Sunday, April 29, 2007

Special Specs.


Hi Everybody!
What deos God see when he looks at His church? We sometimes see so many empty pews; but He see worshippers in both heaven and earth praising Him all at once!

As we read in Rev 7: 9-17, all those who are saved stand before the throne of God, praising Him and serving Him night and day. This is what we are now, redeemed mankind, serving God only because of the indwelled Holy Spirit in us!

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Illawarra Lutheran Parish
29th April 2007
Easter 4


Prayer of the Day
Loving God, we thank you that your Son Jesus is the good shepherd who cares for your people. Open our hearts to hear his voice, to know him as he calls us by name, and to follow wherever he leads. For he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Todays Readings
Acts 9: 36-43
Revelation 7: 9-17
John 10: 22-30

Major and Minor Festivals This Week
St Phillip & St James
May 1
Red
St. Philip
The Apostle Philip was one of Christ's first disciples, called soon after his Master's baptism in the Jordan. The fourth Gospel gives the following detail: "The next day Jesus was about to leave for Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him: Follow Me. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and said to him: We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote, Jesus the Son of Joseph of Nazareth. And Nathanael said to him: Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him: Come and see" (John 1:43ff).

St. James

St. James, a brother of the Apostle Jude, was of Cana of Galilee. He is the author of one of the Epistles in the New Testament. He was favored by an appearance of the Risen Christ (I Cor. 15:7). After the dispersion of the Apostles he was made Bishop of Jerusalem. He was visited by St. Paul (Gal. 1:19). He spoke after Peter at the meeting of the Apostles (Acts 15:13). When he refused to deny the Divinity of Christ, the Jews cast him down from the terrace of the temple and clubbed him to death: "When he was ninety-six years old and had governed the Church for thirty years in a most holy manner, the Jews sought to stone him, then took him to the pinnacle of the temple and cast him off headlong. As he lay there half dead, with legs broken by the fall, he lifted his hands toward heaven and prayed to God for the salvation of his enemies, saying: Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do! While the apostle was still praying, a fuller struck his head a mortal blow."

Thought for the Week
"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." - James Thurber

Photo credit: 'Light Wheel', Benjamin Earwicker, Boise, Idaho, US

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