. My purpose was not to be mean, but to educate and learn. Please try and listen w/o attaching names to the people. An adventure in missing the point.
James 3:1-12
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. 4 Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. 7 For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, 8 but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
Advent 3: Choose Joy
Adent 2: Proclaim the Good News Because God's Word Endures Forever
Advent 1 -- Putting Scripture Front and Center
Who Picked This Scripture ? God Did!
Hosea: God has not given up on us ...
David puts God at the Center
Elijah confronts Ahab
Ruth -- God's Loving Kindness within Displacement
Deuteronomy 5 -- Covenant Relationship
Exodus 3: 1-15 -- Called by God
Genesis 32: 22-30 -- Jacob Wrestles with God
Genesis 18 and 21 -- "All things are possible: Laughing in Despair and Joy"
Genesis 1 -- "In the Beginning" (September 13, 2015)
Finally, Why Hilltop?
Then, Why the Wesleyan Understanding of "Church"?
First, Why God?
June 21, 2015 -- 9:00 Service -- Father's Day and Emanuel AME
June 7th, 2015 -- Communion II
May 31, 2015 -- Graduate Recognition Sunday
May 24, 2015 -- Pentecost and Confirmation Sunday
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